Official: Firefox 3 RC2 released!

Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 34 months. Building on the previous release, Gecko 1.9 has more than 14,000 updates including some major re-architecting to provide improved performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability.

Nanotrucks and Nanotrains: Workhorses of the Future?

They might not look like your Ford F-150 or Toyota Camry, but a new generation of nanocars and nanotrucks (along with nanotrains and even nanobackhoes) could eventually build anything from computer memory chips to entire buildings, atom by atom.

Woman With Objects Fetish Marries Eiffel Tower

A woman who has a bizarre fetish for inanimate objects has married the Eiffel Tower. Erika La Tour Eiffel, 37, a former soldier who lives in San Francisco, has been in love with objects before.

Lifehacker's Top 10 Office Supply Hacks

Given some spare time and a few neglected items in the office supply closet, anyone can make their workspace more functional, create a cool tools for their home and office, and even rescue seemingly ruined stuff. Today we'll take a look at some unexpected ways to use objects you probably have readily available.

Team Hopes to Use New Technology to Search for ETs

A Johns Hopkins astronomer is a member of a team briefing fellow scientists about plans to use new technology to take advantage of recent, promising ideas on where to search for possible extraterrestrial intelligence ..

Scientists Have Solved The Mystery of Levitation

The University of St Andrews team has created an 'incredible levitation effects’ by engineering the force of nature which normally causes objects to stick together and reversing a phenomenon known as 'Casimir force'.

Total Recall: 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars [W/Pics]

We count down the 50 most famous cars to drive across the silver screen.

The hidden costs of fuel subsidies

Buckling under the weight of record oil prices, several Asian countries have cut or are thinking of cutting their fuel subsidies, which raises a pressing question for Beijing: Can China afford its own oil subsidies at a time when it is spending billions on post-earthquake reconstruction?

Google's Biggest Threat? Itself

Search giant's CEO talks about how the company plans to overcome the challenges it faces.

Why, In China, Gas Is $2.49 A Gallon

China's strong economy and huge appetite for energy have been key drivers in the current $130-per-barrel price of oil. China imports over half of its oil, regards the industry as "strategically vital," controls retail prices and is facing inflation in excess of 8%. The price may seem daunting in the U.S., but it is much more so in China.

Six Ways to Make Vista and XP Work Your Way

Print directory folders, dump dopey Balloon Tips, save ornery files. Plus: I debunk a bogus performance trick.

Mac OS X 10.6 Called 'Snow Leopard', All Cocoa?

Arstechnica reports on more details about the next major version of Mac OS X (10.6). According to the news site, the next version of Mac OS X will indeed be an Intel-only release and that it is code named "Snow Leopard". Ars can also confirm the expected release target of January 2009 as well a...

Discovery of Exoplanet Signals Multitude of Planets in Space

Astronomers have found the first Earth-Sized Exoplanet 3,000 light years away. The planet was discovered by the science-fiction-sounding method of Gravitational Microlensing. Scientists believe that this shows that there might be far more planets out there than we ever suspected.

Mars Lander 'Tweets' at Space Fans

When the Phoenix Lander, NASA's spacecraft that is looking for signs of life -- or at least ice -- on Mars, landed two weeks ago it, had an audience of thousands, but it was all online, not on cable or the nightly TV newscast. Web-savvy space fans have tuned into the spacecraft's Twitter page, where Phoenix has been "tweeting" back daily messages..

S.D. county approves rezoning for new oil refinery

Voters in this mostly agricultural corner of the Midwest have approved a proposal to build the first new U.S. oil refinery in more than 30 years. Union County residents voted 58 percent to 42 percent Tuesday to endorse the rezoning of almost 3,300 acres of pristine farm land north of Elk Point for the oil refinery.

The Iron Man: A Meningitis Miracle

How I beat a disease that almost killed me ...

How the Web Was Won

Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook, of the Drudge Report and the Obama campaign.

Please Don't Smoke the Grass!

That doesn't even look like weed. So seriously... don't smoke the grass!

Mars Lander Gets Digging Practice

The US space agency's new robotic craft on Mars has been commanded to carry out a second practice dig before beginning its real work.

The Future Is Now? Pretty Soon, at Least

Ray Kurzweil is a futurist with a track record who makes his predictions using what he calls the Law of Accelerating Returns.

