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CO2 To Fuel, Closing the "Carbon Loop"
Network Card for Gamers - Uses Linux to Reduce Lag
New 25x Data Compression?
500 Miles on a 5-Minute Recharge?
Untraceable Messaging Service Raises a Few Eyebrows
Perpetual Energy Machine Getting Lots of Attention
Irish Company Claims Free Energy
$1,000 Spray Makes Gadgets Waterproof
Paint Provides Network Protection
Totally Random One Time Pads
Water From Wind
Aussie Claims Copper Broadband now 200x Faster
Cracking a Crypto Hard Drive Case
Scientists Claim Infrared Helmet Could Reverse Alzheimer's Symptoms
The Replacement For the Battery?
Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20%
Ultrasound Machine Ages Wine
Denon's $499 Ethernet Cable
Fingerprint-Protected USB Sticks Cracked
Chip Promises AI Performance in Games
Tools To Squash the Botnets
Safemedia's CEO Tells Congress He Can Stop P2P
US State Sues Web/SEO Firm For Deceiving Mom-and-Pops
World's First "Unclonable" RFID Chip
Trick or Treatment
Can You Trust Anti-Virus Rankings?
Charge in 5 minutes, Drive 500 miles?
Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars
Spam Trap Claims 10x-100x Accuracy Gain
Alligator Blood May Be Source of New Antibiotics
Simple Comm Technique Beats Quantum Crypto
Thrust from Microwaves - The Relativity Drive
"Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste
Compound From Olive-Pomace Oil Inhibits HIV Spread
Cryptography To Frustrate Printer-Ink Piracy
Laser TV — the Death of Plasma?
Nanoparticles Could Make Hydrogen Cheaper Than Gasoline
New Generator Boosts Wind Turbine Efficiency 50%
Radiation Absorbing Mineral Found In the Arctic
Shadow Analysis Could Spot Terrorists
Something in Your Food is Moving
Startup Claims to Make $1/Gallon Ethanol
The Air Car Nears Completion
The Fight To End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding
$999 For a Complete DNA Scan, Worth it?
10 Great Snake-Oil Gadgets
7 Secure USB Drives Reviewed
Are Liquid Explosives on a Plane Feasible?
Brightnets are Owner Free File Systems
Cross-Site Scripting Hits Major Sites
Do Static Source Code Analysis Tools Really Work?
FastTCP Commercialized Into An FTP Appliance
First Retail Water-Cooled DDR2 Memory Tested
Hacked DX10 for Windows Appears
Killer NIC Hands-On Testing
New Gadget Blocks 'Spam' Phone Calls
Oil Soaked Servers Coming Soon
Reaction Engines plan Mach 5 Airliner
Recognizing Your Own Handwriting As A Password
Ruby on Rails 2.0 is Done
TrueCrypt 5.0 Released, Now Encrypts Entire Drive
What is the Future of Wireless Power?
Xerox's 'Intelligent Redaction' Scanners
Is the U3 Smart Drive Encryption Any Good?
Computer Software to Predict the Unpredictable
$1/Gallon "Green Gasoline" In Sight
7th-Grader Designs Three Dimensional Solar Cell
A Foolproof Way To End Bank Account Phishing?
A Linux-Based "Breath Test" For Porn On PCs
ACLU Files for Info on New Brain-Scan Tech
Apple Adds Memory Randomization To Leopard
Ask Aubrey de Grey About Longevity Research
Auto-Parallelizing Compiler From Codeplay
Company Makes Inconspicuous Secure Cellphone
Computer Associates Offers Warranties
Cracking the GPS Galileo Satellite
Crypto Snake Oil
Electrical Noise Causing Physiological Stress?
Encrypted USB Key With TOR, Firefox
Engine On a Chip May Beat the Battery
Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion Device Gets Funded
Ethical Killing Machines
Focus Fusion On Google Tech Talks
Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents
Gaining RAM For Free, Through Software
Getting High-Quality Audio From a PC
Hardware Firewall On a USB Key
Homeland Security Department Testing "Pre-Crime" Detector
How Encrypted Binaries Work In Mac OS X
IE8 Will Contain an Accidental Ad Blocker
Improve Your Hearing With Vision
Intel's "Terascale" Vision
Invisible Unmanned Aircraft
Ionic Cooling For Your Computer
Is It Time For .tel?
