In another step toward making the human obsolete, researchers from NIZO Food Research, Quest International and Wageningen University in the Netherlands have developed an artificial […]

Would block-level analysis as opposed to page-level analysis of the Web produces better search engine results? Deng Cai of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign […]

A coworker tipped me off to this cool space simulation that allows for three-dimensional travel of the universe. From the website: Unlike most planetarium software, […]

In my web travels I had noticed that some people had cool links to New York Times articles that didn’t require a log in to […]

I must say that this short dramatic reading greatly increased the enjoyablility of my work day. Anyone that has received Nigerian scam email will appreciate […]

Because I can’t be bothered to actually do a search, and I love me my DOS games, luckily a reader alerted us to a good […]

Today, I came across something surprising in my friendly city newspaper — a story about Wikis. It was an AP story out of New York. […]

According to an article on VNUNet.com, IT prospects for women are looking good. In fact it notes that women in IT are achieving higher pay […]

The rats are trained to search for human odor. In the case of an earthquake, for example, the rats would be sent in. If they […]

There’s a new gadget on the block for the environmentally-conscious geek consumer: a biodegradable laptop from NEC. From Near Near Future: NEC will release this […]