Throughout the planet’s history, ocean levels and temperatures have had a fairly straightforward relationship: when the earth cools down, ocean levels drop; when it heats up, they rise. The basics of this dynamic are pretty simple. When the climate is warm, land-based ice melts, and much of that water winds up in the oceans. The [...]

The rumors and speculations were true–RIM has launched its BlackBerry App World at CTIA–and we have screenshots. Read more …

Yahoo condenses its mobile application efforts into one unified look for the iPhone and Web, and announces a Java app that’s in the works and close to being done. Read more …

The man police say killed five members of his family before turning the gun on himself had worked at the Internet giant since 2004. Read more …

Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser has made impressive market share gains in Europe over the past few years. In the latest marketshare report released by StatCounter, Firefox 3 has finally surpassed Internet Explorer 7 as the most popular browser in Europe in a breakdown by version number. Firefox 3 holds 35 percent and IE 7 has [...]

Ars has just one question for PhD student Arvind Narayanan and his advisor Vitaly Shmatikov: why must you continually shatter our illusions? Despite the all-seeing, all-knowing panopticon that is the Internet, some of us like to dream our simple dreams of anonymity and privacy; we choose to believe that our Netflix movie recommendations do not [...]