In case you missed the news, the $700B bailout included tax credits for renewable energy industries. So what are the greenest bits of the bill and what does it mean for renewable energy companies? Also, where is all that glorious cash coming from?

Homeland Security is now using a cyberwar program known as 'Einstein' to defend against infiltration of our computer and Internet grid access. Now being tested is Einstein 2.0 for better protection. Efforts are underway to create Einstein 3.0 for attacks.

Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us.

If you screw up entering your id & password information enough times, Gmail will lock up your account - and there's no one to call. Same for Microsoft & Yahoo, unless you are a premium paying customer. What to do?

You may already know how food manufacture contributes to global warming--it's had its fair share of coverage lately, though the actual numbers have varied. In 2007, climate change experts pegged agriculture as producing 10 to 12 percent of global emissions

1st century AD: A simple explosive substance appears in China. To create a festive effect, containers filled with it are believed to have been thrown onto fires, whereupon they sometimes flew up into the air.

On September 7 a robotic Prius took a cruise around San Francisco. The "Pribot" maneuvered through city and highway traffic along a 40 mile course. The only mash-up? A scrape at the Bay Bridge exit. I welcome our new vehicular overlords.

But electronics rarely last as long as a real pet. As faithfully as it might serve you, within a few years it's time to put that gadget out to pasture. This is your guide to the greenest pastures around.

Finding a mate can take considerable legwork as recently illustrated by the flightless and nocturnal Cook Strait giant weta Deinacrida rugosa.

one more step towards making renewable energy truly renewable.