Technology

A recent study conducted at the University of Pennsylvania has found that cognitive therapy was as effective as antidepressant medication in treating moderate to severe depression. But will this discovery move the nation away from its “pill happy” culture and back to the leather couch? The Washington Times reports: “On the whole, these findings [...]

“One point twenty-one gigawatts?!” One would expect a similar reaction from “Doc” Emmett Brown of Back To The Future fame if he heard of tech giant Hitachi’s latest plan: to release a one terabyte drive by year’s end. A group of its employees are testing the technology this minute, according to the Japan-based [...]

While there’s really no such thing as a ‘cure’ for allergies, researchers at UCLA may have created a compound that can stop the symptoms of cat allergies dead in their tracks. GFD, “gamma Feline domesticus,” severely retards the histamine reaction that causes such symptoms as runny eyes, sneezing, and itching. The researchers also [...]

The Sony Corporation’s nose is wide open after an Oakland, California district court ordered it to pay $90.7 million to Immersion Corporation for patent infringement. The claim arose out of Sony’s production of the “Dual Shock” controller, which shakes when something happens during one of the video games. (For instance, if a player’s [...]

StreamCast Networks — the distributor of the file-sharing program Morpheus — and Grokster fight for their technological lives today in the United States Supreme Court, which will hear a case in which major record companies, movie studios, and music publishers demand that the two companies be held liable for their customers’ piracy. The plaintiffs [...]

In less than a year, the storage space one gets with a free Yahoo! Mail account has gone from 4 megabytes to 250 megabytes to a gigabyte. The two moves have come in reaction to Google’s “gMail”, which debuted by offering eye-popping one gigabyte accounts to the masses. PC World reports: It was only [...]

There’s a controversial proposal floating around the British Parliament to allow couples who ‘conceive’ children by means of in vitro fertilization to choose the sex of the embryo being implanted into the mother. Parliament’s bipartisan Science and Technology Committee advocated such a law in a report it released today. “Half of the committee’s [...]

The World Health Organization has reported that 95 people in northern Angola, most of them young children, have recently died from an outbreak of a virus similar to Ebola. Called the Marburg virus, the culprit has an incubation period of between 3 and 9 days and it seems to be spreading. The number [...]

America’s favorite cartoon butler, Jeeves, has been sold to IAC/InterActiveCorp for $1.85 billion. The fourth-largest search engine on the internet today, Ask Jeeves goes to a company looking to capitalize on the revenue potential of online advertising and searches. IAC will now step into a battle with giants Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft in [...]

The World Health Organization announced today that sunbeds and sunlamps should be banned for anyone under the age of 18 and avoided by all other people, because use of those devices has been linked to skin cancer. The WHO specifically fears for Europeans who are known for using the devices frequently. ABC News [...]