The bid to banish polio from the world may be back on track, as a state in Nigeria which banned polio immunisation now says it will source the vaccine from Indonesia.

The police could face a crisis unless action is taken now to improve the way they handle digital crime, says a report.

Back in the 1940s, John Von Neumann—a giant in the development of modern computers—investigated the theoretical possibilities of self-reproduction. He essentially asserted that a self-reproducible machine would require a “tape” or other description of itself. During reproduction, this tape would serve as the set of instructions for building a copy of the machine and would […]

Before I walked into Dr. Randy LaFrom’s office, pain would shoot through my tooth, exposed by a receding gum, if I dared smile in breezy weather. The dentist’s awesome laser fixed that. When I left, I could grin from ear to ear on the foggiest, windiest San Francisco day. The repairs took three minutes and […]

A college student was pumping gas into his sports utility vehicle near New Paltz, N.Y., recently when he flipped open his cell phone to answer a call, and suddenly found himself surrounded by flames.

The Police Federation, which represents 136,000 officers, said it believed some roadside cameras were being used to raise money for the police’s coffers – and rank-and-file policemen claim they are bearing the brunt of the public backlash against cameras.

Industry watchers say it’s no longer a question of whether Internet grocery can be successful, but rather of how big it will become.

Silicon Valley is littered with hundreds of former start-ups trapped inside larger technology companies that are no longer happy with the ventures they snapped up in the acquisitions frenzy of the 1990’s.
Now a pair of Silicon Valley-based venture capitalists have opened an unusual $250 million fund intended to buy and rehabilitate such companies

A new study has come out pointing out that a huge percentage (71%) of websites in spam messages point to servers hosted in China. This doesn’t mean that the spammers are Chinese or that the companies they’re advertising are Chinese - but it appears that’s where many spamvertised companies decide to host their websites.

An amateur rocket carrying a ham radio avionics package reached the edge of space May 17. Launched from Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, the 21-foot Civilian Space Xploration Team (CSXT) GoFast rocket quickly attained the 100 km altitude to make Amateur Radio and amateur rocketry history.