Advertisers are determined to get into your head by one means or
another, and Holosonic Research Labs has found yet another way of invading your privacy
in the name of forcing you pay attention. You’re walking down a street
in New York when all of a sudden, a woman’s voice whispers ‘Who’s that?
Who’s There?’ No, you weren’t having […]

The NY Times is running an article about the end of the corporate lab and the growing partnerships between businesses and universities
around the country. A number of researchers are concerned about the
potential influence of business goals on universities’ strategic
research priorities, and the possible censoring of research
antithetical to a corporate sponsor’s business interests. Others claim
that the […]

The information in a beam of light can be stored for a while by
converting it into a sound signal, then reading it back out again as
light, researchers have found. The process, which can be done in
commercially-available optical fibers, could be used to help make
computer processing more efficient in future.

Japan’s Honda Motor Co
unveiled a new, smarter version of its ASIMO celebrity humanoid robot.
The walking robots’ new skills will allow them to work
together in an office environment, the automaker said.

Seth Godin:  At the end of November, I flew out to give a speech to 350 Google
folks. They had invited me to join a panel on the best way to for
Google to work with partners.

The median age of automobiles has steadily increased since
1969. In 2005 the overall median age for automobiles was 8.9 years, a
significant increase over 1990 when the median age of vehicles in
operation in the US was 6.5 years and 1969 when the mean age for
automobiles was 5.1 years.

Riding a bus may not the most glamorous means of transportation, but that could change.

It serves 125, takes eight hours to cook and is stuffed with 12 different birds … now that really IS a Christmas dinner!

Test tubes make lousy wombs. Now comes a device that nurtures embryos like the real deal.

A cancer researcher stumbles upon a way to set saltwater aflame. Neat trick, but is his discovery useful?

Sixty years after transistors were invented and nearly five decades since they were first integrated into silicon chips, the tiny on-off switches dubbed the "nerve cells" of the information age are starting to show their age.

Spaniards still have not fully come to grips with the value of the euro and often tip too much, according to Economy Minister Pedro Solbes.