After 10 years, British engineer Richard Jenkins breaks the world land speed record for a wind-powered vehicle. Read more…
Archive for March, 2009
Greater use of social network sites may undermine efforts to keep information private, suggests research. Read more…
A survey on music video watching habits finds that the majority of 15-24 year-olds watch music on YouTube. Read more…
Social networking Web sites are set to play a crucial role in protests ahead of next week’s G-20 meeting of world leaders in London as demonstration organizers and police use Twitter and Facebook as key sources of real-time information and intelligence. Read more…
An estimated 50 million Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients will receive their one-time $250 economic stimulus check starting in early May — several weeks ahead of schedule, Vice President Joe Biden announced Thursday. Read more…
Suspended in space and backdropped by the blackness of space and the jewel-like blue of Earth sits the International Space Station. This image of the… Read more…
Today’s launch of a paying civilian into orbit may be the last one for some time. Read more…
An astronaut, a cosmonaut and the first repeat space tourist lifted off toward the International Space Station today. Read more…
Discovery shuttle astronauts will check their heat shield for space debris damage. Read more…
These latest reports add to previous claims that similarly predicted Apple would eventually wrap Snow Leopard in a new interface rumored to go by the code-name “marble.” Details were sparse, but speculation pointed to a move towards a darker chrome motif for application windows alongside an inverted menubar with light text on a dark background. [...]