Putting idle servers to sleep when they're not in use is part of University of Michigan researchers' plan to save up to 75 percent of the energy that power-hungry computer data centers consume. Data centers, central to the nation's cyberinfrastructure, house computing, networking and storage equipme...

This isn't entirely surprising: Aaron Bruns, the Fox News producer who was arrested for possession of child porn, has been fired after an initial suspension without pay. Fox hired Bruns in 2002, three years after he left the University of Michigan after similar charges of possessing and distributing...

Gawker has obtained the criminal complaint and arrest warrant filed by federal prosecutors against Fox News producer Aaron Bruns, including the affidavit of the detective who investigated him. Here's how they say it went down. Last November, Robert Erdely, a Pennsylvania policeman, used standard fil...

NFL Football at its best. NFL Football at its craziest. Will Detroit Lions destroy Sam Bradford Part I chronicled the effect of Sam Bradford on Michigan State football. Keith Nichol transfers to MSU Sam Bradford beat out Keith Nichol and Keith took 3rd string reps the rest of the year. That was it; ...

SMYRNA, Tenn., Dec. 13 -- People in this small town surrounding one of Nissan's busiest U.S. car plants have followed the news of the auto bailout with particular interest....

SMYRNA, Tenn., Dec. 13 -- People in this small town surrounding one of Nissan's busiest U.S. car plants have followed the news of the auto bailout with particular interest....

Biotech, Devices, Layoffs Luke Timmerman wrote: Seattle-based Calypso Medical Technologies has cut 36 jobs, or about one-fifth of its workforce, to conserve cash during the economic downturn. Calypso didn’t issue a press release, but CEO Eric Meier gave me the bad news this morning in a phone ...

It might be difficult to remember a time when this question would give you pause: Which number is greater, 43 or 23? But a first-grade class at McNair Elementary School in Herndon one fall morning was batting about .500....

Much of what we think we know about values in America isn't really of much value....

Misfits in America Chapter 4 Did the materialism and anti-intellectualism of post war America discourage a generation from pursuing public service?  For Bronze and Wolfe, college in post-war America was dominated by a  male group mentality that created a fraternity class full of boys inten...