Adam Penenberg:
It turns out that Wal-Mart, the world’s most profitable retailer, and Google, the virtual world’s most profitable search seller, have a lot more in common than you might think.

A next generation pill bottle has been designed for Target with unique features to improve readability and usability.
Check out this design.

Scientists say Russia’s x-ray vision girl, who claims to be able to see inside the human body, can also spot internal injuries just by looking at a photograph.

Visitors to Hamburg parks are being warned to watch out for exploding toads.

Using a new electrically-assisted microbial fuel cell (MFC) that does not require oxygen, Penn State environmental engineers and a scientist at Ion Power Inc. have developed the first process that enables bacteria to coax four times as much hydrogen directly out of biomass than can be generated typically by fermentation alone.

Bill Gates is on a mission to build a Google killer. What got him so riled? The darling of search is moving into software—and that’s Microsoft’s turf.

When it comes to cross-border theft of trade secrets, there are more foreigners spying on U.S. corporations than ever, according to Todd Davis, an FBI supervisor in Sacramento.

Defendants in high-profile criminal and civil cases are increasingly using the Internet in an attempt to influence the public, the media and even potential jurors.

You’d find 23-year-old CEO Tom Szaky who’s quick to state firmly, “I’m not an environmentalist,” but a capitalist who can’t resist “getting paid for garbage.”

Of the super powers one might like to have, mind-reading would likely land near the top of the list for many people.

Depending on the outcome of discussions in Congress, television as we know it may end at exactly midnight Dec. 31, 2006.
That’s the date Congress targeted, a decade ago, for the end of analog television broadcasting and a full cutover to a digital format.