The same advantages the Internet and advanced technology bring to the general public and to business -- speed, security and global linkage -- are helping international terrorist groups organize their deadly and disruptive activities

Researchers are working on a new form of web markup that would enable machines to talk intelligently with other machines. It would be an extension of the current Web, a place where "information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation," according to Tim Berners-Lee.

A Florida company Thursday said that it will begin marketing and selling a microchip that can be implanted under the skin, after receiving the go-ahead from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Nazi code that eluded the best cryptographers the Allied forces had to offer during World War II has been solved by an amateur codebreaker with the assistance of a network of computers.