Douglas Wiebe of the Firearm Injury Center at Penn (FICAP) at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia agrees. Last month, Wiebe and colleagues found that people who keep guns at home have a 72 per cent greater chance of being killed by firearms compared with those who do not, and are 3.44 times as likely [...]

The “blogosphere” may never be the same after America Online releases free blog-publishing software to its 34 million members this summer.
AOL this month began showing demos of its tools for creating Web logs, or blogs, to veteran bloggers. AOL has dubbed its service “AOL Journals” because its surveys showed that members found the word “blogs” [...]

Napster creator Shawn Fanning is looking for backers of technology he’s developing that would let file-sharing networks distribute music without violating copyrights, people familiar with the project said.
Fanning’s technology would recognize copyrighted songs on a network and let the copyright owners set a price for downloading them.
That’s quite a departure from the original Napster service, [...]

Scientists have found new support for the age-old advice to “sleep on it.”
Their work suggests that the best way to make sense of new information may be to get some quality shut-eye.
Mice allowed to sleep after being trained to perform a specific task remembered what they had learned far better than those deprived of [...]

It could be the dawn of a new era in surveillance. For the first time, smart software will help CCTV operators spot any abnormal behaviour.
If the trial due to go live in two London Underground stations this week is a success, it could accelerate the adoption of the technology around the world. The software, which [...]

Some 11,000 miles above the earth, 28 satellites beam down data that enables the targeting of locations with once-unthinkable precision. It’s a lethal tool in war — and a killer app for business. The Global Positioning System (GPS) is transforming everything from auto insurance to agriculture, from hauling freight to trading stocks.
The implications of [...]