They’re not engaged in Mortal Kombat yet, but you could definitely call it a Counter-Strike.

Violet Blue is one of the best sex writers of our time. She’s also a geek, and that makes her a particular favorite of mine.

The F-16s had come and gone, dropping a pair of 500-pound satellite-guided bombs on an insurgent safe house in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle. Now it was up to Major Shannon Rogers to see whether they had hit their target.

Though it’s still not in a perfect state, the rapid pace of development in numerous areas of Linux promises a bright future, nonetheless.

The United States wants Britain’s proposed identity cards to have the same microchip and technology as the ones used on American documents.

Metaphors make for colorful sayings, but can be confusing when taken literally.

With great fanfare a South Korean team announced last week that it had used therapeutic cloning to create human embryonic stem cells that were genetically matched to specific people. But their technique could already be obsolete.

The tantalising prospect of DVDs capable of holding almost a terabyte of data – or several hundred movies – has been presented in a patent issued to US storage company Iomega.

International travelers should get used to having their fingerprints taken or their irises scanned because traditional airport security tests are outdated and open to abuse, a leading U.S. official said Thursday.

His paper rocked the physics world – and the space-time continuum. Not bad for a college dropout who critics say may not even exist.

The CIA is conducting a war game this week to simulate an unprecedented, Sept. 11-like electronic assault against the United States.

It doesn’t matter how brainy you are or how much education you’ve had – you can still improve and expand your mind.

The government said Wednesday it will give an extra $1 million in funding to a South Korean cloning pioneer, a week after he stunned the world with another breakthrough in stem-cell research.

Seth Godin: A few times a day, people ask when I’m going to have a podcast. My answer is probably not too soon.

The source of the world’s biggest sperm bank may soon run dry if Danish authorities decide to tax donors, Cryos International Sperm Bank said Wednesday.

A couple’s risk of having a pregnancy end in miscarriage appears to climb in tandem with the man’s age, according to a new study.

People with several clogged heart arteries fared better if they had bypass surgery rather than a less-drastic procedure in which the blood vessels are propped open with tiny mesh cylinders called stents, a study of nearly 60,000 patients found.

The folks at Blogebrity have a unique take on the blog scene. Drawing a parallel to the glitz and glam of Hollywood stars, they’ve divided some of the better-known bloggers into A-, B-, and C-lists.

Time magazine on Monday published its list of 100 all-time favorite movies ranging from Charlie Chaplin’s “City Lights” (1931) to Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List” (1993) and 2003 computer-animated hit “Finding Nemo.”

Howard Anderson:
Good-bye! We venture capitalists like to think of ourselves as giants striding across the technology landscape, showering money on terrific young entrepreneurs, adding value, creating jobs, nurturing real companies. We are financial samurai. But I am giving it up. Why?

The Chinese Communist Party survived a brutal civil war with the Nationalists, battles with American forces in Korea and massive pro-democracy demonstrations at Tiananmen Square. But now it may finally have met its match – the Internet.

By the middle of the 21st century it will be possible to download your brain to a supercomputer, according to a leading thinker on the future.

Thomas Frey: Great cities throughout history were known far and wide for the grand parks that served as their centerpieces. But what do we think about today when we conjure up the image of a park? Fresh cut green grass, trimmed trees, playground for the kids, and perhaps a stream of water [...]

Ignoring President Bush’s veto threat, the House voted Tuesday to lift limits on embryonic stem-cell research, a measure supporters said could accelerate cures for diseases but opponents viewed as akin to abortion.

Researchers in the laboratory of Boston College Chemistry Professor John T. Fourkas have demonstrated the fabrication of microscopic polymeric structures on top of a human hair, without harming it.