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More than half of "Second Life" users are from Europe, according to a study announced Friday that analyzed active users of the virtual online world. A full 61 percent of the 1.3 million users who ran the official "Second Life" software and logged in in March were based in Europe, compared with 19 pe...
LucasArts and Day 1 Studios on Wednesday unveiled "Fracture," a new shooter game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in which environmental devastation has split the United States into two warring halves. Set in the year 2161, "Fracture" puts players in the role of Mason Briggs, a demolitions expert figh...
Ask any journalist today how the Internet has changed journalism, and the most likely reply will be, "how hasn't it?" "The question is so basic now, it's like asking how the telephone changed the world," Sreenath Sreenivasan, associate professor of professional practice at the Columbia University Sc...
Just days before a May 9 congressional oversight hearing into the Bush administration's violations of the Endangered Species Act and censorship of science, a top-ranking Interior Department official resigned Monday. Julie MacDonald, who was the assistant secretary of fish, wildlife and parks, respon...
When Microsoft rolled out its Silverlight application platform this week, it threw down the proverbial gauntlet, so to speak, at longtime rival Adobe, whose Flash product has thus far been the dominant interactive content creation tool on the market. The availability of Silverlight will undoubtedly ...
Forget joysticks: New toys in the works at San Jose, Calif.-based NeuroSky reportedly use players' brain waves to control the action. The toys include a sensor, which is placed on the player's forehead to read the brain's electrical signals. Moves are dependent on the player's concentration. In a pr...
World-renowned physicist, cosmologist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking fulfilled a lifelong dream Thursday when he experienced zero gravity and weightlessness for the first time aboard Zero Gravity's G-Force One. The flight took off from the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Cente...
MySpace and TV producer Mark Burnett announced Friday that they are working on a new reality TV show focused on finding the next great American politician. The new, interactive series, called "Independent," will use online, offline and on-air tactics to find the politician viewers feel best represen...
The 2008 presidential campaigns have already been notable for several "firsts" in their use of technology, and on Monday a new one was added to the list when Yahoo, Slate and The Huffington Post announced they will host the first-ever online-only debates this fall. PBS host Charlie Rose will moderat...
In a case considered by many to be the first of its kind, the World Organization for Human Rights USA announced Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against Yahoo and its subsidiaries for what it calls the Internet giant's complicity in human rights abuses and acts of torture in China. Plaintiffs in...
Internet shoppers who appreciate a good pun will be sorry to note the passing of Google's Froogle product search service, which the company said Wednesday it had decided to rename. In its place we now have Google Product Search -- not nearly as fun a moniker, but infinitely more descriptive. "Froogl...
In yet another not-so-subtle challenge to the dominance of Microsoft's Office software suite, Google announced on Tuesday that it will be adding presentation software to its Google Apps suite of office software. Due this summer, it will complement the word-processing and spreadsheet software Google ...
The Copyright Royalty Board delivered a severe blow to Internet radio operators Monday when it upheld its earlier decision regarding royalty rates that must be paid to artists for music played online. The result is -- unless Congress intervenes -- royalty rates webcasters must pay will increase on M...
Electronic Arts and Endemol announced Monday that they are partnering on Virtual Me, a new, avatar-based offering in digital entertainment that is expected to span the worlds of TV and video games. The technology combines cutting-edge avatar creation technology from Electronic Arts with popular TV f...
A new collaborative project between the U.S. military and the communications industry promises to give new meaning to the term "satellite communications" by sending an Internet router into space. The Internet Router in Space project, which is being worked on jointly by the Department of Defense, sat...
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...
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...
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...
Drought trends that have affected the American Southwest in recent years are likely to get worse in upcoming decades, according to a new study from Columbia University. Using projections from 19 different climate models, the study's authors found that there is widespread agreement that southwestern ...
John Edwards' campaign has stood out from the others for some time now for the fact that it has embraced the online game "Second Life" and set up a campaign headquarters in the game's virtual world. The French National Party was the first political organization to establish a presence in "Second Lif...
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