Google Maps Finally Adds Bike Routes
- With a click of a mouse, cyclists can get the quickest, and flattest, route between Point A and Point B.
March 10, 2000: Pop Goes the Nasdaq!
- The Nasdaq begins its spectacular collapse, signaling the end of the dot-com boom.
Veil Lifts on Apple's Secret Plan to Control Universe
- The recently unveiled secret agreement that Apple makes iPhone developers sign supports what many have suspected all along: Apple is trying to control the universe.
Texters Should Park the Car, Take the Bus
- Taking public transit wouldn't just decrease our carbon footprint — it'd also end all that fiddling with the phone while driving, an insanely dangerous problem.
Bottled Wind Could Be as Constant as Coal
- Huge projects that would store wind energy by compressing air in abandoned mines and porous sandstone are gaining steam in the Midwest.
10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dot-Com Boom and Bust
- The Nasdaq peaked at 5,049 on March 10, 2000, then it promptly nosedived and hasn't come near that level since. Here’s a look at the era that launched — and crushed — a million dreams.
Review: Science Trips Out on Music in 'The Heart Is a Drum Machine'
- Through interviews with a brainy crop of musicians and scientists, a new documentary probes the connection between body, mind and music.
Broadcast Video From Your Mobile
- You're carrying around a video camera in your pocket (it's that thing attached to your mobile phone) so be prepared and learn how to start streaming video to the web at a moment's notice.
Oldest Known Flying 'Car' Up for Auction
- It's from 1934, and it doesn't look like a car, and it doesn't look like it would fly.
Hot Property Sex.com on Auction Block
- It’s a sadly familiar story from the high-flying market of the past few years: Speculator thinks values will continue to go up, up, up. Overbids for a hot property. Can’t keep up with the payments. Lender is forced to foreclose. Only this isn’t about real estate — it’s about the most expensive domain name in the history of the internet: sex.com.
Storyboard: Extreme-Test War Stories
- From blasting body armor to testing the limits of a satellite tracker, the Wired magazine team talks about putting survival products through the real-world wringer.
Your Computer Really Is a Part of You
- Philosopher Martin Heidegger thought that our tools eventually become a part of us cognitively. Now a scientist has found he was right. Your mouse and monitor affect the way you think.
Just How Fast Is Cisco's New Router? Really Freaking Fast
- Cisco's new CRS-3 router is capable of 322 terabits per second, the company says. That's fast enough to download the entire Library of Congress in about a second.
Lifelock Dinged $12 Million for Deceptive Business Practices
- The Federal Trade Commission is alleging Arizona-based Lifelock engaged in false advertising by promising customers that if they signed up with its service their personal information would become useless to identity thieves. The FTC fined it $12 million as part of a settlement agreement.
Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties
- Pink Floyd and EMI are locked in a royalty battle -- yet another example of an emerging dispute between rights holders and publishers over payment for intellectual property born before the explosion of online digital sales.
Apple's Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public
- Previously secret, the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement has been acquired and published with the help of the Freedom of Information Act.
Mile-High Mega Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power Plants
- Korean scientists propose attaching gigantic, 6.5 million-square-foot kites to ships to drag them through the ocean and generate energy.
Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000
- For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we’ve been doing it wrong. Instead of starting with a pack and adding on the jet, we should have torn the giant engines from a plane and strapped them to some poor schmuck.
Amazon Is Building a Better Browser for Kindle
- Browsing the web on one of Amazon’s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It’s clunky and has only limited support for web standards, and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But now Amazon may be looking to add browser engineers to the Kindle team, according to job listings on the company’s website.
Motorola's Backflip Will Make You Come Unhinged
- Despite some of forward-thinking hardware, Moto's Backflip is crippled by a horrid Android skin. And there's only so much one can do with 3.1 inches.
Supreme Court Takes 'Informational Privacy' Case
- The Supreme Court agrees to decide a case concerning "informational privacy." The Obama administration claims the case could undermine how much background data it may collect on the 14-million-person federal bureaucracy.
March 9, 1454: This Man Is a Continent ... or Two
- Amerigo Vespucci is remembered in the names of two continents, not because he was first to visit them, but because he was first to realize that they were something new to Europeans.
