Houston police, long thwarted in their campaign against prostitution by an internal policy that barred officers from removing their clothes, have reaped results by shedding that unwritten rule.

Thomas Frey:
As people move through life, they search for signposts along the way. They search for those rare pieces of intelligence that give them a gut-level feeling of confidence about what to do next. Today’s women are particularly adept at reading these signposts, which range from magazine articles, to movies, to conversations with [...]

Researchers, from Auburn University in Alabama, were conducting research on black flies when they discovered a protein in their saliva that speeds the healing of surgical incisions.

By squeezing most of the computing functions needed by a mobile phone onto one chip, Texas Instruments might make handsets so cheap that companies can dish them out like confetti.

Developing systems that never fail, and getting computers to act more like like humans, are two of the “big computing issues” facing IT research scientists and universities, the British Computer Society (BCS) said today.

Antispam activists last week vowed to get tough with purveyors of penis pills and get-rich-quick schemes, who continue to dodge sophisticated e-mail filters and break laws meant to curtail their activities.