
A gala event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first--and only--manned dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench highlights just how much work needs to be done if mankind hopes to rescue the planet's oceans from their rapidly degrading health.

Denial-of-service attacks affect customers of Web name registrar and hosting company. Outage, though intermittent, has lasted several hours.

A new cross-platform runtime environment takes on Adobe AIR.

The Firefox extension gives you the "back story" on people, places, and things you see in your browser, unobtrusively and quickly.

Good idea, but the site, which promises "instant communication with lawmakers that billion dollar corporations, trade groups, and big unions enjoy," needs to deliver on its message. It doesn't.

Make your own electorate and maybe win a chunk of $5,000 at Plurk, the snazzier alternative to Twitter.

280 Slides is a notable online replacement for desktop presentation apps.

It looks like a slideshow... but the pages it shows are interactive.

