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198 diggsThe incoming Obama Administration says it wants to shut down the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay. But even if Guantánamo closes, it won't end the controversial U.S. practice of jailing suspected al Qaeda militants and other terrorists indefinitely.

141 diggsWow. Hasn't 2008 flown by? It only seems like yesterday that we were tearing up tarmac in Burnout Paradise, settling into an hour long cut-scene in Metal Gear Solid 4 and putting our fists through walls over Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2. Yeah, 2008 has been quite a year, with some truly memorable moments.

173 diggsAs the professor of security engineering at Cambridge University, Ross Anderson is one of the founders of security economics as an academic discipline. Perhaps more impressively, though, he wants your ISP to send you cash every time you get spam.

212 diggsNext month, New Zealand is scheduled to implement Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act. The controversial act provides ‘Guilt Upon Accusation’, which means that if a file-sharer is simply accused of copyright infringement, they are immediately guilty. The punishment - summary Internet disconnection.

144 diggsMeet Alison Carroll, the new Tomb Raider Lara Croft. For the new Tomb Raider game, Carroll will be the face of Croft, joining the long list of ladies who have held the title, such as Karima Adebibe, Lucy Clarkson, Jill de Jong, Lara Weller, Nell McAndrew, Rhona Mitra, Ellen Rocche and Vanessa Demouy.

181 diggsToday is the most stressful day of the year, according to researchers. A combination of the cold weather, economic gloom and end to Christmas festivities will leave workers battling the January blues.

222 diggsChina launched a major crackdown on Internet pornography Monday targeting popular online portals and major search engines such as Google.

135 diggsMovement in the standings, however slight, can even be detected in January. It was more like a ripple than a wave, but the Lakers found themselves with the league's top record Sunday night after beating the Portland Trail Blazers, 100-86, at Staples Center.

151 diggsAccording to Famitsu's publisher Enterbrain, the Japanese game market is, like a frightened turtle, getting smaller compared to last year. But what was the biggest selling game hardware? Games? The 2007 data reflects the period from January 1, 2007 to December 3, 2007. The 2008 data reflects the period from December 31, 2007 to December 28, 2008.

154 diggsMy name's Scott. I'm 13 and have launched a web startup. So began an email exchange over last weekend which culminated with me ...

341 diggsThe remark scribbled at the end of the production sheet said simply, “End of era.”It was written shortly after the last piano roll came off the assembly line at QRS Music Technologies, 1026 Niagara St., at noon Wednesday.

138 diggsLenovo's IdeaCentre 600 is a pretty splashy debut: Its first ever all-in-one is a simple curved slab that's supposedly the thinnest all-in-one in the industry.

404 diggsA mere day before the big shindig at the Moscone, Steve Jobs has come clean about his much-discussed weight loss in a open letter to the Apple community, saying that a hormone imbalance is to blame.

123 diggsNine countries in and around Europe have now reported problems with their gas supply as a result of Russia's dispute with the Ukraine, after Slovakia, Greece and Croatia today disclosed they were experiencing drops in gas pressure.

322 diggsThe economy is in the proverbial pooper and many are trying to cut back. Unfortunately, there's a reason you came back with a new hi-def TV and 10-gallons of discount mayonnaise last time you went to buy bread. The retailers have gotten very good at what they do.

170 diggsPlayground nicknames such as "four-eyes", "carrot-top", "pizza-face" and "stinky" can be good for children, according to an academic.

264 diggsScarborough may be a young upstart in the getting owned department, but he has a lot to learn from the master.

260 diggsCracked.com

266 diggsYou're probably playing catch up with all the great games that came out the last few months, but you better hurry up. There's a lot more coming in 2009. You can expect everything from sequels to game series reboots to brand new franchises. Here are 20 of 2009's most anticipated games.

51 diggsTwo German children - aged six and seven - have been stopped by police from eloping to Africa to tie the knot in the sun, reports say.

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265 diggsNotice something unusual about this morning's copy of The New York Times? It features the paper's first-ever page-one display ad -- a promo for CBS whose copy playfully reads "Front Page News."

182 diggsYou just have to see this. Jackass on crack!

