Google has launched beta software that the company says will speed up the time it takes to search the Internet and load web content.

A one-person vacuum elevator that slots into buildings with a minimum of fuss has gone on sale in the US.

Reversing a decades-long trend toward “global dimming,” Earth’s surface has become brighter since 1990, scientists are reporting today.

NEW YORK (AP) — Here’s how we tend to organize our digital photos: We stick them into a folder on our computer and label it “Hawaii trip,” or whatever.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Suppose it is the future–maybe a thousand years from now. There is no static cling, diapers change themselves, and everyone who is anyone summers on Mars.

Ever wonder if there could possibly be a good use for all the annoying spam you receive? Well, out of the mind of Steven Frank comes Spamusement - a series of poorly draw cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines. Some of these are very funny.

Drinking cow’s urine is the latest fad in a health conscious Indian city.

Seth Godin:
Chris Anderson wrote a brilliant article, and was clever enough to post it as a ChangeThis manifesto: ChangeThis :: The Long Tail.
I can’t stop thinking about it, but in ways that are different than his original riff.

Scientists could learn a lot about the way natural systems work from the decidedly unnatural world of the Internet, according to research published earlier this year.