For the helmet-haters: a soft beanie lined with elastic polymers that stiffen upon wipeout.

A nimble, four-legged robot that can recover its balance even after being given a hefty kick. The machine, which moves like a cross between a goat and a pantomime horse, is being developed as a robotic pack mule for the US military.

The Association for Computing Machinery has named Peter Naur the winner of the 2005 A.M. Turing Award. The award is for Naur’s pioneering work on defining the Algol 60 programming language. Algol 60 is the model for many later programming languages, including those that are indispensable software engineering tools today. The Turing Award, considered the "Nobel [...]

Thomas Frey:  When Kevin Rose pulled $1,000 out of his pocket and founded Digg.com on December 5, 2004, he didn’t realize he was launching a revolution.  Now, a little over a year later several new community-driven, community-participation sites have emerged, all clones of Digg, and some are doing a pretty good job.  Here is our list [...]

One way to make money on your website is through adverts, Google’s adverts are used across the web and provide a good revenue source whether you’re a blogger or small business. These short tips will introduce you to Google’s Adsense program and help maximize potential revenue for your site.

Close your eyes and imagine which musicians made the most money last year.  Very likely the answers will surprise you.  Here are the top 10.

Creating energy from the business end of a Angus bull may not be where your passions lie, but researchers in Japan are seriously considering this option.

Individually tailored condoms that are anatomically designed to fit each penis perfectly are going on sale in Germany.

We’ve long dreamed of being able to commute in a city without the long involved traffic jams and congested traffic signals.  The latest visions of a flying car may take us in the right direction.

Robert X. Cringely:  Residential broadband use is still growing in America, but the rate of growth has fallen significantly according to a pair of studies covered last week in this column. This is nothing dreadful and nothing permanent, but under the current system of solely personal computers using the Internet, it will take another generation [...]