If you hate trying out several pairs of jeans before you get the perfect fit, now the Intellifit system can save your time by selecting the right fit in just three minutes.

The European Information Society Group claims half of all crime – in financial terms – is committed using computers, either to plan, commit or process.

Contact lenses that change their appearance according to the wearer’s blood-sugar level could one day help people with diabetes keep track of their levels non-invasively.

The weirdness bar was set pretty high at last week’s Emerging Technology Conference (ETech) in San Diego. Even so, a lot of the techie presenters cleared it with room to spare.

Scientists who used corpses as crash-test dummies in Austria could be jailed if convicted of violating the dignity of the dead.

A chewing gum which the makers say can help enhance the size (by up to 80%), shape and tone of the breasts has proved to be a big hit in Japan.

Seth Godin:
As I make my travels through the Northeast, I’m stunned by how many wifi networks my Mac encounters–and how many of them are password protected. Waiting in the doctor’s office, for example, I find five networks. And every one of them is closed.

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Carlo Danioth, in charge of the slopes at the Andermatt resort in central Switzerland, said the Gurschen glacier was to be partially covered with 3000 square metres (32,300 square feet) of PVC foam from the beginning of May.

Having a drink or two a day may lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes by as much as 30 percent, according to a new review of research on the subject.

When you start feeling sorry for yourself, here’s a website that has a nice way of changing your perspective. Let’s begin with jolly old England, which wasn’t always so jolly. There have been a lot of rotten jobs throughout the history of Britain, especially in the 10 centuries before 1066.

According to the new science of neuroeconomics, the explanation might lie inside the brains of the negotiators.

Every time you make a credit card purchase, they’re supposed to match your signature against the one on the back of your card. Nobody seems to check anymore, so I tried to see how far I could push it with wacky signatures like “Mariah Carey” and “Zeus.”