Naked Password, a set of open-source JavaScript code and images that may be installed on any website, monitors a specified password-entry field in a web form. As the user types in a password, a reclining...

It's no secret I'm a big fan of the Danish plastic bricks, so when I saw this video my eyeballs were about to pop out of my skull. Amazing feat: From the video description, here are more information...

Paul Butler, an engineering intern at Facebook, posted a note last night with a stunning image that maps friendships through the social network around the world. "When the data [you have to work with...

So, Elon Musk and his brainchild SpaceX made it. Again. Big Kudos to him. He launched and recovered the Dragon spacecraft atop the Falcon 9 launcher. The Dragon capsule, that, despite the name, has no...

The Berlusconi factor is unique among developed countries. His company Mediaset controls about half the television channels and the country's leading advertising agency. He and his family own the largest...

And for time lapse movies? Then watch this amazing clip, a preview of the feature film Timescapes:More breath taking clips at Timescapes.org H/t to Tom Standage.

On April 1, 2001, an American EP-3E Aries II reconnaissance plane on an eavesdropping mission collided with a Chinese interceptor jet over the South China Sea, triggering the first international crisis...

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Amazon just announced what it’s calling “Kindle Singles.” Here’s the announcement: Today, Amazon is announcing that it will launch “Kindle Singles” — Kindle books that are twice the length of a New...

I soon discovered that the Chinese version of the iPhone 4 comes with an aggravating quirk, though: The built-in Maps app is crippled. My phone's base map is hard-wired to Google Maps' censored dataset...

ONE of the problems about locusts is the unpredictability of their behaviour. If all goes according to plan, however, a team of biologists and mathematicians from the University of Sydney will soon...

A 3-D printer, which has nothing to do with paper printers, creates an object by stacking one layer of material — typically plastic or metal — on top of another, much the same way a pastry chef makes...

BEIJING - China has finished construction of its first module of unmanned space station, Tiangong-1, and it is testing its electronic, mechanical and thermal properties, a military source said Tuesday...

The Transition, from Terrafugia, is the most likely winner of the race to marketing the first effective roadable aircraft/driveable airplane, a.k.a. the flying car. The history of aviation is littered...

The current issue of China Computerworld (计算机世界) features a cover story on Tencent, the Internet giant that runs the QQ web portal and Internet messaging software and has its fingers in practically...

Businesses, that is. Says Pacific Epoch: Baidu's (Nasdaq:BIDU) new online video site Qiyi.com has established a production unit to make its own soap operas, 163.com reported June 21 citing a phone...