The X-ray has been voted the most important modern discovery by participants in a Science Museum poll.

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Games! Costumes! Halloween-joy! This week includes TapTap-games, Rock Band on iPhone, Borderlands, Ratchet & Clank, and more.

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Quick: what comes to your mind when I say “Ferrari”? A line of gorgeous (and exorbitantly priced) supercars? Formula One racing? How about mule-shoeing, World War I flying ace, and the H1N1 virus?

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You don’t often see Silent Hill at the center of a “games made me do it” controversy, but a thirty-five-year-old man claims that Konami’s psychological horror series inspired him to break into a hospital basement and shut off the electricity.

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Rafael Benitez is determined to remain as Liverpool boss and believes his side will beat Lyon in Wednesday’s crucial Champions League game.

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An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Engadget: “It wasn’t all that long ago that Microsoft was talking up the Virtual WiFi feature developed by Microsoft Research and set for inclusion in Windows 7, but something got lost along the road to release day, and the functionality never officially made it into the OS. As you might expect with anything as big and complicated as an operating system though, some of that code did make it into the (more…)

On an August morning in 1976, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. No dialogue, just the squeal of tyres and the roar of the engine. Breathtakingly insane.

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CNETNate writes “With its own file server for uploaded Hollywood blockbusters, a 10Mbps Internet connection to Earth, and around a hundred IBM ThinkPad notebooks, the consumer technology aboard the $150 billion International Space Station is impressive. It’s the responsibility of just two guys to maintain the uptime of the Space Station’s IT, and they have given CNET an in-depth interview to explain what tech’s aboard, how it works, and whether Windows (more…)

Manchester United fight back to claim a 3-3 draw with CSKA Moscow to reach the Champions League knockout stages.

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Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks brings to mind quiet afternoons with model trains, with a side helping of gaming with a hired thug. We go toe to toe with the next DS Zelda title, and bring you the story.

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