Tinkerers who 'unlocked' their iPhones to run on other carriers got a $400 brick upside the head.

  Tinkerers who 'unlocked' their iPhones to run on other carriers got a $400 brick upside the head.

  With a relaunch of its clunky portable media player, Microsoft hopes to bite into the iPod’s market share.

  Ever Googled yourself and found someone who has your name—and a very different life? You've just met your Googlegänger.

  Forget the hype. The '57 launch wasn't such a big shock.

  The search for renewable-energy sources is making clean-tech jobs hot.

  The $100 (well, $200) laptop is ready to change the world, if people will buy it for the kids who need it.

  The universe is accelerating. A mysterious energy is pushing apart space itself, like a crazed toddler blowing up the cosmic balloon.

  A new study of a skeleton of a member of a race of three-foot-tall 'hobbits' who lived 12,000 years ago in Indonesia shows that they were a species of human--and that the evolutionary path to Homo sapiens has been tortuous indeed.

  In both a literal and symbolic move, AOL announces a move to New York and a new focus on the online-advertising market. But is it too little too late?