Gun-slinging robot headed for Iraq combat

The rain is turning to snow on a blustery January morning, and all the men gathered in a parking lot...

Firefox gains more market shares than Internet Explorer

A recent research conducted by WebSideStory, a market research firm, depicts Firefox at a continuous growth rate since last year....

Ethics for the Robot Age

Most people’s expectations of robots are driven by fantasy. These marvelous machines, optimists hope, will follow Moore’s law, doubling in...

Six Apart To Buy LiveJournal

Six Apart, provider of software and a hosted service for blogging, said it will acquire Danga Interactive, operator of open...

Blog reading explodes in America

Americans are becoming avid blog readers, with 32 million getting hooked in 2004, according to new research. The survey, conducted...

Tiny aircraft that just eat and go

Aircraft the size of bees that get the energy they need by feeding themselves a diet of dead flies could...

Wal-Mart and Linspire offer $498 laptop

Wal-Mart and Linspire announced on Monday that they are now offering a basic Linux laptop for under US$500, the first...

RIM loses patent case

A federal appeals court affirmed that Research In Motion, which makes the popular Blackberry, has infringed on holding company NTP’s...

Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database

Google, the operator of the world’s most popular Internet search service, announced today that it had entered into agreements with...

Ballmer attacks Linux on patent front

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer warned on Thursday that Linux may not really be free given the intellectual-property risks that could...