More than 2,000 years after they were written, the Dead Sea Scrolls are going digital as part of an effort to better preserve the ancient texts and let more people see them than ever before.
As a software developer who worked with NASA, Timothy Childs built vision-tracking systems for the space shuttle. Now the former techie has a new venture that he says is out of this world: chocolate.
The age of mom-and-pop pundit shops has arrived at the Democratic convention.
As the U.S. presidential elections draw closer, voting activists are bracing themselves for an onslaught of online dirty tricks and misinformation campaigns designed to deceive and disenfranchise voters.
Like most people, I really don't want to be bothered with politics. On a gut level, it seems to be the province of the popular kids, and I'm a nerd. (Plastic pocket protector, thick black glasses taped together, that was me in school.)
Crammed on middle linebacker Derek Walker's plate are beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, spinach and a roll.
An Italian priest and theologian said Sunday he is organizing an online beauty pageant for nuns to give them more visibility within the Catholic Church and to fight the stereotype that they are all old and dour.
Imagine juicing up your laptop computer or cell phone without plugging it into an electrical socket.
The road to advanced video, Internet and phone services is bumpy -- and the bumps can be almost as big as refrigerators.
Believe the conspiracy theories: Out of sight and without your knowledge, governments truly are filtering what you see on the Internet.
More than 2,000 years after they were written, the Dead Sea Scrolls are going digital as part of an effort to better preserve the ancient texts and let more people see them than ever before.
As a software developer who worked with NASA, Timothy Childs built vision-tracking systems for the space shuttle. Now the former techie has a new venture that he says is out of this world: chocolate.
The age of mom-and-pop pundit shops has arrived at the Democratic convention.
As the U.S. presidential elections draw closer, voting activists are bracing themselves for an onslaught of online dirty tricks and misinformation campaigns designed to deceive and disenfranchise voters.
Like most people, I really don't want to be bothered with politics. On a gut level, it seems to be the province of the popular kids, and I'm a nerd. (Plastic pocket protector, thick black glasses taped together, that was me in school.)
Crammed on middle linebacker Derek Walker's plate are beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, spinach and a roll.
An Italian priest and theologian said Sunday he is organizing an online beauty pageant for nuns to give them more visibility within the Catholic Church and to fight the stereotype that they are all old and dour.
Imagine juicing up your laptop computer or cell phone without plugging it into an electrical socket.
The road to advanced video, Internet and phone services is bumpy -- and the bumps can be almost as big as refrigerators.
Believe the conspiracy theories: Out of sight and without your knowledge, governments truly are filtering what you see on the Internet.
Here's a mind-bending idea: The U.S. military is paying scientists to study ways to read people's thoughts.
The next large-scale military or terrorist attack on the United States, if and when it happens, may not involve airplanes or bombs or even intruders breaching American borders.
Have you ever thrown away a power adapter that works just fine? Don't feel bad. It isn't your fault that the adapter was made for just one particular gadget. But it is a problem.
One afternoon late in 2002, Mukhsin Alhassan Kadir drove his taxi from the busy streets of Accra, the capital of Ghana, to a nearby market community to meet a man who wanted to trade a plot of land for two cell phones.
Randy Turner knows there's a huge gap in age and technology between him and his adolescent students.
Not all was what it seemed during the spectacular opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
CNN.com producer Cody McCloy and co-pilot Brian Hardy set out on a two-week cross-country road trip in a 30-year-old truck, which they intended to fuel using only biodiesel.
I was stranded in the Arizona desert in my broken-down truck wondering if I had made a big mistake: Our CNN.com biofuel road trip seemed doomed to fail.
On one side of the gravel road are hundreds of acres of corn. On the other is a much different crop that scientists hope will enable farmers to rebuild sinking islands in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, combat global warming and make a profit at the same time.
You've heard of hybrids, electric cars and vehicles that can run on vegetable oil. But of all the contenders in the quest to produce the ultimate fuel-efficient car, this could be the first one to let you say, "fill it up with air."
With thousands of hackers milling around the Black Hat convention here, and widespread snooping on the public Wi-Fi network, one place was supposed to be off limits: the press room.
The wall of gray haze around the National Stadium and across the city cut visibility down to a mile. On the eve of opening ceremonies, Beijing's polluted air took center stage Thursday as the most visibly pressing problem for Olympic organizers who had promised to clean up the Chinese capital.
