A US court has ruled that users have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their internet surfing records and that police must obtain warrants from higher than usual courts in order to force ISPs to hand over records.

A recently unclassified report from the Pentagon revealed using laser beams for non-lethal torture. The report includes putting voices in people's heads and slowly heating the human body to confusion. Sunstroke David Kagan illustrates this in Doomwatch.

This is a handy way to get to information faster on the internet. It was a feature I recommend to google, and I couldn't believe they actually listened and made it a reality.

There's been no shortage of stories lately alleging that Wikipedia moderators have fascist tendencies, but a new case goes one step further. A German politician has filed charges against Wikipedia alleging that the worlds most famous UGC site promotes Naz

Eureka Aerospace , a company from Pasadena, Calif., had developed a device that shoots a microwave beam at a speeding car, frying its electrical system and stopping the car dead in its tracks.

Official statement cites "natural causes" but others familiar with the disruptive potential of the inventor's technology consider it a probable assassination

Astronomers using Japan's Hinode spacecraft have discovered that the sun is bristling with powerful "X-ray jets." They spray out of the sun's surface hundreds of times a day, launching blobs of hot gas as wide as North America at a top speed of two

Couple SAFE with the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act and you have a handy tool for further police state repression

Indeed, "memory hole" is an apt characterization, for Wikipedia, not unlike Winston Smith in Orwell's famous dystopian novel 1984, shuffles the politically inconvenient to the incinerator, not one of roaring flames but rather bytes and bits overwritten

BRUSSELS -- One of Europe's highest courts handed Microsoft Corp. a stinging defeat in its hard-fought antitrust case, dismissing nearly all of the company's appeal of a landmark 2004 decision by the European Union and upholding EUR497 million ($689.7 mill