Supreme Court won't revive online content law

Seeded on Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:08 AM EST (msnbc.com)

The government has lost its final attempt to revive a federal law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet.

msnbci, tech-and-gadgets, technology-science, washington

Sundance boldly welcomes sci-fi flicks to fest

Seeded on Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:30 AM EST (msnbc.com)

This year's festival includes three movies with sci-fi themes - not a huge percentage considering Sundance has 118 feature-length films, but significant considering there are usually none.

msnbci, movies, entertainment

Eight bad tech habits to quit in the new year

Seeded on Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:06 PM EST (msnbc.com)

Technology can make us the master of our universe. Technology can also make us into major jerks. As 2009 ushers in a new year, it's time to usher out some of our bad tech habits.

msnbci, tech-and-gadgets, technology-science

U.S. Army recruiters going after gamers

Seeded on Fri Jan 9, 2009 11:21 AM EST (msnbc.com)

The U.S. Army, struggling to ensure it has enough manpower as it fights wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is wooing young Americans with video games, Google maps and simulated attacks on enemy positions from an Apache helicopter.

msnbci, games, technology-science, technology

Scientists learn to live on moon dirt

Seeded on Fri Jan 9, 2009 10:07 AM EST (msnbc.com)

On the slopes of Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano , scientists are testing methods for producing fuel, water and oxygen from lunar soil and rock.

msnbci, space, technology-science

Woman smuggles monkey to U.S. under blouse

Seeded on Tue Dec 9, 2008 11:22 AM EST (msnbc.com)

A Spokane woman and her mother have been convicted in federal court on charges of sneaking a rhesus monkey into the United States from Thailand.

msnbci, animal-weirdness, weird-news, us-news, sentencing, trip, smuggling, thailand, bangkok

15 new technologies that will change everything

Seeded on Thu Nov 6, 2008 2:30 PM EST (msnbc.com)

Memristor circuits lead to ultrasmall PCs. Intel and AMD unleash massively multicore CPUs. Samsung TVs respond to your every gesture. These and other developing technologies will fundamentally change the way you think about - and use - technology.

msnbci, digital-life, tech-and-gadgets, technology-science

Australia's Parliament questions Lord's Prayer

Seeded on Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:43 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

The speaker of Australia's Parliament has called for a public debate about whether the country's lawmakers should end the practice of starting each session with the Lord's Prayer.

msnbci, faith, us-news

Voodoo dolls, zombies and France's president

Seeded on Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:32 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

A controversial voodoo doll is proving to be quite the pain in the side of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

msnbci, science, technology-science, scientific-research, study, internet, black-hole

Dutch court convicts 2 of stealing virtual items

Seeded on Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:48 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

A Dutch court has convicted two youths of theft for stealing virtual items in a computer game and sentenced them to community service.

msnbci, games, technology-science

'Star Wars' online game is 4-millennium rewind

Seeded on Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:47 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

The next chapter in George Lucas' ever-expanding franchise will be "Star Wars: The Old Republic," a massively multiplayer online game set thousands of years before Darth Vader was born.

msnbci, games, technology-science, entertainment

'Dead' planets might be livable after all

Seeded on Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:45 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

Some extrasolar planets that one might assume are too cold to host life could in fact be made habitable by a squishing effect from their stars, a new study found.

msnbci, space, technology-science

Why eating males pays off, for spiders

Seeded on Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:41 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

Female spiders who eat would-be suitors produce more babies, and those babies are stronger and bigger, than spiders who stick to more mundane fare, researchers reported on Tuesday.

msnbci, science, technology-science

U.S. pilot was ordered to shoot down UFO

Seeded on Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:34 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Two U.S. fighter planes were scrambled and ordered to shoot down a UFO over the English countryside during the Cold War, according to secret files made public Monday.

msnbci, technology-science, education, ufo, soviet-union

Time for podcars? N.Y. city wants to be first

Seeded on Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:04 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

The thought of a driverless, computer-guided car transporting people where they want to go on demand is a futuristic notion to some.

msnbci, environment, us-news, government, product

Suit against God tossed over lack of address

Seeded on Wed Oct 15, 2008 4:22 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

A judge has thrown out a Nebraska legislator's lawsuit against God, saying the Almighty wasn't properly served due to his unlisted home address.

msnbci, faith, us-news, term-limits, law-school, nebraska, christians

10 things you should know about 'Dead Space'

Seeded on Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:29 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

In an attempt to beat the rush of holiday game releases,

msnbci, forbescom, technology-science

Librarian fatally shot at Texas college

Seeded on Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:39 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

The shooting happened at Northeast Lakeview College, an Alamo Community College school, a the San Antonio Express News and WOAI-TV reported.

msnbci, crime-courts, us-news

Woman says she was shot in the leg by her stove

Seeded on Thu Oct 9, 2008 9:44 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

A woman said she was shot in the leg by her stove. Cory Davis told the Peninsula Daily News she had just stoked her cast-iron heating stove Sunday when she heard a loud bang and was struck in her left calf.

msnbci, weird-news, us-news

Fraud plagues prepaid calling card market

Seeded on Wed Oct 8, 2008 5:58 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Rosalba Posada can tick off a list of problems she has encountered trying to use prepaid calling cards to stay in touch with family back in Colombia.

msnbci, security, technology-science

U.S. soldier gets eight months in Iraq killings

Seeded on Fri Oct 3, 2008 9:29 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

A U.S. soldier was sentenced to eight months in prison after pleading guilty to charges of accessory to murder in the killings of four Iraqi prisoners who were bound, blindfolded, shot and dumped.

msnbci, conflict-in-iraq, world-news

After Taser death, cop dies in apparent suicide

Seeded on Thu Oct 2, 2008 9:16 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

A New York Police Department official says a lieutenant is dead of an apparent suicide, days after he ordered another officer to fire a stun gun at a naked, distraught man who then fell to his death.

msnbci, life, us-news

Publisher's next Bible to be handwritten

Seeded on Tue Sep 30, 2008 5:22 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

A Christian book publisher says its next edition of the Bible will be handwritten by more than 31,000 Americans.

msnbci, faith, us-news, zondervan, bible

CERN rivals: Melting magnets par for course

Seeded on Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:26 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

The daring success of the world's largest atom smasher on its opening day was more surprising to many scientists than the troubles it subsequently developed.

msnbci, lhc, science, technology-science