Samsung didn't spare the production budget on its new campaign for its line of Smart TVs. Three new commercials use special effects worthy of the movie "Inception" to promote the idea that viewers can control the universe - or at least the universe inside their TV - with simple hand gestures or voice commands. The campaign comes from ad agency CHI & Partners, London.

BBC Television Centre closed its doors on Sunday but the corporation has ambitious plans to return to it after redevelopment with a virtual attraction, allowing visitors to experience the creation of their favourite shows, including Top Gear, EastEnders and Radio 4's Today. After a series of farewell events stretching out over several weeks, the last of more than 5,000 BBC staff left the Wood Lane site at the weekend, ending nearly 53 years of occupancy.

Create personal profiles. Build networks of friends. Share photos, videos and music. That might sound precisely like Facebook, but hundreds of millions of tech-savvy young people have instead turned to a wave of smartphone-based messaging apps that are now sweeping across North America, Asia and Europe. The hot apps include Kik and Whatsapp, both products of North American startups, as well as Kakao Inc's KakaoTalk, NHN Corp's LINE and Tencent Holdings Ltd's WeChat, which have blossomed in Asian markets.

We're meant to believe that the newspaper and website has continued its digital first strategy, only this time through the creation of 'Guardian Goggles' - a pair of web connected, augmented reality enabled specs (sound familiar?), which will allow readers to send a live video of what they are looking at back to a live-stream that pulls out related content from The Guardian website for them to read.

Twitter was awash with speculation Friday morning over the identity of an 82 year old man who has been arrested on suspicion of 'sex offences' as part of the Jimmy Savile investigation. The unnamed man is the eleventh to be arrested as part of Operation Yewtree and was interviewed under caution in November last year following a search of his Berkshire home.