If you believe the ads, Ajay Bhatt is tech’s version of an arrogant rock star. But the co-creator of USB technology, which connects computers to gadgets, is almost nothing like his proxy persona.

The first landing opportunity for space shuttle Discovery was scrubbed Thursday because of bad weather near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA said.

If you listen to inventor Dean Kamen, the biggest health problem facing the world today is not AIDS, obesity or malnutrition. It’s a shortage of water. So the man who designed the Segway has invented a device called the Slingshot, a portable, low-energy machine designed to purify water in remote villages.

Barnes & Noble has unveiled the Nook, an impressive-looking $260 device that will go head-to-head with Amazon.com’s Kindle, currently the most successful product in a small but growing market for e-book readers.

The longest solar eclipse of the century cast a wide shadow for several minutes over Asia and the Pacific Ocean Wednesday, luring throngs of people outside to watch the celestial spectacle.

A handful of homegrown micro-blogging sites emerged about the same time Twitter started to gain a small, yet steadily growing, share of Chinese Internet users, beginning about 2007, around a year after Twitter was launched in the U.S. in 2006.

The Ratchet and Clank video game franchise, about two intergalactic heroes fighting evil, has sold more than 16 million copies. Despite that, there are hints that the upcoming “Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time” may be the last in the series, an unusual occurrence for an industry in which sequels to popular games are often announced far in advance.

An equipment problem forced NASA early Friday to delay the launch of a spacecraft aimed at scanning the entire sky to discover hidden cosmic objects, the U.S. space agency said.

With rumors piling up about a forthcoming Apple tablet, it appears more and more likely that such a device will emerge soon. But what’s still unclear is how this gadget will set itself apart from Apple’s multimedia-savvy product line.

When Walter Jordan played for the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1980s, he had top-notch medical care. Whenever he was hurt, a team physician materialized immediately. If he had any kind of health question, it was answered in no time.

From a pair of hydraulic-powered aluminum wings to a camera-and-LCD-screen getup that makes it look like you’ve got a gaping hole in your belly, here are 5 high-tech costumes and gadgets that pack Halloween thrills.

Google has taken a hit over the Buzz launch from a public that is already skeptical about the search giant’s motivations with the enormous amount of personal data it has accumulated.

With Thursday’s launch of its new Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft is going back to basics. Rather than go for flash, the company is focused on making sure that all of its partners are ready to sell lots of PCs and copies of Windows 7.

As NASA prepared to slam two probes into the moon Friday, the space agency encouraged people around the country to host “impact parties,” saying the plume of dust generated by the crashes would be visible through backyard telescopes. But many dismayed astronomers say they didn’t see a thing.

NASA is monitoring debris in space moving in the vicinity of the international space station and the Shuttle Discovery docked with it, officials said late Wednesday.

This has been a wild week for tech news.