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Yahoo announced that they'll let users opt out of having advertisements tailored to them. Google and Microsoft have already been letting consumers opt out of this kind of tracking for a while. But analysts doubt that many consumers actually bother to. Few people are very aware of the practice, and fewer still will know how to opt out of it. And besides - a lot people figure that if they have to see ads, it's better to see ads that they might actually be interested in.

If you like using Google Translate, and you have an iPhone - they now have a mobile version for you. Google Translate Mobile Service can translate phrases between twenty four languages - including Romanian, Hindi, Mandarin and Japanese.

Despite the fact that MySpace and Facebook have been making strides to gain Japanese market share, they can't seem to catch up with the popularity of the Japanese social network, Mixi. According to ComScore, Facebook only had a little more than 500,000 unique visitors in June - Mixi, in comparison had 12.7 MILLION. Techcrunch thinks Mixi's had more time to gain customer loyalty - and tailors themselves to the culture.

Scientists at Purdue University have revealed a new technique that can tell them not only who a fingerprint belongs to, but WHAT that person has been touching.

Brian Cox talked about this at TED. And, on September 10th, CERN is firing up the Large Hadron Collider. For a rap version of what it does and a little bit about particle physics: Click here.

If you remove Garfield from the comic strip, Jon Arbuckle becomes a lonely man living in the suburbs, trying to cope. Soon there will be a book, and Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield supports it. What a nice change from our usual copyright stories!