Monthly archive April, 2008

If the buzz is correct, Microsoft's directors are huddled right now plotting the move that will break the eerie silence that has prevailed since their deadline for Yahoo to accept their takeover bid expired Saturday, and that move could come Read More →

The brass at Time Warner, following the impatient urgings of investors, have decided to finally cut the cord with the company's cable TV business, the nation's second-largest operators after Comcast. The unit was made a separately traded public company Read More →

It could easily have gone differently. Fifteen years ago, the management of the CERN physics lab in Geneva could have decided that this World Wide Web thing that researcher Tim Berners-Lee was working on might have some proprietary value Read More →

"On the way home, my condition began to assume threatening forms. Everything in my field of vision wavered and was distorted as if seen in a curved mirror. My surroundings had now transformed themselves in more terrifying ways. A demon Read More →

Free science interview and lecture videos from the stars, including the always entertaining Richard Feynman, and various starship interiors. Also, All Streets, part of the data visualization work of Ben Fry. Read More →