205 diggsSpace is getting crowded. The last 12 months have seen everything from a high profile space tourist, a powerful new space telescope, and everyone's favorite cuddly-looking microbes launched into space. Here are this year's tops.

172 diggsSunnyvale, California-based AMD is expected to unveil a new range of desktop processors, coming to provide its customers with the performance of the new Phenom II desktop CPUs, designed on the 45nm process technology.

225 diggsIn a proceeding that took less than 15 minutes, a judge who police say was drunk when she drove into a parked state police cruiser -- and who allegedly made racist remarks after the collision -- was accepted into an alcohol education program. Which, if successfully completed, could lead to the erasure of the charges against her in a year.

126 diggsMusic-based games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band have become wildly popular, so it only makes sense that similar games are being created for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Both devices have a plethora of gaming apps, but only a handful of those are free and based around music.

248 diggsGetting a gadget tattoo doesn't always mean you're sad, lonely person desperately seeking something, anything to cling to, like the Zune Guy.

254 diggsSimple solutions for getting it all together using things you probably already own…

137 diggsA woman who claims her 120-pound dog is protection from childhood memories of sex abuse is in a big-bucks battle with NYC Transit over whether the animal can ride the rails.

119 diggsIn an early move to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from farms, was the EPA angling to tax livestock?

217 diggsTo celebrate the wonder of liquid refreshment of an alcoholic nature, here's a list of gaming’s biggest drunks and the perils and pitfalls each have faced thanks to their passion for hops, spirits and wines.

228 diggsWhere do computer games go when they die? Nowhere, if you know where to look.

214 diggsPictures may be worth a thousand words, but some of these covers feel like they're worth a million bucks. Check out our picks for the hottest headliners of the year.

678 diggsA few minutes ago the official Fox News Twitter account posted “Breaking: Bill O Riley is gay” (referring to the host of the popular Fox show O’Reilly Factor), right after a legitimate message about making turkey lettuce wraps.

314 diggsAs Macworld Expo gears up, we preview Apple's next OS. With OS X 10.5 so well received, how can you go one better with 10.6? The solution is as simple as it is surprising. You don't try…

380 diggsToday is the opening day of the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, in Harbin, China. The festival lasts for one month, and features large ice and snow sculptures, ice lanterns, swimming in the icy Songhua River and more.

145 diggsThe linebacker who had a career-high 16 sacks, setting a team record, and led the NFL with a career-high seven forced fumbles, beat Dallas’ DeMarcus Ware in balloting by a nationwide panel of 50 sports writers and broadcasters announced Monday. Pittsburgh defense was the league’s stingiest in total defense, pass defense and points allowed.

196 diggsA giant rock formation resembling a city wall has been discovered under the Taiwan Strait.The 220m stretch of basalt rock was found by biodiversity researcher Jeng Ming-hsiou.He said it was likely to have been formed by a volcanic eruption up to 1,800 years ago.

146 diggsChampions Ferrari will be the first Formula One team to reveal their 2009 car with an unveiling scheduled for their Maranello factory on Jan. 12, the Italian team said on Monday.

187 diggsToday's fast food is a reality. Some like it; some dislike it. Some do it solely for political reasons. For instance, they would refer to MacDonaldisation or about the word ?French? in French fried. But where did they all come from? What about other staple which we are delighted with ? where did they come from?

123 diggsWhats going on with Twitter? First Fox News gets hacked, then Britney Spears. Is no one safe from this epidemic?

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258 diggsDo you have a clear direction for your life? Or are you a sleepwalker? Sleepwalkers look like any one of us, but are really just physical shells living as drones. Read on to find out more.

136 diggsPittsburgh has the Steelers pursuing a Super Bowl XLIII berth, one of the brightest young stars in the NHL in Sidney Crosby, and, well, we'll just skip the Pirates. Now, the city also claims the top-ranked men's college basketball team in the country as its own. For the first time in the 101 seasons of Pitt basketball, the Panthers are No. 1...

237 diggsBailing out the entire human race might turn out to be cheaper than bailing out Wall Street: Spray gigatons of seawater into the air, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, and let Mother Nature do the rest, suggests inventor Ron Acer in a patent petition for “a colossal refrigeration system with a 100,000-fold performance multiplier.”

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164 diggsPeople with diabetes suffer a mental slowdown early in the disease, according to a new study.

108 diggsThe first "why" that struck me on seeing Why Evolution is True was why do we need yet another book on evolution? There are lots of good ones out there already and nothing less than a mountain of evidence to support the reality of evolution by natural selection.

182 diggsIntimate photograph from earlier this morning catches President-elect Barack Obama and wife Michelle helping their two daughters, Malia (10) and Sasha (7), get ready for their first day at their new schools.

186 diggsBigger hard drives coming your way.

199 diggsFrom the fact that Wolverine was a sickly child to his war experience, this is a very interesting list to gear up for 'Origins'

270 diggsIsrael deliberately targeted Hamas-run media installations in its bombing campaign on Gaza and is practising media censorship, a journalist rights group said Monday. The installations in question include Al-Aqsa television, Al-Resalah newspaper and Sawt Al-Aqsa radio, which the Israeli army bombed on December 28 and over the weekend respectively.

118 diggsOriginal band members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann have toured sporadically since the 1995 death of guitarist Jerry Garcia. They told Rolling Stone magazine in November that they've worked out their differences, aided by a successful October benefit concert for Obama. The group now just calls itself the Dead.

144 diggsSeagate has announced that it will showing off "the world's first consumer product application of USB 3.0" at this year's CES.

94 diggsLuke Snyder is known in bull-riding circles for an ironman streak of 236 consecutive Professional Bull Riders events.

170 diggsCheck out this gingerbread Mac, created by a festive fanboy known only as minorbug. It stands 7-8 inches tall and features chocolate icons, ports, and other lovely little iced details, as you can see in these pictures.

63 diggsOne week after Black Monday, there are still six head-coaching vacancies, two open G.M. jobs, and no real sense as to who’ll get any of the positions. Here are ten takes on this year’s jobs that have come open, those that haven’t, and those that apparently won’t.

100 diggsA team of researchers at Princeton University and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey has identified a long-sought gene that is fatefully switched on in 30 to 40 percent of all breast cancer patients, spreading the disease, resisting traditional chemotherapies and eventually leading to death.

184 diggsBy observing the remains of smashed up asteroids around dead stars, astronomers were able to deduce their chemical composition. They found that the dust of many chewed-up asteroids resembles the materials inside Earth and the other small, rocky inner planets of our solar system.

184 diggsLeon Panetta to head CIA, NBC reports

144 diggsWithout Steve Jobs delivering his trademark keynote address, Macworld Expo won't likely make the same splash. But the show goes on, for now at least. A CNET article by CNET News.com Staff, Staff Writer, CNET News. Published on January 5, 2009 9:00 AM PST.

225 diggsThe best-ever cinematic expressions of muscle, endurance, and guts to ever hit the big screen.

190 diggsUpgrades, combo products, ports and other pet projects are among our favorite predictions.

168 diggsBritish researchers working for the nonprofit Sense About Science surveyed face creams, foods, beverages, foot pads and other products claiming to offer their users a detox experience.

162 diggsBrowser add-on Flickr Gallery Plus adds extended functionality to Flickr's set view, allowing users to click through to see full versions of each shot without having to reload the page. Once installed it will go out and pre-fetch the larger sized version of each shot, making big sets a cinch to speed through.

282 diggsFor iguanas, it turns out that it's not easy being pink, either.Biologists report that a rare type of pink iguana found on a single volcano in the Galapagos Islands is a genetically-distinct species from its green cousins — and that it's probably critically endangered.

318 diggsGaza's hospitals are said to be at a breaking point, with medical supplies running low and paramedics among the many attacked. Western media have not been allowed into Gaza so far to witness and report on the situation there. Here is an eyewitness account of conditions on the ground in Gaza.

139 diggsSo how did the Twitter accounts of Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Facebook, and others get broken into and littered with inappropriate messages earlier today? It wasn’t residue from this weekend’s phishing problems, but rather, a breach of Twitter’s customer support tools.

