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In the art house film, "Wit," Emma Thompson plays an always-acerbic college English professor whose approach to life is challenged by the sudden onset of cancer, and the resultant treatment of chemotherapy. The chemotherapy regime is often worse than the cancer itself, what with countless visits to ...
Sony lowered the price of its PlayStation 2 game console by US$20 to $129 as gamers wait for the next generation of the machine, PlayStation 3, expected in November. The Japanese electronics giant is advertising the price cut with an Internet and print media blitz in the hope of driving sales before...
Opera Software on Thursday announced the first public Beta of Opera 9. Opera has been testing the free browser software since last October. The Norwegian software company's latest version includes widgets, small Web programs that run in their own windows on users' desktops. The Opera 9 Beta also fea...
Last year, Congress passed the Real ID Act, a law that calls for standardization of drivers' licenses across the country by 2008. The current reaction from states like California and New Hampshire raises questions about how a national ID system would affect civil liberties, putting welcome pressure...
The American Electronics Association is reporting that the tech job market is getting hot again, with a net gain of 61,000 new good-paying technology gigs added to last year's pool of 5.6 million. Although some U.S. states lost technology jobs while others gained, the overall increase marks an end t...
A group of technology industry leaders on Wednesday launched The Green Grid, an effort to help reduce growing power and cooling demands in enterprise datacenters. AMD, HP, Sun Microsystems and IBM are the founding sponsors of the organization whose goals are supported by the Environmental Protection...
Fresh off its stunning acquisition of high-end gaming computer competitor Alienware, Dell has unveiled a pair of high-power, high-price notebooks for gamers. Described by the computer giant as "Dell's fastest consumer notebook," the new XPS M1710 will be packaged in a magnesium-alloy chassis in styl...
Meet Mapusaurus roseae, the largest carnivore on Earth recorded to date. Paleontologists working in the Patagonian wilderness in Argentina who found the remains of the 41-foot long and 15,000-pound dinosaur species said it roamed Earth 100 million years ago and was far bigger than Tyrannosaurus rex....
Nintendo this week released an American version of Japan's No. 1 brain training game, "Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day," for the Nintendo DS. Japanese neurologist Ryuta Kawashima, who maintains that regularly doing easy and fast-paced mental activities can keep brains young, strong and ...
Technology is all around us. We work on computers, listen to MP3 players, talk on smartphones, snap photos with digital cameras and, well, you get the picture. Technology makes every day life easier -- when it works. What about when it doesn't, or at least when you can't figure out how it does? Man...
The Patti Santangelo "Fight Goliath" campaign was officially launched about four months ago and since then, it's raised an impressive $13,140.21. Santangelo is the New York mother of five targeted by the Big Four record labels' Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Actually, there's very...
Microsoft has released a beta version of its Windows Live Academic Search service -- an unusual move for the company, which tends to hold back from releasing its products until fully developed. The search tool, the result of a cooperative effort between Windows Live Search, industry association Cros...
NASA won't release its 70-page report on why the DART spacecraft didn't complete its mission last year because of its sensitive content, the agency said. "The official DART Mishap Investigation Report will not be publicly released because it contains information that is protected by U.S. Internation...
Last week I visited Hewlett-Packard's lab to see what they have in the works. Lab tours are one of the nice perks of this job. A few months ago I got to see Intel's rather extensive future lineup, and weeks ago I also witnessed Sun's rather disappointing event. However, HP, thanks to its new executi...
Google may be planning to allow users to search the Internet or computer files simply by asking out loud, based on a U.S. patent on a voice-activated search engine technology the search giant was awarded recently. Google gained on buzz and speculation with the publication of the patent, however the ...
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