Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto says he's now focusing on bringing Nintendo's handheld DS consoles to the classroom.

Nintendo executive Shigeru Miyamoto is famous for bringing us Mario, the Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong and Animal Crossing but the video game designer is busying himself with a different kind of project these days. Miyamoto has said the area he is devoting himself to the most is turning Nintendo brand of handheld consoles into educational aids and teaching tools.

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Whoever said making things more complicated was a bad thing?

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Google was last week forced to remove a set of images from Google Street View after it emerged that the photos showed the location of the SAS base in Credenhill, Herefordshire, UK.

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President Obama is reportedly considering a three strikes law similar to what's already in effect in France.

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Google's plans to pull out of China are said to be nearly 100 percent certain.

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Apple has long been criticized for the enclosed batteries in the iPhone and MacBook line of laptops. Because the batteries are sealed inside, the batteries are not removable and, in the event of diminished battery life, must be replaced by Apple.

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With the PlayStation Move's debut last week, a lot of you are likely wondering how the peripheral will affect your console's performance. Late last week, Sony revealed that the memory demands are insignificant.

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Bill Gates has once again been bumped out of the top spot on Forbes' rich list.

Forbes has released its list of the richest people on Earth and tycoon Carlos Slim has nabbed the top spot meaning Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world. According to Forbes, Bill has been the world's richest man for 14 of the last 15 years previous. The title was awarded to Warren Buffet in 2008, but Bill came back to take the top spot in 2009.

So who's the new guy? Carlos Slim is a 70-year-old Mexican telecoms mogul who placed third on last year's list. Slim boasts a net worth of $53.5 billion and owns a $23 billion stake in America Movil. Shares for AM were up 35 percent in a year and in the last 12 months alone, Slim's fortune has risen by $18.5 billion.

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This racer eats chocolate, carrots, and a few other ingredients.

Researchers from the University of Warwick in Britain have retrofitted a Formula 3 racing car to consume leftover chocolate, carrots, potato starch, and flax. While that really doesn't sound appetizing no matter how its prepared, this interesting brew enables the vehicle to reach a top speed of 135 miles per hour. It can also go from zero to sixty in a mere 2.5 seconds.

According to Planet Ark (via Reuters), the car's designer Kerry Kirwan said that the 2.0-liter BMW engine has been converted over to diesel and configured to run on a fuel comprised of waste from chocolate factories or other plant-based oils. Many of the components for the fuel can be found at a farmer's market or in a trashcan.

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A blogger was forced to terminate a video chat with his kids while on board a United Airlines flight.

BloggerJohn Battelle was on a United Airlines flight between New York and San Francisco, using the airplane's built-in WiFi, when a flight attendant forced him to terminate a video chat with his children and deemed it «illegal.»

The reasoning wasn't because Battelle was disturbing other passengers--he was somewhat quiet using Bose headphones, his Macbook's built-in microphone, and the iChat client.

Instead, the flight attendant said that camera were not allowed saying that video chat could be used to coordinate terrorist attacks. To prove his case, the flight attendant brought Battelle the United Airlines policy manual which prohibits «two way devices» from communicating with the ground.

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