144 diggsThe most WTF comic book ever

179 diggsU.S. prosecutors asked a federal judge to imprison Bernard Madoff as he awaits trial, arguing his $10 million bail should be revoked because he transferred $1 million of valuables in violation of an asset freeze order.

211 diggsComcast, which got in trouble with the FCC for its P2P-throttling approach to network management has now completed its plan that deals with bandwidth hogs by slowing all broadband traffic for heavy Internet users during times of congestion. The new system is Protocol-Agnostic which means it isn't targeting P2P protocols only, therefor ok by the FCC

264 diggsThe ground invasion was preceded by large-scale artillery shelling from around 4 P.M., intended to "soften" the targets as artillery batteries deployed along the Strip in recent days began bombarding Hamas targets and open areas near the border. Hundreds of shells were fired, including cluster bombs aimed at open areas.

198 diggsPolice departments across the state of Massachusetts reportedly will not ticket people in possession of marijuana, even if they are caught smoking it. Officials say a new law that decriminalizes having small amounts of "pot" makes it impossible to enforce penalties because it is poorly written. "We're just basically not enforcing it right now,"

116 diggsWe use most of them every day, or nearly every day, and would not be as productive or happy without all of them. Most of these are stuff we all know, love, and appreciate.

213 diggsThis year we decided to try something different with our Game of the Year awards: The GOTYS. We came up with categories that exemplify the areas of gaming that we think should be highlighted. Instead of awards meant to serve as a shopping list for gamers, we hope to create something that pinpoints what we think was best in gaming for the year.

174 diggsThe Minnesota State Canvassing Board on Monday certified the results of the recount of Republican Sen. Norm Coleman's fight to retain his seat against Democrat Al Franken. The results showed Franken with a 225-vote lead. Coleman's attorney, Tony Trimble, said shortly after the ruling that the campaign will officially file a lawsuit.

177 diggsA one-time motel in a small central Maine town could soon be offering an eye-opening way to start the day — topless coffee shop waitresses. The Vassalboro Planning Board on Tuesday will consider a business permit request for a topless coffee shop on busy Route 3.

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128 diggsThe 1990s were a glorious time filled with baggy jeans, fanny packs, and countless celebrities who still hadn’t realized the mullet was out of fashion. The 90s also gave rise to a number of television series that many of us still hold near and dear to our hearts.

106 diggsBee venom for arthritis, placenta shakes for skin care, tape-worms to lose weight and Spanish fly beetles as an aphrodisiac? Really? 12 Bizarre health fads that 'faded away' -- some were baseless, others were actually dangerous!

161 diggsTory Johnson's tips and advice on GMA for starting your own business for $100 or less. Interesting.

109 diggsLast year, Hollywood's writers went on strike for 14 weeks, and genre television took tremendous damage as a result. But movies didn't emerge unscathed, either — we just won't see the fallout until this year. So how does this affect the movies you care about? Here's a rundown.

118 diggsThe moment of truth has arrived, again. The holidays have passed, the leftovers are dwindling and you have renewed your annual New Year's resolution to get back into shape... for real.

143 diggsPeople will buy anything with an Apple logo. In fact, we’ve proposed a few new markets Apple should look into before calling all the big MacWorld announcements off…

168 diggsThe BitTorrent popularity surge is still underway, with more users discovering that it’s the fastest way to transfer large files online. One of the most frequently visited torrent sites, Mininova, has seen the number of torrent downloads double from 3.5 billion to 7 billion during 2008, and this download rate is still increasing.

162 diggsGoogle plans to release on Monday a beta version of Picasa for Mac OS X, helping Apple fans catch up to Windows and Linux users already employing the free tool for editing, cataloging, and uploading photos.

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150 diggsIf you’re dead and worried about the carbon emissions created from your cremation, relax. The Swedish town of Halmstad has a solution. After an environmental review showed that Halmstad’s crematorium was pumping too much smoke into the air, the facility’s director decided to re-use heat from the cremations to warm up the crematorium’s buildings.

97 diggsJust seeing someone smoke can trigger smokers to abandon their nascent efforts to kick the habit, according to new research conducted at Duke University Medical Center.

