NEW ZEALAND — Alas for New Zealand’s youthful and television watching rugby fans, it took less than four minutes on a Sunday afternoon to entirely destroy their innocence. At least, that’s the claim of some adults who were horrified when pay-per-view programming managed to...

SAN JOSE, CA — Adobe Systems Incorporated on is teaming up with search industry leaders to ensure Flash files can be indexed by search engines. Previously, rich-media files created with Adobe’s Flash technology were invisible to search-engine spiders, which meant Web pages...

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Justice Department has opened a formal probe into the proposed deal that would allow Yahoo to run Google’s ads for a share of the revenue generated.According to sources familiar with the inquiry, investigators plan to review documents not only from...

WASHINGTON, DC — In what it calls an effort to curb the distribution of child pornography and other illicit data, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol’s overzealous seizure of laptop computers and other personal data devices could negatively impact the U.S. economy, a group...

COLLEGE STATION, TX — Just in time for the American Independence Day holiday, science reveals that a refreshing seasonal favorite affects men’s bodies like Viagra, potentially adding hours of celebration to the festive days. In addition to being packed with moisture, Texas...

SHERMAN OAKS, CA — A San Fernando Valley porn director and two Hungarian nationals were arrested Wednesday on charges they were running a “mail-order brides” scheme that tricked Hungarian women into emigrating to the U.S. only to find themselves indentured to a brothel in...

SINGAPORE — While mental health professional debate the next update to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), Singapore is taking a proactive – and violent – posture when it comes to non-consensual behavior of a fetish sort. According to the...

LOS ANGELES, CA — Those with an eclectic taste in erotic entertainment know that “the long and short of it” doesn’t necessarily refer to penis length; sometimes the size that matters is the height of the performers. That’s certainly the case in the latest celebrity sex tape...

LAS VEGAS, NV — Everybody wants a piece of Joe Francis — including the Wynn Las Vegas casino, which on June 27th filed suit against the Girls Gone Wild founder to recover what it claims is a $2 million gambling debt Francis ran up in February 2007.Francis, who also has been...

OSAKA, JAPAN — Only days after a new facial-recognition method of age-verification was introduced on cigarette vending machines in Japan, a reporter demonstrated the technology can be fooled far too easily.The reporter for Sankei Sports was able to fool one machine’s...