For the first time in our nation's history, our hopes and dreams and economic fate rest, not on a warrior or a politician or an astronaut, but on a team of repairmen. The effort to seal the ruptured oil well in the Gulf is the grandest and highest-profile repair job since the Apollo 13 duct-tape fix. ... Read More

Meet the bearded goby, a six-inch-long fish that lives in toxic mud, eats jellyfish, lasts for hours without oxygen, and has saved a coastal African ecosystem from a nightmare fate. ... Read More

Kevin Cogill, sentenced to a year of probation and two months' home confinement for uploading nine pre-release Guns N' Roses tracks from the Chinese Democracy album, agrees to an RIAA-backed public service announcement to scare file sharers straight. The Recording Industry Association of America, however, never makes him do the service. ... Read More

Apple's antenna expert told Steve Jobs early on that the iPhone 4 would have an antenna problem, according to Bloomberg. ... Read More

Esther Schindler writes "After several years of trying, graphics processing units (GPUs) are beginning to win over the major server vendors. Dell and IBM are the first tier-one server vendors to adopt GPUs as server processors for high-performance computing (HPC). Here's a high level view of the hardware change and what it might mean to your data center. (Hint: faster ... Read More

lukehashj writes "The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the latest incarnation of openSUSE, with support for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. OpenSUSE 11.3 is packed with new features and updates including SpiderOak to sync your files across the Internet for free, Rosegarden for free editing of your audio files, improved indexing with Tracker, and updates to Mozilla ... Read More

netbuzz writes "Anxious to lift a ban on comments brought about by incessant trolling and anonymous slander, a Massachusetts newspaper has begun requiring two things of online readers who want to leave their thoughts on stories: a one-time fee of 99 cents and a willingness to use their real names. Says the publisher: 'This is a necessary step, in my ... Read More

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has reportedly been outbid by Joseph Lacob, a partner Silicon Valley venture capital company Kleiner Perkins. ... Read More

And it sure doesn't make Mark Zuckerberg look good. The first full theatrical trailer for the Facebook creation story is full of backstabbing and Ivy League treachery. ... Read More

Apple issues iOS 4.0.1 to customers via iTunes. The update is intended to more accurately display how the iPhone's signal bar strength is calculated. ... Read More