If there’s a sudden cyberattack on the U.S. Navy, Jim Granger could be among the first to know since it’s his job to keep watch. “We monitor the Navy’s grid,” says Granger, who is director of capabilities and readiness at the Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command in Norfolk,...

With a second shuttle on standby for possible rescue duty, the shuttle Atlantis blasted off Monday on a high-stakes five-spacewalk mission to resuscitate the aging Hubble Space Telescope–a fifth and final housecall to give the hobbled satellite a new lease on life. With its three main engines roaring...

Solar company Konarka has developed a transparent solar cell that it hopes will be built onto electricity-generating windows. The Lowell, Mass.-based company on Tuesday said it has reached an agreement with Arch Aluminum & Glass to use Konarka’s plastic solar cells in building materials, including...

Wolfram Research founder Stephen Wolfram publicly debuted his company’s forthcoming online “computational knowledge engine” Tuesday–but search Goliath Google launched a service of its own that bears significant resemblance. The Wolfram Alpha engine is a Web service designed to...

Hackers stole more data last year than in the previous four years, according to new research. In its 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), Verizon investigated 90 data breach cases that exposed a 285 million records, which is equivalent to nine records per second. This figure is far greater than...