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New Aluminum-Ice Rocket Propellant Tested
IBM Takes a (Feline) Step Toward Thinking Machines
EU ACTA Doc Shows Plans For Global DMCA, 3 Strikes
Google Tries Not To Be a Black Hole of Brilliance
Marge Simpson Poses For Playboy
Dell Defect Turning 2.2GHz CPU Into 100MHz CPU?
Paywalls To Drive Journalists Away In Addition To Consumers?
New Kind of Orbit Could Ease Mars Communications
Italian Scientists Put Robot Spiders In Your Colon
Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight
Online "Guilds" Mirror Real Life Gangs
Web Open Font Format Gets Backing From Mozilla
Updated Slashdot Story Submission Bookmark
AT&T Sues Verizon Over "Map For That" Ads
Ambassador Claims ACTA Secrecy Necessary
Are Ad Servers Bogging Down the Web?
Bing Gains 10% Marketshare
Front Row Seats To NASA's Lunar Impact
Hackers vs. Phishers
Happy 5th Birthday To Firefox
How Vulnerable Is Our Power Grid?
Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google
Microsoft To Switch Focus To Windows 8 In July 2010
Moving Decimal Bug Loses Money
Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence
Musical Tesla Coils Perform Zelda
NASA Nebula, Cloud Computing In a Container
Vermont City Almost Encased In a 1-Mile Dome
iPhone 3.1 Spotted In Field Testing
12M Digit Prime Number Sets Record, Nets $100,000
1977 Star Wars Computer Graphics
Apple Patents "Enforceable" Ad Viewing On Devices
DNSSEC Implementation Held Up By Tech Delays
FBI Cracks "Largest Phishing Case Ever"
FCC Preparing Transition To VoIP Telephone Network
First Black Hole For Light Created On Earth
First Look At Acer's 3D Laptop
Google Abandoning Gears
Hands-On Look At the BlackBerry Storm 2
Heart of the Milky Way Photos From NASA
How Dangerous Could a Hacked Robot Possibly Be?
How Does the New Google DNS Perform? (and Why?)
ICANN Might Pre-Register gTLDs To Placate Critics
If the Comments Are Ugly, the Code Is Ugly
Is Linux Documentation Lacking?
Japan Eyes Solar Station In Space
Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released
Project Natal Release Details Emerge
Scientists Unveil Lightweight Rootkit Protection
Stargate Universe
The Sidekick Failure and Cloud Culpability
Where Are Your Contact Lens Displays?
Why a High IQ Doesn't Mean You're Smart
Gran Turismo Gamer Becomes Pro Race Driver
Confessions of a Public Speaker
Group Arrested For Selling Human Fat To Cosmetic Companies
eBay For Millionaires
Achievements and Optimizations
Lockheed Snags $31 Million To Reinvent the Internet, Microsoft To Help
'Shoe-Thrower' Footwear Top Seller In Bangladesh
Brazilian Twin Mystery the Result of Nazi Experiment?
Candy Linked To Violence In Study
Chefs Unveil Viagra-Laced Dessert
Facebook To Preserve Accounts of the Dead
Former Microsoft CTO Builds Kitchen Laboratory
Man Claims Deputies Redecorated His House
Man Speaks Only Klingon To Child For Three Years
Naughty Elf Ends Santa Mail Program
New Dinosaur Species Discovered In South Africa
OpenGL Shading Language 3rd Edition
Parenting Official Says Lesbians Make 'Better Parents'
Uganda Radio To Ban Witch-Doctor Ads
100 Million-Core Supercomputers Coming By 2018
32 Exoplanets Discovered By Chilean Telescope
ARM Launches Cortex-A5 Processor, To Take On Atom
Alternative Mobile Browsers Tested For Speed, Usability, JavaScript Rendering
Are There Affordable Low-DPI Large-Screen LCD Monitors?
Building a 32-Bit, One-Instruction Computer
Chicago Court Throwing Out LIDAR Speeding Tickets
China Strangles Tor Ahead of National Day
Cyberterror Not Yet a Credible Threat, Says Policy Thinktank
Deadline Scheduling Proposed For the Linux Kernel
Developing Nations Crippled By Broadband Costs
Dow Chemical Rolling Out Solar Shingles Next Year
FCC Mulling More Control For Electronic Media
Google Envisions 10 Million Servers
HTC Dragging Feet On GPL Source Release For "Hero" Phone
IBM Smartphone Software Translates 11 Languages
MS Pulls Windows 7 Tool After GPL Violation Claim
Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy
Microsoft Moves To Patent Time-Based Software Licensing
Neural Implant To Give Control of Paralyzed Arms
New Sensory System Found In the Skin
New XBMC Port Promises ARM-Powered HD In the Palm of Your Hand
PhotoSketch Image Manipulation Tool Taking the World by Storm
Real-LIfe Distributed-Snooping Web Game To Launch In Britain
Recovering the Slums of the Internet?
Salon.com Editor Looks Back At Paywalls
Saying No To Promotions Away From Tech?
Sneaky Microsoft Add-On Put Firefox Users At Risk
Software To Diagnose Faulty PC Hardware?
