A Chinese restaurant charged Ben Edelman $4 too much. Bad move

Harvard professor is a scourge of corporate misdeeds online – even if that means going after a mom and pop takeout joint near his Massachusetts home

20 best iPhone and iPad apps this week

Stampy Cat, Wire, Bean Dreams, Game of Thrones, The Meaning of Liff, Rufus Wainwright, Etherlords and more

Live Q&A: Google’s Eileen Naughton answers your students’ questions

How can young people use technology to do business? Tune into our live stream of Eileen Naughton, managing director of Google UK, on Thursday 11 December 9.05am-10.05am

Star Wars Ewokese to Star Trek Klingon: how do you invent a language?

Constructed languages, or ‘conlangs’ as they are known, have always fascinated diehard fans. Could their creators be on the frontier of how we define language?

Touchscreen technology is good for kids? Don’t believe the hype

Eliane Glaser: The National Literacy Trust’s headline-grabbing claim is little more than highly coordinated lobbying based on flimsy evidence

UK should be embarrassed by its lack of female engineers, says Ed Miliband

Labour leader says Britain also needs extra 400,000 people to be trained in profession by 2020 to meet industry demand

What do uni engineering departments need most? People in overalls

Preoccupied with research and snobbish about industrialists in overalls, university departments no longer recognise their responsibility to produce the next generation of engineers

Night Zookeeper’s magical zoo offers kids a new way to create and play

UK startup aims to spark young imaginations: ‘You don’t have to make these fruit machine-style massive addiction games’. By Stuart Dredge

Live Q&A: professor Brian Cox answers your students’ questions

Teachers, do your students have a question for Brian Cox? Join us on Friday 21 November at 11.15am when the TV scientist will discuss scientific discovery

Scientists outshine arts students with experiments in creative writing

With no publication angst and a killer work ethic, science students easily match their peers in the humanities in the art of creative writing. It even makes them better scientists, says novelist and teacher Aifric Campbell

The mouse chair getting office workers on the move

Are you man or mouse? The dynamic desk chair will turn you into both, writes Kit Buchan

UK’s most advanced drone lab to be built at Imperial College London

£1.25m Brahmal Vasudevan aerial robotics lab will allow development and testing of next-generation flying robots. By Samuel Gibbs

Mental health of children and young people ‘at risk in digital age’

Cyberbullying and rise in self-harm highlighted by MPs voicing concern over violent video games and sexting

Osmo review – child’s play with finesse

A series of ‘educational’ games designed for kids who can’t resist an iPad look a surefire hit, writes Andy Robertson

Google buys two more UK artificial intelligence startups

Company funds new computer science research partnership with Oxford University, where three of its new artificial intelligence hires will remain lecturers. By Samuel Gibbs