Medicine of the future will make even todays broad-based therapies obsolete. Breakthroughs such as cancer-hunting nanoparticles, virus-busting lasers and featherweight heart monitors have begun to usher in a new era of targeted treatment…

? PM NEWS: Developing a High-Tech Cure for the Superbug

2008 is nearly halfway over, which means that poor CNET Download.com senior content manager Peter Butler has reached deeply into the trash heap to pluck out, shake off, and crown with glory the most useless downloads published this year. He's handed the best of the worst over to CNET Executive Editor Tom Merritt for show and tell

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According to our anonymous tipster, .Mac will undergo a complete revamp that will coincide with the iPhone 2.0 launch (which everyone expect to occur at WWDC 08).

Taken from the transcript of the interview with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at the D5 conference on May 30, 2007.Walt Mossberg (addressing Steve Jobs): You obviously have a very large Internet business with iTunes and you sell a lot of stuff…

If you’re an independent Mac software developer, having a wicked cool icon for your application is both a blessing and a curse. Users will remember you for the sleek, Leopard-ready goodness of your icon … and other unscrupulous marketers will rip you off shamelessly to promote their own products, rather than ponying up for an original design.

What really gets my fur up is that if you are going to rip something off, at least have the decency to make it look good. The window on the box is “tilted” inwards, the 1Password icon is “flat”, and the entire box is…

Widely regarded as the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass was designed in 1979 and made available in 1982. Each unit sold for over $8,000 (taking inflation into account, thats the equivalent of $18,000 today). It even went aboard the space shuttle!

On to the technical details. The Compass used the then hugely popular Intel 8086 processor, 384K of magnetic bubble memory, a 320×200 monochrome ELD screen, and a 1200bps modem. External storage in the form of hard and floppy drives could…

Interesting article on how alert services can make you smarter without doing anything.

One example: you subscribe to an alert service that notifies you if a US tennis player wins a tournament on the ATP tour. If you havent received an alert for the last two months and somebody asks you about it, you could tell him that in the…

Some 21% of Americans have no clue that the country is about to go through a wrenching technological change with its most massive of mass mediums, the switch from analog to digital signals. What does this mean, and what are we doing about it?

? FROM THE DAILY GREEN: LCD TVs Shoot for Efficiency Boost

Sharon Nunes, who leads IBM’s green-research initiatives, launched IBM’s Computational Biology Center. She predicted that by 2050, clean water and energy would be available to the entire planet.

Jonas gave the following example of this advanced collective intelligence. There is a pile of data about the current status of an individual. There are also piles about the current migratory status of birds and the weather. The three piles are…

Microsoft Corp.’s attempt to take over Yahoo Inc. has become so tortured it may help Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc. grow stronger, undermining Microsoft’s main reason for pursing the deal in the first place.

Under this reported scenario, News Corp. would contribute the Internet's top social network, MySpace.com, and some cash in a Yahoo takeover. The proposed deal would put three of the Web's most popular sites — Yahoo, MySpace and…

A reader of a site dedicated to Zune news has posted photos of what are claimed to be new features at Zune’s Marketplace, including flash animation and a new video section.

UPDATE: Mary Jo Foley over at ZDNet e-mailed me and said she wonders if the photos found on Zunerama are tied to “the coming-out party for Zune VideoX” she has written about lately. Foley has a source who told her that Zune…

A new study from researchers at Duke University & Harvard University challenges the popular assumption that most technology entrepreneurs are college kids launching businesses from their dorm rooms.

The top ten schools awarding these entrepreneurs’ most advanced degrees were Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State University, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, the…

This no-nonsense machine from EDR Solutions does exactly what its name says, destroying a hard disk in as little as 10 seconds. “It basically ‘drills’ through the hard drive’s spindles which physically creates ripples in the platters making it impossible to recover any data,” OhGizmo says.

This no-nonsense machine from EDR Solutions does exactly what its name says, destroying a hard disk in as little as 10 seconds. “It basically 'drills' through the hard drive's spindles which physically creates ripples in the…

Here is a short list of top scripts to help you keep safe while browsing the web. Some of these may exchange usability for security, so see what works for you and go with it!

Why does this increase your security? Many malicious sites will use JavaScript or one of these types of programs as an attack vector. However, since these programs are so prevalent on the WWW these days, much functionality is lost by blocking…

iPhone users around the United States have confirmed that AT&T is giving them free Wi-Fi access at their many hotspots nationwide. All they have to do is enter their iPhone’s phone number to gain access. Is AT&T treating BlackBerry and other customers like second-class citizens?

Although the "rumor" that AT&T is giving iPhone users free Wi-Fi access has apparently been confirmed as true, I have not been able to confirm that AT&T customers who don't use an iPhone are locked out. If…