Scientists find ways to 'grow your own body parts' Elder man British scientists have been working on a system that would allow patients to grow their own body parts, buy body parts "off the shelf," and enable them to regenerate their own damaged joints and hearts.

  Apple Inc. updated its iMac desktop computer line Tuesday and introduced a mouse that responds to the touch of fingers instead of using buttons or scroll wheels.

  Shares of Yahoo, the top US seller of online display ads but a distant No. 2 to Google Inc in search, jumped 5% after the results, which analysts said boded well for the fourth quarter, when ad spending should improve further.

  The energy companies of America, once united against Washington's proposed climate change bill that looks to heavily regulate their carbon emitting activities, are now battling against each other over Senate policy decisions that will be worth hundreds of billions of dollars over the next few decades.

  Yahoo has said sorry it hired a bunch of Go-Go dancers for the "Hack Day" event it hosted in Taiwan last weekend.

  You'll be able to watch popular cable television series such as HBO's "Entourage" and AMC's "Mad Men" on your computer by the end of the year without paying extra - as long as you're a Comcast Corp.

  When is a BlackBerry watch not a BlackBerry watch? Well, when its not made by RIM, for one. However, it's designed to work with your BlackBerry when its in your pocket or something, giving you notifications and previews of messages arriving on your BlackBerry.

  Barnes & Noble has made it official: they have launched the Barnes & Noble nook, an Android-based e-book reader designed to compete with Amazon.com's Kindle and Sony's e-book readers.

  After bogging down in the recession, Internet advertising is regaining the momentum that has made it the decade's most disruptive marketing machine.

  Microsoft has previously said that the Microsoft Retail Stores would open this fall, but been vague about the whole project. We already knew of a Paris-based Windows "Cafe" that is opening on Oct. 22nd (Windows 7 D-Day), and that Microsoft was hiring away Apple Retail Store managers. Now we know of at least one retail site that's opening on Oct. 22nd: Scottsdale, AZ.

  Australian police have caught an armed robber involved in a 2001 crime thanks to DNA evidence from a leech.

  A Chinese authors' group is considering legal action against Google over its book scanning project, adding to the list of countries where it has faced opposition.

  Nearly 70% of voters do not support plans to force internet service providers to disconnect suspected illegal file sharers.

  Genetically modified food is an essential tool to help tackle the "perfect storm" of climate change and rising population, the Government's chief scientist has warned.