A new Firefox extension aptly named "Flash Game Maximizer" is a must-have for any Flash game enthusiast. It does one thing, and does it well: letting you toggle between standard- and full-screen modes on any game--regardless of whether it has been coded with such an option.

Considering that Flash games are hosted all over the place, and rarely with a ubiquitous user interface, you're likely to run into a good number of them that must be played in whatever space they've been given on a Web page. With Flash Game Maximizer, however, you don't have to worry about this at all.

Once the extension has been installed, you'll get a new button on the bottom-right corner of your browser that turns yellow when it detects Flash. Clicking it resizes the game to fit your browser window

The world's most powerful particle accelerator will go live again in June at the earliest, after a shutdown in September.

Click image for gallery on the Large Hadron Collider.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which runs the Large Hadron Collider, previously suggested that the apparatus would be restarted in April, following maintenance. On Monday, however, it emerged that June would be the earliest possible date for operations to resume fully. It also became apparent that the cost of the repairs alone could be as high as $16 million.

The LHC is housed in a 17-mile-long circular tunnel nestled beneath the Swiss-French border in the Alps. It is designed to shoot streams of particles aro

Topping Tuesday's news, of course, is the announcement that Jerry Yang will step down as CEO of Yahoo. CNET News reporters Stephen Shankland and Elinor Mills talk about what the executive shift will mean for the company--and for a possible resurrection of Microsoft's acquisition offer.

That, and other headlines of the day, on Tuesday's podcast.

Today's stories:

Microhoo revisited: Would it be a search-only deal?

Yahoo CEO Yang to step down

DivX sues Yahoo over canceled ad deal

HP sees fourth-quarter sales boost

Google 'Voice Search' hands-on verdict: Awesome

Six cars for your iPod

Three hospitals in London were forced to shut down their networks Tuesday after being infected with a computer virus.

"Emergency procedures have been activated to ensure that key clinical systems continue while network access is being established. We have maintained a safe environment for our patients throughout the incident," a statement on the site for Barts and The London hospital system said.

"Manual backup systems are in use and we are in the process of restoring the computer systems with priority being given to the most important areas for maintaining patients services," the statement said.

The hospitals affected are St. Bartholomew's, the Royal London Hospital and The London Chest Hospital. The BBC quotes a sp

Tanya Vlach wants to turn her artificial eye into a bionic eye.

Three years after losing her left eye in a car accident, San Franciscan Tanya Vlach wants to make her artificial eye more useful: She's planning to put a video camera in her eye socket with the goal of having a bionic eye.

Asked in an e-mail what her inspiration is, Vlach wrote: