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Content-Aware Image Resizing
Print Messages On Your Beer
Girl's Heart Regenerates With Artificial Assist
Star Cooler Than Venus Found
Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption
3D Animations In Mid-Air Using Plasma Balls
3D Printers To Build Houses
Ball Lightning Created In the Lab
Journalist Test Drives The Pain Ray Gun
Researchers Create Beating Heart In Lab
Stanford's New Website Converts Your Photos to 3D
Silent Microchip 'Fan' Has No Moving Parts
Robot Planes and Helicopters Taught Aerobatics
Blast-Proof Fabric Resists Multiple Explosions
Global Collaborative Music Experiment
Open Source Image De-Noising
Storing Wind Power In Cold Stores
Tiny Generator Runs Off Vibrations
World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy
XP On 8-MHz Pentium With 20 MB RAM
25th Anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum
33 MegaPixel TV in 2015
Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel
Australians Running On-Line Poll Based Senators
Bill Gates and Microsoft Fund Telescope
Building Tomorrow's Soldier Today
Ch-Ch-Chatting With the South Pole's IT Manager
Colossus Cracks Again
Dell, Lenovo Adding Solar Option for PCs
Eight PS3 'Supercomputer' Ponders Gravity Waves
Encryption Could Make You More Vulnerable
FBI's Unknown Eavesdropping Network
First Superheavy Element Found In Nature
Google's Android Cellphone SDK Released
Head Tracking w/ the Wiimote
Homeland Security Commissions LED-Based Puke-Saber
Interstellar Ark
Last Year's CanSecWest Winner Repeats on Vista, Ubuntu Wins
Life May Have Evolved In Ice
Microsoft Plans Data Center in Siberia
Microsoft's Multitouch Coffee Table Display
NASA Considers Plans for Permanent Moon Base
NASA Ikhana Assists SoCal Firefighters
Open Source, Genetically Engineered Machines From a Kit?
POV-Ray Short Code Animation Winners
Predator-Style Helmets Allow Pilots to See Through Planes
Probe Captures Avalanche on Mars
RIAA Website Hacked
Robots That Bounce on Water
Sketch Your Furniture in the Air
Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary Charity Auction for the EFF
The Complete History of Format Wars
Tracking People Using Bluetooth
Two Stargate SG1 Films Announced
UN Makes Its Statistical Data Free and Searchable
Using Wireless Signals in Games
Voyager 2 Set to Reach Termination Shock
Whirling Twirling Propeller Trike
YouTube for Science?
iPhone Can Now Run Apache, Python, Vim
Researchers Chill Mirror to Near Absolute Zero
The DIY Tank
$298 Wal-Mart PC Has OO.org, No Crapware
$500,000 Prize for Faster Airport Security Checks
100x Faster Hard Drive In Lab
14-Year-Old Turns Tram System Into Personal Train Set
3D Crystal Grown On a DNA Lattice
A 3D Printer On Every Desktop?
A Step Towards an Invisibility Cloak
Aboriginal Archive Uses New DRM
Airbus 380 To Have Linux In Every Seat
All Blood Converted to Type O?
An Open-Source Java Port To iPhone?
An Origami Lens for Your Camera Phone?
Arctic Ice May Melt By 2040
Astronomers Announce 5-Planet System
Atom Smasher May Create "Black Saturns"
Best OSS Systems Mgmt App You Never Heard Of
CNN To Release Debates Under Creative Commons
Can Large Corporations Buy "Cool?"
Cannabis Compound Said To "Halt Cancer"
Chroot in OpenSSH
Coming Soon — Cyborg Farmers
Companies Asked to Donate Unused Patents
Debian Package of the Day
EU Views Net Censorship As a "Trade Barrier"
Earthlike Planet Orbiting Nearby Star
Energy From Raindrops
FAA Gets a Big-Screen Touch Table
FAA To Free Aircraft Hobbled By IP Laws
First Hutter Prize Awarded
First Sight of Google Android
Fish Poison Makes Hot Feel Cold and Vice Versa
Geek and Gadgets Set Cross-US Speed Record
Get Speed-Booting with an Open BIOS
Hardware Firewall On a USB Key
Headband Gives Wearer "Sixth-Sense"
High School Sophomores Discover Asteroid
IBM Doubles CPU Cooling With Simple Change
IBM, Linden Labs Call For Portable Avatars
Iceland Woos Data Centers As Power Costs Soar
Internet Bandwidth to Become a Global Currency?
