Ready to cut the cord? The next generation of Wi-Fi technology could make most wires obsolete. The Wi-Fi Alliance, an organization that certifies wireless industry standards, announced the specification for a new format for transmitting data over the air at speeds up to 10 times faster than today's top-of-the-line hotspots.

Researchers describe a way to combine two hard drive writing methods to store data at densities of up to one terabyte per square inch, and suggest the media could be stable up to ten terabytes per square inch.

Cell phones like Google's Nexus One, iPhone, Nokia N8, HTC Droid, BlackBerry Storm and tablets like the iPad have a capacitive touch screen. That means the screen will only respond to touch commands from human fingers and not the stylus pen that may have come with your old PDA. Here is how to create your own stylus.

Some tech jobs are literally dirty; digging around the innards of a data center or running network cables through crawlspaces, for example, can leave you deeply in need of a shower.

Researchers from Goethe University and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have used relatively cheap components to create a vastly more efficient method of processing data.

It's taken a long time, but Nvidia has finally released its first DirectX 11 graphics card, the GeForce GTX 480. The spiritual successor to last year's GTX 285 is meant to compete with AMD's highest-powered single-GPU card, the ATI Radeon HD 5870.

A new laser developed by scientists at MIT could make light-speed computing a reality.

HP's slate PC should cost less than an equivalent iPad when it goes on sale, a leak has revealed late on Wednesday. Sources say that an entry version of the Windows 7 tablet with 3G will have similar specs to an iPad but will cost less than the $629 Apple wants to charge.