107 diggsWith 9 weeks of inventory on the shelves, manufacturers are shutting down production and waiting for demand to kick in.

143 diggsScientists had plenty of reasons to celebrate in 2008. After decades of work, researchers made rat stem cells, built the first memristor, and watched a language evolve like an organism. But none of those accomplishments impressed us as much as the breakthroughs on this list. From stem cell therapy to finding ice on Mars.

263 diggsCNN anchor Rick Sanchez wasn't really high on crack this morning, and the reason his Twitter feed said so wasn't the phishing scam that's been going around--it was a lone hacker, the microblogging service said later on Monday.

132 diggsOscar hopeful Mickey Rourke took to the red carpet alone tonight to promote his new film, The Wrestler.

122 diggsMore evidence that the new Mac minis are at least partly geared toward the cheap server market: SeeFile dropped their press release pimping support of the "new Apple Mac Mini hardware" just a little early. They specifically mention a complete bundled system with a "Mac mini server with 1 terabyte of storage."

1205 diggsIt couldn't be simpler!

171 diggsForget your old fashioned ginger bread houses, we've moved on. Im not happy unless i have to crunch through at least one LED in my ginger bread man.

216 diggsDespite the lousy economy, high unemployment and plummeting housing prices, U.S. congressional members get a $4,700 pay raise this week.

178 diggsTHOSE strapped for cash may be spending less on restaurants and entertainment during a downturn, but not necessarily on the quality of their sex lives.

420 diggsNBC had come under fire for booking Coulter to promote her new smear-book, _Guilty_, on the "Today" show. Coulter, long suspected of being a penis-retaining transvestite, is now pouting, but lied and smeared from her blog, saying "I guess this ends the 'they just want to get ratings' argument about liberal media bias."

419 diggsWii Sports has now passed sales of Super Mario Bros. (NES), making it the top selling console game of all time!

151 diggsFrench viewers have for the first time watched prime-time television without advert breaks, as President Nicolas Sarkozy's media reforms got under way. Advertising is now banned on French public television between 2000 and 0600. It will be phased out by 2011.

274 diggs"They just shot him! They just shot him!" yelled 19-year-old Vargas, whose camera-phone had just captured the slaying of Grant by a San Francisco Transit officer. "... I got you, mothaf--kers!" she exclaimed.

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96 diggsThe phishing site that was set up to hoodwink Twitter's users has a second front door that looks exactly like Facebook. The address of the fake Twitter site was twitter.access-login.com/login, but take out the "/login" part and you arrive at the dead-ringer for the Facebook homepage.

107 diggsBudget hotels are contaminated with blood, mould, urine and even faeces, an investigation has revealed.

217 diggsA little long but it will make you chuckle.

250 diggsA senior ANC member who became a whistle-blower over corruption surrounding the upcoming World Cup games was shot dead in front of his home Sunday evening.

157 diggs"I mapped the spread of Walmart using Modest Maps. It starts slow and then spreads like wildfire in the southeast and makes its way towards the west coast. "

375 diggsIt's the American way!

231 diggsIt wouldn't be the eve of a Macworld Expo keynote if there wasn't already some crazy person waiting in line to be first into the hall. This year, that crazy person is already there, and has been there for (as of this writing) more than 10 hours.

172 diggsDomestic film box offices broke multiple records this year, grossing an estimated $9.78 billion. Thanks to both major and not-so-major releases this year, films from studios like Warner Bros, Paramount, and Sony all contributed to the highest-grossing year in film history.

167 diggsLooking for a job? The FBI is hiring 850 new people, its largest ever hiring spree since 9/11. Maybe they'll catch all those shady mortgage crooksters before they Jenga the system! Oh wait, too late.

167 diggsBooks are the best friends one can have but finding the best resources for books are pain.Here are the 50+ resources for book lovers.

82 diggsPat Burrell's last swing of the bat in 2008 was a double against Tampa Bay in Game 5 of the World Series. Now, his first swing of the bat in 2009 will be as a member of those very same Rays.

242 diggsLots of videos are coming! The Markstrom dives, the awful bite by Andersson, the awesome goals, the celebration, and of course a text summary. YEAHHHHH!

