are still not enough public wireless LAN (WLAN) hotspots around the world to encourage user uptake, despite nearly 70,000 new sites appearing in the past two years, a new study from researcher Gartner has found.
Public WLAN, or “WiFi” hotspots allow users to wirelessly connect to the internet or their company networks from places like cafes, [...]

The United States is planning to build an unmanned hypersonic aircraft capable of striking any target in the world within two hours.
The initial description of the concept – called the “reusable hypersonic cruise vehicle” (HCV) – has recently been placed on the website of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the central research and [...]

An electric shaver especially designed for shaving pubic hair into different shapes has gone on sale in Britain.
Remington hopes the Bikini Trim and Shape will prove a hit with the growing number of women who want to be a little more creative.
A survey of 500 women commissioned by the company found 36% had trimmed their [...]

Chronic stress can shorten your lifespan, suggests a study that found years of stress-related caregiving can stimulate overproduction of substances involved in regulating the immune system.
Chronic stress leads to the overproduction of proinflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-6, researchers have found.
Cytokines are small proteins that are at the core of communication between immune system cells and [...]

Japanese computer giant NEC Corp. Monday revealed a prototype of a laptop computer that runs on a methanol fuel cell instead of a rechargeable battery, and said it will start selling it next year. NEC initially plans to introduce a computer with a fuel-cell system able to run for five consecutive hours on a single [...]