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The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Wednesday to ease restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, but the 63-34 vote in favor of the bill fell short of the two-thirds majority necessary to override an expected presidential veto. The House passed similar legislation earlier this year. S.5 would a...
Personal Data Assistants have become dinosaurs, and after taking the Motorola Q for a test drive, it's easy to understand why. Just about anything you'd want to do with a PDA you can do with a smartphone like the Q -- and a lot more. The Q is about the size of a PDA -- 2.5 by 0.5 by 4.6 inches -- an...
The organization responsible for developing security measures for next-generation DVDs said it has plugged a hole that allowed hackers to locate and unlock encryption keys for movies released on HD DVD and Blu-ray discs. The Advanced Access Content System License Administrator has responded to recen...
A scientist studying a large, gaseous planet located 150 light-years from Earth has found strong evidence that there is water vapor in the planet's atmosphere. Previous analyses of the transiting planet, which is known as "HD209458b," had not found evidence of water. However, Travis Barman, an astro...
Microsoft on Tuesday issued fixes for what it called four "critical" security flaws in its software, which it said could let hackers gain remote control of a user's computer. The software giant, which defines a critical flaw as one that allows an Internet worm to replicate without user intervention,...
Google has teamed up with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to promote awareness of recent atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan. The USHMM has assembled photographs, data and eyewitness testimony to form a Global Awareness layer in Google Earth, which Google has enabled by default for ...
The Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled that a student's obscenity-filled MySpace post blasting a school principal is protected free speech. The student, who is identified as "A.B." in court documents, was originally placed on probation by a lower court judge in Indiana after she commented about her ...
Spam and alternative communication technologies have begun to lower the value of e-mail as a mission-critical application for business, according to a study released Monday by IDC, a technology research firm. The firm said its study showed that "a resurgence of spam and the increased frequency of be...
Following last week's publication of Internet pioneer Tim O'Reilly's proposed "blogger code of conduct," the online community has spoken -- and they say forget about it. O'Reilly, a longtime blogger who coined the term "Web 2.0," and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales both began pushing for the code of c...
Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios have chosen a date for the multiplayer beta release of the highly anticipated "Halo 3" video game, created exclusively for the Xbox 360 console. "Halo 3" is the third chapter of the hugely successful "Halo" series and offers gamers the opportunity to "experi...
Intel is ramping up its long line of Core 2 quad-core range with a new chip designed for gamers, design professionals and computer aficionados. Running at 2.93 GHz, the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800 is currently the firm's fastest processor for desktop PC systems. The new product -- the 12th quad-core...
Grisoft Software, the developer of AVG Internet security products, introduced Tuesday a free product aimed at detecting and removing rootkits. Rootkits, a specific malware type which hides in other applications or in a computer's operating system kernel, allow malicious applications to collect passw...
As wireless operator networks carry more and more multimedia traffic, they must solve a basic problem: how to ensure that each application receives the appropriate level of service. Each layer of a multilayer protocol is good for some applications but bad for others. Today, operators can use a new "...
Google has launched Google Voice Local Search, an experimental directory assistance service using speech recognition over telephones that allows people to search for local businesses. Callers could dial in from any phone to use the free, voice-activated service, which is available on the experimenta...
Environmentalists were jubilant last week when the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency could regulate automobile emissions, and now a trial beginning Tuesday in Vermont could carry that momentum even further. Vermont is one of 10 other states that have chosen to follow Calif...
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