The HTC Touch Pro, a QWERTY Diamond

Call it Raphael no longer! HTC has officially thrown the cover off its Touch Pro today -- the QWERTY slider sibling of the recently-unveiled Touch Diamond -- which should cover the bases for those who loved the Diamond's keen looks but decided they'd go our of their gourds without a full set of physical keys at their disposal. Under that glossy...

Office Revolution (Pics - NSFW)

How Josh Hamilton went from Crack Addict to Star Outfielder

Four years ago Josh Hamilton was a junkie strung out in a trailer park. Today he's the Texas Rangers' star center fielder poised for a breakout season no one could have predicted.

Seven Things We Want From The Avengers Movie

With Marvel continuing to tease fans about the project and the (hopefully) continued rosy box office future of Marvel's upcoming development state, it's not so much a question of IF an Avengers movie will happen, but rather WHAT will it look like when it hits the big screen? What we want to see in a big-budget Avengers movie...

Guarantee net neutrality - The Star-Ledger

The information superhighway that is the internet has been an equal opportunity route. A local shop's web page isn't shunted into the slow lane while Mega Corporation's blows by in the express. Each is entitled to use the same path at the same speed.

Detroit Red Wings Win The Stanley Cup

Stanley Cup Champs

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People Who Would Have No Friends If They Weren't Famous

A list of famous personalities (or lack therefor) who would have no friends in real life if they were not RICH and famous. Where's Brittany?

Through the Fire and the Flames FC (Video)

Here it is. Iamchris4life has finally done it.

Baby Makes Surprise Arrival At 37,000 Feet, Delivered by Dad

A premature baby is expected to remain hospitalized for several weeks after being born on a Korean Air Lines flight. Jadan was delivered last Wednesday by his father and a Korean surgeon who happened to be onboard the flight from the Philippines to New York, the hospital said Monday.

Acer bets big on Linux

Acer has stated that it will be pushing Linux aggressively on its laptops and netbooks. The company is already heavily promoting Linux for its low cost ultra-portable netbook range out later this year, but senior staff have said that Acer will also push Linux on its laptops.

Cost of Solar Panels Expected To Plummet

Solar photovoltaics have their challenges, from shortages of silicon to the sheer cost of purchasing and installing solar panels, but a new report from the Prometheus Institute says that both these problems will be addressed over the next few years, leading to cheaper solar and an abundance of capacity to produce.

McCain Rips Off Obama's Slogan And Logo

Is John McCain trying to be the older, whiter, more conservative Barack Obama? On Tuesday, the Senator co-opted the slogan that has come to personify Obama's candidacy, taking the Illinois Democrat's "Change You Can Believe In" and altering it into "A Leader You Can Believe In."

Whatever Happened to Whatever Happened to the Bees?

One year ago, the world was transfixed by the unexplained collapse of honeybee colonies in North America and Europe. Doom was predicted for entire sectors of global agriculture. And then we forgot about it.But that doesn't mean Colony Collapse Disorder has gone away.

Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis?

The biofuel debate is electrifying the UN food price crisis summit in Rome, pitting nations against each other and risking transforming bioenergy - once hailed as the ultimate green fuel - into the villain of the piece, the root cause behind global food price spikes.

Red Wine Stops Effects of High-Fat Diet

Red wine does indeed explain why the French get away with a relatively clean bill of heart health despite eating a diet loaded with saturated fats, concludes a new study.

BREAKING NEWS: Hillary To Drop Out of Presidential Race

Sen. Hillary Clinton will drop out of the presidential race on Friday, ending her historic bid for the White House.

How Israeli Activists Cheat on Digg: In their own words

FTA: Here is a tool for posts and the related statistics to help you in your endeavors. http://www.neaveru.com/digg/ Try it on our “friend” Yellowcakewalk and Notque. Two antiIsraeli and antiAmerican posters. ....Bad news. The script died when fed Yellocakewalk. The number of posts for that user is over 4500 and the system could not handle it.

Famitsu gives Metal Gear Solid 4 a 40/40

June 12th cant come soon enough.

White House Newsflash: Glbl Warming VERY LIKELY Human-Caused

Since 1990, every 4 years the US Govt. has been required to issue a “scientific” report on climate change and its effects on the economy, environment, and public health. W ignored the '04 deadline for this report and the government was sued by green groups. Finally, the long awaited report is here, and *drumroll please*...