It would appear that Take-Two, owner of Rockstar Games, is facing some financial difficulties. The company is having a hard time in finding someone willing to purchase its shares.
Before any commentary on this, a few background facts of finance:
1) If the price of your shares is dropping and no one is interested in buying [...]

Nikolay Sevastyanov, head of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Russia has announced a plan to land on the moon for the purpose of mining for Helium-3. This is part of a new set of objectives for the International Space Statation that could make the ISS more prominent, not only for science experiments, but [...]

Mary mother of God. If you’ve recently purchased a new iBook, Apple has decided to piss you off to do something crazy like releasing a laptop with a magnetic power adapter.
That’s right, instead of plugging in your laptop you just have to use the magnet. So if you are a dumbass, or [...]

Turns out the US Justice Department has issued a subpoena to Google to release all search queries run through Google’s search engine between June 1 and July 31, 2005.
This time it is Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez who is attempting to violate the fundamental rights of American citizens. Between the domestic phone tapping and the [...]

Russian space officicals have announced that the Soyuz replacement will be ready to launch in 2013, and will start bringing cosmonauts into space by 2015.
Soyuz capsules are currently used to send both people and supplies to the International Space Station exclusively while the shuttle is grounded. They have proven them selves [...]

The European Space agency has done tests on a new design for an Ion propulsion engine which they expect will be 10 times more efficient then existing designs. The Ion electric engine are ideal for long deep space missions because the fuel source is much smaller than with conventional chemical rockets. They work [...]

This year at CES Seagate announce the next greatest thing in hard drive technology. In February this year they expect to start shipping notebook hard disks with a 160GB capacity. They’ve accomplished this by developing a perpendicular recording technology that has the potential to provide up to 500Gbpsi (Gigabytes per square inch). [...]

In the Premiere issue of Robot magazine, the Discovery-Channel-Made-Famous Mythbusters Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage and Grant Imahara put their methods to use in an effort to test the VEX Robotics Design System.
Grant, an electrical engineer turned mythbuster puts the system to the test, which at first glance appears to be no more than a vastly [...]

A new site: LinuxRobots.org has the neat idea of having a robot that can be controlled and even programed from the web. Simply ssh into the robot and modify or add to the software, recompile and watch how the robot behaves by following the webcam on the website.
The robot is powered by a [...]

The US government is investing the possibility of a hyperspace engine that could make a trip to Mars just a short 3 hour flight and an interstellar trip of 11 light years in only 80 days.
The engine is based on a controversial scientific paper written in the 1950’s by Burkhard Heim, who theorized [...]