'Yahoo Betrayed My Husband'

"FAIRFAX, Virginia -- Early one Sunday morning in 2002, a phone rings in Yu Ling's Beijing duplex. She's cleaning upstairs; her son is asleep, while downstairs, her husband, Wang Xiaoning, is on the computer. Wang writes about politics, anonymously e-mailing his online...

Iraq's Superbombs: Homegrown Ordinance?

This is what the Pentagon does not want the American people to even think about: that their armed forces can be held at bay by homegrown weapons, not by an international conspiracy of "evil". This makes sense, though: whatever country you are from, if an invading army...

Memory Chip Breakthrough announced

"Scientists from IBM, Macronix and Qimonda said they developed a material that made "phase-change" memory 500 to 1,000 times faster than the commonly-used "flash" memory, while using half as much power. "You can do a lot of things with this phase-change memory that you can't...

Bootable USB Key and Free Magazines for DCoTers

by Tim Fehlman"Boot disks are so passe. All the cool kids (read ubergeeks) at the very least use bootable CDs. But, if you want to be one of the geek elite (or 1337), you are going to want to go for the bootable USB drive. But how does one go about obtaining this new elevated...

Dark Galaxy

This is a galaxy with no stars. The presence of neutral Hydrogen betrays it's presence.