Some people can boast a green thumb, but very few people can boast a glowing green thumb. For a pledge of $40, Glowing Plants will send you 50 to 100 seeds to let you raise your own glowing plant at home.

While prototype glowing plants have been created, there's a chance that this first round of Kickstarter plants may not glow quite as much as people would like. "We hope to have a plant which you can visibly see in the dark (like glow in the dark paint) but don't expect to replace your light bulbs with version 1.0," the teams says.

The owner of one of the homes believes that Glaze found a simple way of discovering if she and her son were home. He allegedly placed a GPS device on their cars.

GPS devices are easy to buy and use these days. It's impossible to always know whether one is being tracked or not.

Police in San Francisco decide on a new tactic to stop iPhone theft. Undercover officers are walking down streets offering to sell iPhones they claim are stolen. The idea is to kill the market for stolen phones.

It wouldn't be hard to imagine that not everyone admires this police tactic. It seems as if the undercover officers are luring people to commit a crime.

From the Department of Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste comes word that New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly thinks that now is a great time to install even more surveillance cameras hither and yon around the Big Apple.

Of course, what Kelly wants is public cameras — specifically, an expanded network of police-controlled "smart" cameras watching the city and responding automatically to perceived dangers.

The founders of the original MySQL, the open-source database, are getting back together in a merger between Monty Program and SkySQL.

The merger will provide a stronger rival to MySQL, so reassuring users who are worried about Oracle’s future plans for the database. The acquisition of MySQL by Oracle was greeted with suspicion and suggestions that Oracle would weaken MySQL in favour of Oracle’s own database, and Widenius at one point suggested Oracle should sell off MySQL.

Almost a million people have signed a petition demanding Apple rethink its decision to pull a popular free-app-finding app from the App Store.

More than 12 million people have already downloaded the software, which offers a daily selection of free apps to download.

France's junior minister for digital economy, Fleur Pellerin, branded Apple’s decision “extremely brutal and unilateral".

If you haven't installed last week's patch from Oracle that plugs dozens of critical holes in its Java software framework, now would be a good time. As in immediately. As in, really, right now.

Oracle describes the vulnerability as allowing remote code execution without authentication. And that means you should install the patch before you do anything else today.

The comeback, which features singer Pharrell Williams, had the biggest streaming day for a single track in the US and UK on the day of its release.

Random Access Memories is Daft Punk's first studio album since 2005's Human After All, though the band scored the Tron: Legacy soundtrack in 2010.

John Donahoe e-mails users to prevent enactment of a national internet sales tax he argues would place an unreasonable burden on small retailers.

The proposed legislation, which the Senate is expected to vote on this week, would allow states to require online vendors to collect sales and use tax on certain out-of-state purchases. Only businesses with less than $1 million in annual U.S. sales would be exempt.

A student wins in the Google #IfIHadGlass competition and tries to sell his glasses on eBay. He meets with opposition. He says he just wanted to pay off his student loans.

Ed didn't imagine, however, that the company that embraces openness as if it were a believable religion would put strictures on Google Glass usage. If owners try to resell or even lend their glasses to someone else, Google may simply cause the product to seize up.

Yes, Google is able to throw a remote brick through your lenses -- though some informed sources suggest the company has no intention of doing so.