Why add peanut butter to the apple when you can embed the creamy flavor into its genes? The future's here today -- check out these genetically modified edibles.

Google and Pacific Gas & Electric have unveiled their vision of a future in which cars and trucks are partly powered by the country’s electric grids, and vice versa.

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It's not like we didn't see it coming or anything what with Sony's game division -- home of the PS3 -- recently posting a $1.91 billion loss for the year. But man, if our hearts don't go out to those whose jobs at Sony Computer Entertainment are now on the chopping block. Thing is, Sony, while announcing plans to cut jobs in the US, is only turning the screw deeper by not providing any details. The move comes as Sony struggles to keep up with Nintendo which again snagged top-honors for the 4th consecutive month in the US market: 360,000 Wiis sold to the PS3's 82,000 while Microsoft sold 174,000 Xbox 360s. The gap between the Wii and PS3 sales in Japan is just as bad, if not worse. Fortunately for Sony, their Bravia LCD TVs, VAIO computers, and Handycams are all doing well enough to (mostly) offset the PS3 related losses. We'll have to wait and see if Sony's summer game catalog, bigger disks, and possible price cuts can reverse SCE's fortunes.

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Ready for a trip down memory lane, comrade? Insert your "commie quarter" and have a blast.

The next terrorist threat may come from the deep. In recent years, several homeland security alerts have focused on the danger of scuba-equipped terrorists targeting docked Navy vessels or ocean-side nuclear plants. Now the U.S. military is quietly developing a new generation of underwater weaponry.

From three experiments of video simulations of shoot/no shoot decision scenarios with police officers, community members and college students, researchers from the University of Chicago, the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Denver determined that training and experience is effective in minimizing decisions based on stereotyped views.

Targets Linux developers with gateway IDE

Sun Microsystems today releases Sun Studio 12, its latest IDE (integrated development environment) for C, C++ and Fortran. It's freely available for Solaris and Linux software platforms and the update will be useful for developers building multi-core and multi-threaded applications, the company says.

Just as Japan is looking to make things slightly more reasonable for people uploading TV clips, it appears that the courts have given people a setback concerning music copyrights. There's apparently a service in Japan that allows users to upload songs that they own to use those tunes as ringtones on their phones. The uploads are only for personal use and no one else has access to them. However, according to an article on Slashdot, a court has ruled that just the act of transferring those songs to computer servers owned by someone else constitutes copyright infringement. Even though the actual act of infringement then is due to the end user doing the uploading, the court appears to have found the company that hosts the servers as the guilty party. As the article notes, this could effectively make any online storage site guilty of copyright infringement in Japan. This ruling makes very little sense no matter how you look at it, and hopefully whatever changes Japanese politicians are looking at concerning copyright law will look for a way to protect this type of usage.