Artificial intelligence boosts science from Mars

AI being used at the European Space Operations Centre is giving a powerful boost to ESA's Mars Express as it searches for signs of past or present life on the Red Planet.

Albert Hofmann, inventor of LSD, dies.

Albert Hofmann, who died on Tuesday aged 102, synthesised lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938 and became the first person in the world to experience a full-blown acid trip. RIP Hofmann.

What's Worse Than Serving A Life Sentence Without Parole

sharing a cell with a twitter addict.

The moment a baby antelope should have run.

Chaos in the Print Shop

Very cool promo video

Fox News is Responsive to the Linux Community

The Linux community spoke and foxnews.com listened. I received a polite message late today from Mr. Dave Denis the Director, Product Development at Fox News. Mr. Denis stated that Fox News is now aware of the problem with their Video page and is working with Maven Networks to get it fixed.

Cracked: The truth about the spinning dancer

The popular circulating email with the spinning dancer, asking readers to tell if she's spinning clock-wise or anti-clock-wise and hence determining the more dominant side of your brain. The mystery behind it has been cracked.

Future Crytek titles will be multi-platform, no PC Exclusive

The PC Play magazine has released an English version of an interview it did with Cevat Yerli, president of the German Studio Crytek, which is well known for developing Crysis. In the interview they discuss the success and failures of Crysis, but more importantly the state of the PC gaming industry.

Half man, half chimp - should we beware the apeman's coming?

He said if a female chimpanzee was inseminated with human sperm the two species would be closely enough related that a hybrid could be born.

AT&T to cut the price of Apple’s new iPhone

AT&T is planning to put some extra shine on the even sleeker new Apple iPhone.When the 3G iPhone is introduced this summer, AT&T, the exclusive U.S. iPhone sales partner with Apple, will cut the price by as much as $200, according to a person familiar with the strategy.

18 Features Windows Should Have (but Doesn't)

Some of the coolest OS features are nowhere to be found in Windows XP or Vista. Here are 18 brilliant features that Microsoft should beg for, borrow, or steal--plus tips on how you can add many of them to your PC now.

Top Gun 2008, the Movie (Without Cruise, Fortunately)

Not everything was about the stunning A-10 Warthog at last week's Top Gun 2008 competition, the largest R/C event in the world. 10,000 people watched the 120 invitation-only R/C airplane competition—which included everything from from World War I Fokker fighters to WW2's Mustangs and Lightnings to Vietnam War's Phantoms

Unreal Interview With 7 y/o Who Stole Car & Went on Joyride

This 7 year old hit two parked cars, ran over two mailboxes, and hit two moving vehicles, totaling his grandma's car. His answer to the question 'Did you know that you could perhaps kill somebody?' -- "Yea, but I wanted to do hoodrat things for my friends"

Why I love Digg

Dead feces guy

The Closet Look At A Black Hole Yet

While we may never know what it looks like inside a black hole, astronomers recently obtained one of the closest views yet. The sighting allowed scientists to confirm theories about how these giant cosmic sinkholes spew out jets of particles travelling at nearly the speed of light.

Shaq-to-the-Suns is latest NBA gamble to fizzle

The genius-moron dichotomy, offered from the start by Steve Kerr himself, will get plenty of play between now and October. The Phoenix general manager knew the sort of criticism he would face if the Suns, after his gutsy, in-season acquisition of Shaquille O'Neal, did no better (or possibly worse) in the playoffs post-Shaq.

Scientists nearer to synthetic spider silk

The promise of super strong medical sutures, bullet proof vests and biodegradable fishing lines made of spider silk may at last be realised.

Top 10 most anticipated Xbox 360 games of 2008 still to come

Even though the year is almost halfway over, Destructoid still thinks the best is yet to come for the Xbox 360 this year. Here are two different editors’ most anticipated games lists for 2008.

Walking the Dog Without Actually Walking the Dog

Where's the dog's cell phone?

