Users of both Mozilla’s Firefox and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer are at risk of having their saved passwords stolen, according to security researcher Robert Chapin, president of Chaplin Information Services.

The old “there’s something wrong with your truck” ruse has netted thieves more than US$1.4 million of Xbox 360 consoles.

Xbox 360: Now available from English pubs

Now that it’s clear that global warming and diminishing oil reserves are not just the figment of some crazy scientist’s imagination, car manufacturers are starting to get serious about hybrid gas-electric cars.

A new update for Japanese PlayStation Portables (PSP) allows the portable gaming platform to work more closely with the recently released PlayStation 3 next-generation console.

Extremely high numbers of downloads from the Xbox Live video download service over the past few of days has caused the slow download speeds and video download issues US customers have been experiencing, reports Microsoft, with a fix in the works and engineers working around the clock.

Canada has started up ‘Project Cleanfeed Canada’ to stop porn websites from loading on Canadian users’ computers.

PC World magazine has an excellent article on 30 great products that we could all once buy, but are no longer on sale.

The cotton industry has come up with a new reason to grow the very water hungry cotton plant: they’ve managed to remove the toxin from cottonseeds to make them edible. And this is progress?

By all accounts getting your hands on a PS3 in North America has been quite difficult, and here’s the reason why. While Sony orginally planned to ship 300,000 to 400,000 PS3s during the launch weekend, according to statements by American Technology Research, Sony actually shipped somewhere between 125,000 and 175,000 units. It’s unlikely that Sony will meet its 2006 (calender year) North American/Japanese target of 2 million units.

In the 1984 film Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the role of an invincible human-like cyborg. Until recently most real robots looked more like toasters than people, but now researchers are developing robots that act and look more like humans.

Just how might an Apple iPhone change the world of mobile phones and music?

The Volkswagen Touareg can easily tow a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet, showing how powerful the car really is. But where are our flying electric cars? That’s a development we’d really like to see…

A stereogram is a two dimensional image that has a three dimensional image hidden in it. The image gives the illusion of depth when the viewer focuses their eyes behind the Image. The Magic Eye series of images is an excellent example of this, and played a big role in making stereograms popular. 

You probably already despise your computer Luddite acquaintances, with their fantasies of a world that was a better before computers, and their chronic, stubborn stupidity that stops from them learning how to use a computer without assistance.

Did you know that using an FM transmitter with your iPod, mp3 player or other audio device to transmit the signal wirelessly to any radio that can pick up FM, is illegal? Soon it won’t be, any more.

With quantum ‘bits’, or qubits, able to have a value of zero and one at the same time, they appear to violate physical matter’s inability to be in two places or two states at the same time. But they’re real, with scientists able to read the individual quantum values of 10,000 phosphorous atoms in a new experiment.

Could piracy be a thing of the past with Microsoft leading a new attack on an old problem?