The GCHQ arm of Britain's intelligence services is to run an advertising campaign within Xbox Live online games in order to attract suitable people to its ranks.
Environmentalists across the world are to be enlisted as armchair detectives to monitor satellite images of rainforests and report any illegal logging.
Physicists returned to their future on Friday. About 10 pm outside Geneva, scientists at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, succeeded in sending beams of protons clockwise around the 17-mile underground magnetic racetrack ...
Hackers broke into the electronic files of one of the world's foremost climate research centers this week and posted an array of e-mails in which prominent scientists engaged in a blunt discussion of global warming research and ...
Original Super Nintendo kart racer arrives this Monday; Pilotwings SNES and Super Smash Bros. N64 to follow this holiday season. Since the day the Wii launched, Nintendo's Virtual Console library of games has offered some ...
Computerworld - Microsoft has launched new betas for its free Office suite and for the "streaming" technology it will use to deliver some paid versions of Office 2010 next year.
By CleanTechies - CleanTechies By Nick Nigro If Internet companies and some utilities have their way, the smart grid will rely on the existing infrastructure of the information superhighway in order to function.
Unless they end in promises, and a treaty within months, Ed Miliband believes the Copenhagen talks will be a disaster. But can the British energy secretary, in Denmark for a frantic round of pre-summit diplomacy, win the argument?
After last year's mediocre Call Of Duty: World At War, developer Infinity Ward is back in the driving seat for Modern Warfare 2, which brings back a couple of grizzled soldiers from the first game for another fearsome round of machine gunning, ...
E-mails allegedly written by some of the world's leading climate scientists have been stolen by hackers and published on websites run by climate change sceptics.
Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, said the company was close to launching corporate accounts that would help the the popular microblogging site begin to generate revenues.
Google co-founder says Chrome and Android could someday become a single OS. Chrome browser plus Android OS equals... Android. David Coursey It has been difficult for Google to explain away the seeming conflict between Chrome OS and Android.
The Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest atom smasher, has been re-started after a 14-month hiatus for repairs. Progress on restarting the machine went faster than expected on Friday evening and the first beam started circulating in a clockwise ...
The top spot in the 2009 league table of Britain's most sustainable cities, published today, has gone to Newcastle upon Tyne, pushing previous winners Bristol and Brighton into second and third place.
Book retailer and publisher Barnes and Noble is having trouble meeting demand for its recently-unveiled Nook reader table. The company said that the initial crop of Nook units had already been sold through pre-orders and that the next shipment would ...
Those naughty employees at T-Mobile have been behaving badly for it seems some time, after it was revealed that customer data was being sold to rival mobile operators for more than a year.
Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Atlantis' astronauts anxiously awaited word Friday on the birth of a crewman's daughter as they moved more supplies into the International Space Station and geared up for another spacewalk.
Modern Warfare 2 is the fourth title in the Call of Duty series from developer Infinity Ward and is a direct sequel to their previous title, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
UN Official Seeks Global Action on Iran Wall Street .. - Online BERLIN -- Mohamed ElBaradei, the departing chief of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency, said Iran's continued refusal to accept tighter scrutiny of its nuclear activities would likely force the ...
Umno's politics of engagement - Themalaysianinside MCA's the-president Tun Ling Liong Sik subsequently accepted Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's newly formed Umno Baru into the coalition, which then returned Umno ...
Oprah's departure presents problem for TV stations .. - Google CHICAGO - For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.
New Modern Warfare 2 game modes allegedly revealed - Mmomfg Some so smart that they can hack into the PC copy of MW2 and uncover the new game modes Infinity Ward plans to release. According to internet reports and a ...
Mobile Phones - Onlineprnews This week's revelation surrounds the possibility of Xbox 360 and PS3-quality graphics being implemented for mobile phones . At a recent expo in London, ...
Guitar Hero 5 & Band Hero update for the week of .. - Neoseeker There's a nice treat in store for both Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero players this week, as one of the most recognizable rock groups of all time graces both games with their music.
Journey of faith - Thestar The pilgrimage to Mecca has a deeper meaning than just fulfilling the Pillar of Islam. This spiritual and physical journey taken by Muslims on a global scale, for the past 1400 years, is documented in an exhibition currently showcasing at the Islamic ...
Ageing Santa gets $100,000 facelift for Christmas - Yahoo Reuters - A Santa in New Zealand with a droopy eye has received a NZ$100,000 ($74,000) face-lift in the run-up to Christmas so that his aging face does not scare children.
