Back in the 60’s, archive space at the BBC was hard to come by, forcing the broadcaster to delete some of its own material. Now, a TV show that fell victim to this regime has been resurrected, with the BBC using a pirate recording of the show’s audio to bring it back to life
The blocking mechanism used to censor Wikipedia in the UK has been described as fragile
and easy to evade
by Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton
Microsoft’s Live Labs on Wednesday introduced a new service that lets users collect snippets of information from Web sites and share the collections with others. A user investigating vacation ideas, for example, might find Thumbtack helpful. Once users log into Thumbtack, they can copy a portion of a Web site, perhaps one that describes a hotel in a particular city, and paste it into a new collection in Thumbtack. The information appears in Thumbtack as an item in a box that can be placed anywhere on the collection page or as an item in a list. The user can continue browsing online for other hotels, similarly cutting and pasting relevant information into the Thumbtack collection
Police have arrested Mark Chopper
Read over an altercation this morning involving an iron bar at a Collingwood pawnbrokers
Google has published its year-end Zeitgeist, the tool which reveals what internet users are searching for
Internode, iPrimus and Westnet have all made ABC’s online video site iView unmetered content. These ISPs follow iiNet, which has unmetered the iView service since its launch in July. The site features full TV episodes that have previously aired on the ABC such as The 7.30 Report and The Bill
When a car’s underbody or a ship’s hull begins to corrode, it usually ends up junked. New protective coatings developed at the University of Illinois heal over their own scratches with no external intervention, protecting the underlying metal. The self-healing elements, enclosed in microcapsules that rip open when the coating is scratched, are compatible with a wide range of paints and protective coatings. The coatings, being marketed by Autonomic Materials of Champaign, IL, may be on the market in as soon as four months
A British Steam Car is a step closer to breaking the longest held speed record after completing a number of successful runs. After a first successful low-speed run last week at Newton Park, the car was shipped to the MoD’s Thorney Island facility near Portsmouth for a series of higher speed runs this week
University of Utah researchers have invented technology that could come to be embraced by teenagers with the same enthusiasm they have for curfews and ID checks. And like those things, it could save their lives. Key2SafeDriving technology uses RFID or Bluetooth wireless capabilities to issue signals from car keys to mobile phones to prevent drivers from talking on their phones or texting while driving
Bettie Page, the brunette pinup queen with a shoulder-length pageboy hairdo and kitschy bangs whose saucy photos helped usher in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, has died. She was 85
In a lawsuit, the US charged the music unit of Sony of collecting information from more than 30,000 children under the age of 13 since 2004
The UK government has changed its mind: it now supports retroactive copyright term extension for musicians, up from 50 to 70 years. The end result for the majority of aging artists? A paltry £30 per year
A fast-charging laptop battery that promises to last at least three years without any degradation in performance is coming to the market as an option with Hewlett-Packard laptops. The Sonata battery is the product of three years of development work by Boston-Power and will be rebranded by HP as the Enviro
battery and offered from early 2009 with select machines. The battery can be charged to 80 percent of capacity in 30 minutes, which could be useful for travellers who only have a limited amount of time near an electric outlet, and will go 1,000 charges before the battery’s capacity begins degrading. That’s a charge a day for three years — or four years if it’s only used on weekdays — so it should last the average life of a business laptop. Common laptop batteries today start to degrade after 300 charges
Wikipedia functionality has returned for Brits after the country’s internet watchdog reversed its decision to prevent users in that country from visiting a Wikipedia page containing an image of a naked child
There is a giant black hole at the centre of our galaxy, a 16-year study by German astronomers has confirmed
The Government’s plan to censor the internet is in tatters, with Australia’s largest ISP saying it will not take part in live trials of the system and the second largest committing only to a scaled-back trial. And the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has written to critics saying that the so-called live
trials would be a closed network test and will not involve actual customers
. Greens Senator Scott Ludlam said this was a sign the Government was slowly backing away from the heavily criticised policy
Among international outrages, depriving citizens of personalised maps seems far down on the list. Still, that was the condition put on the introduction of Apple’s iPhone 3G in Egypt. The government demanded that Apple disable the phone’s global-positioning system, arguing that GPS is a military prerogative
The simple act of climbing could throw space elevators off track and potentially into harm’s way, a new study suggests. Fixing the problem could require agonisingly slow trips lasting nearly a month or the careful choreography of multiple climbers
Identity thieves who claim they stole details of 21 million German bank accounts are offering to sell the data on the black market for €12 million (US$15.3 million)
A genetic marker which makes some people more likely to be hooked on cigarettes could also allow them to drink their friends under the table by dampening their body’s response to alcohol
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