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My blogging colleague Wade Roush notes Richard Branson's new space travel venture. Branson is charging £115,000 (about $208,000) for four minutes of weightlessness. At that price, only a very select few will ever be able to make the trip. The...
The world's first private, commercial flights into space will begin by 2007, according to Sir Richard Branson, who unveiled plans today for a new "space airline" called VirginGalactic. Branson is supplying $25 million to Burt Rutan, of SpaceShipOne fame, to...
--and The Sims--in particular? Take a look at this in-depth review on the somethingawful.com website. You'll find one of the best reviews around including attitude, explanations, history, and wonderful, wonderful screen shots.What makes this review particularly interesting is that the...
Sony announced this week that its future digital music players will -- get this -- support MP3s. Until now, Sony's devices stubbornly required that songs adhere to the company's own ATRAC3 format. What took Sony so long to get with...
In a pretty amazing piece of sleuthing, Katherine Albrecht and the organization CASPIAN--Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering--have gathered photographs from a trade show of Checkpoint's item-level RFID clothing labels. These RFID tags, CASPIAN says, will be sewn into...
The Department of Homeland Security is at it again. The Transportation Security Administration cancelled its CAPPS II passenger screening program earlier this year due to criticism from privacy advocates and disclosures that contractors secretly got data from major U.S. airlines....
Opponents of genetically engineered crops have used the tendency of genes to spread from the engineered plants to their wild cousins as a major argument against widespread planting of biotech crops. A new study shows that, at least in one...
Yesterday, I criticized some of the support for California's Proposition 71 on stem cell research because it implied a potential cure for Alzheimer's disease. Fellow TR blogger Erika Jonietz countered with a post of her own, writing that "singling out...
Commenting on California's Prop 71 to fund stem cell research, my blogging colleague David Appell makes an excellent point about stem cells and Alzheimer's, but he may be overstating the case a bit. An increasingly frequent--and legitimate--criticism of proponents of...
Eugene H. Spafford and David L. Wilson have written an interesting article in The Chronicle Of Higher Education that tackles the controversy over whether Linux or Windows is ultimately going to be the more secure operating system.Their conclusion, not surprisingly,...
