New experiments may bring laser propulsion for aircraft and spacecraft closer to reality. Read more…

Details about a Secret Service safe house for the First Family — to be used in a national emergency — leaked on a LimeWire file-sharing network recently. Lawmakers are now eyeing a bill to ban P2P use on government, contractor networks Read more…

After Starbucks announced that its Wi-Fi HotSpots would be available for iPhone users, B&N has announced complimentary Wi-Fi for any customer that visits a Barnes & Noble bookstore nationwide. All customers can freely download and preview any of the over 700,000 eBook titles with hundreds of thousands of public domain titles available from Google. Read [...]

It’s one of the few great archaeological mysteries of the world, and now a bunch of gadget-wielding geeks are going to try and solve it. Read more…

Embroiled voice-to-text firm Spinvox has filed patent applications for a human network of text transcribers. Read more…

Tech giants Yahoo and Microsoft announce an internet search deal to help the two companies take on chief rival Google. Read more…

Users of mobile broadband are often not aware of download limits or the penalties for breaching them, a survey finds. Read more…

Four senators pushed for a bill Wednesday to ban texting while driving, a day after a study found that drivers who text while on the road are much more likely to have an accident than undistracted drivers. Read more…

Microsoft and Yahoo reached a long-awaited partnership Wednesday in a bid to challenge Google’s dominance in online search. Read more…

In a field largely still in its infancy, scientists are making headway toward using stem cells to treat heart ailments. Read more…