Turn an FM Transmitter Into a Micro Pirate Radio
- Seize the airwaves to fight corporate radio's preprogrammed junk. It all starts with a soldering iron and a cheapo FM transmitter.
Most Dangerous Object in the Office: Shocknife SK-2
- There's no sharp point or edge, but the electrodes in the polycarbonate Shocknife deliver a stabbing 7,500 volts. Ouch. Kilo-ouch.
A Closer Look at Sony's New Skin for Android Phones
- Sony's new user interface is designed as a skin that will go on top of the Android operating system and aggregate social networking feeds. Take a closer look at it how it compares to Motorola's MotoBlur and the HTC Sense.
Meet the Winners of Webmonkey's Google I/O Giveaway
- We're sending two talented monkeys to the Google I/O developer conference in May. We asked our readers to submit their web creations, and we picked the winners from the best of the submissions.
Digital-Ad Spending May Eclipse Print This Year
- Spending on digital advertising is poised to surpass print for the first time in 2010, according to a new study prepared even before the announcement of Apple’s iPad, with all of that hardware's game-changing potential. But another view is: So what? It’s bound to happen soon if not this year.
Get Jazzed for Monster Miles Davis Giveaway
- Tell us why the trumpet player and bandleader was one of music's most innovative forces, and you'll be entered to win a copy of the 70-CD box set Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection, a Miles-branded iPod and Monster Miles Davis Tribute high-performance headphones.
Feds Move to Break Voting-Machine Monopoly
- The Justice Department is moving to break up an alleged electronic voting-machine monopoly. The authorities say Election Systems & Software has a 70 percent market share of voting equipment in the United States.
Low Tolerance for Pain May Be Genetic
- In a study of patients with osteoarthritis, people who reported feeling more pain shared a genetic variant.
File-sharing sanctions 'unfair'
- Illegal file-sharers should be fined, rather than have their internet connection cut off, says the boss of BT.
Hard drive evolution could hit XP
- Hard drives are about to undergo one of the biggest format shifts in 30 years but it could cause problems for Windows XP users.
Porn net domain name plan revived
- A plan to create a .xxx net domain for adult content will be revisited three years after it was rejected by internet regulators.
Banking fraud 'moves to internet'
- Fraudsters are continuing their switch from traditional card fraud to raiding online bank accounts, new research shows.
Nanotech 'fuse' for novel battery
- A never-before-seen reaction in nanotubes could make for batteries that pack a mighty punch, say researchers.
Games migrate to the social side
- The merging of social networks and games is set to dominate this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Sony eyeing June launch of 3D TV
- Electronics giant Sony says its new 3D television will be on sale in Japan from June, with a cost of £2,600 for a 46-inch screen model.
Skynet satellite system extended
- Skynet 5, the UK's single biggest space project, is to get a fourth satellite to up the bandwidth available to British forces.
US eases sanctions for freer web
- The US eases sanctions on Iran, Cuba and Sudan to help further the use of internet services and support opposition groups.
Dotcom Crash
- 10 years on from when the Nasdaq bubble burst
Final Fantasy
- Costumed fans queue for launch
dot.Rory
- Time for the tech world to do a little bit of politics
Well-rounded
- Indian computer graduates get etiquette classes
dot.Maggie
- Dotcom crash: Where were you on 10 March 2000?
Sun spotters
- Your help is needed to watch the surface of the Sun
Facebook death 'lessons to learn'
- The home secretary says internet safety lessons must be learned after a convicted sex offender contacts and kills a teenager.
Weak questions put e-mail at risk
- Questions used as security checks on websites need to be replaced by better tests to see who someone is, say researchers.
Drug scam hijacks college sites
- UK university websites are targeted by criminals peddling counterfeit drugs from fake online pharmacies.
Mobile phones learn to lip read
- A device that could allow people to conduct phone conversations without uttering a word is shown off by researchers.
Queen expresses net concerns
- The Queen warns that businesses in developing nations are missing out because the internet is an "unaffordable option" in many areas.
Browsers demand screen time
- Small browser firms want changes made to Microsoft's browser choice screen to make their programs more prominent.
S Korea 'web neglect' baby dies
- A South Korean couple addicted to the internet let their baby starve while raising a virtual daughter online, police say.
