The spacecraft has managed to detect large linear features on Titan's surface which are obscured from Earth telescopes by its thick atmosphere, reports BBC News.

Disaster management

A Boy Scout troop in Utah is trying to raise funds against a possible $14 million lawsuit by selling lemonade at $250 a glass, CNN is reporting.

The federal and state governments earlier this week sued the Boy Scouts of America to recover costs of the 2002 fire at East Fork, allegedly started by Utah Scouts.

Internet Explorer being "improved"

IE tends to be more permissive in running code - flexibility that helps Web developers create fancy features, but allows hackers to more easily find weaknesses, reports CNN.

A major Windows XP upgrade - a service pack - is due out this summer and would plug some holes in IE. Some Net experts are recommending we poor suckers use other browsers, such as Netscape, until Microsoft get their act together.

July Fourth should be July Second?

July 4 is enshrined as the quintessential U.S. holiday ?forever celebrating the day that the U.S. broke away from England, Nat Geo reports.

But historians point out that the Continental Congress actually approved the Declaration of Independence on July 2.

Cops will know it all

A police officer stops you on the street, then taps something into a device in the palm of his hand. The next minute, he knows who your relatives are, who lives in your house, who your neighbors are, the kind of car you drive or boat you own, whether you've been sued and various other tidbits about your life.

The coming reality, reports CNN.

A growing number of police departments now have instant access via handheld wireless devices to vast commercial databases that contain details on just about anyone officers encounter on the beat.

Software to take the sporting strain

Software that can identify the significant events in live TV sports broadcasts will soon be able to compile programmes of highlights without any help from people, New Scientist tells us.

But developing software that understands sport is no easy task, we are told. Well, it's difficult enough for us mere humans... no matter how many beers we've had during the ball game.