Three companies are racing to market a new form of technology for detecting concealed weapons, using physics borrowed from radio astronomy and manufacturing techniques from cellular phone makers.

Robert Gortarez is no private eye.
But with an $80 piece of software intended to track what his son was doing on the Internet, the 36-year-old Phoenix real estate investor uncovered some information about what his wife — now his ex-wife — was doing online as well.

Sometimes, goes the old joke, I wake up grumpy…at other times, I let him sleep.
Grumpy need never wake up anything less than refreshed, thanks to a futuristic alarm clock that monitors sleep patterns and waits for the sleeper to be in the best possible phase before rousing him.

Romanian police caught a female mobile phone thief by dialling the stolen phone - and hearing her knickers start ringing.

Dan Gillmor: You’re well-advised to know what your credit report says about you, in this age of identity theft and data-mongering by companies that seem indifferent to the damage they cause in the process of selling our most private information to almost anyone who’ll pay for it.

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Good-looking children get more attention from their parents than less attractive ones, new research has claimed.

ZMP has finally released their “nuvo” robot to the public. In red, blue, white and yellow color variations, the nuvo is available for the “reasonable” price of 588,000 yen.

Hundreds of mouse brain cells have been simultaneously recorded in an effort to identify how memories are formed and stored.

Do you read online news or send personal emails and text messages when you should be working? You’re not alone, according to new research.
Eighty per cent of UK employees admitted to taking part in these sorts of non-work activities - termed ‘desk skiving’ - in a recent survey.

The Genographic Project, a National Geographic Society-IBM alliance, is the first to map our ancestors’ migration, using cells the public submits.