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When a giant sperm whale rammed a whaling vessel in 1820, the deadly encounter inspired Herman Melville's classic...
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1820: The whaling ship Essex is rammed and sunk by a sperm whale 2,000 miles off the west coast of South America....
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You might not have realized it, but the next great battle of cryptography began this month. It's not a political...
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Hans Reiser, the 44-year-old Linux guru who was convicted in April of killing his wife, is seeking a new trial. But...
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Apple quietly installed copy protection in its new MacBooks, blocking some honest customers from watching iTunes movies...
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The National Review Online is courting financial contributions by offering "new opportunities for access" to its...
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The woman accused of making unauthorized use of MySpace to inflict emotional harm on a 13-year-old girl, who then...
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The Defense Department's geeks are spooked by a rapidly spreading
worm crawling across their networks. So they've...