The FBI on Tuesday defended its raids on at least two data centers in Texas, in which agents carted out equipment and disrupted service to hundreds of businesses. The raids were part of an investigation prompted by complaints from AT&T and Verizon about unpaid bills allegedly owed by some data center customers, according to court records.

Electricly powered dirt bikes impress crowds at demo. Prove they can do it with a 24 hour enduro race.

It was a spectacular end to an unprecedented race that otherwise went off without a hitch. Zero Motorcycles had invited 50 people to flog 10 of its Zero X electric motorcross bikes for 24 hours straight. The company wanted to prove that these new battery-powered bikes are every bit as competitive as those burning fossil fuel.

Flying car coming to a suburb near you? More of a driveable airplane though.

A Boston startup is confounding naysayers with a plane that combines the ease of driving with the thrill of flying, and it could shake up the industry by ushering in a new wave of recreational aviation.

Is it time to put Conficker in the history books? Is Conficker really a dud? The truth is, nobody knows. Conficker gained so much attention in part because of the sheer number of computers it was able to infect. But nobody knows for sure what Conficker can accomplish.

HP releases new DV2 notebook (netbook?). Challenger to the Macbook Air?

The first laptop to use AMD's Athlon Neo processor, the HP Pavilion dv2 extends the range of ultraportables into the territory between notebooks and netbooks, delivering reasonable power for a moderate price. Clear a space between what you consider a netbook and a notebook, because the Hewlett-Packard Pavilion dv2 defies simple categorization.