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 ...
Michael Jackson wanted to build a clone of himself. The 'Thriller' star - who died of acute Propofol intoxication aged 50 in June - underwent several three dimensional scans in 1996 so a virtual reality 'robotic' twin could be produced.
When it was unveiled last year, Research In Motion's first touch-screen smart phone, the Storm, got a few things right but was generally a chore to use.
Honesty is the best policy, but one has to wonder if Steve Ballmer is pulling what's left of his hair out over this comment by Microsoft's Partner Group Manager, Simon Aldous. In an interview with PCR, he admitted (horror) that Windows 7 took inspiration from Mac OS X.
Bing, the decision engine, and Wolfram|Alpha, the computational knowledge engine, have become BFFs. Yes, it all adds up. On Wednesday, Bing and Wolfram|Alpha announced that Bing has become one of the first Wolfram|Alpha Webservice API customers, and probably the biggest.
As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical companies are pressing their case to market drugs via Google, Twitter and other Web sites.
It's been a nasty week for jailbroken iPhones. First there was a blackmail hack, of sorts. Then there was a hack whick "rickrolled" devices, but was otherwise harmless (well, except for turning your iPhone into a Typhoid Mary). Using the same vulnerability, there's a new tool that allows a hacker to download user information off a jailbroken iPhone.
Microsoft says it is cutting off gamers who have modified their Xbox 360 consoles by adding extra chips or hard drives from its Xbox Live online services.
Cloud technology is fast becoming the method of choice for users that want to access all their information where-ever they are in the world... but an actual 'Digital Cloud' is being pondered to be a centre piece of the city's Olympic village.
Federal authorities say they've cracked an international computer hacking ring that stole more than $9 million within 12 hours last November, securing indictments against eight people from Russia, Estonia and Moldova.
Google are about take a huge step towards acquiring a much larger stake in the mobile ad marketplace by purchasing mobile ad firm AdMob for a reported $750 million.
NASA identifies best case for middleweight black hole Astronomers at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have found that an X-ray source in galaxy NGC 5408 represents one of the best cases for a middleweight black hole to date.
