Science and Technology

BBC Online talks with Google’s technology boss Craig Silverstein: The master and commander of the world of search is facing a barrage of contenders seeking to take over the throne. Mr Silverstein is aware that Google could lose the top spot at any moment, but remains convinced that its way …

Educate yourself and get it the hell out of your computer. The Washington Post has a good primer on the increasing peril: Broadly speaking, it describes hundreds of different programs that are often surreptitiously installed on people’s computers. The most benign forms, known as adware, display advertisements based on the …

The drop off in television viewing among young men appears to be a trend that is not going to reverse: Note to the television networks: Pete Brandel is not missing. He’s right here, but like a lot of other 20-something men he’s just not watching as much TV. Mr. Brandel, …

The Chicago Tribune interviews leading copyright liberalization advocate Lawrence Lessig and Ken Waagner, who runs Wilco’s Internet operations: Have you both heard “The Grey Album”? What do you think of it? Ken Waagner: I think it’s interesting. I don’t think it’s an amazing album, but I think the concept is …

It appears to be impossible to pry the lips of selected Congressional assplows from the entertainment industry sphincter: A draft bill recently circulated among members of the House judiciary committee would make it much easier for the Justice Department to pursue criminal prosecutions against file sharers by lowering the burden …

No ambiguity here: German police raid neo-Nazi file sharers (quite an image, isn’t it?). German police raided the homes of more than 300 people on Wednesday who they suspect of posting neo-Nazi music files on the Internet for others to download, the Federal Crime Office said in a statement. Police …

In the wake of Grey Tuesday, BannedMusic.org: Downhill Battle, the group behind the landmark “Grey Tuesday” online protest has created BannedMusic.org, a virtual record label for sample-based music that the major record labels try to suppress. BannedMusic.org, which launches today, features a new, one-click system for p2p downloads and “The …

“Tape” likely has nothing to do with it, but almost everyone is creating and recording some kind of music these days: TapeOpCon 2004 comes to New Orleans May 28-30 Tape Op magazine is pleased to announce the third annual TapeOpCon in swinging New Orleans, LA. TapeOpCon is a conference/get-together aimed …

And so it goes, so it goes, so it goes: The recording industry sued 532 people Tuesday, including scores of individuals using computer networks at 21 universities, claiming they were illegally sharing digital music files over the Internet. The latest wave of copyright lawsuits brought by the Recording Industry Association …

Given all the chatter about art and museums, it is only fitting that we turn our noses in the direction of the Perfume Museum of Barcelona. In the words of founder Ramon Planas Buera: The Perfume Museum of Barcelona, installed in the Paseo de Gracia 39, it was inaugurated in …