Six weeks will always be the delivery time given for your new sofa regardless of where it is made, according to findings by a team of British mathematicians.

Gamblers watching an Indianapolis Colts game here may have a hunch that, on the next play, star quarterback Peyton Manning will throw a long bomb to receiver Marvin Harrison for a touchdown. But right now there is nothing they can do about it — casino sports books don’t accept bets on individual plays.
That may be [...]

Robert X. Cringely:  I always seem to get good stories around holidays when fewer people are reading. That’s certainly been the case the past two weeks, when I wrote first about the Google shipping container data centers and then about the Google Box (Gbox? Gcube?) interface device. Readers have been throwing in their ideas and [...]

The Couchbike pokes fun at our sedentary culture but also exemplifies the broad scope of possibilities for human power. Check out these photos.

A University of Arizona physicist has shown that it should be possible to restrict electrons to two dimensions in space by placing conducting materials within strong magnetic fields. The fundamental discovery is important because it says that superconductivity is stable in this strongly magnetic environment.

A new study suggests consumers whose credit cards are lost or stolen or whose personal information is accidentally compromised face little risk of becoming victims of identity theft.