160 diggsUbisoft's Digital Right Management system isn't exactly a hit among the gamers. As we all know in retaliation to this some naughty people were able to DDOS'd the Ubisoft servers. Now in order to pacify it's consumers, Ubisoft are now giving free copies of video games to the affected gamers.

173 diggsSeven U.S. states still permit spouses to sue their mates' lovers for extramarital affairs. While the alienation-of-affection laws have been used by men to sue their wife's male lover, today they're more often used by women to go after mistresses. Should these laws still be on the books, and should the required kind of emotional autopsy be public?

259 diggsThe force is strong with Obama! Click Here to check out Star Wars Blog

144 diggsIf you’re like millions of other Americans, a nice, hot cup of joe might be your go-to cure, but what about all of those paper cups that go to waste just so that we can get our fix? Well, one Harvard biomedical engineering professor has developed a product that may make getting caffeine into your system a little more efficient.

113 diggsA proposal presented by Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa to start an Arab-Iranian dialogue was met with resistance on the part of a "number of prominent Arab states" including Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

231 diggs10 new technologies that will revolutionise your life The tech advances set to make a real difference

168 diggsThe number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year as Washington has added tens of thousands of additional soldiers to reverse the Taliban's momentum.

129 diggs'Clash of the Titans' is a classic half-stop animated film made in 1981 that was recently remade as 'Transformers 2' with a Kraken instead of a Constructicon ...

260 diggsThe need for a supple Palestinian state has been acknowledged by every recent Israeli Prime Minister except Netanyahu (the failure of the Palestinians to respond to their entreaties has been self-destructive in the extreme). So it needs to be said: AIPAC and the neoconservative extremists like Abrams stand well outside mainstream thinking.

327 diggsMortal enemies caught in the sweet embrace of love.

112 diggsPrepare for the sonic assault...

124 diggsThe "Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey" attraction is set inside Hogwarts castle overlooking the park. Guests will enter through the main gates to explore the grounds and interior of the castle.

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352 diggsAngry, bewildered and shame-faced these Edwardian drunks stare into the lens of the police camera.

245 diggsThe dot-com bubble has long since burst, but one Silicon Valley perk is still alive and well: free lunch. And it's not just canned food and repeating menus. Josef Desimone, Facebook's "culinary overlord," says he offers a brand-new menu every day.

198 diggsPerhaps the only way to have Jessica Rabbit in your bed

269 diggsWhat's been missing lately from the debate has been any discussion of dental care. I don't mean why Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi always looks like smiling is painful. I mean dental care for all Americans.

148 diggsPolice in southern California have fatally shot a man they say threatened an officer with an ax during a confrontation with police at a grocery store. Witnesses told police the man had been stabbing himself with a knife Saturday night.

131 diggsHarmeless quizzes and your choice of friends can reveal information that may be used against you; be aware.

110 diggsIntroducing Lyle Langlois -- the retired computer professor who started running at 50 and has now run a marathon in every state, completed many triathalons, and bicycled across the country.

149 diggsViolence solves.

97 diggsDon’t let anyone tell you it is easy to create a successfully engaging Facebook Fan Page. It requires planning, time, some kind of HTML knowledge, design skill, and imagination.

451 diggsAccording to a Washington Post story by Howard Kurtz, about 200 advertisers have "joined a boycott" of Glenn Beck's program, with Apple abandoning Fox News altogether.

110 diggsEvery gun bill being considered by the Illinois legislature--both pro-rights and pro-control--was sent back to committee just before the lawmakers broke for their spring recess. That's pretty much the kiss of death for all the bills, with deadlines fast approaching. With Illinois gun owners still mostly playing defense, that's probably a win.

257 diggsThere are websites that are just So Broken that anyone can see what's wrong. From truly heinous bridal clothing stores to bizarre and incompetent internet....................

232 diggsKABUL – President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday for a firsthand look at the 8-year-old war he inherited and dramatically escalated.

214 diggsMonths of heavy rains throughout the South are forcing International Paper Co. to turn to places that are known to have tree-destroying gypsy moths. The extensive steps the company is taking to take to make sure the pests don't get a foothold in the region highlight just how worrisome the moths are.

180 diggsNick Lowe, of Johnsonville, New Zealand, pulls on bike shorts and a t-shirt when he climbs on to pedal away through the city. But as soon as he hits the open road, a "change of clothes" is on the agenda.

150 diggsMaybe this is how all computers actually work. Windows 7 is starting to make a lot more sense...

134 diggsThis was my second frying of bacon as tribute to my favorite social media site DIGG. After the first attempt, I left to get my camera to immortalize digg bacon. But when I returned with camera in hand, my dog had eaten digg. No wonder my mastiff looked like he was smiling. Om nom nom nom!

210 diggsApple has sold out of iPads. Estimates suggest that Apple has sold hundreds of thousands of the tablet device which doesn't officially launch until April 3. The overwhelming demand for the iPad indicates what recent polls have suggested--business professionals have big plans for the consumer-oriented media gadget.

