by Amar Toor on November 5, 2010 at 07:20 AM

What the hell, America? First, your stupid voters deny Massachusetts women the right to go topless in public, and now you've crushed the hopes of space aliens who might, just might, have wanted to drop by Denver for some Rocky Mountain hospitality. The Colorado city has overwhelmingly rejected Initiative 300, which called for the establishment of an Extra Terrestrial Affairs Committee. The ...
by Matthew Zuras on August 30, 2010 at 11:15 AM

The 'Back To The Future' hoverboard and self-lacing sneakers have already been wrenched from the film world and into reality. (Even Nike is patenting its own 'BTTF' lacing tech.) But, as definitive proof that everything old eventually becomes new again, you can soon get your hands on Ellen Ripley's Reeboks from 'Aliens,' although maybe only in Japan. "That's it, man! Game over, man, game over!" ...
by Warren Riddle on April 26, 2010 at 11:37 AM

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
In a new Discovery Channel documentary, world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking reportedly affirms his belief that extraterrestrial life exists, but he also offers a stern warning. Hawking likens the earthly arrival of alien ships to Columbus landing in the Americas -- only replace the influenza and smallpox with lasers and ...
by Thomas Houston on April 12, 2010 at 07:10 PM

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
'Star Wars Uncut,' the much-hyped crowdsourced film built from hundreds of fans recreating 15 second clips of 'A New Hope' will finally be released soon. In the ...
by Caleb Johnson on December 2, 2009 at 04:40 PM

Part of being a professional is knowing how to separate work and play. For example, if you're a network systems administrator that's interested in extraterrestrial life, you shouldn't search for signs of it while on the clock. Unfortunately for Brad Niesluchowski, common sense is illusive.
According to the Arizona Republic, Niesluchowski resigned from his position with the Higley Unified School ...
by Leila Brillson on July 16, 2009 at 12:10 PM

When Orson Welles' famous radio broadcast of 'War of the Worlds' pretended that aliens had invaded in 1938, Americans didn't fare too well, becoming panicked and believing the staging was real. So when a similar trick is played on British school children 71 years later, it's no surprise the gag didn't go as administrators had planned. At a Sussex-based elementary school, an event designed to ...
by Kendra Cunningham on June 20, 2009 at 12:30 PM

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Anything's possible in this age of Photoshop and CGI, but before all that came some pretty crazy pictures. Whether you believe or not, these possibly extraterrestrial newspaper sensations, seen by many and photographed by few, mark some of the world's greatest mysteries. ...
by Warren Riddle on June 6, 2009 at 08:05 AM

NASA video footage recently uploaded to YouTube by a user named 'secretnasaman' has created a stir among UFO enthusiasts and conspiracy theorists, alike. The hotly debated films come from different space missions, and capture odd, moving lights in the background. In the above film, which follows a test satellite, a light appears at the bottom of the frame around the 1:18 mark and then slowly ...
by Tim Stevens on January 14, 2009 at 09:31 AM

Despite their green appeal, there are a lot of people out there who aren't too pleased by the increasing prevalence of wind turbines. People say they kill birds, ruin views, make irritating noises, and are a general menace. Some residents in a sleepy town in England are wondering if visitors from other planets hate the things, too, and are indicating that one of their wind turbines was destroyed ...
by Tim Stevens on July 25, 2008 at 12:54 AM

Do aliens exist? Most scientists will tell you that it's hard to imagine there not being life somewhere out there, given the vastness of the universe. The more controversial question is whether that alien life is coming to visit us here. According to Dr. Edgar Mitchell, astronaut aboard the Apollo 14 mission to the Moon, not only has alien life been here to Earth, but our government is covering it ...
by Terrence O'Brien on March 6, 2008 at 09:12 AM

Rumor has it that Steven Spielberg is getting ready to prove that you really can have a social network for just about anything. His latest online project started out with Yahoo!, but has since found a home with an independent company after the mega-portal shelved the movie director/mogul's idea of a social network dedicated to those who have had or want to share a paranormal or extra ...
by Tim Stevens on October 12, 2007 at 02:40 PM

You may have heard of the SETI Institute, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Institute, thanks to its SETI@home program. For those who don't know, SETI is a "distributed" software program that people can run on their home computers to help analyze signals from distant galaxies in the hopes of identifying intelligent alien life-forms. In this way, millions of individuals can help. ...