One of the biggest problems with the so-called Web 2.0 movement has been its encouragement of oversharing -- which often means underestimating security risks. Adding doodads of varying quality to a home page can add a lot of pizzazz, but can also be fraught with danger, since they can open a door for hackers.
Google Inc. said Wednesday that it has launched a music search service in China that allows users to access music legally online in a forum backed by some record labels and supported by advertising revenue.
A summer with budget-busting gasoline prices seems like the worst time to launch a cross-country road trip from California to Georgia, but this one is different: We're road-testing alternative fuel that might help reduce pollution and break the nation's reliance on foreign oil.
The tradition dates back to the Old West: A cowboy gently soothes his cattle with a simple song.
From sensors in workout gear that monitor sweating while you run at the gym, to underwear that aims to detect cancer cells, the contents of our wardrobes have been quietly undergoing a revolution.
Olympic organizers unblocked some Internet sites at the main press center and media venues Friday while others remained off limits for journalists covering the Beijing games.
Out of the seven known species of turtles, how many are officially listed as endangered species by the U.S?
U.S. Presidential hopeful Barack Obama's campaign will begin running a television ad Monday in the U.S., that attacks Republican John McCain's energy policies.
When makers of one of the most anticipated video games of the year invited users to help design part of the game, the gamers jumped at the chance to create animated characters.
An Olympic official said Thursday he felt like the "fall guy" after promising reporters at the games they would have uncensored Internet access, only to find that the Chinese had blocked certain Web sites.
In the second Fantastic Four movie, a character called the Silver Surfer glides effortlessly over the Earth's terrain on a gleaming trans-galactic surfboard.
Olympic organizers are backtracking on another promise about coverage of the Beijing Games, keeping in place blocks on Internet sites in the Main Press Center and venues where reporters will work.
Pond scum. The thought typically evokes images that leave most people cringing, but it may one day occupy an important role in the nation's energy supply.
Very soon, the most common phrase transiting through mobile phone networks will no longer be "Where are you?" but "I see you."
A high-tech monitoring device makes it possible to reduce insurance premiums for drivers who avoid jackrabbit starts and slam-on-the-brakes stops, an insurance company says.
Taking inspiration from nature, designer Ross Lovegrove has brought beauty to an everyday object that few give a passing thought to: the streetlamp.
Down in the busy corridor of Shanghai's Nanjing Xi Lu subway station, a smiling salesman stands by a bright green kiosk. A guy walks up, and the two chat about music over the touch screen. The guy takes out his mobile phone and gives the salesman a few coins. A couple minutes later, another happy customer walks away, plugged into his handset and listening to the latest single by Russian singer Vitas.
Save energy -- two words that have rapidly become a modern day mantra. But some are now asking, at what cost?
Ross Lovegrove is a veritable pioneer of industrial design. His designs, like the acclaimed "Solar Tree" are both striking and functional, and above all, influenced by Mother Nature's perfect designs.
Taking inspiration from nature, designer Ross Lovegrove has brought beauty to an everyday object that few give a passing thought to: the streetlamp.
This year's Summer Olympic Games have been seen as China's coming-out party, destined to be as significant for the host country as the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were for Japan.
The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again -- online.
When Coke-bottle glasses just won't cut it for safe driving, a futuristic windshield might do the trick.
For years, visitors wanting to see Denali National Park's grizzly bears, moose, sheep and caribou have had to ride school buses that polluted the air and spoiled the tranquillity with their noisy, carbon dioxide-spewing diesel engines.
Blake Jones' business plan for his company, Namaste Solar Electric, was so unusual, he confounded a lot of business experts.
A group of experts from around the world will hold a first of its kind conference Thursday on global catastrophic risks.
A contract to build what is being called the nation's first offshore field of wind turbines was announced Monday by a Delaware utility and a firm that will build the generators off the Atlantic coast.
For the past few years, Dan Redmond has been on a mission to change the way his household uses energy.
A group of experts from around the world will Thursday hold a first of its kind conference on global catastrophic risks.
Gone are the days when it was enough to simply Google your name to find out what people were saying about you in cyberspace.
No broadcaster shows how fast and far digital media has come than the U.S. network NBC Universal's plans for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. In the 2006 Turin Winter Games, NBC streamed only one hockey game online. This year, NBC will stream 2,200 hours of 25 events live, with nearly the entire 4,000 hours of the games available on archive for North American Internet users.
A one-word blog post from a cell phone helped to free an American student from an Egyptian jail, but it took the signatures and support of thousands of activists to get his translator out.
