Axiotron converts MacBook into tablet PC Modbook

Start-up Axiotron took an off-the-shelf MacBook notebook, deep-sixed the keyboard and display and slapped on its own converter ...

Businesses try to Net financial assistance

Since the credit crunch of 2007, some 400 banks have opted out of the federal government's guaranteed small-business-loan program, ...

Pentagon launches foreign news websites

The Pentagon is setting up a network of foreign-language news sites and hiring local journalists to create content that promotes ...

Famous fossil defines a professor's life

The man who found Lucy, the world's most famous fossil, is never far from her. Just steps from Donald Johanson's office at ...

South Korean astronaut hospitalized with back pain

South Korea's first astronaut has been hospitalized with back and neck pain apparently caused by the unexpectedly steep descent ...

Robot reinvents bypass surgery

In a era when an increasing number of patients have been choosing balloon angioplasty to avoid the trauma of open-heart surgery, ...

Reports: DNA tests link bones to children of last Russian czar

DNA tests carried out by a U.S. laboratory prove that bone fragments exhumed last year belong to two children of Russia's last ...

Albert Hofmann, father of LSD, dies in Switzerland

Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired and arguably corrupted millions in ...

Hubble mission: Big on safety, pressed for time

The astronauts who will make the next space shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope say safety upgrades at NASA ...

Vista struggles to bust out as business customers snub it

Microsoft is facing increasing pressure on its Windows cash cow as some corporate customers stage a rare revolt over upgrading ...

'CSI' sleuths out Microsoft's latest technology

This episode of the CBS crime drama CSI: NY, scheduled to run Wednesday night, is fiction. But the technology at its core, Microsoft's ...

Toddlers coming of digital age

Tot toy marketing giants from Disney to Fisher-Price are nudging preschoolers as young as 3 years old to put down their sippy ...

Man gets prison after for sending spam e-mails

A Colorado man accused of sending hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading ...

Young galaxies are a star-packed puzzle

Several newfound galaxies seen as they existed when the universe was young are packed with improbable numbers of stars. Astronomers ...

Warner Bros. targets youth with two new sites

Warner Bros. is launching two websites to capture new ad revenue and a younger generation of viewers, the company said Monday.

'GTA IV' and 'Mario' will have a lock on video-game sales

With the arrival in stores this week of long-awaited titles Grand Theft Auto IV and Mario Kart Wii, the already hot video game ...

Start-up: Affordable solar power possible in a year

A Silicon Valley start-up says it has developed technology that can deliver solar power in about a year at prices competitive ...

'Grand Theft Auto IV' is exhilarating adventure

Let's cut right to the chase: Grand Theft Auto IV is not a video game for kids, tweens or even young teenagers. As with its controversial ...

Take-Two shares rise amid raves for 'GTA IV'

Criminal action video game Grand Theft Auto IV won near-perfect praise in early reviews Monday, boosting the shares of publisher ...

Radio Free Europe says it's under cyber attack

Several websites of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty have been attacked, the broadcaster said Monday, suggesting ...

Feds sued for taking gray wolves off endangered list

Environmental and animal rights groups are suing the federal government in hopes of restoring endangered species protections ...

Astronomers get closer view of black hole jet

While we may never know what it looks like inside a black hole, astronomers recently obtained one of the closest views yet. The ...

Human ID test is a quicker way to catch a thief

Federal researchers say they've developed a human identification test that's faster and possibly cheaper than DNA testing. It ...

Social network users overlook privacy pitfalls

People often think Facebook profiles and sometimes MySpace pages, if they're set as private, are only available to friends or ...

Museums teach society lacking in science literacy

This summer the National Academies, a congressionally chartered non-profit group that advises the federal government, will release ...