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A group of Carnegie Mellon University programmers has launched a service called "ReCaptcha" that can help cut down on spam while letting people digitise books.

The EU is stepping up the fight against cybercrime, outlining plans to create more meaningful legislation and promote greater, cross-border cooperation.

K-12 IT administrators search for better ways to protect school PCs as they wait for the June 6 sentencing of substitute teacher Julie Amero.

After gaining ground for a couple months, Microsoft's search business lost market share in April, while Google and Yahoo posted gains, according to statistics released Monday by Nielsen/NetRatings.

The Federal Communications Commission approved Apple's iPhone, clearing the way for the combined phone and music player to hit the shelves.

Today Yahoo has launched two new sites to get people motivated to be environmentally responsible. The sites compliment their previous green offering 18seconds.org, which tracks fluorescent light bulb usage in the continental United States. The sites are information tools, and part of a contest to help the greenest city in the U.S. get greener.

LOS ANGELES--Imagine a site just like YouTube, except that the people posting videos are successful comedians and actors.

MENLO PARK, Calif.--If you want to pack a room of mechanical engineers in Silicon Valley, just trot out its hottest new symbol of status and geekery, the Tesla Roadster.

Tuvalu is one of several Pacific island nations closely watching predictions about rising ocean levels. It's 700 miles north of Fiji. Residents there say the months of highest tides are already worse and wetter than historically. Homes and precious farm land have been lost. Well water is becoming salty. The CIA summary on Tuvalu states it succinctly. "Tuvalu is concerned about global increases in greenhouse gas emissions and their effect on rising sea levels, which threaten the country's underground water table."

Interested in learning Chinese, but don't have the money or time to study in China? Some teachers are turning to Skype for help.

We now know a lot about tsunamis that we didn't know a few years ago. There's even been significant research showing how hurricanes and tsunamis can act alike once onshore. Today, we learn a little more about a tsunami that occurred 400 years ago.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued two dire reports this year on global warming and now the third comes on May 4, and it discusses technologies for adapting to climate change.