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Although Mozilla Corp. patched one more Firefox bug last week than first reported, the researcher whose work has plagued the open-source browser for weeks has released details about another flaw.

U.S. authorities in Phoenix on Friday began testing a controversial new X-ray machine to screen air passengers for weapons, a process that critics likened to a “virtual strip search.”

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration rolled out an X-ray machine that uses so-called backscatter” technology at one checkpoint at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The machine peers [...]

What will it take to put thousands of microprocessors in cell phones and laptops?

NOT SO SUPER: A supercomputer in 1996 (top left) capable of calculating one trillion operations per second took up about 2,000 square feet and consumed 500,000 watts. Recently, Intel unveiled an 80-core research chip (bottom right) that achieves the same calculation rate [...]

Microsoft has verified 800 applications to run bug-free on Windows Vista.

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday released a list of 800 applications it has officially verified so far to run bug-free on Windows Vista.

The father of the Internet, Vint Cerf, is overseeing efforts by NASA to build a permanent Internet link to Mars by 2008.

InterPlaNet (IPN) will serve as a backbone for a future inter-planetary system of Internets, said Cerf during a visit to Bangalore, reports Indo Asian News Service.Google vice president [...]

Hollywood can make actors and actresses very, very rich. Or it can make them very well respected. But it usually doesn’t do both at the same time.

Consider Forbes’ list of the world’s best-paid actors and actresses: The 23 stars on our list collectively earned $553 million over the course of a year. But only [...]

You can run Windows Vista for as long as 120 days without accepting its antipiracy product activation.

Windows Vista can be used for as long as 120 days without agreeing to its product activation antipiracy software, the company confirmed Friday. That’s four times longer than the 30 days the company has widely used as the maximum [...]

Hoping to take advantage of the popularity of Web 2.0 services, MSN Soapbox lets users tag and categorize videos within the same screen.

Microsoft has launched in public beta MSN Soapbox, an online video service that would compete with Google’s YouTube.

An IT professional claims to have discovered a way of upgrading to a full version of Vista from scratch, while only paying the cost of an upgrade for an earlier version of Windows.
As part of the Vista launch, Microsoft is offering Windows users a range of upgrades allowing them to move to one of six [...]

Startup ZINK Imaging is giving inkless printing a new look.

This Bluetooth-enabled printer could be used to print pictures captured on mobile phones. This printer is one of two ZINK-enabled devices that the company expects to make available by the end of the year.
Credit: Zink