CYBERSPACE — “One nation under Google, with video and email for all.” That’s the way Washington Post staff writer Jose Antonio Vargas describes politics in the digital age — and he’s right. The internet has changed the political landscape, allowing voters more access to...

HOLLYWOOD, CA — In a bold career move for repeatedly publicly declared ex-porn queen Jenna Jameson, the de-enhanced bottle blonde will appear in the soon-to-be-released Sony Pictures mega pic, Zombie Strippers.With theatrical release set for April 18th, fans of the...

JAKARTA — Porn lovers take their entertainment choices seriously and do not like government interference – even in conservative Muslim nations, as the ministry of Indonesia has learned after having made online pornography illegal and promptly had its governmental website...

TEL AVIV — “Computer, computer on the desk, am I pretty or am I a mess?”A student at Tel Aviv University has developed software that may be able to answer that ages-old question by accomplishing esthetic judgment based on mathematical formulas. “Until now, computers have...

SAN DIEGO, CA — Lightning Warrior Raidy, a 3D fantasy role-playing game for adults, has attained Golden Master status based on international sales, according to publisher G-Collections, a division of JAST USA.The hentai-style game, based on Japanese lore, puts players in...

MANILA —Calling the soon-to-be released Philippine edition of venerable gentleman’s magazine Playboy proof of “the declining moral values and system among the present generation of Filipinos,” Archbishop Oscar Cruz of the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese is leading a chorus of...

AUSTIN, TX — The Texas Legislature thought it had cooked up the perfect revenue combination: digging into the pockets of socially scorned (but popular) strip clubs and funding fiscally neglected but valuable social programs. This past Friday, District Judge Scott Jenkins...

NEW YORK, NY — A new hardware-software partnership hopes to make videoconferencing — once the stuff of far-fetched science fiction — as ubiquitous in the home as it is in corporate boardrooms around the world.The technology being promoted by Quanta Computer and OoVoo relies...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Bundled inside the package represented by Google’s recent acquisition of Web-advertising network DoubleClick came a nifty little company that has search-optimization and search-engine-marketing firms worried.Performics directly competes with SEM and SEO...

PHOENIX, AZ —If a piece of artwork is sexually explicit, but nobody sees it – is it still a menace to society? Apparently so, if some of newlywed Ryan Walker’s neighbors can be believed.“It was like a hit of coffee or something in the face,” observed one neighbor. “A penis...