Technology

Searches used to be easy to count. You would wait for someone to type words into a search box and then hit enter. Call that a search. That made it easy for outside analysts like ComScore to know how to figure out which search engine was tops. All of that got a lot more confusing with the introduction of Google’s 'Instant Search,' which starts showing you search results as soon as you type the first letter into its search box.

The key to the next generation of TV is likely to be search, and the biggest drag on search is going to be text entry. If Google TV is really going to be the 'one screen to rule them all,' it has to solve that problem.

Intel is to launch its first chip with built-in graphics, while established phone chipmaker ARM releases a fast new chip.

For two years now, Islamic extremist websites mysteriously have gone down as Sept. 11 approached. Many suspect the U.S. government. Will it happen again?

The National Broadcasting Company is established. The network would dominate radio during that medium's Golden Age and become the foundation of a massive media empire that to this day just keeps growing.

In his new book The Perfection Point, Sport Science host John Brenkus explains how we can push and predict the limits in athletic feats.

If you follow emerging automotive technology like electric cars and hybrids, you're no doubt excited about the Automotive X-Prize. The contest, which started three years ago, promises $10 million to the best production-capable car that can achieve 100 mpg or the energy equivalent. The winner will be announced Sept. 16 in Washington, D.C.

What's so special about this puzzle? It's a crossword so excessive that no single page can contain it. When you reach the edge, simply turn the page over and keep writing. No, really, it'll work!

Premises across Europe, including a Swedish university, have been raided by police in a piracy crackdown

A kind of "auto-tune for data" developed by a European team may help increase the capacities of long-haul fibre optic cables.

A mastermind behind the RBS WorldPay hack gets a suspended sentence in Russia and 4 years probation.

Google revamps search system with launch of 'Instant'

Google speeds up its internet search engine by launching a new product called Instant that displays results as soon as users type in queries.

When it came to resurrecting the MIA videogame, Randy Pitchford faced a task that was part suicide run, part debt of honor. The Gearbox Software CEO serves up the inside story on the improbable rescue of one of gaming's most beloved (and most obnoxious) franchises.

The federal agency in charge of protecting other agencies from computer intruders was found riddled with hundreds of high-risk security holes on its own systems, according to the results of an audit released Wednesday.

Our maiden voyage in Hyundai's 17-foot long luxe sedan is impressive if not a tad banal.

Citing the Obama administration's evocation of the state secrets privilege, a divided federal appeals court is dismissing a lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary accused of helping the CIA transport detainees to secret foreign prisons where they allegedly were tortured.

After several months, the grassroots campaign at Ole Miss to install Return of the Jedi's Admiral Ackbar, that esteemed squid-like war hero who led the Rebel Alliance to victory at the Battle of Endor, as the university's official sports mascot has fizzled.

When Felix Baumgartner steps into the void, 18 cameras will take us along for the ride with him.

Maybe you always remember where you parked. Maybe you never get parking tickets either. For the rest of us, some tools to alert us when our parking meter is about to expire or give us directions back to our car would be mighty handy.