Jay Walker jump-started an online shopping craze by inventing Priceline.com, the Web site that lets people bid on airplane tickets and hotel rooms.
Now Walker is hoping his newest brainchild revolutionizes a completely different field: national security.
The premise behind Walker’s USHomeGuard is simple: America has 47,000 power plants, airports and other “critical infrastructure facilities.”
Walker believes […]
For nearly 50 years, Walt Disney Co. has been entertaining the public for free on television.
Now, in a new twist on old technology, the company plans to use local TV airwaves to entertain the public for a fee.
Disney is poised to offer movies “on demand” in three cities this fall, with a national rollout […]
NASA has become the first US federal agency to power a facility with gas from trash.
NASA is using methane from a landfill to heat buildings at its Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The gas comes from the nearby Sandy Hill Landfill, which has collected about 5.2 million tons of trash and will likely generate […]
Scientists are becoming increasingly confident that they will be able to create black holes on demand, in quantity, using the new atom-smashers due to come online in the next five years. Some estimates suggest that the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN -the acronym is in French) will […]
A free computer program used for file-sharing has become the most downloaded piece of software ever, its parent company announced on Thursday.
The program, Kazaa, lets users locate and download music and video files from each other over the internet. This and similar programs have attracted the wrath of the entertainment industry for making it very […]