From a desert outpost northwest of Las Vegas, elite fighter pilots journey to a war zone in Afghanistan, some 7,500 miles away.
NBC is using the Olympics as a "billion-dollar research lab" to get a sense of how people are using different media platforms to experience the Beijing Games that begin August 8.
Rant all you want in a public park. A police officer generally won't eject you for your remarks alone, however unpopular or provocative.
The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.
A baby boy removed from his parents' custody after they offered to sell him on eBay for just a euro -- $1.59 -- as a joke is back at home, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Police in the 1970s urged citizens to "drop a dime" in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously. Now in an increasing number of cities, tipsters are being invited to use their thumbs -- to identify criminals using text messages.
Straw and clay are the building materials of choice for a few dozen ecologically minded people in the eastern German village of Sieben Linden.
You probably arrived here via a hyperlink. We hardly think about it now, but the hyperlink is a neat trick. It turns a word in a browser into an object that leads to more information.
Prospective and current graduate business students who used a Web site to cheat on entrance examinations over the past five years could have their scores thrown out.
As American Idol's success has shown, people love to vote -- and to see how others have voted.
Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt signed a bill Monday outlawing cyberbullying, just miles from where a 13-year-old girl committed suicide nearly two years ago after being harassed on the Internet.
This month, Just Imagine took a look at cities, the ways in which they might change in the future and what this might mean for the people who live in them.
Wouldn't it be great if you could become invisible whenever you wanted? Harry Potter can do it, and so could certain groups of futuristic creatures on "Star Trek."
The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August.
Cathy Campbell did a double-take and tapped the brakes when she spotted what appeared to be a pointy-edged box lying in the road just ahead.
The online hangout Facebook is getting more serious about grammar.
A group charged with overseeing the development of the Internet voted Thursday to relax the rules on Web site naming conventions -- potentially triggering a virtual domain name gold rush to rival the dotcom boom of the late 1990s.
Military binoculars may soon get information directly from the brains of the soldiers using them.
The group controlling Internet domain names may soon decide whether to relax naming rules and potentially open up a virtual domain name gold rush.
Anti-poverty group Oxfam International on Tuesday urged the world's poorest nations to think twice before jumping on a biofuel boom that could drive farmers off their land and hit food supplies.
China's new found wealth has seen an explosion in the number of new developments springing up in what is, arguably, the world's biggest building boom.
Consider it among the unintended consequences of the national housing bust: Homeowners radiating every shade of anxiety after repeatedly visiting online real estate sites that conjure up instant home value estimates.
Students at a rural New Mexico school made a unique pledge last winter: Right hands raised, they promised to take care of their Zunes.
In the second grade, James Silva didn't just play "Mario" and "Zelda" on his Nintendo but drew pictures of new levels and cooked up ideas for future games.
True or False: In the 1890's electric cars out sold gasoline powered versions ten to one.
On any given day amidst a backdrop of buses, buildings, cars and construction sites, Richard Reynolds can be found bent over pulling weeds, planting flowers or maybe even trimming some shrubs.
With the price topping $4-a-gallon everybody wants to save gas, but depending on those miles-per-gallon ratings may be misleading.
Google Inc.'s YouTube is setting up a virtual screening room to bring the work of independent filmmakers to a global audience.
The Hawk-Eye line-calling system used at Wimbledon may not be quite as accurate as some people think, according to a new scientific study.
It's no secret that people sneak in some personal e-mail and Web surfing when they're supposed to be working.
When Shaun Yandell proposed to his longtime girlfriend Gina Marasco on the doorstep of their new home in the sunny suburb of Elk Grove, California, four years ago, he never imagined things would get this bad. But they did, and it happened almost overnight.
When Shaun Yandell proposed to his long-time girlfriend Gina Marasco on the doorstep of their new home in the sunny suburb of Elk Grove, California, four years ago, he never imagined things would get this bad. But they did, and it happened almost overnight.
Miami real estate agent Lucas Lechuga began blogging to share his knowledge of the local market. He didn't bargain for a $25 million defamation lawsuit when he wrote that a Miami developer had gone bankrupt decades ago.
Yahoo!'s efforts to revive takeover talks with Microsoft Corp. have reached a dead end, prompting the Internet pioneer to hire online search leader Google Inc. to handle some of its advertising sales.
Search engine rivals Google and Yahoo! announced Thursday that they had reached an agreement under which Google would deliver ads next to some of Yahoo!'s search results and on some of its Web sites in the United States and Canada.
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