Where the Transcontinental Railroad finally joined
At Promontory Summit, Utah, the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad finally got together on May 10, 1869 after 1,776 miles of track had been laid over six years.
Blogging live from Spiral Jetty
Never say never, but this may be the first blog ever posted live from the monumental earthwork on the edge of the Great Salt Lake called Spiral Jetty.
Employee shot, wounded at Virginia Apple store
The victim, a 26-year-old woman, is in serious but stable condition with a wound to the shoulder. Some media outlets are reporting robbery as the motive, but police say it's too early to tell.
Seattle fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites
At least two dozen sites experience protracted outage following Thursday night electrical fire at Fisher Plaza data center. Verizon's Seattle-area DSL service also gets temporarily disrupted.
What soccer team would your company be?
Martin Veitch at CIO.co.uk riffs on how certain football clubs resemble software companies, to good and painful effect.
iPhone 3GS jailbreak, 'purplera1n,' hits Web
Hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone has let loose a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3GS ahead of the iPhone dev team. For now, it's Windows-only, but a Mac version is supposedly on the way.
Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID
Three just-published patent applications hint at the company's future plans. But it could be a while before we see any of the functionality built into iPhones or other Apple devices.
Symantec's Ramzan on solving the antivirus puzzle
q&a From puzzles and chess to ciphers and antivirus software, Zulfikar Ramzan talks about how he got into the computer security business and where it's headed.
Defending against chemical and biological weapons
At the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Grounds facility in the Utah desert, researchers look for ways to protect soldiers against "bugs" that could easily kill or sideline them.
