A 12-person committee representing the world's largest group of planetary scientists on Thursday threw its support behind a new ...

A hunger for knowledge and adventure seems to sharpen minds in early adulthood and middle age, but after age 60, it's not the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A joint venture of rival satellite television providers DirecTV Group Inc. and EchoStar Communications Corp. bowed out on Wednesday of a multi-billion-dollar auction of U.S. licenses for advanced wireless services.

Notebook computer owners began calling Dell and surfing to a special company website Tuesday to get replacements for lithium-ion ...

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has announced that an ambitious project to provide low-cost laptop computers to all of Thailand's ...

The oxygen-starved "dead zone" along the Pacific Coast that is causing massive deaths of crab and fish is worse than initially ...

AP - By day, Freeman Williams manages a small dental practice in suburban Houston. But on any given night, he's prowling crime-ridden streets and battling ne'er-do-wells in the video game "City of Heroes" as his virtual alter-ego: a female superhero named Robotrixie.

LONDON (Reuters) - The battle between two hyped formats for high-definition DVD will confuse shoppers and turn many of them off the whole technology, a London-based research firm predicted on Friday.

IBM took another step to build out its software portfolio Thursday by announcing a $1.6 billion acquisition of FileNet, which ...

SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - Web search leader Google Inc., which stores vast amounts of data on the Web surfing habits of its users, sees government intrusions rather than accidental public disclosures of data as the greatest threat to online privacy, its chief executive said on Wednesday.

The game's main character is 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins, who must defend himself against school bullies at a fictional U.S. boarding school called Bullworth Academy, while dealing with characters ranging from nerds and jocks to authoritarian prefects.

AP - Baseball fans will soon be able to use their cell phones to take them out to the ballgame. Sprint reached an agreement with Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the sport's Internet wing, to make audio of radio broadcasts available to its subscribers' mobile phones for $5.99 a month.

The government is auctioning off rights to the largest chunk ever of mobile-phone-friendly airwaves. The auction, being conducted ...

Google's contract to provide Web search and advertising for MySpace.com and other News Corp. Web properties marks the initial ...

Reuters - A man and a woman sit side by side in a New York cafe, drinking beer, sharing food, and not saying a word. Instead of chatting, they are typing on a laptop about the tunes played through a shared iPod.