Wondering what to do with your disposable camera when you’re finished with it? TechTV has an article describing how to reach out and zap someone with a home-made stun gun.

Bicycle crazy China is now electric bicycle crazy. Electric bikes were everywhere, and outnumbered normal bikes on the road. You could even buy them in the department stores. Basic models sell for about 1200 Yuan (about US$150), and more elaborate scooter-like models for up to 5000 Yuan.

Francine Berman is the reigning teraflop queen. As director of the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC), she’s the top executive in a 400-person organization housed at the University of California, San Diego, that programs and maintains a machine called DataStar.

Soldiers are not good policemen. They are trained for the extreme environment of war, when they must kill quickly and efficiently or be killed themselves. Police are trained to work in a different way. They are most effective when they live in the neighborhood they patrol, and know all the people. They rarely shoot their […]