Has copyright gone too far?
- Has copyright gone too far? asks Bill Thompson.
Open society and open systems
- Openness must be defended, says Bill Thompson.
The past is the future for tech
- Bill Thompson keeps an eye on the future
The media and the message
- Innovation is the key for papers says Bill Thompson
Naples' online 'ethical' city
- The web community founded on morals and manners
Technology and education
- A special edition of BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme looks at three unique uses of technology in education.
Will people pay for net news?
- Can newspapers charge online and survive?
Are all bits created equal?
- The US struggles with the battle over net neutrality
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Once-fading MySpace focuses on youthful reincarnation
- MySpace thinks it can survive even thrive as a repository for all things music, Avatar and Twilight for the under-35 crowd.
Google welcomes chance to export to Iran, Cuba
- A senior Google executive welcomed on Tuesday a U.S. decision to relax restrictions on exporting Internet communications services ...
Cisco to introduce new heavy-duty Internet router
- Cisco is upgrading one of its biggest pieces of networking hardware, a router that's used to power the most trafficked parts ...
Sony to start selling 3-D TVs in June
- Sony Corp. said Tuesday it will start selling 3-D televisions in June, joining a competitive industrywide push to convince consumers ...
Music games' next generation: 'Power Gig' with real guitar
- An upcoming music video game gives you the power to progress from fantasy guitar hero to true six-string slinger.
'True Crime' game reboot finds inspiration on the big screen
- A gritty police drama set in Hong Kong, the in-development video game True Crime is due this fall.
Control4 CEO Will West wants one remote to do it all
- Control4 has a remote that can turn on the TV and Blu-ray player and dim the lights, lock the door, close the blinds and adjust ...
Word to youth: Texting, driving don't mix
- AT&T's "Txtng & Drivng ... It Can Wait" campaign features parents of young texting-and-driving victims and the final text messages ...
Researchers link inflammation to illness in overweight people
- Obesity scientists dig deep to find the connection between body fat, white blood cells and a cascade of diseases.
Former head of Johnson Space Center dies in Texas
- Aaron Cohen, the former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center who helped create the space shuttle program, has died in College ...
FCC to propose revamping Universal Service Fund
- Federal regulators trying to bring high-speed Internet connections to all Americans will propose tapping the government program ...
Some scientists misread poll data on global warming controversy
- "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you," then, with apologies to Kipling, you ...
U.S. Apple iPad sales to begin April 3
- Apple says its much-anticipated iPad tablet will hit U.S. store shelves on April 3.
YouTube turns on captions on millions of videos
- YouTube is adding captions to millions of Internet videos.
Got a PlayStation? You can watch reality show 'The Tester'
- A reality series that's only available to owners of PlayStation game consoles demonstrates new possibilities for video gaming.
Demand for Lithium Is Poised to Take Off
- As awareness spreads that lithium is an ingredient for hybrid cars, a hunt is under way for sources of the metal.
Using Computing Might, Google Improves Translation Tool
- The company’s network pushes the limits of translation technology and has become a favored source for millions.
For the Afflicted, a Little Black Box to Jog Failing Memory
- Researchers have tested the Sensecam, which contains a digital camera and an accelerometer, as an aid to people with Alzheimer’s disease and other memory disorders.
France Télécom Needs 'Radical Change' After Suicides, Report Says
- France Télécom has already stopped several practices identified as being particularly disruptive, like forcing employees to change jobs and closing work sites.
Google Opens App Store For Business Software
- Google unveiled a marketplace of business software to help to spur the adoption of its own suite of productivity applications.
What We're Reading: Barbie, Steve and Carly
- Our daily roundup of Web gems includes a deeper look at Barbie the engineer, Carly Fiorina's tenure at Hewlett-Packard, Jonathan Schwartz's battles with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and a pricing glitch at Amazon.com.
H.P. Barks, Then Bites Apple on the iPad
- Two of the world's computing powerhouses have started a war of words around their forthcoming tablet computers.
A Talk With Charles Thacker, the Turing Winner
- Charles Thacker, the lead designer on the Alto, the Xerox PARC prototype of the modern personal computer, won the Turing Award.
