As Corporate America wades into the burgeoning world of Internet Web logs, companies are being warned they could face legal hazards when employees are let loose in the free-wheeling blogosphere.

South Korea stole headlines after creating the world’s first cloned dog, but the tiny city-state of Singapore is quietly preparing to take the fruits of its stem cell research straight to the market.

As the earth turns, the center of the earth turns even faster.

They’re the grizzled, unglamorous veterans of the computing world, middle-aged men and women who don’t create best-selling computer games or dazzling special effects for the movies. All they do is quietly run the most important computer systems in the world.

A recent marketing video from battery maker Valence Technologies makes its point with all the subtlety of a Jerry Bruckheimer film: Unlike the competition’s, its batteries don’t blow up.

The wheels on the bus aren’t the only things going round and round. The dials on the fuel pump are spinning, too, for school districts that face soaring costs just as 25 million children get back on the bus for a new school year.

A 16-year-old boy invented a hamster-powered mobile phone charger as part of his GCSE science project.
Great photo.

A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day.
“In English,” he said, “A double negative forms a positive.
In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative
is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a
double positive can form a negative.”

Adam Penenberg:
If a new startup called Amp’d has its way, your whole world is about to be unwired and controlled through a single supergadget.

Africa is now the world’s fastest-growing cellphone market.