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Channeling Earth Rivers Seen From Space (22 March 09:31) |
| Rivers carve many different beautiful paths across the planet which can best be admired from above. We've collected some images from satellites and astronauts of some of the most interesting... |
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March 22 1995 Longest Human Space Adventure Ends (22 March 09:30) |
| Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns from a record stay on the Mir space station. He advances the idea that humans can tolerate time in space long enough to reach Mars.
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SXSW Scenes Hot Dogs Hare Krishna and Rock (21 March 03:03) |
| Characters of every stripe fill the streets of Austin, Texas, during the annual South by Southwest music festival. Oh, and there are some bands, too.
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Palm Can Still Win Here Are Five Things They Need To Do (20 March 11:04) |
| Palm tanked after turning in a dismal 3Q earnings report driven by bad smartphone sales. The good news? The phone is becoming just an app on a smart, portable device. The disruptive contours... |
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Review Hubble 3D Takes You on Beautiful Brief Space Journey (20 March 07:43) |
| Immerse yourself in vivid interstellar visuals as Imax brings extraterrestrial wonders down to Earth.
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Teslas Roadster Sport Zips the Light Fantastic (20 March 06:00) |
| Zero to 60 in 3.7 seconds. 80 mph feels more like 50. Grips roads like a junkie to a crack pipe. This is what it's like to drive the Tesla Sport Roadster.
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Bad Magic Comic citeMysteriuscite Makes Good Tech Satire (20 March 05:30) |
| Magic and tech in the 21st century combine in Jeff Parker and Tom Fowler's hilarious comic Mysterius, released this week as a paperback collection from DC's Wildstorm imprint.
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Artists Get Their Geek On to Celebrate Yuris Night (20 March 05:30) |
| A group of Washington, D.C., artists create outer space-inspired art in honor of Yuri Gagarin, the first astronaut.
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Lenovo Ultralight Combines High-Grade Looks Low-Octane Performance (20 March 03:30) |
| It takes a lot to build a thin and light notebook with such a low price tag. The only sacrifice the X100e makes is executive-level power.
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SXSW Scenes From a Musical Madhouse (20 March 01:25) |
| Thousands of shows turn Austin into a giant musical maelstrom each year during the South by Southwest festival. See photos of bands that performed Thursday, including Ringo Deathstarr, Weeke... |
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6 Cars So Alluring Theyre in an Art Museum (20 March 01:10) |
| The High Museum of Art in Atlanta launches an exhibition celebrating the beauty of the automobile.
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iPad Developers Code Their Apps in the Dark (20 March 12:40) |
| Apple's iPad is set to launch April 3, but most developers making apps for the device haven't even touched it.
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Rich Get Richer in Hot News Stock-Tip Fight (20 March 12:37) |
| The rich are getting richer by a federal judge ruling that a financial news site must delay broadcasting buy-and-sell research to enable the major banks and their wealthy clients to profit f... |
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Large Hadron Collider Triples Its Own Record (20 March 12:30) |
| The Large Hadron Collider broke its own energy record in the wee hours of the morning in Switzerland today.
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Shark-Bitten Crocodile Poop Fossils Found No Really (20 March 12:30) |
| Two coprolites, the scientific name for fossilized feces, have been discovered with shark bite marks in them. How'd that happen? Scientists think they've got an answer.
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Lucasfilms The Clone Wars Best Political Cartoon Ever (20 March 12:20) |
| The dark second season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars wraps with a three-week stand starting Friday night.
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Unprecedented 25-Year Sentence Sought for TJX Hacker (19 March 10:47) |
| Prosecutors dispute a defense claim that 28-year-old Albert Gonzalez suffers from Asperger's disorder, and ask federal judges to throw the book at the former Secret Service informant turned ... |
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Scenarios Whats Next For Googles Operations in China (19 March 07:52) |
| Two months after Google shook the world with its threat to leave China on censorship and hacking concerns, there are increasing signs that an exit is imminent as the two sides refuse to back... |
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The Jackson 5 Appear at SXSW as an iPhone App (19 March 07:39) |
| Zooz Mobile's new $5 app comes with remixable stems for five of the band's classic songs. Bonus: Buyers can win up to $1,500 in a remix contest.
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SXSW Reverse Karaoke App Turns Bad Singing Into Good Songs (19 March 04:30) |
| LaDiDa takes even the worst vocal performance and sweetens it, then instantly creates full-band backing tracks in a variety of musical styles. The end result is a batch of DIY songs that sou... |
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Feds Deem Pedestrians Cyclists and Motorists Equals (19 March 10:18) |
| The transportation secretary makes it clear when he says, "This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized."
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March 19 1979 House Proceedings Air Live on C-SPAN (19 March 09:30) |
| A new cable network creates transparency in the House of Representatives' proceedings, broadcasting to 3.5 million households.
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How I Survived My SXSW Keynote Interview (19 March 05:30) |
| Twitter has taken out South by Southwest presenters in the past, leading to very public — and very embarrassing — onstage meltdowns. Here's how you can avoid a similar disaster.
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Alt Text Final Fantasy Then and Now (19 March 05:30) |
| What's new in the latest installment of the venerable RPG franchise? Oh, only just about everything. A look back at Final Fantasy's fantastic roots and the current state of affairs in Pulse ... |
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Review Squishy Repo Men Sticks Shiv in Organ-Extraction Action (19 March 03:32) |
| Even with Jude Law, Forest Whitaker and a perfect sci-fi setup, this movie sputters a bit in the middle, and the whole bloody affair suffers from a lack of black humor. But that's one hell o... |
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Evolution of Fairness Driven by Culture Not Genes (19 March 02:40) |
| Scientists find that the human tendency toward fairness is a product of institutions, not innate psychology. Most studies conclude that basic behaviors like fairness originated in life on th... |
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Boeing Completes Design of Shipboard Superlaser (19 March 02:17) |
| Defense giant Boeing now says it has completed the preliminary design of the Free Electron Laser: a shipboard laser powerful enough to destroy anti-ship missiles.
