The media slant political news to the left or right to increase ratings and profits, spinning up an information vacuum that can lead to mistakes at the ballot box, a new study by three University of Illinois economists says.

Hot Gossip just got a Web 2.0 face lift – The World’s First Web 2.0 Wiki Style Gossip Portal – cool choices, more controls and loads of fun.

When you need a quick spin in the air, wish to take a surprise trip to Puerto Rico or the Carribean, or just propose to your girlfriend "in air", owning a private jet or helicopter has been an expensive dream for quite a lot of us. But looks like technology and luck is on our side! With this smallest private helicopter that you can actually buy, here's your chance to turn your fantasies into realities!

After losing to Verizon in the much-hyped spectrum auction, it is speculated that Google has written a letter to the FCC asking for permission to use the "White-Space" between channels 2 and 51 on TV sets (which is not used by cable services) to offer wireless broadband services.

Rumors about potential buyers for Digg have been floating around for quite some time now, but looks like for the first time, there might be some depth to it. Current rumors about Digg's sale may not be exaggerated, as the link aggregator appears to be the target of a bidding war between giants like Microsoft and Google, who would both benefit from access to the surfing profiles of Digg's diggers.

But after more than 5 years in the making, Windows Server 2008 is finally here!! It made its first public appearance on Wednesday with a glitzy Los Angeles launch event that also included sneak peaks of Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. Microsoft executives call it "the most significant enhancement to the server platform since its inception."

Most of us are aware of how many times oil spills in large ships cause irreversible damage to the ocean life and pollute and destroy the marine resources. Since quite some time now, people have been exploring alternative sources of energy to make eco-friendly ships. And looks like one of them has actually succeeded. After the air-powered car, here comes a wave-powered boat! The three-ton catamaran Suntory Mermaid-II is all set for its first voyage from Hawaii to Japan in May 2008.

Space Travel is something that has excited a lot of people, including the search giant Google. And to make things even more exciting, and definitely more competitive as well as lucrative, Google and X-Prize officials have unveiled nine new privately funded teams that will compete for $30 million in the Google Lunar X Prize challenge, a race to the moon.

New York, Detroit, Tampa and Atlanta are among those cities facing large increases in water and sewer bills as cities and towns try to repair aging pipes and accurate artificially low prices.

Huliq.com is excited to announce the launching of 'Instant News' today, a feature we hope will get a lot more people and bloggers involved in the process of reporting, blogging, sharing, and discussing the valuable and topical stories that affect us daily.

his week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) held a variety of media briefings related to the California wildfires, but one news conference in Washington, D.C. has raised a few eyebrows. At that news conference, it appeared those asking the questions were reporters, but instead they turned out to be FEMA staffers. The news briefing was a fake. FEMA has apologized, chalking it up to an “error in judgment.”