A video that purportedly shows a living, breathing space alien will be shown to the news media Friday in Denver. Jeff Peckman, who is pushing a ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver to prepare the city for close encounters of the alien kind, said the video is authentic and convinced him that aliens exist. ‘‘As impressive as it is, it’s still one tiny portion... 

Microsoft Corp. said its next operating system will be made for touch-screen applications, an alternative to the computer mouse, and its top executives reaffirmed interest in joining forces with Yahoo Inc. Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer on Tuesday unveiled the iPhone-like touch-screen feature at The Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital” conference, calling... 

The first spacecraft designed to taste the water of an alien planet landed safely on Mars’ northern pole Sunday afternoon, beginning a three-month mission to determine whether the Red Planet ever did, or still might, support rudimentary forms of life. The Phoenix spacecraft parachuted to the planet’s surface at 4:53 p.m. PDT, successfully ending a 422 million-mile journey through space. Cheers... 

Yves Rossy, the swiss rocket man or fusion man, A 48 year old man has successfully jumped out of a plane over the Alps using a new improved version of his jet propelled hang-glider. Yves Rossy has spent five years training for the event and was helped by four jet engines. The dream of flight has dominated man’s imagination since time began. Now Yves Rossy from Switzerland says he has become... 

Google owned YouTube is apparently down again for unknown reasons. The first report came via e-mail eight hours ago on the outage. It was hard to verify it at that time, but it is sure that the YouTube is not working now. There are reports of the same nature coming from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and here in Massachusetts. Been going on for at least an hour, it would seem, maybe longer. Some people... 

Canada ranks ninth as a spot targeted for malicious cyber activities, while at the top is the U.S. Next to Bell Canada, Shaw Communications came second with 16 percent malicious cyber activities recorded. According to Symantec, an anti-virus company, 17 percent of computer viruses, spams traffic and other unwanted cyber materials were transgferred into Canadian computers by Bell Canada durin second... 

LOS ANGELES — California faces an almost certain risk of being rocked by a strong earthquake by 2037, scientists said in the first statewide temblor forecast. New calculations reveal there is a 99.7 percent chance a magnitude 6.7 quake or larger will strike in the next 30 years. The odds of such an event are higher in Southern California than Northern California, 97 percent versus 93 percent. “It... 

In a bid to broaden Flickr if not actually crush YouTube, Yahoo is adding videos to what has just been a photo-sharing site. The change, which the company plans to launch publicly later Tuesday, is a modest but significant extension of Flickr’s features. The videos, limited to 90 seconds and 150MB, will be shown as thumbnails alongside users’ photos, and will inherit all the features of... 

Google plans to launch a service called App Engine Monday evening that the company hopes will attract programmers and eventually companies needing an expandable foundation for online applications. App Engine, free to the first 10,000 people who sign up, offers a combination of several online Google services for those who want a place to host software, said Pete Koomen, a product manager on the Google... 

WASHINGTON — Nearly $250 million worth of individual losses from Internet fraud was reported by Americans to the FBI last year, the bureau said. The figures were released by the Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership between the FBI and the non-profit National White Collar Crime Center, in its seventh annual report on Internet crime this week. The $239 million loss represents a 20 percent...