Boeing’s next-gen 747 takes first flight

The 747-8 Freighter, whose passenger version is slated to come a year later, is getting tested alongside the 787 Dreamliner in Washington state.

Video-monitoring software from a trio of former Palm executives has led to some interesting discoveries. CNET has an exclusive look at what Vitamin D turned up during its beta testing.

Copenhagen Accord’s lack of emissions targets will make it difficult for lawmakers to argue that the U.S. should have a cap while China and other big polluters do not.

Google services for business customers will become “very profitable” once they reach sufficient scale, CEO Schmidt tells CNET News.

The recently restarted Large Hadron Collider has become the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, after setting a new record for beam intensity.

The Mars rover Spirit is still operational, but NASA scientists will stop trying to free it from a sandtrap and focus on the rover’s survival and ability to conduct experiments where it’s stuck.

There’s a lot of hype about advertising on Facebook, but in the digital-ad market it’s still a small sliver of the pie.

A small but significant proportion of TV buyers can’t see the sets’ 3D effects. How is the industry addressing them?

Online retail giant introduces a new version of its e-book reader that can wirelessly download books in the United States and more than 100 countries.

A Philadelphia-area school district gives laptops to its students. And according to a lawsuit, it is able to activate their Webcams remotely to see what students are doing at home.

For the 17th year in a row, Big Blue scoops up the most patents of any corporation in 2009. Its U.S. patent total for the year was 4,914. Over time it’s earned 30,000.