Think they'll keep their day jobs? Seven IT workers from the state of New York will split last week's $319 million Mega Million lottery winnings. Reports say the self-described "geek squad," which ranges in age from 29 to 63 years old will be taking one time payments of $19.1 million each - not...
UPDATE: Underwater robots find airline wreckage, bodiesA small squadron of undersea robots has begun to conduct a 4 month, 3,900 square mile search of Atlantic Ocean bottom looking for the deep-sea wreck site of and black boxes from Air France Flight 447 which crashed off the coast of Brazil nearly...
NASA's first-ever Mercury orbiter MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) sent back this image of the hot planet. The shot looks a bit like the moon: barren with lots of craters.
When it comes to protecting personal privacy on the Internet the United States and European Union have often clashed. And it's likely the future won't be much better. But officials from both sides of the ocean say they are now committed to fixing the problems that have kept the two worlds - which some...
Federal courts have been debating about how much freedom users of smartphones and portable wireless devices in general, should have in a federal courthouse.
NASA has posted an interesting group of images its says were rendered by an unnamed artist from its Jet Propulsion Lab that show what the space agency, or at least the artist, though Mars might look like up close.
About 109 people live in the village of Plato, Mo, which today was designated the mean center of the United States population by the US Census Bureau.The Census Bureau calculates the village sits very near the place where an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of the United States would balance...
A device being developed by MIT researchers and could fly on a future spaceship to Mars might settle the potentially explosive theory that all life on Earth is descended from organisms that originated on the red planet.
Breaking written codes is seemingly a black art whose history dates back as long as people could write and wanted to keep secrets. In the age of supercomputers and all manner of advanced technologies it's hard to imagine much cryptography expertise
There was likely a pretty big sigh of relief at NASA's Ames Research Center this week as the group' star satellite Kepler, recovered from a glitch that took it offline for 144 hours.
Long term exposure to radiation is one of the biggest challenges in long-duration human spaceflights and NASA is now looking for what it called revolutionary technology that would help protect astronauts from the deadly matter.
Google today said it had integrated its Voice application with Sprint Mobile phones, making it the first time the company has partnered with a mobile carrier to incorporate the Voice package.According to Google, Sprint customers will be able to use their existing Sprint mobile number as their Google...
Air Force researchers said they a prepped for a second test run of its X-51A Waverider hypersonic jet which they ultimately expect to hit speeds upwards of Mach 6.
NASA engineers next week will break something rather than build it -- all in the name of rocket science. The engineers will crush a 27.5-foot wide, 20-foot-tall aluminum-lithium cylinder with one million pounds of force until it buckles. The resulting crush-test dat
NASA's Aqua satellite recently snapped a cloud-free shot of Ireland. The cloud-free view is extremely rare as the country is almost entirely cloud covered 50% of the time according to the Irish Meteorological Service, Met Éireann. There are more clouds during the day than at night, and fog...
An aggressive debt collection agency that took money from customer accounts without permision, used abusive language when it called and falsely claimed that consumers would be sued, arrested, or have their property seized for nonpayment of their debt has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $2.8 million...
Better algorithms to spot patterns and trends in the serious mass of information the Department of Homeland Security sees everyday is key to national security.
With the advent of a host of new or advanced technologies ranging from mobile communications to online data management, available to debt collection companies, the Federal Trade Commission is out to make sure those companies aren't abusing their place in the business world.
One of the chief technological reasons there aren't more unmanned aircraft in our national airspace is their lack of serious sensing, command and control capabilities. NASA wants to help change that.
IBM wants to see itself through the fisheye lens as it turns 100. The company today said a few well-known Hollywood directors have shot a series of three movies that highlight the company, its inventions and impact on society over the past 100 years.
Some heavy metal rock band might love this technology. Scientists with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated an electromechanical micro drum that can vibrate an astounding 11 million times per second.
Researchers say they have developed a method of using bacteria to convert decaying grass directly into a compound known as isobutanol, which can be burned in regular car engines with a heat value higher than ethanol but similar to gasoline.
When it comes to protecting the US family jewels - high-tech data on everything from aeronautics, information systems and electronics to lasers and unmanned aerial vehicles -- parts of the government tasked with protecting those assets need to do a way better job.
The community and team of scientists that help NASA prioritize space missions has come out with its exploration recommendations for the next decade: get to Mars, explore one of Jupiter's moons and study Uranus.
Rocker Courtney Love has never been known for her shy, refined ways and today it seems one of her bad days when she went on a Twitter rant will cost her $430,000.The case stemmed from a rant Love posted in 2009 against Dawn Simorangkir the designer of a fancy clothing line. Love allegedly owed...
With all of the talk and concern lately about the increasing amount solar activity it may be hard for some folks to remember just a few years ago scientists were amazed by the lack of solar activity, namely sunspots.
A Harvard researcher is developing a technology that could cut power to parts of a microprocessor that are not in use, saving energy and improving the efficiency of the device by as much as 50%.
Businesses are not entitled to the same privacy as people. That was the conclusion of the US Supreme Court yesterday ruling against AT&T that ended up being a discussion of word use and semantics as much as a privacy debate.
