Apr 29 2008
Eager fans await the release of the latest Grand Theft Auto game. Take Two could benefit from a big win with Grand Theft Auto IV, because it will give it more leverage as it fends off a hostile takeover bid from rival Electronic Arts.
Apr 19 2008
Researchers in the British Midlands have set up a filling station for their pollution-free hydrogen cars.
Apr 18 2008
WSJ’s Amol Sharma gets a first look at how AT&T stores are using Microsoft Surface, a new technology that uses a sensitive tabletop interface to provide users with an interactive way of getting information.
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Mar 15 2008
George Lucas is giving a sneak peak of his computer-animated film, ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ due in theaters this August. It will be followed by a TV series of the same name that will air on the Cartoon Network and TNT this fall (March 14)
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Mar 15 2008
Sixteen-year-old Chris Chike breaks a world record for the fastest fingers in gaming.
Mar 15 2008
A tour of Google’s Zurich HQ, where staff ride a slide to lunch and shimmy down a fireman’s pole.
Feb 21 2008
Inside Game Developers Conference in San Francisco where Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony all unveiled new titles for their consoles.
Feb 21 2008
The US government has confirmed it successfully shot down an out-of-control satellite above the Pacific.
Feb 08 2008
The Technology Behind ‘U2 3D’: Peter Shapiro, producer of ‘U2 3D,’ talks about the origins of the film project and the technology.
Feb 08 2008
A Swedish company plans to harness the bodyheat of commuters to provide the heating for an office block.
Feb 07 2008
The field of regenerative medicine works under the theory that organs can be grown outside the body. The science could revolutionize organ transplants and make big bucks.
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Feb 07 2008
A trip to the gas station of the future may no longer require the driver to leave the car. Tankpitstop the Robot will do it all for you.
Feb 07 2008
Review a new kind of storage for laptops called SSD, or Solid State Drive, an alternative to the conventional hard disk.
Feb 05 2008
Google, the number one Internet search engine, is reportedly trying to block Microsoft’s purchase of Yahoo’s search site. Anthony Mason reports.
Jan 30 2008
The space station’s two American astronauts went out on a riskier than usual spacewalk Wednesday to fix one of two equipment failures that have crippled their power system, hoping to enable a solar wing to tilt toward the sun.
Jan 28 2008
A US spy satellite has gone out of control and is expected to crash to Earth, government sources say.
Jan 25 2008
Walt tests out Apple’s first sub-notebook computer, the MacBook Air. The thin machine doesn’t compromise on screen and keyboard size, he says, but it could mean some deal-killers for frequent travelers, he says.
Jan 25 2008
The push to get low-cost laptops to children in developing countries is being spearheaded by two competing units, the OLPC and the Classmate PC. The AP looks at how well these units fared when compared to more powerful PCs.
Jan 24 2008
Jason Queally, who won gold at the Sydney Olympics, tells James Munro how technology has changed cycling
Jan 20 2008
School teachers in the US are being sent on low gravity flights to encourage pupils to study science.
Jan 19 2008
A new practice called geotagging is allowing photographers to embed GPS location into their photos. The process is opening up a whole new way of looking at online photos.
Jan 19 2008
An American researcher, Dr Samuel Wood, has cloned human embryos from his own skin cells.
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