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, a pilot made for last year’s upfronts that was never picked up, is being put back into development by NBC after gaining attention on YouTube
Google Earth, the satellite imaging site that brought us hovering cars, is now the source of a mysterious new find — this time an unusual man-made landscape in a remote part of China. The Chinese site based in the very remote Huangyangtan region, appears to be a small-scale model of a piece of territory complete with snow-topped mountains, streams and valleys via Warren Ellis
Scientists have managed to regrow nerve fibres after a spinal injury. Using an enzyme called sialidase, isolated from bacteria, researchers were able to stimulate nerve fibre growth in rats
Troubled telco iiNet has started looking for a buyer for its iHug-branded New Zealand business
A Net neutrality law isn’t needed because the US already has antitrust laws that would keep broadband carriers from acting in an uncompetitive manner, Internet pioneer David Farber said Monday in a debate against TCP/IP co-creator Vinton Cerf
Microsoft has filed 26 lawsuits against alleged dealers of pirated software in seven US states. Microsoft claims the companies sold pirated software or computers loaded with pirated software
Giant office equipment maker Ricoh will next year supply an optical component that reads both HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs. The move could take the heat out of the battle between rivals Toshiba and Sony over next-generation DVD formats
The Australian domain name regulator will seek to expand its powers beyond basic domain administration in an extraordinary general meeting of its members to be held in mid-August
On the directions of the government of India, Indian ISPs have started censoring and blocking web properties. This was first noticed by Indian bloggers and upon inquiring with their respective ISPs, the actions are confirmed. Unfortunately, Blogspot and TypePad are the targets until now — via Slashdot
Researchers at Hewlett-Packard have developed a tiny wireless memory spot
chip that can store up to 100 pages of text. Developed over four years by HP Labs in Bristol, the chip is about the size of the head of a match and could potentially store a patient’s medical chart on a hospital band
Indian Scientists have succeeded in developing a vaccine against the bird flu disease that has affected poultry business in many parts of the world. This was formally announced, and ICAR Director-General Mangala Rai described this as a big step forward in tackling the highly pathogenic avian influenza
A research group in China has reportedly developed a third-party application that allows users to communicate with Skype Voice-over-Internet (VoIP) phone calls. Skype has issued a statement that there is no evidence of such reverse-engineering and that, even if true, such a clone would not have the feature set and reliability of Skype
Demand for interoperability will pressure vendors like Apple to bring down technology barriers — or face consequences — via digg
A little-known capability in Google’s search engine has helped security vendor Websense uncover thousands of malicious Web sites, as well as several legitimate sites that have been hacked. By taking advantage Google’s binary search capability, Websense has created new software tools that can sniff out malware using the popular search engine. Websense researchers Googled for strings that were used in known malware like the Bagel and Mytob worms and have uncovered about 2,000 malicious Web sites over the past month
Researchers at Microsoft this week released a new report and tool aimed at preventing Web spammers from exploiting Internet search engines to drive traffic to spam URLs. The tool, called the Strider Search Defender, identifies spam URLs that are being distributed through social networking, forum and blog-hosting Web sites, and can prevent those URLs from being indexed by search engines, said Yi-Min Wang, group manager of the Cybersecurity and Systems Management Research Group in Microsoft Research
Suspended animation tests have been successfully carried out with pigs. The pig that was the subject of the article was kept in suspended animation for two hours, and Duggan and his team have successfully suspended hundreds of pigs for an hour at a time. It’s still a far cry from a spaceship filled with sleep pods, but would be just the ticket for doctors who need to buy extra time to save lives — via Slashdot
According to the World Conservation Union, the West African black rhinoceros has likely gone extinct and Africa’s northern white rhino could soon follow
People stopping to smell the roses can now take that sweet floral fragrance home with them or even send it to a faraway grandmother thanks to a new gadget in Japan that records and replicates the world’s odours. Creator Takamichi Nakamoto says the technology will have applications in food and fragrance industries where companies want to replicate odours — via Warren Ellis
Australian scientists have found the strongest evidence so far that bacteria play a key role in forming gold grains and nuggets. They have found bacteria that remove gold from the soil and deposit pure grains of it around them
Northrop Grumman forecasting development of a laser shield bubble for airports and other installations in the United States within 18 months. The system will be called Skyguard — a joint venture with Israel and the US Army. It will have the capability to generate a shield five kilometres in radius
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