Most of that hype is just hot air. Here’s more political ammo for you, Jaime.

It’s not quite a virus, but it will do the trick — if you can actually manage to get it to infect your machine.

Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about! NEC is currently working on a battery that charges in seconds, not hours. They hope to make it available for laptops, cameras, and hybrid cars in the near future.

Those tireless gnomes at Google have done it again. Gmail is a new Google service that provides spam-free e-mail with 1000 megabytes of storage. Compare that to the usual 5-15 megabytes, and that’s quite a deal. Especially for free.

Apparently, engineers came up with a novel way of heating nuclear land-mines to survive cold German winters in the early days of the cold war.