After Boom and Bust, Solar Power Has a Place in the Spanish Sun
- A national commitment to solar power transformed one community but big subsidies led to unsustainable growth.
A Bike Theft in the Time of Twitter
- An alarm goes out online, and a messenger is soon reunited with his stolen bike.
At conference, iPhone games break out
- This week's Game Developers Conference reinforces the iPhone's status as a top gaming platform. For the first time, the GDC advisory board is devoting an entire summit to Apple's smartphone.
Driver: My Prius took me for a scary ride
- The driver of a Toyota Prius says he was taken on a wild ride Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck, reaching speeds in excess of 90 mph on a winding, hilly portion of a southern California interstate.
Residents use social media to fight crime in Mexico
- Renewed violence in Mexican cities bordering Texas has ignited fear among nearby residents, some of whom have turned to social media despite cartels' efforts to limit information.
Social media at work -- ban or boon?
- Social media are, by definition, supposed to be a social experience. Make a profile and start connecting. Reach out to friends, old and new. Post a profile picture, and while you're at it upload a photo album of your trip to Greece so others can see and comment.
Police: Couple raised virtual child, ignored real one
- Police have arrested a South Korean couple whose toddler starved to death while they were raising a virtual child online, authorities said.
Plastic boat to set sail with environmental message
- What do you get when you cross thousands of plastic water bottles with an adventure-loving entrepreneur? A boat, of course, designed to carry a team of scientists, adventurers and artists halfway around the world.
Green living with Ed Begley Jr.
- Actor Ed Begley Jr., best known for his roles in "St. Elsewhere", "The West Wing", "Best in Show" (he's also twice appeared on "The Simpsons") is the star of "Living with Ed".
Apple's iPad to be released April 3
- Apple's eagerly anticipated iPad will be available in the United States on April 3, the company said Friday.
Why I'm banking on Facebook
- We already connect with friends on Facebook to share photos, videos, text updates and Web links, but might we also use the service to exchange money?
Time-lapse photos: Old trick is new again
- Time was, if you wanted to make a time-lapse film, first you had to build a machine.
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Democrats doubt deadline on healthcare
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats on Tuesday cast doubt on their chances of meeting the White House's March 18 deadline for voting on a stalled healthcare overhaul, but said they are moving as fast as they can.
UK proposes tougher steps on disclosing bankers' pay
- LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will on Wednesday propose to force banks to reveal how many of their staff earn top wages, in steps that go further than previous proposals, financial services minister Paul Myners said.
Israeli minister apologizes to Biden over homes plan
- JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli cabinet minister apologized on Wednesday after Israel embarrassed visiting Vice President Joe Biden by announcing plans to build 1,600 more homes for Jewish settlers.
Iceland opposition toughens on new "Icesave" talks
- REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Iceland's opposition turned up the heat on the center-left government on Wednesday to hold out for a tough new "Icesave" debt accord with Britain and the Netherlands, after a referendum rejection of its previous deal.
Toyota, U.S. officials investigate runaway Prius
- LOS ANGELES/DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. safety regulators and Toyota dispatched teams on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier, as the automaker struggled to reassure consumers shaken by its recall crisis.
Pelosi faces biggest test on healthcare vote
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leader of the House of Representatives -- a persuasive arm-twister and deal maker -- faces her toughest challenge yet in the coming weeks: getting 216 votes to pass final legislation revamping the U.S. healthcare system.
Economists trim 2011 U.S. growth forecast
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economists raised their forecast for economic growth in 2010 in March, the third straight monthly rise, while trimming their growth forecast for 2011, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
Accused Letterman extortionist pleads guilty
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - A television producer pleaded guilty Tuesday to trying to extort $2 million from U.S. talk show host David Letterman by threatening to reveal his affairs with women who worked on his late-night program on CBS.
Bomber's death fresh blow to Indonesia militants
- CANBERRA/JAKARTA (Reuters) - A suspected mastermind of the Bali bombings was killed in a police raid in Indonesia in the latest blow to an Islamist militant movement in the world's most populous Muslim country.
UK PM Brown warns of bumpy economic road ahead
- LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sees risks to the economic recovery and says it is not the moment to change course as he prepares for an election by June.
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