The folks who brought you Kazaa have a new hit called Skype—and a plan to set phone calls free. If the telcos want to fight back, they’ll have to find them first.

A Japanese inventor has won the country’s highest patent compensation award after suing his ex-employer, tech-firm Hitachi.

Stryker, one of the U.S. Army’s newest infantry vehicles, is fitted with a “ladar” scanner, the equivalent of a mounted pair of eyes that see by emitting 400,000 laser and radar beams and snap 120 camera images every second. Its brain — a 40-pound computer system tucked inside its body — processes that data, and […]

Biochemists are deploying viruses as “nano-cameras” to get a unique picture of what goes on inside living cells and a greater understanding of how viruses themselves work.

‘When they dial, they use the middle finger.’ - Wired has a story about three sightless brothers who ‘have devoted their lives to proving they can out-think, out-program, and out-hack anyone with vision.’

In recent years, online sports betting parlors or “sports books” have fast supplanted the shadowy world of “bookies,” or professional bet takers in the U.S., Canada and Europe, growing into a multibillion dollar industry, despite official disapproval from Washington, D.C. lawmakers and U.S. religious conservatives.

Mobile phone firms are struggling to find ways to stop children and others accidentally stumbling across adult content but they also want to make it easy for those that want to pay for porn to get at it.

Mars or bust. That’s the banner that President Bush wants to run up the White House flagpole. Establishing an outpost on Mars is a fine goal — if you worry about the sun exploding and toasting life on Earth in a few billion years. But for now, avoiding the “or bust” is the challenge.

Using tiny sensors, transmitters and some software, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have turned personal computers into advanced polygraph machines that they say are capable of monitoring people’s emotions and abilities.

When the big US retailers Barnes and Noble stopped selling ebooks via its website last year, traditionalist critics were quick to announce “the death of the ebook”.

Medical X-rays are to blame for many thousands of fatal cancers every year, according to the most comprehensive analysis to date. Medical experts stress that X-rays and CT scans can be very beneficial, but believe the new work shows that they should be used as sparingly as possible.

A long-sought new form of matter has been created for the first time. The matter, called a fermionic condensate, consists of atoms that are ordinarily forbidden to exist in the same quantum state but have been tricked into it by linking into pairs.

Some people may joke that men don’t think with their heads when it comes to sex, but a study in monkeys suggests the brain plays a significant role in the decision to mate, researchers reported on Wednesday.

Screen Goo is the perfect name for the amazing video screen coating developed in North America.
Anyone thinking about buying a video projector needs to factor in a screen. Or at least they used to.
Screen Goo is the alternative.

Internet piracy has devastated the music business, threatened the movie industry and may now undercut one of the most successful corners of the Web: pornography.

In spite of the widespread concerns expressed about the importance of privacy, individuals frequently give away or sell a myriad of personal data. How and why people decide to transition their information from the private to the public sphere is poorly understood.

John H. Green, a jeweler in Central Florida, once bought a box of gers for $2. They were gears for pocket watches, which he cleaned up and put back on the auction block with the right spelling. They sold for $200. “I’ve bought and sold stuff on eBay and Yahoo that I bought for […]

Hundreds of thousands of strokes could be prevented each year by a simple mesh cylinder that diverts blood clots away from the brain, claims the company that developed the device.

Wi-Fi hot-spot developer Nomadix announced it landed a patent for redirecting subscribers to log-in pages when they access public networks.

One of the most thorough studies to date has all but proven that Neanderthals and humans are only distantly related.

Of people who are dating or married, 59 percent of women and 54 percent of men would like to change at least one feature on their partner’s face, according to an American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery survey released on Monday.

A Danish biotech company has developed a genetically modified flower that could help detect land mines and it hopes to have a prototype ready for use within a few years.

Sweaty battles with tight jeans in cramped fitting rooms could be consigned to history if new technology developed by Toshiba hits the shops.

Modern cars, cheap or pricey, are expected to run all of the time. The days of seeing late-model cars on the side of the freeway in the summertime, smoke billowing from their hoods due to overheating, are over. Cars may be more complex now, but they can no longer be mediocre, and they must be […]

Couples meet online. They choose gifts, plan weddings, scout romantic locales and book honeymoons online. And, if things don’t work out, they can pull the plug and file for divorce online.