309 diggsThe right's angry response to Barack Obama's healthcare plan isn't exactly unprecedented

210 diggsIn the past month or so there has been a plethora of wicked cool discoveries coming from space-watching missions across the globe. Never-before-seen photos of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, Mars moon Phobos, black hole formation and a new exoplanet are just a few of the amazing images.

87 diggsA New York private equity firm plans to build a multibillion-dollar 4G wireless network that will cover most of the country by 2015. The ambitious plan by Harbinger Capital Partners relies on deploying a Long Term Evolution network over spectrum owned by a few satellite companies — and would create an open wholesale wireless network...

234 diggsJ.D. Shapiro wrote one of the most derided films of all time. Now, he's saying sorry. In early March, 2000's 'Battlefield Earth' was "awarded" worst movie of the decade by the Razzies. But Shapiro knows what he did was awful. Truly awful, and in an open letter published by the NY Post, he hilariously tries to explain himself.

260 diggsLady Gaga meets newest internet hit app Chatroulette, to provide private shows to her fans!

169 diggsStaying optimistic keeps you healthy, according to a new study which also found that a 'glass-half-empty' attitude can damage your immune system.

248 diggsA comparative breakdown of six pop princes.

152 diggsThe 2010 Australian Grand Prix entered the history books today packed with spins and crashes, rain and dry, wheel-to-wheel action and leapfrog passes. By the end, a good third of the grid had spun out, and the order had been completely shaken up.

212 diggs I had to get real close to their enclosures to convince myself that I wasn't seeing things. Not only was it really there, but it was a Pan-Tilt-Zoom model with a microphone to top it off.

140 diggsSo-called "therapeutic" ring tones to help everyone from hay fever sufferers to the overweight are the latest craze sweeping Japan.

193 diggsLove them or hate them, tribute bands aren't going anywhere soon. In fact, they seem to be multiplying, as if Guitar Hero and karaoke machines weren't enough to stymie their spread.

112 diggsA Republican-led effort to block President Obama's nominations for top federal jobs led to the 15 recess appointments announced by the White House, Obama's senior adviser said in an interview broadcast Sunday.

168 diggsRival colonies of bacteria can produce a lethal chemical that keeps competitors at bay, scientists report this week. By halting the growth of nearby colonies and even killing some of the cells, groups of bacteria preserve scarce resources for themselves, even when the encroaching colony is closely related.

292 diggsIn a report released today, Amnesty International calls Texas the "worst offender," because it leads the country in the number of people it killed last year. In fact, Texas all by itself comes in 7th in the world "trailing only the rest of the United States, and the governments of Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran and China."

160 diggsNoted iPhone hacker George Hotz is teasing the web with a video that displays a new jailbreak for all iPhone and iPod Touch models, and maybe even the iPad. While it's great to see such a notable improvement on the horizon, there's one big question that it brings to mind: who's going to jailbreak an iPad? And why?

132 diggsThe phenomena caused atoms inside reactor walls to pack together during exposure to radiation causing damage, but then spread out again repairing any defects.

51 diggsGrasshopper infestations have taken on mythic tones here on the arid prairie of northeastern Wyoming — they blanket highways, eat T-shirts off clotheslines and devour nearly every scrap of vegetation on ranches and farms.

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241 diggsHow addicted are we to social media and text messaging? According to a new survey, 48 percent of social media users check or update Facebook and/or Twitter after they go to bed and 56 percent feel compelled to check Facebook at least once a day. Then there's the 7 percent of people who said they wouldn't mind being interrupted during sex...

109 diggs"Well, keep it up boys, just keep it up, um except for one thing: you rat bastards are going to cause another Murrah federal building explosion, you are. And then - what is Beck - maybe at that point Beck will do the honorable thing and blow his brains out..."

128 diggsUNAIDS, backed by hundreds of parliamentarians, called Sunday for the lifting of travel restrictions on HIV-positive people which are still by imposed by 52 countries.

114 diggsAt lest seven people, including some from Michigan, have been arrested in raids by a FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana as part of an investigation into an Adrian-based Christian militia group, a person familiar with the matter said.

18 diggs(Reuters) - Barack Obama made his first trip to Afghanistan as U.S. president on Sunday, delivering a speech to troops and telling Afghan President Hamid Karzai that progress on fighting corruption should match military gains.

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188 diggsDuring Condition 1 Weather in Antarctica, you are not allowed to go outside. Not that you would want to, as you can see in this video when a door to the outside is opened up.

86 diggsNew UK technology is set to play a major part in clearing dangerous clouds of debris hurtling around the Earth's lower orbit.

288 diggsSega shows off the first few levels of Sonic's return to his classic gaming roots.

193 diggsFor much of the last 10 years, the graphics card market has been a bit of a dull place to be. Similarly to how Intel has been completely dominating the CPU market, Nvidia has led the way with GPUs. However, the last couple of years have been a lot more interesting.

175 diggsIf this is this real kid he's going to be a bastard when he's older, he's trolling at 8!

