Aug 20 2008
A previously unrecognized group of air pollutants could have effects remarkably similar to harmful substances found in tobacco smoke, Louisiana scientists are reporting in a study scheduled for presentation today at the 236th National Meeting of the...
Aug 18 2008
Is it possible to be too smart? Maybe. History is full of insane geniuses, humans who mentally put the pedal to the metal–and sometimes through the floor.
Aug 18 2008
This article proposes an unusual way to land objects from orbit and probes returning from deep space. I won’t dwell on details best left for future study, but will suggest enough possibilities to encourage more study of the concept.
Aug 17 2008
Let’s start with the obvious: Google makes more money than Apple does. It had earnings of $10 billion over the past 12 months, compared to $8 billion for Apple. And while both companies’ earnings are growing fast, Google’s are growing...
Aug 15 2008
One more spammer is heading off to jail, but not before he managed to bilk at least several hundred people out of $400,000 or more.
Aug 14 2008
Travel by bubble might seem more appropriate for witches in Oz, but two physicists suggest that a future spaceship could fold a space-time bubble around itself to travel faster than the speed of light.
Aug 13 2008
A vulnerability described as ‘critical’ has been discovered in versions of uTorrent and the official BitTorrent client. The ‘buffer overflow’ vulnerability can be exploited to compromise a user’s computer for the execution of arbitrary code....
Aug 13 2008
The Apple (AAPL - Cramer’s Take - Stockpickr) 3G iPhone’s connection may not be worthy of the name, something that should benefit rival handset makers that have been looking for a chink in the device’s armor.
Aug 12 2008
Sir Richard Branson has written to both US presidential hopefuls, warning against allowing a merger between British Airways and American Airlines.
Aug 12 2008
Two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, according to a new report from Congress.