The average American home now has more television sets than people. That threshold was crossed within the past two years, according to Nielsen Media Research. There are 2.73 TV sets in the typical home and 2.55 people, the researchers said.

If the planned Jan. 30 launch of Bigelow Aerospace’s Genesis 2 space module on a Russian Dnepr rocket is successful, Las Vegas entrepreneur Robert Bigelow plans to send a hotel-style habitat into orbit in either the second half of 2009 or the first half of 2010.

The world’s largest hole is a diamond mine next to the small town of Mirnyy, in Russia’s Eastern Siberia.  The excavation measures 525 meters deep and 1.25 km in the diameter.

Technology is quickly changing the face of the globe.  When we reach 2011, the year 2006 will be but a distant foggy memory – one of those past years of primitive technology.

For the first time, Forbes magazine’s list of the 400 richest Americans consists exclusively of people worth US$1 billion or more. As a group, the people who made the rankings released Thursday are worth a record US$1.25 trillion, compared with US$1.13 trillion last year.

The writers of Jackie Chan’s latest film toned down the script to please Chinese censors, who thought the villainous character portrayed by Chan was too evil, a news report said Tuesday.