• Eerie Ukrainian Salt Mines House Convalescing Asthmatics
    The Eastern European practice of speleotherapy claims salt air helps breathing issues, which leads to patients lining the halls of subterranean caves.


    2010 Sep 07, 13:16
  • Why Everything Wireless Is 2.4 GHz
    You live your life at 2.4 GHz. Your router, your cordless phone, your Bluetooth earpiece, your baby monitor and your garage opener all love and live on this radio frequency, and no others. Why? The answer is in your kitchen.


    2010 Sep 07, 11:30
  • William Gibson Talks Up Twitter, Zero History
    The Neuromancer author digs deep into the vertigo-inducing machinations of modern life to spin a story about militarism, marketing and "gear queers." He also calls Twitter "the most powerful novelty aggregator that has ever existed."


    2010 Sep 07, 11:26
  • Read an Excerpt From William Gibson's New Novel, Zero History
    Get a look at the sci-fi writer's latest future-present story, in which a detail-obsessed Russian translator named Milgrim, a postmodern marketing mogul known as Hubertus Bigend and a taste-making detective called Hollis Henry tussle with technology and its far-reaching tentacles.


    2010 Sep 07, 11:20
  • Sound of Justin Bieber's Data, and Other 'Hack Day' Mashups
    LONDON — Every so often, in cities across the world, a group of digital music professionals get together for a Hack Day, where they'll cobble together hardware, software and anything else they can get their hands on into innovative musical mashups. London's event took place last weekend, and it was... 2010 Sep 07, 11:10
  • Google Lets Yahoo Users Sign In With OpenID
    Google is now allowing any Yahoo user to sign in to Google using OpenID, the company announced Tuesday. Anyone with a Yahoo account can start using Google's web apps with a new one-click sign up process.


    2010 Sep 07, 11:06
  • Photo: Galactic Cannibals Discovered in Deep Space
    A new survey has caught several distant galaxies ripping up their dwarfish galactic neighbors and devouring them whole.


    2010 Sep 07, 11:00
  • Video: Wheelchair Phenom Nails First Double Backflip
    Aaron "Wheelz" Fotheringham, an 18-year-old from Las Vegas, recently pulled off the world's first wheelchair double backflip, after several failed (and painful-looking) attempts at Camp Woodward, just east of State College, Pennsylvania.


    2010 Sep 07, 10:31
  • New iPod Touch Has a Vibrator
    Steve Jobs wasn't kidding when he called the iPod Touch the "iPhone without a phone." We have been calling it that for years, of course, but with each iteration the two iOS devices get closer and closer in terms of features. Now a vibrating alert has been added to the... 2010 Sep 07, 10:00
  • Google TV Revealed: One Screen to Rule Them All
    BERLIN - Google gave a live demonstration of Google TV at Berlin’s IFA Tuesday, and CEO Eric Schmidt promised it would be a couch potato’s dream come true. 'Once you have Google television, you’re going to be very busy, he said. 'It’s going to ruin your evening.'


    2010 Sep 07, 8:48