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Photographers: Chances Are, You Suck
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Gunslingers Convene for Rootin' Tootin' Period Fun
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Whistler's Deadly Bobsled Track Opens for Business
The Whistler Sliding Centre runs 4,800 feet long and drops 500 feet. You'll need an orientation — and a helmet — before taking the plunge.
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Feb. 8, 1828: Sci-Fi's Prophetical Father Is Born
The author Jules Verne, considered to be the father of science fiction, is born in Nantes, France. Many of his technological imaginings, in novels such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon, will eventually come to be reality.
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Mapping the Road Ahead for Autonomous Cars
Autonomous vehicles are here now, racking up miles on public roads. We talk to six experts about where we go from here.
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Exclusive: Download a Remix of Comic-Book Rapper Adam WarRock's ?616?
Very few rappers can switch from rapping about comic books to putting out mixtapes about Parks and Recreation, but Adam WarRock can.
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Review: I Don't Need No Doctor For This Rhythm Heaven Fever
This under-the-radar Nintendo series, each of which features a variety of challenging but hilarious rhythmic exercises, has heretofore only existed on portable platforms. Rhythm Heaven Fever, to be released for Wii on Feb. 13, is the first to be played on a television.
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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 8
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
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Greenpeace Hates Big Tech, But Wants To Kill Google Least
Greenpeace looks down on the tech giants of the world. But it looks down on Google the least. On Tuesday, the big-name environmental-rights outfit unveiled its annual ranking of the tech giants working hardest to combat climate change and shift their operations to renewable energy sources. It's called the "Cool IT Leaderboard," and this year's leader is Google, which scores a mere 53 points out of 100. Cisco, last year's leader, dropped to second, with 49 points.
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Yahoo Chair Roy Bostock, 3 Directors Step Down in 'Soft eBay Takeover'
The latest board shakeup comes on the heels of founder Jerry Yang?s resignation from the board and ex-PayPal/eBay executive Scott Thompson?s hiring as CEO in January. On Twitter, Dealbook?s Evelyn Rusli reported that a source, pointing to Thompson and Webb?s shared history at eBay, called Yahoo?s overhaul ?a soft eBay takeover.?
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Flash, Bang, Ow! Less-Lethal Bullet 'Attacks Three Senses'
Less-lethal weapons-makers are busy coming up with their own brainy bullets...Like a munition that senses when it strikes soft flesh, and then deploys a devastating payload to "attack three of the five human senses."
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Breaking: Giant, Terrifying Warrior-Bots ... On Sale Now!
Oh, good. Just in time for this evening?s nightmares: A gigantic, incredibly powerful robot is finally available for purchase. While supplies last.
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Fast-Spreading Animal Virus Leaps Europe, UK Borders
A newly identified disease dubbed the Schmallenberg virus is moving rapidly through livestock in Europe, and it has authorities both worried and puzzled. Superbug blogger Maryn McKenna reports.
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Why Telcos Would Be Testing an Apple iTV Prototype
According to the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, telecom companies Rogers and Bell Canada have in their labs an early prototype of Apple's rumored television set. Although the possibility of an honest-to-goodness prototype being tested is exciting, the idea that it's being scrutinized by telco operators is actually the more interesting part of the report.
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The Amazon Store? Maybe Try an In-Store Shop First
Apple has been successful with its retail stores for reasons that are almost entirely specific to Apple. There is no reason, besides ego, for any company to mimic Apple's approach unless that approach is a good fit for their business. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has plenty of ego, but he isn't foolish.
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Red Hat Appliance Smooths Storage on Amazon Cloud
Open source vendor Red Hat today rolled out its Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services, which it said "enables organizations to extend their datacenter storage to the cloud."
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Why Lady Gaga Could Deploy a Sound Only Your Smartphone Can Hear
A startup called SonicNotify embeds inaudibly high-pitched audio signals within music or any other audio track. When a compatible app hears that signal, it triggers any available smartphone function to link you to websites, display text, bring up map locations, display a photo, let you vote on which song a performer plays next and so on.
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Judge Refuses to Shut Down Online Market for Used MP3s
A one-of-a-kind website enabling the online sale of pre-owned digital-music files got a major legal boost when a federal judge late Monday refused to shutter it at the request of Capitol Records.
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Adobe Builds Flash Sandbox for Firefox
Adobe has partnered with Mozilla to build a more secure version of Flash for Firefox. As with a previous effort for Google's Chrome browser, Adobe wants to make sure that something as simple as watching a movie in Firefox won't mean compromising your PC.
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Mini Motion: Award-Winning Microscope Videos
Every year, Nikon holds a photomicrography contest that honors some of the best microscope images you'll ever see. This year, they've added video with their Nikon Small World in Motion competition. The best of more than 200 videos show amazing microscopic activity, including cells dividing, ants feasting and asexual yeast budding.
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