Java-Based x86 Emulator
Lenovo Delivers SuSE Linux-Based ThinkPads
Linden Labs Sends "Permit-and-Proceed" Letter
Linux Gets Completely Fair Scheduler
Linux-Based PMP Features Head-Up Display
Lisp and Ruby
Lotus Notes 8.5 Will Support Ubuntu 7.0
Making Animated Fluids Look More Realistic
Making Light (More) Solid
Mars Rover, Spirit, Turns 4
Microfluidic Chips Made With Shrinky Dinks
Microsoft Confirms IE8 Has 3 Render Modes
Microsoft Developing News Sorting Based On Political Bias
Microsoft Retracts Patent
Molten Salt-Based Solar Power Plant
Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP
Multitouch Without Touch Using Wiimote
Music Decoded From 600-Year-Old Carvings
NASA Announces 120 Small Research Projects
NASA Ares Rocket Specs to Be Open Source
NASA Building Massively Heat-Resistant Chips
NASA Probe Validates Einstein Within 1%
NTP Pool Reaches 1000 Servers, Needs More
NYTimes.com Hand-Codes HTML & CSS
Navy Gets 8-Megajoule Rail Gun Working
Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age" To Be Miniseries
New BigDog Robot Video
New Blender Released
New Car Sensor System Simulates Birds-Eye View
New Software Could Warn Sailors of Rogue Waves
New Technology Could Lead To 3D Printers
OLPC Available to the Public Early 2008
OLPC and CC Free Content Drive
On Selling Western PC Games In Japan
Open nVidia Linux Driver Pledge Nearly Complete
Patch the Linux Kernel Without Reboots
Pentium 4 631 Overclocked to 8 GHz
Photosynthesis May Rely On Quantum Effect
Plastic Fiber Could Make Optical Networking a DIY Project
Possible Large Impact Crater In Nevada
Protecting Online Identity Through Cryptography
Purdue Plans a 1-Day Supercomputer "Barnraising"
Purdue Unveils a Tricorder
Rare Soviet Retro-Future Space Art
Ready for a CyberWalk?
Review of Asus Linux-Based Eee PC 701
Rewritable Song Lyrics
Robot Becomes One of the Kids
Robot Composed of "Catoms" Can Assume Any Form
Running Your Electric Meter Backwards
Satellite IDs Ships That Cut Cables
Semi-Identical Twins Discovered
Single Nanotube Becomes World's Smallest Radio
Smart Car Coming To the US In Jan. 2008
Sony Runs Walkman Off Sugar-Based Bio Battery
Spider-Like Catamaran Travels 5,000 Miles On One Tank
Spy Drones Take to the Sky in the UK
Star Swallows Companion, Burps Out Planet-Forming Cloud
Star Trek Shields Now a Possibility?
Star Wars Fan Puts Himself in Carbonite
Steve Jobs Announces (some) DRM-free iTunes
Submersible Glider Powered By Thermal Changes
SwarmOS Demonstrated at Idea Festival
The Blackest Material
The Home Library Problem Solved
The Human Mutation
Tor Books Is Giving Away E-Books
U.S. Air Force Developing Microwave Weapon
Using Excel As a 3D Graphics Engine
Using X-ray Radiography To Reveal Ancient Insects
Video on Demand From the Public Library
Wachowski Brothers and the Speed Racer Movie
Wearable Motion Capture
Windows CE 6 Arrives Complete with Kernel Source
iPhone Freed From AT&T, Twice
Hospitals Look to a Nuclear Tool to Fight Cancer
Space Hotel to Open in 2012
'Hybrid' HDD Technology To Allow Data Access Without Booting
1-800-Google Launches
A New Map of the Internet
ASUS Motherboard Ships With Embedded Linux
AT&T Wireless Network Is Open Too
Adams' Dirk Gently Serialized on BBC Radio
Antarctic Microbes Could Live on Mars
Apple Fixes 'Misleading' Leopard Firewall Settings
Apple's Move May Make AAC Music Industry Standard
Army Buys Macs to Beef Up Security
Bar Codes Keep Surgical Objects Outside Patients
Bionic Contact Lens May Lead to Overlay Displays
British Intelligence Inserts Job Ads Into Games
CBC Recommends Linux To Average User
Cell Hits 45nm, PS3 Price Drop Likely to Follow
Cellphones Leapfrog Poor Infrastructure in Mali
Child's Play 2007 Gets Underway
Chinese Pirates Copy iPhone, Make Improvements
Consumerist Catches Geek Squad Stealing Porn
DIY CPU Demo'd Running Minix
Dell PCs with Ubuntu Are A Little Less Expensive