241 diggsSure, by its nature sci fi will include some fantastical elements, particularly with tech. But sometimes that tech crosses the line between plausible coolness and sheer fantasy. When far-fetched "technology" with no basis in reality at all shows up in a movie, our disbelief crashes down all around us

109 diggsBack before Ice Cube was making family movies.

104 diggsI guess I do believe in magic.

184 diggsGeorge W. Bush is planning to create the world's largest oceanic protected area in the Pacific as part of a bid to improve his record on the environment before leaving office.

91 diggsThe trucks crashing around the arena may look like children's toys and the spectators like plastic models, but the demolition derby captured in this remarkable footage was life-size.

174 diggsU.S. Internet users watched 12.7 billion online videos in November, an increase of 34 percent versus a year ago, according to ComScore data.

113 diggsWhile Major League Baseball never said J.C. Romero tried to cheat, the 33-year-old reliever who won the third and clinching games of the 2008 World Series has been ruled guilty of "negligence" and will be suspended for the first 50 games of the 2009 season.

124 diggsIf you’re interested in honing your Photoshop skills to create spectacular compositions, this is for you. In this article, you’ll find 35 basic Photoshop tutorials for getting started with Photoshop.

266 diggsOil prices soared again Monday - moving closer to the $50 mark - as the movement of Israeli forces into the Gaza Strip this weekend added to worries about Middle East supply disruption.

235 diggsThe U.S. Army is now offering on the Internet a rare and often stark look at Korean War combat captured through the lenses of military photographers and other cameramen.

232 diggsDubbed the Hyundai Assurance Program, the South Korean automaker said that people who finance or lease a new Hyundai during the next 12 months can return the car if they “experience an involuntary loss of income” within one year of the purchase date.

133 diggsYesterday, I was with my wife in the L'Occitane store. The shelves were filled with fragrances, soaps, lotions: all sorts of handcrafted beauty products. It occured to ...

137 diggsColt McCoy hit Quan Cosby for a 26-yard touchdown with 16 seconds to play, lifting third-ranked Texas to a 24-21 Fiesta Bowl victory over No. 10 Ohio State on Monday night.

209 diggsgdgt live coverage by Ryan Block

109 diggsWanderlei Silva wants a re-match with Chuck Liddell before he'll considering moving down a weight class to fight at 185. Could they meet at UFC 100?

286 diggsIt all seems to point back to one person that goes by “Gmz” on a hacker site called Digital Gangster (this site was also where Miley Cyrus photos were posted after they were taken from her hacked Gmail account). Gmz obtained the account credentials and then posted them on DigitalGanster.

135 diggsSlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone isn't ready yet, Sling said on Tuesday, but it is on its way.

350 diggsCreative uses of billboards in advertising campaigns by various companies.

151 diggsToyota reeling from its worst U.S. sales decline in more than a quarter of a century, will shut all its factories in Japan for 11 days as the global economic slump hits demand and company profits.

239 diggsFrom the beginning, newspapers sought to invent the Web in their own image by repurposing the copy, values, and temperament found in their ink-and-paper editions. Every newspaper Web site is instantly identifiable as a newspaper Web site. By succeeding, they failed to invent the Web.

182 diggsLast month, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter wrapped up its two-year primary science phase, and Mars geologists are wallowing in a bounty of data.Images taken by the camera, able to see features down to about a yard in size, have revealed details like rippled textures in what had looked like bland dusty regions.

220 diggsMathematicians landed the top spot in a new study ranking the best and worst jobs in the U.S. A look at how other occupations fared.

281 diggsGlen Whitman discusses the ramifications of the three-tiered system of alcohol distribution, which forces manufacturers to sell their products through a limited number of distributors. He says the lack of competition leads to increased prices and decreased selection.

141 diggsAustralia's use of coal and carbon emissions policies are guaranteeing the “destruction of much of the life on the planet”, a leading NASA scientist has written in a letter to Barack Obama. In the letter he says: "Australia exports coal and sets atmospheric carbon dioxide goals so large as to guarantee destruction of much of the life on the planet"

280 diggsTake that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth's cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was a weak sister to the larger Andromeda. Not anymore.