Benjamin Sutherland

China's fiercest anti-ship missile, designed by Russia and dubbed the Sizzler by NATO, has a 300-kilometer range and accelerates to roughly three times the speed of sound as it nears its target.

As a rule of thumb, small retailers see sales increase by more than 5 percent soon after beginning to accept credit-card payments. Sales of clothes, gifts or other nonessentials often climb a dramatic 10 percent.

Satellites are vital to the military success of the United States and its allies, but they're a particularly vulnerable form of technology: they can be blown up.

Cars have traditionally been wasteful beasts. Every time a drop of gas explodes inside a cylinder, the energy gets passed along from the piston to the crankshaft, flywheel, gearbox, drivetrain, and axles.

Don't talk: your cell phone may be eavesdropping. Thanks to recent developments in "spy phone" software, a do-it-yourself spook can now wirelessly transfer a wiretapping program to any mobile phone.

To help soldiers make sense of data from drones, satellites and ground sensors, the U.S. military now issues the iPod Touch.

Strict rules on U.S. military technology have helped boost Europe to the top of a $100 billion industry.

Making decisions in battle, Prussian military strategist Karl Von Clausewitz wrote two centuries ago, is akin to making life-or-death choices "in a mere twilight" with one's surroundings shrouded by the "effect of a fog or moonshine." In today's military jargon, it's called "poor situational awareness." Soldiers under fire express the idea with a simple question: where exactly are these bullets coming from?

Criminals who steal personal data often don't use it themselves. Instead, they put it up for sale on one of the many vibrant online markets.

The PC maker used to be an industry icon. Now it's had to remake its marketing and manufacturing.

Expensive radiation detectors may not be as effective as widely distributed chips in cell phones.

Cell phones could help locate dirty bombs or nuclear weapons by 'triangulating' the source of radiation as mobile owners go by.

At current rates, the Mediterranean bluefin will soon be commercially extinct.

A big reason for slack iPhone sales in Europe, analysts say, is that users cannot pick their mobile-service carrier. Apple chooses for them.

The spectrum up for grabs now could ultimately lead to new markets worth more than Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Forcing open cash machines is risky work. Those who try with a car must smash into the hunk of steel driving at least 40kph for a shot at success—and ATMs often withstand even faster charges, says Travis Yates, head driving trainer at the Tulsa Police Department in Oklahoma.

When it's daytime in New York, callers in other time zones get up very early, or stay up very late, to talk to the Big Apple.

Sony has beaten Toshiba in the battle over high-definition DVD formats, but both sides lost the war.

Spam has never been cheaper. online-marketing firms are falling over themselves to offer spam campaigns of millions of addresses. These e-mail blasts are disturbingly inexpensive.

Time is the hacker's enemy. The countdown starts as soon as a hacker learns about a security loophole that makes an Internet site vulnerable to a break-in.

Just a decade ago, tiny Croatia was in ruins. Now this star of the Balkans is on track to join the EU.

It's sometimes known as the trigger, the kicker or the launching pad: the part of a package a shopper is looking at when he decides to flip the cereal box to read the back.

Those little GPS navigation devices on the dashboard have made driving unfamiliar terrain a lot easier. Now an innovation that combines Global Positioning technology with mobile phones promises to make driving a lot cheaper, for some.

The Internet isn't as secure as a regular phone line. Businesses are now learning that the hard way.

The telephone industry has been in an upheaval ever since upstarts began competing with the big telecoms by sending voice calls over the Internet. Now even big firms use so-called voice over Internet protocol.

Even in a country that's long prided itself on its trains, the Paris Métro stands out. It's fast, easy to navigate, clean, inexpensive and, with 16 lines serving 297 stations, remarkably dense—leading many transport experts to consider it the world's premier metro.

Fouette, sauté, jeté, hospital stay? Ballet movements lead to injuries in almost half of professional dancers over 40, according to the University Hospital of Geneva in Switzerland.

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