Sioux Falls Science & Technology News

These days, with economies stretched to the limit and people cutting back on everything from designer label clothing to brand-name toilet paper, trying to help out a favorite cause may seem like an impossibility. But helping out your best-loved non-profit...

A Sioux Falls mausoleum housing the remains of South Dakota's first U.S. senator is in need of repairs. Milt Husby with the Woodlawn Cemetery Association says interior marble is degrading, ceiling and shelves holding the remains of R.F. Pettigrew and...

More than a quarter of the motorists in South Dakota don't follow the state's seat belt law. A yearly survey found that seat belt use this summer was just over 72 percent. That's up three-tenths of 1 percent from a...

Tuesday, March 24th is International Ada Lovelace Day. It is a day of blogging, and drawing particular attention to women who excel in the technology world. Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer, and one of the first people to...

Recently I ran across an article at CNN.com about a Second Life couple whose online affairs resulted in a divorce. My first thought was "what took the media so long to figure this out?" But my second thought was "is...

A recent article by the Electronic Frontier Foundation indicates that Palin's e-mail hacker may be difficult to prosecute due to current disagreements on the interpretation of the term "electronic storage". The Stored Communications Act (SCA) indicates that protection includes all...

Deborah Zabarenko, an Environment Correspondent with Reuters, reported today that rocket scientists have sent 90 cute little rubber duckies into the waters near a Greenland glacier in an effort to study water movement patterns and help to unearth the mysteries...

The institute for interactive research has developed an interesting experiment. I "stumbled" upon this site, and at first was completely confused. My thought was "are you nuts, how in the world can we 'not click' ". But soon I realized...

The age of the traditional newspaper is rapidly approaching a very real end, though by the looks of mainstream newspaper organizations one would think it were still the 1950s and the height of the paper news industry. With newspaper readership...