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Aaaand they're still at it. Carl Icahn and Yahoo are lobbing bombs at each other. Yahoo's severance plan has gone nuclear - and the proxy battle could trigger it. Icahn says that Yahoo executives could be personally liable for it all.

Merlin has 12,000 labels under their umbrella now to negotiate for. That makes them as big as the smallest of the big four - EMI. It should help them when they sit down at the bargaining table with MySpace Music and Last.fm.

The B.B.C. is endeavoring to put their entire archive online for public access. Considering that's 81 years of radio and television we're talking about, it's a monumental task.

Google's co-founder Sergey Brin put a $5 million dollar downpayment on a private space flight to the International Space Station.

Did you know there were robot-fish? Well if you did, why didn't you tell me?! And now they've made them even BETTER! They're on their way to mimicking REAL fish, and the latest incarnation can swim in schools. They'll be used to help track oil spills and see what whales are doing. Aren't researchers worried bigger fish will eat them?

You know it's the future when we're trying to get advice on how to acclimate our real pets to our robot pets.