China is planning to create a new virual territory which is no longer controlled by Icann. Will this usher in a new era of a nationalized virtual borders? BBC View full entry

Forget the idea that being good at computer games is a sign of a misspent youth. If millions of Japanese are to be believed, it is the secret to a happy and healthy old age as millions of them take up brain training, the country's latest computer game craze that is due to arrive in Britain by the... View full entry

Harvard offers sneak peek into their IP network and how it becomes an essential building system. View full entry

To learn more about earthquakes, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has developed a new kind of ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) to record underwater seismic activity where a majority of the quakes occur but go unmonitored due to lacking technology. Read more about recording "sea floor... View full entry

Italian officials have launched this website, Commissariatodips.it, proclaiming it as Europe's first "virtual police station", which can be used "to report crime, get advice, and turn "cyber nark" by registering a nickname and passing on tips anonymously." Read | via SMobs View full entry

"The City of London is to offer ubiquitous wireless internet access, with hardware installed in lampposts and street signs. Internet provider The Cloud is joining with the City of London Corporation to turn the entire business area into a gigantic Wi-Fi hotspot." Guardian. View full entry

Comic book fantasies of being able to see through concrete walls and locked doors may have taken a step closer to becoming reality after it emerged that British and Swiss scientists have developed a way of seeing through solid objects. I wonder if this is going to effect LAPD's plans for the new... View full entry

Humans can build spaceships capable of reaching the Moon within minutes; a flight to Mars will take 2.5 hours, and a flight to Alpha Centauri, which is scores of light years away from Earth, will take a mere 80 days. Incredible journeys can be a reality, say two German Doctors of Physics who put... View full entry

As if we weren't all social puppets--now video game technology for understanding the social malaise of body language for occupation forces. The project is part of a joint research project sponsered by DARPA at USC. via l ZdNet View full entry

Frm Slashdot: "CNN has an article in which they talk about Dean Kamen's latest inventions designed to provide water to rural villages. His goal is also to provide electricity and opportunities for entrepreneurship. From the article: 'Eighty percent of all the diseases you could name would be... View full entry

In his new book, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising," Dr. Wilson offers detailed ”” and hilariously deadpan ”” advice on evading hostile swarms of robot insects (don't try to fight ”” "loss of an individual robot is inconsequential to the swarm"); outsmarting... View full entry

After using a special holographic 3D tv set to review suspicious looking everybodies at the Super Bowl, the spy octopus may begin to review internet traffic also using the technology. Slashdot. View full entry

Google to build a private IP network? Google gives off signs that they might purchase all the "dark" fibre laid down by American companies in the last market up-cycle and that has never been switched on. TimesOnline View full entry

"Researchers in the United States are on the verge of unveiling a robot capable of building an entire house from an architect's computer-based design." Building Design. View full entry

Blognimals: a press release tells of plans to release pigeons equipped with cellphones and GPS so that they can "blog" air pollution data. Slashdot | see also ISEA View full entry