Falcon HTV-2, the ‘fastest plane ever,’ lost during test flight
On 20 minutes into its maiden voyage, the US Military's Falcon HTV-2, which is capable of traveling more than 3 miles per second, has gone completely missing.
NASA awards contracts to private spaceflight companies
Seven commercial spaceflight companies will receive $10 million in contracts from NASA.
US to test fastest aircraft ever, moves at 13,000mph
An aircraft scheduled to be tested by the Pentagon on Thursday is capable of reaching speeds of up to 13,000mph, or 3.6 miles a second.
Mystery of orange goo gripping Alaska town has been partially solved
Scientists finally think they have an idea where the orange goo turning up in Alaskan waterways is coming from.
Newspaper behemoth Tribune Co. developing its own tablet
The company is looking to switch subscribers over to the digital realm.
IBM breaks up with the NCSA and Blue Water supercomputer project
Citing high costs and complexity, IBM dumped the NCSA's contract.
NASA: Building blocks of DNA ‘can be made in space’
NASA researchers have discovered new evidence that reveals that the building blocks of DNA — and thus, the building blocks of life itself — may have come to Earth from meteorites.
NASA funds 30 new space research projects
Printing 3-D spacecraft and debris-pushing air guns are among the new NASA projects receiving funding.
Obama sets new carbon emission standards for big trucks
New regulation will cut tractor-trailer emissions by as much as 20 percent.
Johnny Long, charity hacker, announces InfoSec without Borders
He's succeeding at his goal of bringing free IT services to the world's poor.
Ten-year old hacker finds vulnerabilities in mobile games
Named CyFi, she used system clocks to exploit vulnerabilities in FarmVille-style games.
Hacked toy truck saves soldiers’ lives
Six soldiers' lives were saved by a modified remote-controlled truck in Afghanistan last week.
Boeing employees will hitch a ride to ISS aboard company spaceship
The company's CST-100 spacecraft is the latest commercial space travel offering.
Inferior human crashes Google’s self-driving car into a Prius
You can teach a robot how to drive a car, but you can't teach humanity how to relax and let our robot overlords take over. Google's self-driving car got into a scrape this week due to a human.
Movirtu to open up mobile phone numbers to developing world
Movirtu plans to change the way people with only mobile phone access socialize and do business.