A Japanese company has invented an entertainment center to make going to the toilet a more enjoyable experience.

From cheap Chinese apples to jewelry at Wal-Mart, small-business faces competitors earlier generations could never have imagined.

A decade after browsers came into popular use, the Internet has reached into–and, in some cases, reshaped–just about every important realm of modern life. It has changed the way we inform ourselves, amuse ourselves, care for ourselves, educate ourselves, work, shop, bank, pray and stay in touch.

Newspaper publishers, often seen as stodgy and slow-growing, will pay whatever it takes to grab a bigger piece of the fast-growing online advertising market.

Taking birth control pills alters men’s attractiveness to women, mimicking the hormonal effects of pregnancy in making women more attracted to healthy faces.

Computing grids are software engines that pool together and manage resources from isolated systems to form a new type of low-cost supercomputer. In spite of their usefulness, grids remained the plaything of researchers for many years. But now, in 2005, grids have finally come of age and are becoming increasingly commercialized.

In olden days (before the first world war, that is) the traveller simply pulled his boots on and went. The idea that he might need a piece of paper to prove to foreigners who he was would not have crossed his mind.

A Chinese man can blow up balloons and blow out candles with his ears. Check out this photo!

In the year 2015, babies barely able to talk will attend school, checkbooks could be a not-so-fond memory, doctors might have the ability to zap cells gone awry, and cars will drive themselves — or maybe even fly.

Biosensors evoke images of tiny chips and wireless technology, but the next generation of biosensors may be something strikingly more familiar: holograms.

Microsoft security researchers are warning about a new generation of powerful system monitoring programs, or “rootkits,” that are almost impossible to detect using current security products and that could pose a serious risk to corporations and individuals.

A top executive at CNN has been forced to resign as a result of pressure from campaigning bloggers. Has the new media now become more powerful than the old, asks Gary Younge

Britain has become the world leader in TV piracy as thousands of viewers download illegal versions of 24, The Simpsons and the The OC over the internet.

It’s frightening. I turn on the computer, type in my postcode, and there it is: 82b Camberwell Road, £128,000. Now anyone with a computer and the strange desire to know can see how much my girlfriend and I paid for our two-bedroom flat in south London. I feel violated.

Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett hopes to set the “last great aviation record” by piloting an airplane alone around the world without refueling or stopping.