Net video lands US man in prison A US man who posted an internet video in which he taunted police to arrest him has been jailed for more than six years by a court in Miami, Florida. Rudy Villanueva filmed himself waving guns in the air, inviting police to "come get some". 5/15/2008 8:28:46 PM

Mom indicted in suicide My Space hoax A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a Missouri woman for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor girl who then committed suicide. 5/15/2008 1:02:24 PM

Microsoft: An outfit some love to hate Just because you're arguably the most influential technology company on the planet doesn't mean everyone's going to add you to their friends list. 5/15/2008 12:06:54 PM

CRTC tells Bell, Prove networks are clogged Federal regulators have ordered Bell Canada to provide tangible evidence that its broadband networks are congested to justify the company's Internet traffic-shaping policies. 5/15/2008 11:57:49 AM

O.K., Avatar, Work With Me When Nintendo released the Wii 18 months ago, it upended the notion of what video games could be. Moving beyond the sunlight-deprived young men at gaming’s core, Nintendo appealed to the rest. Now Nintendo’s latest, Wii Fit, could send similar ripples through the home-fitness market. 5/15/2008 11:46:41 AM

CBS buys tech news site CNET Television company CBS has agreed to buy technology news and entertainment website CNET for about $1.75bn. The deal will make CBS "one of the 10 most popular Internet companies in the United States," the company says. 5/15/2008 11:35:32 AM

Ask.com buys Dictionary.com and others Ask.com has bought a stable of internet reference sites that includes Dictionary.com in its latest effort to distinguish itself from online search leader Google Inc. and other much larger rivals. 5/15/2008 9:16:28 AM

Research links common chemicals to obesity Exposure in the womb to common chemicals used to make everything from plastic bottles to pizza box liners may program a person to become obese later in life, U.S. researchers said. One of the chemicals is called Bisphenol A. 5/15/2008 8:32:56 AM

Oldest known bust of Caesar found Divers in France have found the oldest known bust of Roman dictator Julius Caesar at the bottom of the River Rhone, officials have said. Luc Long, the archaeologist who directed the excavations, said all the busts of Caesar in Rome were posthumous. 5/15/2008 7:47:23 AM

Identity fraud hits net telephony A new type of identity fraud, which sees hackers tapping into voice-over IP telephony accounts, has been highlighted by a VoIP equipment maker. Net telephony fraud is still in its infancy, with eavesdropping on calls being the most common security flaw. 5/15/2008 7:39:26 AM

Yahoo faces struggle for control Yahoo faces a proxy fight for control of the company by a billionaire activist with a history of closing controversial corporate deals. Carl Icahn has announced he will file a slate of alternate directors to replace the present board. 5/15/2008 7:37:41 AM

140-year-old baby used to be a star Astronomers have discovered the youngest known supernova in the Milky Way galaxy, still a baby at 140 years old. They put the star-dying event at sometime around 1868. 5/15/2008 5:23:08 AM

Man Flies With Jet-Propelled Wings Known as Switzerland’s "Fusion Man," Yves Rossy, in November 2006, became the first man in the world to fly with wings and four jet engines strapped to his body; on Wednesday he displayed that talent to the world. 5/14/2008 10:23:19 PM

Mars probe set for risky descent Scientists are preparing for "seven minutes of terror" as a Nasa spacecraft makes a nail-biting descent to the surface of Mars. The Phoenix lander will begin its plunge through the Martian atmosphere on May 25. 5/14/2008 9:50:57 PM

Whales are 'cheetahs of the deep' Super-fast pilot whales have been observed sprinting after prey, likely to include giant squid. The rapid pursuit has brought comparisons with the fleet-footed land predator, the cheetah. 5/14/2008 9:23:25 PM

Gaming goes indie with new WiiWare Think of them as the indies of the gaming world. The video games being released on Nintendo's new WiiWare service – which went live in North America yesterday – provide consumers with a new way to buy games online and help game makers get product to market faster. 5/14/2008 9:04:46 PM

Canadian study 'will change heart surgery' A massive Canadian study that caused a popular heart surgery drug to be pulled from the shelves last November has shown it increased the risk of death by 50 per cent over two rival medications. 5/14/2008 6:26:35 PM

Poisoning suspected in Stringray deaths The Calgary Zoo suspects the 39 cownose rays that have mysteriously died were poisoned. "This is a huge tank, so something substantial had to have been put in ... we don't know if it was a powder or a liquid," said zoo spokeswoman Laurie Herron. 5/14/2008 5:13:05 PM

Google starts blurring faces on Street View After privacy complaints, Google Inc. is beginning to automatically blur faces of people captured in the street photos taken for its internet map program. 5/14/2008 3:23:21 PM

'Barcoding' the latest buzz in bee tracking A group of international scientists launched a campaign in Toronto this week to identify the world's bees, an effort they hope will help track and better understand these important pollinators of food crops. 5/14/2008 3:21:55 PM

Mysterious noctilucent clouds span the heavens A magical sight appeared just before dawn in Northern Ireland on May 5. A spooky, electric-blue glow lit up the northern sky; it was seen independently by two astronomers searching for meteors. 5/14/2008 7:05:04 AM

Scientists Investigate Recent Coyote Attacks on Children The coyote was limping as it approached a girl in a sand box at a public park — but it was still dangerous. It snapped its jaws on the girl's buttocks and her nanny had to pry the toddler from the wild animal. 5/14/2008 6:53:02 AM