The world’s oldest profession is now being taught in the world’s newest school.

Dan Gillmor:
It’s too early to predict that the housing mania is about to subside, but the larger economic forces are lining up in alarming ways.

For the first time, mice have been placed into a type of hibernating suspended animation using a technique that could buy people time for better treatments.

Go ahead and bellyache about blogs. But you cannot afford to close your eyes to them, because they’re simply the most explosive outbreak in the information world since the Internet itself.

Fake checks have been the stock in trade of online fraud artists for years. Now authorities are noting a surge in schemes involving sophisticated counterfeiting of a different form of payment: United States postal money orders. And the fleecing of victims often begins in an e-mail in-box.

It’s been just more than two years since CEO Hector Ruiz unveiled Advanced Micro Devices’ new Opteron server microprocessor. To the surprise of some, the company was able to sign up IBM right away to use the new chip.

Krassimir Petrov:
Having recently completed Rothbard’s “America’s Great Depression”, I couldn’t help draw the parallels between America’s roaring 20’s and China’s roaring economy today, and I couldn’t help conclude that China will inevitably fall in a depression just like America did during the 1930s.