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LucasArts and Day 1 Studios on Wednesday unveiled "Fracture," a new shooter game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in which environmental devastation has split the United States into two warring halves. Set in the year 2161, "Fracture" puts players in the role of Mason Briggs, a demolitions expert figh...
IBM has developed a method of assembling microchips using nanotechnology, the company stated Thursday, a potentially revolutionary process for insulating tiny wires by allowing them to assemble themselves around air gaps. This advance could make next-generation chips dramatically faster and more ene...
Just days before a May 9 congressional oversight hearing into the Bush administration's violations of the Endangered Species Act and censorship of science, a top-ranking Interior Department official resigned Monday. Julie MacDonald, who was the assistant secretary of fish, wildlife and parks, respon...
The rules of the road were fairly clear to Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, until this week. Users generally were given free rein, except when they violated the site's terms of use -- for example, by linking to porn or racial hate sites, or to illegal downloads. Recent events have thrown Rose off his st...
When Microsoft rolled out its Silverlight application platform this week, it threw down the proverbial gauntlet, so to speak, at longtime rival Adobe, whose Flash product has thus far been the dominant interactive content creation tool on the market. The availability of Silverlight will undoubtedly ...
The use of power lines as a medium for communication services has been widely discussed for many years. Similar to the characteristics that led to the development of DSL, the use of surplus frequency space on power lines for communication is a simple concept that has been difficult to implement. How...
Forget joysticks: New toys in the works at San Jose, Calif.-based NeuroSky reportedly use players' brain waves to control the action. The toys include a sensor, which is placed on the player's forehead to read the brain's electrical signals. Moves are dependent on the player's concentration. In a pr...
The latestet iteration of Microsoft's next-generation gaming console, the Xbox 360 Elite, hit store shelves Sunday. The new model boasts a 120 GB hard drive, a high-definition multimedia interface port for connecting to HDTV, a wireless controller and a premium black finish on the console's exterior...
Mattel, maker of the iconic Barbie doll, announced Thursday that Barbie will go online with BarbieGirls, a new virtual world. The site offers the opportunities to create a virtual character, play games and chat with other girls. The toy company also plans to release the "Barbie Girls" device, a doll...
World-renowned physicist, cosmologist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking fulfilled a lifelong dream Thursday when he experienced zero gravity and weightlessness for the first time aboard Zero Gravity's G-Force One. The flight took off from the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Cente...
IBM is working to turn its System z mainframe computer into an online 3-D gaming platform, and it's doing it by putting advanced technology used in video games into a mainframe. The idea is to merge the massive transaction and account-based scalability of the mainframe with the graphics power of the...
PlayStation 3 owners will be able to see and be seen this summer with a new accessory for its next-generation gaming console Sony announced Thursday. The PlayStation Eye is an intelligent camera and noise-canceling microphone that the game maker said will expand and boost gaming and communication op...
Advanced networking consortium Internet2 announced on Tuesday that an international team of researchers led by the University of Tokyo have set two new Internet2 Land Speed Records. The achievement came over the course of two days during which university researchers added the new records to the eigh...
A European team of astronomers has discovered what may be the most Earth-like planet outside of our solar system, potentially capable of having liquid water and extraterrestrial life. The planet, Gliese 581 c, named after the red dwarf star Gliese 581 that it orbits every 13 days, is about 20.5 ligh...
Research in Motion has created a new smartphone for world travelers, a unit capable of operating on both CDMA and GSM wireless networks. The new BlackBerry 8830 World Edition will first be offered to Verizon Wireless customers then open to Sprint users. Also being offered is a new Global BlackBerry...
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