While praised, today’s multi-touch input methods are clearly in its infancy. It recognizes only a handful of gestures, it isn’t terribly accurate and not a...

Tommy Lee Jones is suing the makers of “No Country for Old Men” for more than $10 million that the Oscar-winning actor claims he is owed for starring in the...

Next April, for a grand total of 8 minutes, NASA astronomers are going to glimpse a secret layer of the sun.

We already know that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be the biggest, most expensive physics experiment ever carried out by mankind. Colliding relativistic...

While we’re transfixed by the presidential election, in the world of high tech another duel between two well-funded, take-no-quarter candidates has just emerged...

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Hurricane Ike has intensified to a dangerous Category 4 storm with winds sustained at 135 mph.

The message, which translates as “Lenin is 100″, was cut into a forest in a remote region of Siberia. Each letter is around 80 metres high, and the entire...

For the second time this year, mechanical problems have forced Democrat Barack Obama to change charter airplanes on short notice.

It’s time to end once and for all the rampant speculation. Sony doesn’t want any info to leak but I’m told that both star Tobey Maguire and director...

Barack Obama lays out his benchmarks for a government takeover of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but says he’ll withhold judgment until he...

Everyone hates their Internet service provider. And with good cause: In the age of ubiquitous Internet access, Web service in America is still often frustratingly...

Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three...

There are many well-known blogs that track developments in the mobile phone industry, from the Boy Genius Report to mocoNews.net.

Following Demonoid and QuebecTorrent, the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) has threatened isoHunt with legal action. However, isoHunt has decided to...

Listen up, guys. It may be time to drop the bravado and consider these sobering statistics:

A British woman plans to make a parachute jump over Mount Everest hoping to become the first woman ever to skydive over the world’s highest peak, organizers said...

The banners, buttons and signs say McCain-Palin, but the crowds say something else.

Are you having trouble with funding? Is your research unable to attract major media attention? Just add Terror ™! That’s what Dr Stoica of NASA’s...

A ‘comedy brain cell’ has been discovered by scientists, which responds to humour.

A former New Jersey lawmaker with a national reputation for pushing welfare reform is facing charges of using his political clout to land no-work government jobs as a...