New Orleans’ population is still only 41 percent of its size before Hurricane Katrina devastated the city 15 months ago, according to a state survey that casts doubts on rosier predictions by the mayor.

They might be losing out to the New World competition on taste tests, but traditional red wines from the vineyards of France and Italy are the best there are for protecting your health.

We’re all familiar with the x-ray machines encountered in airports, but it may be of interest to see the scale such machines are being developed on, and the sophistication now available for contraband detection in vehicles.

Music on the DS has just taken a giant leap beyond musical games like Electroplankton, thanks to the efforts of German programmer and musician Tob.

Thousands of people who log on to online computer games are displaying the same signs of addiction as gamblers and drug users.

For every dollar spent online, the average search user spends $2.56 offline. This shows that search has the ability to influence an incremental three times the dollar value of e-commerce transactions by reaching consumers who shop in traditional channels.

In a survey conducted earlier this fall by Bluestreak, US online users did not seem overly concerned about the amount of spam in their e-mail boxes. With the exception of users ages 50 and older, none of them thought spam accounted for more than 20% of the volume of e-mails they received.

The government discriminates against blind people by printing money that all feels the same, a federal judge said Tuesday in a ruling that could change the face of American currency.

Golf is one of the world’s most frustrating games, and quite often you just want to break things.  Nike has picked up on this fact as a way demonstrating their new high performance golf balls.  Check out this crazy set of videos.