Scientists have stumbled on a world first in helping a man improve his memory. 
They were experimenting with deep-brain stimulation in an
attempt to curb the appetite of a 30st patient who suffered from a
lifelong obesity problem. Electrodes were pushed into his brain and stimulated with an electric current.
The treatment did not cure his eating problem - […]

Tens of millions of internet users across the Middle East and Asia
have been left without access to the web after a technical fault cut
millions of connections. The outage, which is being blamed on a
fault in a single undersea cable, has severely restricted internet
access in countries including India, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and left
huge numbers of […]

The British government is set to encourage children to play "active computer
games" to tackle the childhood obesity ‘epidemic’ in the country that costs the
exchequer billions of pounds every
year.

What else are you doing right now? Are you eating? Listening to the radio? Is there a TV on in the room?
Like most media, the Internet is being multitasked more than
ever. Multitasking is almost a survival tactic for consumers, who seem
to be faced with more media choices every year.
For marketers, it doesn’t seem to be […]

A new research study by British scientists raises the prospect of babies being born
through entirely artificial means, and possibly sidelining men from the process
of creating life.

The Australian monster is a 13 ton (28,660 pound) two-wheeler devised by Ray Baumann, a stunt driver. It is 9 meters (29.5ft) long, more than 3 meters (9.8ft) high and is powered by a Detroit Diesel truck engine.

The secret to a good cheeseburger is its freshness. Hot off the grill, with crisp vegetables if you like. Not the kind of food you’d think to put in a can.

Unable to afford food, poor people in Haiti resorted to eating mud cookies made from dried yellow dirt.

Inventor and saxophone player Peter Davey has come up with a device that he claims boils water in no time.

Ever laid back and wished your aches, pains and stress would just float away? Well, you could be in luck. A new ‘hover lounger’ has been unveiled promising to do exactly that.

Now you can feel like those suckers putting in a full day at the
Springfield power plant. That is, you’ll be under the watchful eye of
C. Montgomery Burns with this webcam. You’ll know exactly how Karl and
Lenny feel, not to mention Homer. Don’t fall asleep with a donut in
your mouth. (w/pic)

Imagine living in a city with the country’s highest rate for violent crime and the second-highest unemployment rate. As an added kicker you need more Superfund dollars allocated to your city to clean up contaminated toxic waste sites than just about any other metro. Forbes Magazine does an interesting evaluation on cities you probably don’t […]

The city that popularized the fast food drive-thru has a new innovation: 24-hour medical marijuana vending machines.

Is Google an online monster? eMarketer estimates that over $8.6 billion was spent on search engine advertising in 2007.

When cupid strikes at workplace, it might bring two hearts together, but it
adversely affects the speed and quality of work, according to a survey.

As kids’ most loved game - Lego - celebrates its 50th birthday, a whole slew of
‘Lego porn’ videos have hit the Internet, claiming it’s not a toy just for kids anymore.

"Blamestorming" and "boss-spasming" are among buzzwords about to enter the world of office jargon, according to a recruitment firm Office Angels.

German nudists will be able to start their holidays early by stripping off on the plane if they take up a new offer from an eastern German travel firm.

If you’re squeamish, you may want to skip this one: In Peru, Extracto de rana or frog juice is a popular drink touted to cure asthma, bronchitis and …. impotence!

Conspiracy theorists rejoice! There’s a new "automotive Bermuda Triangle," a five-block radius around the Empire State Building, where cars mysteriously die.

"I throw more power into my voice, and now the flame is extinguished," wrote Irish scientist John Tyndall about his experiments with sound and fire in 1857. Countless public demonstrations and a handful of lab tests later, researchers are still struggling to determine exactly how sound snuffs flames.

Early findings from current research suggests that up to 85 per cent of people may possess some form of clairvoyance - the ability to "remote view".

Quick, how many gift cards were in your Christmas stocking, and how
many will you actually get around to spending? Needham, Mass.-based
researcher TowerGroup estimates that of the $97 billion worth of plastic cards purchased in
2007, nearly $8 billion has gone unused, although no one has an exact
count.

WebProNews Editor,
Jason Lee Miller, has put together an interesting scenario as to how bloggers will reinvent the publishing industry. 

For a time, it looked like there was no stopping WiMAX, a form of
wireless broadband that can blanket whole cities for less than rival
technologies cost. WiMAX is backed by a who’s who of telecom and
consumer electronics firms and carriers around the globe with grand
plans to roll it out in the coming months. But all that […]