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Researchers To Build Underwater Airplane
Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents
Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving?
A Cheap, Distributed Zero-Day Defense?
A Brief History of Features Apple Has Killed
Python 2.6 to Smooth the Way for 3.0, Coming Next Month
Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Released
Grenade-Style Wireless Camera For Combat
Sound Bites of the 1908 Presidential Candidates
Audio Watermarks Could Pinpoint Film Pirates By Seat
Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note
CERN Releases Analysis of LHC Incident
CO2 To Fuel, Closing the "Carbon Loop"
Fictional Town "Eureka" To Become Real?
Minefield Shows the (Really) Fast Future of Firefox
New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click"
Tech Companies That Won't Survive 2009
Motor Made From Liquid Film
Offline Gmail Launched
"Nuclear Archaeology" Inspires Replica of Hiroshima's Little Boy
A Robot To Destroy Breast Cancer Cells
Computer Error Caused Qantas Jet Mishap
First Secure Quantum Crypto Network Up and Running
100x Denser Chips Possible With Plasmonic Nanolithography
Alternatives to Daylight Saving Time?
FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge
Loebner Talks AI
Miscalculation Invalidates LHC Safety Assurances
NASA's New Lunar Rover, Now Testing In Arizona
Plasma Rocket Successful Full Power Test
Stanford's Quantum Hologram Sets Storage Record
Steve Fossett's Unfinished Project
The Evolution of Python 3
Top Tech Breakthroughs of 2008
"Smash Your Hard Drive" To Fight Identity Theft
New Gadget Blocks 'Spam' Phone Calls
SpaceX Successfully Tests Nine-Engine Cluster
Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record
2,100-Year-Old Antikythera Device Recreated In Working Form
3D Printing On Demand
A Brief History of Chip Hype and Flops
Adobe Building Zoetrope, a Web "Time Machine"
Auto Safety Tech May Encourage Dangerous Driving
Cold-War Era Naval Vessels Up For Grabs
First Flight of Jet Powered By Algae-Fuel
Flower Robots For Your Home
Google Releases Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta
NFL's First Broadcast In 3-D, Still Has Work To Do
Network Neutrality Defenders Quietly Backing Off?
"Subhuman Project" Human Powered Submarine
A Monster LED Array For Irresponsible Fun
Amateurs Are Trying Genetic Engineering At Home
Dell Adamo Review — Macho Outside, Sissy Inside
Demo of Spatially Aware Blocks
Distributed "Nuclear Batteries" the New Infrastructure Answer?
Google Is Taking Spoken Questions
HP Creates First Hybrid Memristor Chip
Honda Makes Motorcycle Talk To Oncoming Cars
How Do You Stay Upbeat Amidst the Idiocy?
How a Router's Missed Range Check Nearly Crashed the Internet
Is the Relational Database Doomed?
Mobile Firefox Alpha 1 Released
NASA Fashions Mountain-Climbing Robot
NSA Open Sources Tokeneer Research Project
Obama Stimulus Pours Millions Into Cyber Security
Pushing 800W of Wireless Power at 5 Meters
RED's New Digital Stills and Motion Camera Pushing the Limits
RITI Printer Uses Your Coffee Grounds For Eco Ink
Ray Kurzweil Wonders, Can Machines Ever Have Souls?
Repairing Genetic Mutations With Lasers?
Robotic Suit For Rent In Japan
Untangling Web Information
WISPS Mean Cable and DSL Aren't the Only Choices
Work Progresses On 10,000 Year Clock
Norwegian Standards Body Members Resign Over OOXML
'Lab On a Chip' Made From Paper and Tape
32bit Win7 Vs. Vista Vs. XP
A Computer Composing and Playing Jazz
A Robotic Bartender, and How To Build One
Buckypaper — Out of the Lab, Into the Market
CFLs Causing Utility Woes
CMU Video Conference System Gets 3D From Cheap Webcams
Coming Soon, 250 DVDs In a Quarter-Sized Device
DARPA Creates Remote Controlled Insects
Dean Kamen Combines Stirling Engine With Electric Car
Demo of a New "Sixth Sense" Technology
English Court Allows Patents For "Complex" Software
Experimental Magnetic Shield Against Cosmic Rays
Feds Target "Mongols" Biker Club's Intellectual Property
First Superconducting Transistor Created
First Touch-Screen, Bendable E-Paper Developed
Flying Car Ready To Take Off
Fusion-Fission System Burns Hot Radioactive Waste
Google's GeoEye-1 Takes Its First Pictures
Green Is In At CES, But Is It Real?
