Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have developed a 'mind-reading' computer. It is hoped the mind-reading machine, which can forecast the activity patterns a brain will create for a specific word, will offer a better understanding of how and where the brain stores information and even lead to improved treatments for language disorders and learning [...]...

The Navy is pushing ahead with a five-year, $163 million dollar plan to bring the "Holy Grail" of energy weapons up to battlefield strength. For decades, scientists have been slowly working on a laser that never runs out of shots — and can be "tuned" to blast through the air, at just the right wavelength.  And [...]...

A U.S. government office in Quantico, Virginia, has direct, high-speed access to a major wireless carrier's systems, exposing customers' voice calls, data packets and physical movements to uncontrolled surveillance, according to a computer security consultant who says he worked for the carrier in late 2003. "What I thought was alarming is how this carrier ended up [...]...

The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo is in talks with Time Warner over a possible acquisition deal that would keep Yahoo out of the hands of Microsoft. Citing "people familiar with the matter," the paper says the talks involve folding the perpetually struggling AOL unit into Yahoo to create a new search (aka advertising) [...]...

IPv6 took another significant step forward yesterday, as the root DNS zone was updated with IPv6 addresses for six of the 13 root servers. Most root servers are "anycasted:" physical machines are placed in different locations, but share an address. Requests are automatically routed to the closest server. As we noted a month ago, this change [...]...