Linspire Signs Patent Pact With MS
Making the Switch To Windows "Workstation" 2008
Man Invents Alternative To Cooking Gas
McAfee Artemis Claims Protection Online, On-the-Fly
Memristor Based RAM Could Be Out By 2009
Microsoft To Offer Free Anti-Virus Software
Microsoft-Novell Takes Open-Source to China
MySpace to Use Audio Fingerprinting
NASA Achieves Breakthrough Black Hole Simulation
NVIDIA To Buy AGEIA
Natural Gas to Offer Breakthrough in Suspended Animation?
New Continuous Support System
New Discovery Disproves Quantum Theory?
New Optical Security Doesn't Require Embedment
New and Improved Deadly Snail Venom
New(?) Anti-Fraud DNS service
OCZ Prepares Neural Impulse Actuator for Shipping
Obama Announces for President, Boosts Broadband
Oil-Immersion Cooled PC Goes To Retail
Online Test Measures Speed of your Brain
Open Source DRM Solutions?
Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming
Protected Memory Stick Easily Cracked
Screen With 180 Degree Field of View
Security Checkpoints Predict What You Will Do
Self Cleaning Mouse
Smilin' Bob Not Smilin' Anymore
Software Holds Cell Phone Calls While Driving
Sony CTO Starts New "Buy Once, Play Anywhere" Group
Sort Linked Lists 10X Faster Than MergeSort
Startup Webaroo to put the 'Web on a Hard Drive'?
Text Compressor 1% Away From AI Threshold
The Keyboard That Could Phone Home
The Physics of a Good Store Location
Towards an Exercise Pill
UK's Loughborough Uni Demos Hydrogen Motorcycle
Under the Hood of Quantum Computing
User Not Found, Email Drops Silently
Using Electricity to Heal
Vista SP1 Released to Manufacturing
Wireless Keyboard "Encryption" Cracked
Brain Scanner Can Read People's Intentions
ARPANet Co-Founder Predicts An Internet Crisis
Anti-Botnet Market is Black Eye for AV Industry
Cheap, Safe, Patentless Cancer Drug Discovered
Chinese Company Produces $150 Linux PC
Creating Water from Thin Air
Give iPod Thieves an Unchargeable Brick
HBO Exec Proposes DRM Name Change
HIV Vaccine Ready For Clinical Trials
High-Def Disc Interactivity Debuts on HD DVD
How ExxonMobil Funded Global Warming Skeptics
Human Blood May Contain A Cure For AIDS
Investor Money Goes To Magic Lag Reducing Tech
Mass Extinctions from Global Warming?
McAfee Feigns Fear at Mac Security
Move to a Mainframe, Earn Carbon Credits
Nanotech Battery Claims to Solve Electric Car Woes
Nanotechnology Boosts Solar Cell Performance
Phantom Entertainment Announces Lapboard Preorders
Privacy Groups Mull 'Do Not Track' List for Internet
Researchers Find Potential Cure for Cancer
Scientists Dubious of Quantum Computing Claims
Solar Power-Cell Breakthrough
Space Planes to Meet 'Big Demand' For Tourism
Startup Tries Watermarking Instead of DRM
T-Mobile Announces WiFi Meshing Cellphone
Unique Broadband Over Powerline Project Planned For Mosques
Using Lasers to Speed Computer Data
Your 'Clickprint' Gives Away Your Identity Online
Cod Enzyme Kills Bird Flu
SwiftFuel Alternative To Alternative Fuels
Killer NIC K1 and Custom BitTorrent Client Tested
"H-Prize" Announced
Biometric Terrorist Detector
Cleaner Air Adds To Global Warming
PMD Applied
Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy
Quasars Used for Encryption
Vein Patterns Could Replace Fingerprints
Wealthy Mexicans Getting Chipped in Case of Abduction
Wireless Invention Jams Teen Drivers' Cell Calls