Xerox has made a chance discovery lets printers superimpose glossy images on regular printouts, creating the possibility for document authentication along the lines of holograms on credit cards
The retarded monkey boy is seeking funds for a controversial project to drive gas pipelines from pristine rainforests in the Peruvian Amazon to the coast. The plan will enrich some of Bush’s closest corporate campaign contributors while risking the destruction of rainforest, threatening its indigenous peoples and endangering rare species on the coast
Japanese lawmakers and bureaucrats support alternative energy as a home-grown business that can help cut energy costs
Web Access has been ordered to reverse the transfer of more than 500 Australian domain names it made during the past two months
Israel’s Parliament has passed a law preventing Palestinians who marry Israelis from living in Israel. The move was denounced by human rights organisations as racist, undemocratic and discriminatory. And the homophobic the retarded monkey boy said he remained firmly opposed to gay marriages and that administration lawyers were working to ensure that the term marriage would cover only unions between men and women. A stance that has created a backlash against the Vatican
Give Franz Josef Och, a researcher at the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California, enough parallel data and you can have a translation system for any two languages in a matter of hours. His approach relies on two concepts, gathering huge amounts of data, and applying statistical models to this data — it completely ignores grammar rules and dictionaries — the computer-encoded equivalents of the famous Rosetta Stone inscriptions
For many IT managers a weeklong failure of the corporate email system under their control would be more traumatic than a divorce
As much of the world nears an Internet address crunch, North America stands as an island apart, threatening to fragment plans for the biggest overhaul of the Web in decades
The FBI is so scared that Internet telephone calls are fast becoming a national security threat that must be countered with new police wiretap rules. Yet another intrusion into your privacy
Waste product from a Coca-Cola plant in India which the company provides as fertiliser for local farmers contains toxic chemicals. Dangerous levels of the known carcinogen cadmium have been found in the sludge produced from the plant in the southern state of Kerala. Coca-Cola denies the reports and say they will continue to supply the sludge to farmers
MIT student, James Patten, has created a Corporate Fallout Detector. It acts and looks like a Geiger counter, but it’s a barcode scanner with an internal, updateable database of corporate misdeeds, with both Pollution and Corporate Ethics modes
Paul Darrow, who played the ruthless anti-hero Avon, is in a consortium that has acquired the rights to Blake’s 7 in a deal to bring the show back to screens more than 20 years after it ended
While much of Europe seeks to fortify its borders against unwanted foreigners, dozens of Spanish villages have invited immigrants to move in
Medical researchers have warned that wearing a tie could be bad for your eyes. A report in the British Journal of Ophthalmology has shown that a tight necktie raises blood pressure in the eye, increasing the chances of developing glaucoma
Australia’s internet service providers who are excluded from the notorious ‘gang of four’ peering arrangement are steadily forming a more inclusive gang of their own, with help from PIPE Networks, a new national internet exchange operator
Napster may be long dead, but the name and the kitty logo of the pioneer online music-swapping program could return to cyberspace before the year is out. Roxio, which owns the rights to the Napster name, plans to shelve its current online music service, pressplay, and roll out Napster 2.0 by Christmas
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission plans to have an automated robot trawl the web for suspicious sites and discussion board postings could be operational by October
An unusual suspect is being used in Western Queensland to deter feral dogs from having a woolly snack. Tambo Grazier Andrew Marin has employed alpacas to protect sheep flocks from predators and he says so far it seems to be working. Alpacas are highly protective of their herds and more than capable of killing a dog if threatened
Monty, a Shih-Tzu, in Greater Manchester has been offered a gold credit card from the Royal Bank of Scotland with a spending limit of £10,000
A bamboo bicycle is a strong step towards making bicycling more sustainable, especially in contrast to aluminium, one of the most resource demanding materials that exist — via Slashdot
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