Microsoft is expected to show a new friendliness to the open-source community by unveiling plans to release the source code to a part of its Silverlight technology at MIX07 next week, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans.
Sources said Microsoft will also release a beta of Silverlight, a recently unveiled browser plug-in that allows […]
Google has finally solved a technical glitch on its Personalized Home Page service that rattled an undetermined number of users.
Anecdotal evidence gathered from discussion forums indicates that Google began rolling out a fix to the problem at around 3 a.m. ET on Friday, almost 24 hours after the problem erupted, although the glitch seems to […]
I recently listened to a wonderful science program on National Public Radio discussing a book called Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance along with its author, Dr. Atul Gawande. The book discusses the reasons why some practitioners excel while others just meet the standards or perform poorly.
Its hypothesis and conclusions can be universally applied in […]
On Thursday, a bill that could save Internet radio was submitted to Congress. The bill, the Internet Radio Equality Act, would stop a new royalty scheme that Internet broadcasters say will shut them down because it will cost them too much money.
U.S. Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Don Manzullo (R-Ill.) filed the legislation Thursday. The […]
May is a month of rebirth and new beginnings. It’s a time when flowers are blooming, trees are flowering, and young bucks lock horns in battle over the privilege of choosing a mate. Those kinds of biological imperatives are a bit masked in the super-refined atmosphere of Silicon Valley, but it’s safe to say that […]
LOS ANGELES - Movie-goers continued to keep their eyes on the Peeping Tom thriller “Disturbia,” which fended off a weak batch of newcomers to remain No. 1 for the third straight weekend with $9.1 million.
The movie business seemed to be on hold in anticipation of a huge summer that begins this week with Sony’s “Spider-Man […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. - A convincing twin of Darth Vader stalks the beige cubicles of a Silicon Valley office, complete with ominous black mask, cape and light saber.
But this is no chintzy Halloween costume. It’s a prototype, years in the making, of a toy that incorporates brain wave-reading technology.
Behind the mask is a sensor that […]
Along with personality and peer relationships, a school’s culture also influences whether a child resolves an issue peacefully or goes off the deep end and resorts to violence, a new study finds.
The results, reported in the March issue of the journal Youth & Society, come as attention is focused on the mass shooting at Virginia […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Lawyers envision more suicides and despair at Guantanamo Bay if the U.S. Justice Department succeeds in severely restricting access to detainees by defense attorneys, virtually the only contact inmates have with the outside world.
The Justice Department has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to […]
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in
Iraq over the weekend, the military said on Monday, raising the number of American troops killed this month to over 100 and making April one of the deadliest of the war for U.S. forces.
The toll could increase the pressure on U.S.
President George W. Bush, who is fighting […]
