Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the world’s richest man, has said that movie-watchers of the future will regard the notion of buying a shiny disc with a movie stored on it as “ridiculous” and instead will watch TVs able to download films and programmes via the internet.

It could entirely change the way crime investigations are conducted. Instead of looking for actual fingerprints, investigators will look for brain “fingerprints,” analyzing subjects for their brain wave reaction to certain documents related to a crime scene.

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have developed the first international server that allows users to search and analyze genetic diversity on a large scale.

The Internet Company for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), which oversees the system of web addresses and domain names says Asians will make up most of the net’s users within a few years.

While Western letters are largely standardised, those used in some alphabets vary from country to country. This causes problems when typing web […]

Satellite-based broadband Internet access has yet to make much of a splash, attracting fewer than 2 percent of US broadband users.

Doctors in the United States have warned people against swatting mosquitoes against their skin saying it could increase the risk of serious infection.

Mike Langberg: Until the last year or so, front projectors designed for home video cost $3,000 or more. Lately, the entry price has fallen in half, driven by heavy demand for all types of electronic projectors, and should drop under $1,000 by year end.

A new device has been developed that combines magnetic resonance imaging and atomic force microscopy to image the nanoscale.

An emerging application of wireless technology may help reunite pets with their owners even when the animals are in another country.

Men who have been circumcised, who account for about 63 percent of the U.S. male population (the highest rate in the world), have been stripped of some significant sensory ability, say some groups that oppose circumcision.

Computer glitches would be a lot less annoying if the machines were programmed to acknowledge errors gracefully when something goes wrong, instead of merely flashing up a brusque “you goofed” message.