A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, US, say they have developed a way to record mouse movements on a page and learn how people behave when they are on the internet
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth — that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. But sanity was a prior casualty: it was the loss of sanity that led to war in the first place
It may come as no surprise that Keanu Reeves isn’t exactly motivated by money. He has even signed away a sizeable back-end deal for two Matrix sequels, handing over his valuable profit-sharing points to the franchise’s special-effects and costume-design team
A swig of beer could one day protect you from HIV, if a US company succeeds in making an ultra-cheap vaccine out of brewer’s yeast. Because a yeast-based vaccine could be brewed up quickly and easily, it would be very cheap. Just 100 litres could provide 5 million doses
Researchers have found that control programs based on the foraging behaviour of ants can keep data networks running more efficiently and cope with congestion better than many human alternatives
Four of Australia’s biggest telecommunications companies, Optus, AAPT, Macquarie Corporate and Primus, have banded together to challenge the pricing power of industry incumbent Telstra
Telstra is boasting about its lowest complaints tally in three years, but the industry ombudsman says that’s only because there haven’t been enough operators to take calls
There are only nine Australian Federal Police officers to cover the forensic investigation of cybercrimes countrywide, and local companies are still skimming off the cream of the crop in their own fight against data criminals
One of the oldest forms of life on Earth has been revealed as a natural born computer programmer
Mindstorms, Lego’s high-tech robotics kit, was an immediate hit. And after hackers cracked the operating system, it became an even bigger hit. Now Lego is left with a conundrum: Leave well enough alone, or sue the bastards?
Circling some 380 km above Earth, US astronaut Frank Culbertson and two Russian cosmonauts spotted towering clouds from the collapse of the trade centre’s twin towers as the International Space Station and its crew passed over the north-eastern US
News-hungry surfers bogged down the Internet’s infrastructure, searching for information about the tragedy and contact with loved ones. Affected companies, such as those housed in the collapsed World Trade Centre and the airlines whose jets were hijacked for use in the attacks, posted information and referrals on their often-clogged web sites
Consumers could be unwittingly consenting to being spied upon when they opt to accept online agreements associated with software downloads, legal experts warn, following alarming new research into the practice
Aspiring basketballers who want to be taller could one day genetically modify themselves to have their dreams fulfilled now that Melbourne researchers have discovered two genes that are vital in determining the height of men
About a million schoolchildren across Britain have taken part in a mass jump — but their feet failed to make the impact scientists had hoped for
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has for the first time given his approval to a Commonwealth-backed deal to end the farm seizure crisis
An eerie glow from salmon drying in a smokehouse startled some residents of Holy Cross, a Yupik Eskimo village of about 300 on the lower Yukon River in Alaska
European delegates at a UN anti-racism conference reportedly agree to apologise for the slave trade, but will not have to pay reparations
A California woman has filed a lawsuit against an independent record label for embedding technology in CDs that blocks people from listening to songs on a computer
MI5 has told some of Britain’s biggest companies that it may be prepared to provide intelligence on their business partners and rivals abroad. For the first time, the security service this week openly invited representatives from industry and finance to its headquarters in Millbank, London, for a seminar called Secret Work in an Open Society
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