Medal of Honor by Electronic Arts, a major game developer based in Redwood City, Calif., hits stores Oct. 12. Gamers are scoffing at the decision, saying that advanced technology has made it commonplace in the gaming world to let players switch sides and play the bad guy.

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After years of being called vaporware and a Shakespearean development story, Duke Nukem Forever is finally being released.

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Google has revamped its logo for yet another special occasion -- this time, its name is made out of a flock of colored balls that bounce away from the cursor when a visitor comes to the Google search page.

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Oracle Corp. has announced that former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd is joining the database software maker as co-president. Oracle said in a statement Monday that Hurd will also serve as a member of the board of directors. He will report to CEO Larry Ellison.

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For decades, people who wanted to get serious about losing weight joined Weight Watchers. They used paper and pen to help keep track of their calories with a point system. But today, people have much easier ways to track their calories -- using weight-loss apps. How many calories in an avocado? 300. The mobile apps take away your excuse for not counting calories. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on the Boston-based company called Lose It!

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For this week's edition of All Tech Considered, NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Carolyn de la Pena, a professor at the University of California, Davis, about her new book, Empty Pleasures -- about the evolution and impact of artificial sweeteners.

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When Interstate 95 was being built 50 years ago, high-speed roadways and high-tech cars were a fantasy of things to come. These days, I-95 commuters fantasize about simply being able to move. With smarter cars and sky-high roads, the future may just come to their rescue.

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The section on the website was replaced with a black bar that says "censored." A group of state attorneys general had asked the site to drop the section last month, saying there weren't enough protections against blocking potentially illegal ads promoting prostitution and child trafficking.

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The antitrust inquiry disclosed by Google late Friday is just the latest sign of the intensifying scrutiny facing the company as it enters its adolescence. The review appears to be focused on whether Google is manipulating its search results to stifle competition.

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Clifford Nass, a communications professor at Stanford University, has been studying the ways humans interact with computers to tease out some of the intricacies of how people relate to each other. He talks about those findings in his new book The Man Who Lied to His Laptop.

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Apple now has its own social network for music lovers. It's called Ping.  It's built into the latest version of iTunes.  All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen signed up and says and it seemed like he came to the party alone.

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The high stakes bidding war between HP and Dell is over. HP will pay more than $2 billion for a California company called 3Par that specializes in digital data storage.

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Dell Inc. is walking away from a bidding contest with rival Hewlett-Packard Co. for data-storage maker 3Par Inc. Dell said it won't match HP's offer to pay $33 per share for 3Par, or about $2.07 billion.

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Steve Jobs unveiled Apple's new 99-cent model for renting TV episodes yesterday. Will this catch on? Probably. Is it going to replace anyone's cable subscription? Probably not ... yet.

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Apple gets into the social media business with Ping - where 160 million iTunes users can be friends.

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Apple says it will sell a new, smaller version of its Apple TV device for streaming movies and television shows over the Internet and into the living room. CEO Steve Jobs also announced a new line of iPods and social features for Apple's iTunes software allowing people to learn what their friends are listening to.

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Whatever Washington does in the digital space these days would almost necessarily reflect on Google -- even if they have no direct involvement in the issue. Evgeny Morozov of Foreign Policy argues the more moves the State Department makes in cyberspace, the more difficult it gets for the likes of Facebook, Google, and Twitter to claim that they are simply apolitical operators making the world transparent.

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The biggest obstacle to songs at your disposal anywhere remains the record labels themselves.

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Prosecution for child pornography has nearly tripled since 2000, but the Justice Department is still looking for a way to handle what it calls the "explosion" in trafficking. Companies are developing technology to better filter the images online, but the effectiveness of the private initiatives and how they will affect government enforcement remains to be seen.

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Apple makes you wait two-to-four weeks for an iPhone 4 bumper. But with a little patience, you can get crafty and make one out of one of those yellow Live Strong bracelets.

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