The Well co-founder has the coolest -- and hardest -- job around: Decide how to donate $1 billion of the Google fortune. By Evan Ratliff from Wired magazine.
Newfangled video-game controllers increasing resemble cybernetic fruit bats. How about a controller that doubles as frosty beer mug or a brick you can heave at the TV to take down the bad guys? Commentary by Lore Sjöberg. This column is also available as a .
A website for budget travelers to locate guest rooms and sofas around the world is destroyed by a system crash, leaving thousands of cyber-hobos without a place to stay. Scott Carney reports from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Taking on such powerhouses as the Secret Service and AT&T, the EFF is a kind of high-tech ACLU, fighting to ensure that offline rights transfer to emerging technologies.
Trying for a Guiness record, graduate engineering students produce a likeness of the American flag so small it would take more than 10 of them to fill the width of a human hair.
South Korean researcher Hwang Woo-suk, who falsely claimed breakthroughs in creating stem cells from cloned human embryos, admits in court he ordered subordinates to falsify stem cell data.