History of the LED — the Movie
How Moore's Law Saved Us From the Gopher Web
How Small Can Computers Get? Computing in a Molecule
In Response To Restraining Order, Real Networks Pulls RealDVD
Ioke Tries To Combine the Best of Lisp and Ruby
Japanese Scientists Claim To Reconstruct Images From Brain Data
MIT Injects Nanotubes To Help Fight Cancer
Nanocar Wins Top Science Award
New Car Sensor System Simulates Birds-Eye View
New Generator Boosts Wind Turbine Efficiency 50%
New Ice Structure Could Help Seed Clouds, Cause Rain
New Nanotech Fabric Never Gets Wet
On Fourth Launch Attempt, SpaceX Falcon 1 Reaches Orbit
Optical Fiber With a Silicon Core
People Prefer Angry-Faced Cars
Player Piano Roll Production Ceases
Portugal's Vortalgate — No Microsoft, No Bidding
Prevent Gmail From Emailing Under the Influence
Progress On Electric Cars
Quantum Camera On a Silicon Chip
Race For the "God Particle" Heats Up
Researchers Create Graphite Memory 10 Atoms Thick
Scientists Create Easier Way To Embed Objects Into Video
Small Electric Car May Usher In Big Changes
Solar Craft Flies Through Two Nights
Theora 1.0 Released, Supported By Firefox
US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory
Ultra-Sensitive Camera To Measure Exoplanet Sizes
Using Lasers To Generate Random Numbers Faster
Why Sustainable Power Is Unsustainable
Windows 95 Almost Autodetected Floppy Disks
Are Windows 7 Testers Going Unheard?
Breakthrough May Revolutionize Microchip Patterning
Drawing on Air With Haptics in 3D
Firefox Beta Touts Advanced Engine, Solves 8 Flaws
Google Pushes Open Source OCR
India Launches 10 Satellites At Once
Last.fm Shoots Down Rumors Over U2 Album Leak
Massive VMware Bug Shuts Systems Down
NSFnet — 20 Years of Internet Obscurity and Insight
SpaceX Launch Failure Due To Timing Problem
Swedish Company Trials Peer-to-Peer Cellphones
The Hard Science of Making Videogames
What Do You Want In iPhone 2.0?
Windows 7 Multitouch Demonstration
Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy
"Magnetic Tornadoes" Could Offer New Data Storage Tech
1.4 Billion Pixel Camera To Watch For Asteroids
A Look Back At Kurzweil's Predictions For 2009
A Step Toward an Invisibility Cloak
Accident Could Lead To Better Digital Cameras
Adobe Opens the FLV and SWF Formats
Altered Organism Triples Solar Cell Efficiency
Amazon Announces Kindle 2, With Slew of New Features
An Inside Look At Iran's Nuclear Program
Apple and Nike Team up for iPod Shoe Interface
Appropriate Tech, 300mpg Car Top 2008 Innovators
April Fools Sees Fake Extra Millions For Users of Brokerage Site
Ares V Rocket Bigger and Stronger For Moon Mission
Arranging Electronic Access For Your Survivors?
Artificial Gecko Adhesive, Now In Experimental Glue
Authors Guild President Wants To End Royalty-Free TTS On Kindle
Barrier to Web 2.0 — IT Departments
Boston University Working On LED Wireless Networks
Breakthrough In Plastic Lasers
Bridgestone Shows Off Ultra-Thin, Full-Color e-Paper
Cellphone Networks Survive Inauguration, Mostly
Compressed-Air Car Nears Trial
Crowdsourcing Site Offers Rewards To Bust Patents
DOE Shines $21M on Advanced Lighting Research
Duplicating Your Housekeys, From a Distance
Effective Use of Technology In the Classroom?
Efficiently Producing Quantum Dots
Fermilab — Excursions Into Matter, Space and Time
Flying Car Flies From London To Africa
Ford's 65MPG Due In November, But Not In the US
GE Announces OLED Manufacturing Breakthrough
Gecko-Inspired Dry Adhesive Set For Space
German Physicists Claim Speed of Light Broken
Grad Student Project Uses Wikis To Stash Data, Miffs Admins
How 10 Iconic Tech Products Got Their Names
Huge Credit Fraud Ring Sends Europeans' Data To Pakistan
Human Ear Could Be Next Biometric System
Ink Breakthrough Heralds Bendy PC Screens
Inside the New Science of Neuroengineering
Interpol Pushing World Facial Recognition Database
Is the Bar of Soap Tomorrow's Smarterphone?
Laser Triggers Electrical Activity In Thunderstorm
Look What's Cooking At Microsoft Labs
MIT Building Batteries Using Viruses
Making the "Free" Business Model Work In a Tough Economy
Meet the 5-Watt, Tiny, fit–PC
NASA Tests Heaviest Chute Drop Ever
Netflix Comes To Tivo, AppleTV, Linux
New Ads That Watch You
New Electron Microscope Shows Atoms in Color
New Hydrogen Engine Test Shows Future of Aviation
Nokia's iPhone, No Seriously
Norwegian Websites Declare War On IE 6
OLPC Mass Production Begins
PEBKAC Still Plagues PC Security
Panasonic Working On 2-Terabyte SD Cards
Philosophy and Computer Science Revisited
PowerBeam Demos Wireless Electricity At CES
Raytheon Exoskeleton Brings "Iron Man" to Life