Cool: That it is small. That Apple’s speech synthesis now does a passable Swedish voice. Not so very: That you, too, can now get the unfettered Stephen Hawking-grade UI experience. That you are now confined to the Apple headphones (there’s a good model… which costs as much as the i...

Ovarian cancer, which is known as the silent killer because it's so hard to detect in early stages, killed 15,000-plus women in the US last year. But now, doctors are a step closer to developing a way to screen for it. [Us News & World Report] Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams, who just got engaged...

Apple is surely running out of things to put on its iPod, given that its latest “innovative feature” is that the new iPod shuffle will talk to you. In fact, it’s the first music player that’ll talk to you. There’s a reason for that, Steve. No-one else would be silly eno...

Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): The free, multi-platform iTunes assaulter (if not quite killer) Songbird busts out great improvements for a 1.1 version, including a one-click album art grabber, performance improvements, and loads o' little tweaks. The killer new feature is a single menu option, u...

That's right, thanks to Kazuhiro Taniguchi of Osaka University, soon stopping the music on your iPod will be as simple as sticking out your ass-shaped tongue. The Ear Switch looks like a normal set of headphones, according to an Agence France Press report, but includes a set of sensors that allows i...

That's right, March 8th marked the "historic demonstration of the first CD prototype codenamed 'Pinkeltje' on March 8th, 1979." Well congratulations, compact disc, I almost forgot you were still here. While many would argue that the CD is on its way out in favor of smaller, highly portable MP3 files...

Here’s another digital media set-top box for your consideration – at least if you’re living in Europe. It’s called the BLOBbox and it’s by the folks at TVBLOB (I can’t help but say the “Blahbox�.. I kid). What makes BLOBbox a bit different from the myriad of other choices out there i...

Microsoft escaped with a rap on the knuckles from their anti-trust woes with the United States Justice Department. They are not faring nearly so well with European authorities. Microsoft recently lost a long and hard-fought battle with European antitrust authorities over their mandatory inclusion of...

Youk-S.A., originally uploaded by ConfessionalPoet. Team USA had little to show for itself when all was said and done in the first World Baseball Classic, so it had something to prove in its opener this time around. Team Canada, meanwhile, played on home turf, in front of a crowd the likes of which ...

That's right folks, a real, honest-to-God product review from yours truly. It should be up in the next couple of days and will cover the Clarion MiND (Mobile Internet Navigation Device). Per the manufacturer: Combining personal GPS navigation and real-time Points of Interest (POI) with Internet base...