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Accusations Fly in Viacom YouTube Copyright Fight (19 March 02:17) |
| The Viacom-YouTube copyright battle heated up Thursday. Viacom told a federal judge that Google-owned YouTube turns a blind eye to wanton copyright infringement on the video-sharing site. Go... |
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SXSW Dick Jokes 80s Action Tropes Power MacGruber (19 March 01:47) |
| How can a simpleton skit from Saturday Night Live serve as the basis for an entertaining feature film? Director Jorma Taccone seems to have cracked the nut, serving up a sharply written come... |
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Court Cyberbullying Threats Not Protected Speech (19 March 12:53) |
| A California appellate court rules that cyberbullying threats made by high school students against another student are not protected free speech.
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Pay or Fail Some iPhone App Sites Demand Money for Reviews (19 March 12:32) |
| A number of websites ask iPhone developers for money in exchange for "expedited" reviews of their apps. One site even refuses to review apps unless developers pay them a fee. The FTC says pa... |
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Watch Out Ferrari McLaren Is Back With Another Supercar (19 March 12:15) |
| A company synonymous with Formula 1 wants to get into the road car biz in a big, big way.
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Court Slaps Prosecutor Who Threatened Child-Porn Charges Over Sexting (18 March 11:30) |
| An appellate court upholds a preliminary injunction barring a prosecutor from bringing child-porn charges against a teenaged girl for engaging in "sexting."
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Op-Ed Why the Internet Should Win the Nobel Peace Prize (18 March 11:15) |
| The nomination of the internet for the Nobel Peace Prize has received a lot of criticism, but neuroscientist Jamil Zaki says its influence in spreading altruism makes the internet worthy of ... |
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Cosmic Dust Gives Milky Way a Fiery Mane (18 March 11:00) |
| A stunning new image from the Planck Mission makes the Milky Way look like it's on fire.
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Controversy Erupts Over Endangered Bat Colony (18 March 09:15) |
| An attempt to save the endangered Virginia big-eared bat colony at the National Zoo has come under fire from experts saying the colony is failing because of negligence.
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Sexcom Firesale Delayed as Creditors Bicker (18 March 09:10) |
| The jinxed sex.com domain name is set to be auctioned off for more than a million bucks Thursday -- until creditors of the current, failed owner stop the sale with an odd emergency, forced-b... |
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FlashForward Flashes Forward Without Its Creator (18 March 09:10) |
| ABC's compelling sci-fi/soap opera/crime thriller returns without The Dark Knight co-writer David S. Goyer at the helm. But Jack Davenport, who plays a physicist who might know what caused t... |
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High-Speed Camera Scans Books in Seconds (18 March 07:44) |
| A Tokyo lab demonstrates a book-scanning system that only needs someone to hold the book underneath its camera and flip rapidly through the pages.
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Google Working With Intel Sony on TV Project Report (18 March 07:06) |
| Google is working with Intel and Sony to develop a new class of Internet-enabled televisions and set top boxes, according to the New York Times. Will this finally bring us the converged livi... |
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First Look Kindle for Mac (18 March 06:33) |
| Amazon has at last released Kindle for Mac, which means you can now read your Kindle books on most any device. It joins the iPhone, PC Blackberry and of course the Kindle itself.
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SXSW Amps Set on 11 Bagpipes Set on Stun (18 March 10:14) |
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March 18 1987 Woodstock for Physicists (18 March 09:30) |
| In the heyday of high-temperature superconductor research, thousands of physicists converge in New York for an impromptu session on superconductivity that lasts into the wee hours of the nig... |
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Acer Laptop Trades Performance for Ultralow Price (18 March 09:00) |
| How do you get a full-featured notebook to cost under six hundred bucks? Toss an AMD processor in it.
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Whats Inside Head Shoulders That Nukes Yeast Zaps Static (18 March 05:30) |
| Start with a moisturizer, then add a few (safe) preservatives, an antistatic agent, and some of that stuff inside breast implants, and you have dry scalp care!
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SXSW Geeks Defend Their Foursquare Turf (18 March 05:30) |
| Competition turns cutthroat as more and more people track their travels with the location-based service. At the South by Southwest conference, the quest for badges and tussles over mayorship... |
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The Oldest Trees on the Planet (18 March 05:15) |
| Tress are among the oldest living things on the planet, and the oldest we know of are pushing 5,000 years. If you count clonal trees, which continually grow new trunks from the same roots, t... |
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Austin Calling 10 SXSW Bands You Shouldnt Miss (18 March 05:07) |
| With thousands of bands playing at South by Southwest 2010, it can be difficult to spot the killer music wedged in amongst all the buzz and noise. Here are 10 bands worth your inebriated tim... |
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SXSW Grooms Brings Noisy Indie Rock From New York to Austin (18 March 04:53) |
| Led by a boutique guitar effects maker, the three-piece band makes its third trip to South by Southwest to show off its visceral musical creations.
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Court State Can Dump Non-Sex Offenders Into Registry (18 March 03:36) |
| States are adding convicts to sex-offender registries, even if they did not commit sex-related crimes. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the registries, but might have a chance to review whe... |
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