Today’s lawsuits mark the first time the MPAA is
taking action against sites that enable users of Newsgroups to easily
find and download illegal content. Newsgroups are electronic bulletin
boards which in recent years have become a major source of pirated
content as users are able to attach movie, music and games files to
their messages. The following is a [...]

Earlier this month, Britain’s Channel 4 aired The Root of All Evil?,
a two-part exploration of religious faith hosted and narrated by
Richard Dawkins, the eminent Oxford ethologist and author who is one of
the world’s most outspoken proponents of the theory of evolution.

To look at the Pump-a-bike, you’d swear it would sink the moment it hit
the water. Not so, indeed, with a bit of practice, the human powered
hydrofoil is capable of nearly 20 miles per hour – not that much shy of
the world record for human powered watercraft
. To make it work, all you need to do [...]

Google Inc. on Thursday
temporarily suspended signing up new accounts for its Web site hosting
service due to heavy demand.

Momentum is building within the Air Force
to sell the service’s prized F-22A Raptor — which is loaded with
super-secret systems — to trusted U.S. allies, with Japan viewed as
the most likely buyer, service and industry officials tell Inside the Air Force.

PlayAway is a self-playing digital book. All that is needed to listen to this book is one AAA battery, a set of headphones and your ears.

And if your idea of a good time is biological or nuclear warfare, psycho religious cults, people and cultures that are naturally prone
to disaster, social upheaval and frequent outbreaks of people just killing each other, we’ve gotta say you’re pretty darn warped…. but here are 14 deadly places for you to consider.

ScubaDoo 
This is very cool!
Scubadooing means you don’t need to wear a mask or a mouthpiece as in diving, the external compressor is floating above water, and the diving weights are on the ScubaDoo, not you!

After two years of research Italian designers, Diego Rossi and Raffaele
Tedesco, created the Zeno light for Luceplan, which works on optical conduits that collect exterior light and convey it in a
“direct and controlled way”.

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are making plans to invest $1.1 billion on what they believe will be the largest social impact made by any organization.