I'm seven and a half months pregnant, and I'm a wireless-gadget addict. So for the past two weeks I've been testing out new products called Belly Armor, which promise to protect my baby from 99% of nonionizing radiation from mobile products, such as my iPhone and iPad. I drape the Belly Blanket over my baby bump when I've got my laptop on my lap; when I'm out, I wear the Belly Band around my abdomen like a ...

Much like this week's splashy action picture Source Code, Trust features a story line about people at the mercy of technology. But there's no science-fiction component to director David Schwimmer's grim story of Internet-based pedophilia, and there's no aspect of it that doesn't feel painfully plausible. We're in the here and now, watching pretty 14-year-old Annie sink deeper and deeper into electronic quicksand. She has a new online boyfriend, Charlie, and while she takes breaks for meals, ...

Do liberals read only liberal blogs? On Friday, I received a press release pitching a new book on how to live like a liberal. The book offers helpful suggestions for: Watching MSNBC instead of Fox News Powering a laptop with a solar power-generating backpack Progressive financial investment Where and how to find a like-minded mate ... You get the idea. What really caught my eye was item number one: the idea that people of a particular political persuasion should stop watching news produced by those of ...

Worms, spam, viruses and hackers -- they're not just for your desktop or laptop anymore. According to internet security experts they could be well on their way into your pocket or purse.

Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. has pleaded guilty and will pay $600,000 in fines for the deaths of 85 protected migratory birds in the company's wastewater ponds in five states. China announced earlier this year that it planned compulsory installation of the Green Dam-Youth Escort software, ostensibly meant to protect young online users from pornography. The installation was postponed on June 30. Minister Li Yizhong said Thursday that his ministry was still working on its plans and that the Green ...

Individual computer users in China may choose whether to install a controversial content filtering system, but the system will be installed on computers in any public place, China's minister of Industry and Information Technology said Thursday. China announced earlier this year that it planned compulsory installation of the Green Dam-Youth Escort software, ostensibly meant to protect young online users from pornography. The installation was postponed on June 30. Minister Li Yizhong said Thursday that his ministry was still working on ...

You're sitting in an airport lounge and seize the chance to check your e-mails before your flight departs. You log on and are tempted by a wireless Internet provider offering free Internet access. So, do you take it? Security experts warn that hackers may be masquerading as free public Wi-Fi providers to gain access to the laptops of unsuspecting travelers. All it takes, they say, is a computer program downloaded from the Internet, an open access point and a user ...

Two people were reported killed Wednesday after a convoy of buses carrying employees of a U.S. mining company came under fire in the Indonesian province of Papua. Unidentified gunmen attacked the 12-bus convoy in the eastern-most province Wednesday morning, the state-run Antara News Agency said. The news agency said two people, including at least one police officer, reportedly died in the attack. But police have not officially released a statement. The attack is the latest targeting PT Freeport, the largest ...

An alleged gang member who was on the FBI's Top 10 List of most wanted fugitives and sought in connection with a 2000 attack on two Los Angeles, California, officers was captured in Mexico, authorities said Monday. Emigdio Preciado Jr., who is believed to be 39, was captured Friday in the town of Santiago Escuintla in western central Mexico, north of coastal Puerto Vallarta, according to Mexican authorities. He had been living there, using the name Regalo Castaneda-Castaneda and working ...

In the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator, "Shoot the Chinese" is spray-painted on a brick wall near a movie theater. A pair of swastikas and the words "Killer Boys ...! Danger!" can be read on a fence in an outlying neighborhood of yurt dwellings. Graffiti like this, which can be found all over the city, is the work of Mongolia's neo-Nazis, an admittedly implausible but often intimidating, and occasionally violent, movement. Ulan Bator is home to three ultra-nationalist groups claiming ...