The internet's up sh*t creek, but at least we have aliens
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No 'dwarven underlords' jokes, please Comments Alien hunters trawling NASA images for evidence of life have posted what appears to be a little green humanoid in a snapshot taken by the Spirit rover on Mars. The image has since been the focus of a great deal of debate, both informed and otherwise, and you lot were full of interesting theories:â¦
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Kids arm-wrestle all the time, but over the Internet? And there's nothing unusual about checking your weight, but in gallons? And all of this to illustrate lessons about networks and the search for life in outer space?
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Internet decisions aren't always made at Internet speeds.
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A new study argues that intelligent alien life, should it exist, is more likely to communicate with Earth by sending artifacts, rather than radio waves.
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In the wacky Wiki world that is the Internet, it's hard to know which information is reliable and which isn't.
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Alternative form of high-speed Internet access makes its way to U.S. homes.
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The Internet has given birth to a quirky range of modern addictions and maladies, the British weekly New Scientist says in its Christmas issue published this Saturday.
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Also: Arthur C. Clarke's three wishes. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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There's a light bulb inside the supremely awesome metal UFO on top, which illuminates the windows and the mysterious aliens inside. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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Worms and viruses that pollute the Internet aren't new. What's new is the incredible magnitude of the problem and how it's growing.
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Also: Stephen Hawking looking for assistant. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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If your network boss ordered you to capitalize on the lust that people have for the Internet, you might in desperation whip up something pretty close to âOnline Nation.â
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Description: We check in with the progress of search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A paper published this week in the journal Nature argues that for sending lots of data over long distances, it&#39;s hard
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LAS VEGAS -- I'm surrounded by anywhere from 120,000 to 200,000 of the country's top minds in the computing and consumer-electronics industries, but I still couldn't find a decent WiFi connection in the convention center yesterday or Wednesday. I don't mean to whine, but, really, if we can put a man on the moon, can't we put one lousy reporter on the Internet for more than a few minutes?
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The need to push our boundaries is in our DNA. We can't afford not to go to Mars -- or anyplace else, for that matter. By James Cameron for Wired magazine.
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Jon Oltsik says the explosion in broadband use forces a rethinking of Internet security. But a lethargic vendor response is not a promising harbinger.
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Also: Stephen Hawking's next goal: Space travel. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.