The L.A. Times features a description of what space camp is like, not for for its traditional demographic of teens and pre-teens interested in science (and possibly thinking of careers in space), but for adults. The Huntsville program where writer Jane Engle spent three days playing astronaut gives adults a chance to experience simulated low…

A Los Angeles man claims what he thought was a new phone in fact contained pornographic pictures and videos of store staff, which was viewed by his young son…….

Shareholder lawsuit accuses the struggling handset maker of making false and misleading statements about the company’s financial health and the prospects for the BlackBerry 10…….

Microsoft made some confident sounding claims about sales of its first-generation Surface tablets before it became clear that the tablets weren’t actually selling very well. So make what you will of the company’s claim that the second version is “close to selling out.” As the linked article points out, the company has “fallen short of…

It’s one of the great social difficulties of our time. Now Google would like to offer (and own) an allegedly equitable solution…….

dryriver writes with this excerpt from The Guardian: “Athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February will face some of the most invasive and systematic spying and surveillance in the history of the Games, documents shared with the Guardian show. Russia’s powerful FSB security service plans to ensure that no communication by…

The Audiophiliac pits this super-affordable 5.1 channel sub/sat system against a couple of sound bar/sub systems, and the winner is?……

CNN reports that two separate U.S. military operations have taken place this weekend in Africa; the first in Tripoli, the second in Somalia. “In the earlier raid, U.S. forces captured Abu Anas al Libi, an al Qaeda operative wanted for his role in the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. In the…

Boston Dynamics has been making eye-catching (and sort of creepy) military-oriented robots for several years, and we’ve noted several times the Big Dog utility robot. The newest creation is the untethered, gas-powered Wildcat; this is definitely not something I want chasing after me. (Not as fast as the previous, tethered version — yet.)……

The Pentagon is looking ahead several decades toward future fleets of rotorcraft — and working now to lay the plans for getting there…….