Federal health regulators have found tiny particles of trash in drugs made by Genzyme, the second time this year the biotechnology company has been cited for contamination issues.

  Facing fierce resistance, the Obama administration on Friday backed off a plan to ban sales of raw oysters from the Gulf of Mexico during warm-weather months.The Food and Drug Administration said it would put the proposal on hold while it studies ways to make the popular shellfish safer.The abrupt turnaround came as oyster-lovers and industry ...

  For most people (Sorry, Bing) Google is where they go when they want to find out about just about anything. Now it's also the place you can go to find flu shots.

  Google's Chrome OS was first announced in July. While the company indicated it would not release the OS until 2H10, it promised an update in the fall. It looks like, according to reports, that update will be an early release version of the OS, coming next week.

  NASA says a spacecraft that was intentionally crashed into the moon has turned up the best evidence yet of water.

  While it's hard to imagine, there are people who don't have iTunes installed on their computer. Either its a work computer, a spare computer, or (gasp) they have a Zune or other MP3 player. Folks, Apple has a deal for you: no longer do you need to install iTunes if someone sends you an iTunes link. No, instead, there's iTunes Preview, which is essentially iTunes in a browser (more or less, click above to enlarge).

  The country's privacy watchdog announced Friday that he plans to haul the search engine company before a federal court to force it to make changes to its Street View application.

  Rickrolling iPhone hacker Ashley: worm or boy wonder? LOUISA HEARN November 13, 2009 - 11:17AM Comments 25 The infected iPhone screen, Rick Astley virus wallpaper image , and Ashley Towns .

  New York City's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is almost ready for the holidays.

  An influential committee of MPs has thrown its weight behind the campaign to stop computer hacker Gary McKinnon being extradited to the United States.

  Britney Spears' Twitter and MySpace accounts have apparently been hacked. Messages on her Twitter profile Thursday purported to be from the 27-year-old pop star and claimed she worshipped the devil.

  Motherboard maker Gigabyte has released a BIOS update that fixes the iPhone + Windows 7 64-bit + Intel P55 chipset issue users are seeing. The update is labeled beta, which means it hasn't been fully tested yet.

  NASA is set to outline plans to try to free Spirit, a risky process that could take months.

  Here's some news to put you off your fish supper; a report from the Environmental Protection Agency has said that nearly half of freshwater lakes and reservoirs in the US, contain fish with "potentially harmful levels of the toxic metal mercury." It wasn't just mercury found in fish stocks; high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls or pesticides ...