Telecoms Announce "One Voice" Initiative To Promote LTE Wireless Broadband Stand
US Supreme Court Skeptical of Business Method Patents
WIPO Committee Presentations Show Nuanced View of Copyright
Becoming Agile
Founder of Tibet's "Butter-Lamp" Site Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison
Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots
Apple Buys Lala Music Streaming, But Why?
Arbitrary Code Execution With "ldd"
Ask Sam Ramji About the CodePlex Foundation
Astronomers Invent "Galaxy Game"
Blogger Loses Unemployment Check Because of Ads
Brazilian Breaks Secrecy of Brazil's E-Voting Machines With Van Eck Phreaking
CIA Invests In Firm That Datamines Social Networks
Cable Exec Suggests Changing Consumer Behavior, Not Business Model
Clean Smells Promote Ethical Behavior
Companies To Invade Your Retinas As Soon As Next Year?
Computer Activities for Those With Speech and Language Difficulties?
Copyright Time Bomb Set To Go Off
EC Formally Objects To Oracle's Purchase of Sun
EMI Sues Beatles Usurper Off the Net
English Shell Code Could Make Security Harder
Europe Launches Flood-Predicting Satellite and Test Probe
FBI Investigates Liberator of Court Records
FCC Begins Crafting Net Neutrality Regulations
FCC/DOT Want High-Tech Cure For Distracted Driving
Feds Bust Cable Modem Hacker
For Some Medical Workers, a Flu Shot Or Possible Job Loss
Gakken Arduino Clone Spotted At Tokyo MAKE Meeting 04
Google Gives the Gift of Free Airport Wi-Fi
Google Upgrades Chrome To Beta For OS X, Linux
Google's Reach Hits Your Tivo
Hacker McKinnon To Be Extradited To US
How Augmented Reality Browsers Stack Up For Navigating London
IT Snake Oil — Six Tech Cure-Alls That Went Bunk
Image Recognition Neural Networks, Open Sourced
Intel Updates SSDs, Supports TRIM, Faster Writes
Israeli Knesset Approves Biometric Database Law
LHC Shut Down Again — By Baguette-Dropping Bird
MIT and the DARPA Network Challenge
Mac OS X 10.6.2 Will Block Atom Processors
Mandatory H1N1 Vaccine For NY Health Workers Suspended
Microsoft Investigates Windows 7 "Black Screen of Death"
Microsoft Links Malware Rates To Pirated Windows
Microsoft Research Shows Off New Projects On College Recruiting Tour
Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009
Murdoch To Explore Blocking Google Searches
NCSU's Fingernail-Size Chip Can Hold 1TB
New UK Wireless Network Tax May Hamper Internet Rollout
New Virginia IT Systems Lack Network Backup
Nvidia's RealityServer 3.0 Demonstrated
Patent Claim Could Block Import of Toyota's Hybrid Cars
Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches To Distributed Hash Table
Platform Independent C++ OS Library?
Possible Meteorite Leaves a Crater In Latvia
Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls
Recession Pushes More Workers To Steal Data
Reliability of PC Flash SSDs?
Remus Project Brings Transparent High Availability To Xen
Researchers Implant Neural-Monitoring RFID Into a Moth
SFLC Finds One New GPL Violation Per Day
Scientists Create Artificial Meat
Scientists Discover How DNA Is Folded Within the Nucleus
Secret ACTA Treaty May Sport "Internet Enforcement" Procedures After All
Senate To Air Findings In Web "Mystery Charge" Probe
Sloppy Linux Admins Enable Slow Brute-Force Attacks
Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala
Spain's Proposed Internet Law Sparks Protest, Change
Tech Allows Stable Integration of Wind In the Power Grid
Terminator Franchise To Be Auctioned Off
Test of 16 Anti-Virus Products Says None Rates "Very Good"
The Best Medications For Your Genes
The First Windows 7 Zero-Day Exploit
The Story Behind a Failed HPC Startup
Toyota Develops New Flower Species To Reduce Pollution
UK's Channel 4 To Broadcast In 3D
Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7
What Computer Science Can Teach Economics
What Desktop Search Engine For a Shared Volume?
What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink?
When Software Leaks (and What Really Goes Down)
Yahoo! Opens Floodgates On Homepage To Devs
ZFS Gets Built-In Deduplication
Slashdot Launches User Achievements
Service Oriented Architecture With Java
Astro Boy Director Speaks
Accountability of the Scientific Stimulus Funding
Amazon Scores Gift-Delivery Patent
Apple vs. Microsoft Multi-Touch Mouse Comparison
BSA Says 41% of Software On Personal Computers Is Pirated
Contributors Leaving Wikipedia In Record Numbers
Doubts Raised About Legal Soundness of GPL2
Federal Appeals Court Tosses Spam Patent
Firefox 3.6 Locks Out Rogue Add-ons
Hackers Targeting Xbox Live
Hyperdrive Propulsion Could Be Tested At the LHC
Man "Beats" World of Warcraft
Man Arrested For RuneScape MMORPG Online Robbery
Microsoft Leaks Details of 128-bit Windows 8
Opera Closes China Loophole; Reinstates Censorship