This almost doesn't make sense, but don't lose faith in the justice system yet. The San Francisco Chronicle has reported in this article that digital technology is being created to transform...

Yikes! Did you know that your printer is spying on you? According to this article, when your printer spews out a page, there is a series of very cleverly hidden are dots that are invisible to the...

Ever wonder what your employees are doing when you leave the conference room? NASA apparently does, and they have a project in the works designed to alleviate that problem. The product is presently...

Prison guards in West Virginia are the test guinea pigs for new equipment that is going to change the face of prison life! Guards are testing out advanced products that are designed to make prison...

Washington, DC, woke up not quite knowing itself this morning. There's plenty of analysis of the big picture everywhere, but what does this mean for the politics of science and tech? One loss was...

Bowing to pressure from the Chinese government, Google has expanded its censorship of search results from IP addresses originating in China. Google has blocked articles on its news site on a...

If new biofuel legislation in New York is passed by state congress, it will become a forerunner in the United States for offering diverse selections of fuel offerings at its gas pumps. The law would...

The burden of disposing an increasing amount of consumer electronic waste, currently estimated at 3 million tons and growing, has contributed to the rise of private firms specializing in...

The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a 120+ page guide with proposed rules for the crew and passengers of space travelling vehicles, but not for the craft themselves. As not to interfere...

In the end-of-year habit of posting articles concerned with things to look out for in 2006, PC World has posted a thorough list of upcoming congressional legislation that will define government...

The Philoneist Says: BusinessWeek online is running a great editorial by Greg Blonder about how the U.S. patent system is harming innovation. Curtailing the protracted process for acquiring a patent...

A U.S. District Court ruled today the Dover School Board defied the Constitution's barrier separating church and state when they required a statement be read in ninth grade biology classes...

House Representative George Miller laid out an ambitious government funding plan in the Democratic Radio Address this week intended to buttress the technological and scientific authority of American...

Air force engineers have created transparent aluminum for use in wargrade military construction where extravehicular vision is required. This new material is highly resistant to scratches and can...

New Zealand is testing a new meterless pay-to-park system next year that enables users to pay parking fees with their cell phones. To pay for a parking spot, users would text message a designated...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has uncovered a previously unknown code that laser printers imprint on documents which allow law enforcement entities to determine the serial number associated with...

After the unanimous Supreme Court ruling against Grokster on June 27, seven other popular file-sharing services received cease and desist orders from the RIAA. eDonkey, which reportedly has 3,000,000...

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