The mannequin moving in the store window is no longer a fantasy. A Japanese firm has developed a mannequin robot that can strike a pose for customers — and spy on who they are and what they’re buying.

In 1997, your cell phone could make two kinds of sounds. It could “ring”—our anachronistic word for the electronic trill that phones produce when you receive a call—or it could play a single-line melody, like “Für Elise.”

Japan’s space agency has announced the possibility of developing a shuttle-style space vehicle by 2025 and eventually constructing a manned Moon base – hot on the heels of last Saturday’s successful launch of a H-2A rocket carrying a navigation and meteorological satellite.

“Perplex City” is the latest well-funded entry in a young medium called “alternate-reality gaming”–an obsession-inspiring genre that blends real-life treasure hunting, interactive storytelling, video games and online community and may, incidentally, be one of the most powerful guerrilla marketing mechanisms ever invented.

Nearly 13,000 new phishing emails and more than 2,500 phishing websites were spotted last month, the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has reported.

Most single Japanese women prefer not to marry and believe they can live happily alone for the rest of their life, a poll showed Friday, casting another shadow on the future of a country plagued by a falling birthrate.