Scientists at the University of Manchester have created the world’s thinnest substance, a sheet of carbon one atom thick. Called graphene
, the substance will revolutionise the computer industry, allowing transistors to be built on a far smaller scale than today. The team has already used the substance to build a transistor for single electrons
Computer hackers have scored a victory in their battle against Sony and the way the company controls its PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld games console. Last month three hacker teams — Noobz, Team C+D and a group led by PSP hacker Dark Alex — co-ordinating their efforts over the internet, found a flaw in the most recently released version of the firmware — version 3.03. Using this flaw they devised a way to unlock all PSPs, regardless of their age or the firmware running on it
Emergency workers attending the scene of a dirty
bomb or nuclear blast could soon have a drug to help protect them
The BBC has struck a content deal with YouTube, the web’s most popular video sharing website, owned by Google. Three YouTube channels — one for news and two for entertainment — will showcase short clips of BBC content. The BBC hopes that the deal will help it reach YouTube’s monthly audience of more than 70 million users and drive extra traffic to its own website. The corporation will also get a share of the advertising revenue generated by traffic to the new YouTube channels
Australia’s first commercial wave-generated power station will in weeks begin supplying homes south of Sydney with electricity and fresh drinking water, courtesy of the sea. Lying anchored just 100 metres (yards) off a popular surf beach near Wollongong, a city of around 200,000 people just south of Sydney, the 485-tonne plant will power 500 homes along the local grid. Electricity is generated when waves wash into a funnel facing the ocean, driving air through a pipe and into a turbine capable of pumping 500kw of clean power each day into the local grid. The A$6 million (US$4.7 million) floating plant, built to withstand a 1-in-100 year storm, can also desalinate 2,000 litres of drinking water each day for almost as many homes as it powers
An antiviral drug widely used to treat hepatitis B causes some people with HIV to become rapidly resistant to their medication. The finding could have major implications for over four million people worldwide who are jointly infected with hepatitis B and HIV
Watch Violet the octopus stalk and kill a live crab.
The useless twats at Channel Ten claim to have signed Torchwood. What a nightmare. I can see it now; the show will overhyped in a manner contrary to its style prior to screening, butchered beyond belief when it does air, suffer from unannounced timeslot changes before being banished to 2:00am, then it’ll be ditched halfway through its run with no further word. Where the hell was Aunty while Ten was poaching on their patch?
Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months. The online service is part of a larger move to introduce ad-supported online services to complement its existing products and broaden the company reach into the consumer market
New technology developed by Keio University researchers that creates artificial bacterial DNA that can carry more than 100 bits of data within the genome sequence. The researchers claimed that they encoded e= mc² 1905!
on the common soil bacteria, Bacillius subtilis. The bacteria-based data storage method has backup and long-term archival functionality
Virtualisation software vendor Parallels has released an update to its Parallels Desktop virtualisation software for Intel-based Apple Macs. The biggest update to the new version is Coherence, a feature that enables Mac users running Parallels to run and access Windows applications from their Mac desktops via virtualisation rather than switching between operating systems
The Canadian parliament has voted against renewing anti-terror laws that had been introduced after 11 September 2001. The rejected laws included provisions to hold terror suspects indefinitely, and to compel witnesses to testify, and were in some sense Canada’s version fo the Patriot Act. The laws were voted down in the face of claims from the minority Conservative government that the Liberal Party was soft on terror, and despite the fact that Canada has faced active terrorist cells in their own country. The anti-terror laws have never been used, and it was viewed that they are neither relevant, nor needed, in dealing with terrorist plots. Hopefully more countries will come to the same conclusion — via Slashdot
When Firefox 3.0 is released later this year, the open-source browser is likely to contain a host of new features, including offline support for Web applications and new bookmark and search features. Mozilla released the second alpha version of Firefox 3.0 earlier this month
One of Australia’s best-known rock musicians, Billy Thorpe, has died at the age of 60. The singer suffered a massive heart attack at his home in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, early this morning. The singer worked for a series of bands in Sydney after emigrating from England, including in a support act for Johnny O’Keefe
Australia Post is planning to expand its use of radio frequency identification tags following their successful use in monitoring mail. The organisation has already set up much of the infrastructure it will need to broaden its use of radio frequency identification
Google is planning to sell Australian users licences for its web-based office productivity suite, Google Apps, under a local-currency pricing scheme
A US federal appeals court noted that a federal law was designed to ensure that within broad limits, message board operators would not be held responsible for the postings made by others on that board
, adding that, were the law otherwise, it would have an obvious chilling effect
on blogger speech
University of Washington Scientists are reporting that they have a new autonomous underwater vehicle that increases both the attainable depth and duration of deployment over current submersibles. Weighing in at just under 65kg, the Deepglider
is able to stay out to sea for up to a year and hit depths of 2,700m
The latest breed of surveillance cameras, known as intelligent video
, could transform cameras from passive observers to eyes with brains, able to detect suspicious behavior and potentially prevent crime before it occurs
2a26ref=”http://uk.gay.com/headlines/11114″>Female koalas enjoy lesbian romps, rejecting male suitors and attempting to mate with each other, sometimes up to five at a time, according to researchers. The cute, eucalyptus-eating wombat-like creatures seem to develop this tendency for gay orgies when they are in captivity. In the wild, they appear to remain heterosexual. Scientists monitoring the marsupials with digital cameras counted three gay interactions for every straight one — via Feòrag
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