The Treasury Department on Sunday seized control of the mortgage finance giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, announcing a four-part rescue plan that included an open-ended guarantee to provide as much capital as they need to stave off insolvency.

U.S. government seized control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after the biggest surge in mortgage defaults in at least three decades threatened to topple the companies making up almost half the U.S. home-loan market.

When Google is clouding the borderline between web and the desktop, a much, much smaller project is blurring the border between the Internet and the physical reality: the newly released Contiki operating system version 2.2.1.

A preliminary study suggests that working on a computer may have an impact on our waistlines: taxing mental effort appears to cause people to eat significantly more food, even though it doesn't burn many more calories than sitting around and relaxing.

Hillary Clinton will hit the campaign trail in Florida tomorrow: “No way, no how, no McCain-Palin.”