Fannie Mae chief sees no mortgage recovery until 2010

"We are going to have a period where we move through the trough," Daniel Mudd, Fannie Mae's chief executive officer, told a meeting of business reporters.

Awesome Baseball Save By Pitcher

Whether you like baseball or not, you can't deny the coolness of that play.

The WB network will get new life on the Web

Warner Bros. TV recruits producers to create original programming for the site, which is scheduled to debut in August.

Facebook in Real Life

Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties

The memo outlines some of the possible ties between Windows 7 (which Microsoft has said is due in 2010) and Windows Live Wave 3 services (upgrades of Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger, Writer, Family Safety, etc., due to be rolled out late this year, if the team stays on schedule). These integration points are the potentially most fertile — and con..

YouTube's Buried Treasure

Making the most of its riches will take a lot longer than Google expected

Mayor Gives Free Viagra to Old People to Improve Their Life

A Chilean mayor is to hand out free potency pills to older people in his municipality near the capital Santiago. Mayor Gonzalo Navarette Munoz says he wants to improve their quality of life by giving them free access to Viagra. He will give men aged 60 or over, the chance to get their potency pills courtesy of the taxpayer.

21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs

"Do you want to sharpen your creative picture taking instincts? Do you want to combine new ideas with your current projects and techniques? These techniques will be better executed with digital cameras and meant as some direction or guidelines to taking ‘better‘ pictures."

31 of 53 teen girls at FLDS ranch are pregnant or had baby

SAN ANTONIO - More than half the teen girls taken from a polygamist compound in west Texas have children or are pregnant, state officials said Monday.

Britain's Got Talent - Michael Jackson

A brilliant act on Britain's Got Talent

Top 7 Young Baseball Players Likely To Hit 600 HRs

As Ken Griffey Jr. storms towards the historic mark of 600 home runs, we take a look at some of the game’s young studs and predict who’s next to make a serious run at 600+. After all, 600 is the new 500 or is it?

Is your son a hacker? (1337 or maybe just a hack//Sign fan?)

Parents, your ignorance and stupidity are bottomless.In this video, "troubled" parents inform other suspecting parents about the signs that might suggest their little darling is an internet terrorist.At least the hosts of the show know better, otherwise this could turn into a Fox emergency broadcast.

Apple iMac 3.06GHz unboxing, hands-on, and benchmarking

Look what arrived on our doorstep today! That's right -- the shiny, expensive new iMac that's now equipped with that funky custom and / or overclocked 3.06GHz CPU. Take a look at us wildly unboxing and handling the behemoth in the gallery below, and get a load of its fairly impressive Xbench scores after the break.

Wheaton College professor's divorce costs him his job

Should a popular English prof lose his job, just because he got a divorce?!

Ultra-dense galaxies found in early universe

Astronomers looking at the universe’s distant past found nine young, unusually compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun.

Aboriginal Man Found in Glacier Has 17 Living Relatives

Scientists have found a direct link between the frozen remains of a man found in a glacier in northern B.C. and 17 people living in B.C., Yukon and Alaska.

Awesome "Jetsons" Car Achieves 75MPH at $0.02 Per Mile

"With a name like ‘No More Gas’, you can bet that this cute little personal electric vehicle is as good to the environment as it is to the user. Its size, weight and fuel make it much better for the planet, while its look and driving experience make it great fun for the driver. It can achieve speeds of over 75mph for a cost of $0.02 per mile."

GTA IV Nega-review: A Look at All Bad Comments From Reviews

This nega-review edition picks the middling negative points from the reviews of a well-hyped game with near unanimous critical praise, and arranging those points into an utterly unfair whole. This isn't a covert way of panning the game, but rather a way to summarize the valid negative issues that can get lost in the deafening wave of praise.

Refacing Government Tender - Drawings on Dollar Bills (PICS)

I like the My Spoon is Too Big Washington

House Of Lords Goes High-Tech

How The Centuries-Old Institution Is Embracing Technology

Is Africa the Next Asia?

Contrary to popular belief, economies in Africa are among the world's fastest growing. International investors are starting to pay attention too.