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It shows how The UK is leading the way in europe of being Digitally aware

Canadian doctors say they have found an inventive way to treat lazy eye - playing the Tetris video game. The McGill University team discovered the popular tile-matching puzzle could train both eyes to work together. In a small study, in Current Biology with 18 adults, it worked better than conventional patching of the good eye to make the weak one work harder.

Hackers often can be characterized by their motives. The following are the more common types of hackers and the motives they cite:

Human error accounts for three-quarters of incidents where sensitive data is lost, new research has revealed. A report from the IT Policy Compliance Group says a fifth of organizations are hit by 22 or more sensitive data losses a year, with customer, financial, corporate, employee and IT security data going missing because it is stolen, leaked or destroyed.

British households download about 17 gigabytes of data on average every month over their home broadband connections, suggests a report. Regulator Ofcom's study takes a high level look at the state of the UK's digital communications. The monthly data diet is equivalent to streaming 11 movies or 12 hours of BBC programmes via iPlayer.

Trust in information on the web is being damaged by the huge numbers of people paid by companies to post comments online, say researchers. Fake posters can "poison" debate and make people unsure about who they can trust, the study suggests. Some firms have created tens of thousands of fake accounts to flood chat forums and skew debate.