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117 diggsDuke rallied past upset-minded Baylor 78-71 on Sunday to secure a berth in the Final Four, where it will face West Virginia.

91 diggsOne way truffles spread is through "truffle flies," which lay eggs in the truffles. The truffle attracts the flies by releasing anisole and veratrole, two insect pheromones. If collected at late maturation stages, the truffles will likely carry eggs and larvae -- adding proteins and aroma to the truffle. Yum!

275 diggsScientists have finally confirmed what the rest of us have suspected for years: Bacon, cheesecake, and other delicious yet fattening foods may be addictive.

336 diggsBetter beat the crowd and find a doctor. Primary care physicians already are in short supply in parts of the country, and the landmark health overhaul that will bring them millions more newly insured patients in the next few years promises extra strain.The new law goes beyond offering coverage to the uninsured, with steps to improve the quality...

123 diggsThere has been huge growth locally and steady growth globally for the Android platform on AdMob's mobile ad network. Still, Apple's iPhone OS platform is benefiting from both the iPhone and iPod touch;and will likely benefit from the iPad as well. According to AdMob's data, smartphone traffic grew 193 percent over the last 12 months, accounting...

187 diggsThe government is to unveil radical proposals that would give football fans first option to buy their clubs when they were put up for sale and require clubs to hand over a stake of up to 25% to supporters' groups.

720 diggsStackable, crushable (for recycling), requires less footprint than round bottles. What a great idea. Hopefully this concept catches on.

110 diggsTucked into Facebook’s new proposed privacy policy released yesterday was a paragraph saying the social network will automatically share your data with special “pre-approved” partners when you visit their sites. But no partners were listed, nor was there any detail given on how these partners would be chosen.

162 diggsA picture of President Obama with a Thundercats Sword

325 diggsCircumventing the Senate confirmation process, President Obama has installed 15 appointees while Congress is out on spring recess. Pundits are spinning it as a sign of Obama's renewed willingness to defy Republican obstructionism. Is this a new phase of the Obama presidency?

63 diggsSome mobile phone operators are sending customer phone numbers in proxy Web requests, a researcher says.

235 diggs You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got oute

150 diggsThe Gifford Children's Choir performs "Still Alive" by Jonathan Coulton from the credits of the video game Portal. Soloist is in an el-wire dress. We are h...

77 diggsWe live in a world where TV is a 24-hour quick news cycle. Topical, weekly humor shows must adapt, or face the wrath of the channel-change button.

153 diggsOpponents of financial reform may say they’re against bank bailouts, but what they are really trying to block is bank regulation.

341 diggsAn HIV-positive man convicted of having unprotected sex with a 12-year-old girl said he plans to appeal. He said he will report the authorities he believes railroaded him. And he said he will continue to stand up for himself, even if alone. One thing Shaun P. Austin didn't say: Sorry.

112 diggsWeisz will play the head of Quantum, the secret organization responsible for all the bad guy activity in the last two films. More than just another Bond babe, she’d be the mastermind pulling the strings behind everything that’s happened in Daniel Craig’s Bond movies so far, and the architect of James Bond’s suffering.

115 diggsFirmware disables "Install Other OS" system feature available in all pre-slim models.

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164 diggsEight in 10 people polled say the newly enacted health-care law represents a major change for the country, but public opinion has moved little since the measure's passage.

132 diggsFrank "the Tank" Martin (Kansas State) and Brad "Babyface" Stevens (Butler) couldn't have more distinct styles. So who would you want coaching your squad?

295 diggsAt least 25 people were killed in an explosion that rocked the Lubyanka metro station in central Moscow on Monday, Itar-Tass news agency reported.At least 10 people were wounded in the blast, it said, quoting the Emergencies Ministry.

124 diggsBoba Fett will be making his much-anticipated debut on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. And now it turns out that he'll have some familiar bounty hunter accompanying him when he does. Are these perhaps his mentors?

133 diggsA fight between a technology titan and the world's fastest-growing economy. Trade war tensions rising between Beijing and Washington, as U.S. legislators howl about unfair Chinese business practices and the Chinese media assail American arrogance.

114 diggsNext time your character gets shot while playing Call of Duty it could hurt for real. A tactile gaming vest created at the University of Pennsylvania can make

146 diggsMost of the talk about future fourth-generation (4G) mobile broadband networks appears to focus on speed. These networks will be far, far faster than current 3G networks. But speed isn't actually the main reason why every carrier in the developed world is trying to extend the life of 3G networks by speeding them up, and build 4G networks as fast...

266 diggsVideos powered by Brightcove, for instance, will stream in an HTML5 video player when it detects an iPad. On the iPhone browser, the video thumbnail will open up the Quicktime player. It will also work on Android phones.

119 diggsSalty, acidic lakes in the Australian outback that resemble the inhospitable conditions on ancient Mars contain bustling microbial communities, a new study

129 diggsTrapped in the rubble for one month after Haiti's massive earthquake, Evans Monsignac thought he was dead. Here the man thought to be the longest-ever earthquake survivor talks exclusively to Jacqui Goddard.