A red wolf that escaped earlier this month from the Binghamton zoo has been found dead. Officials at the Ross Park Zoo say the wolf’s body was found late yesterday afternoon in a ravine on private property behind the zoo. It will come as no surprise to anyone that the wolf was shot by a moron
Netcraft has released an Anti-Phishing Toolbar that provides detailed information about the web site you are visiting (sites’ hosting location, country, longevity and popularity) at all times to help users to validate fraudulent URLs
eBay has announced that its users no longer will be able to sign in to its Web sites using Passport, Microsoft’s identity-management technology. Earlier this year, online job site Monster.com dropped Passport. The defections raise doubts about the technology’s future
A week after San Francisco’s Genetic Savings and Clone revealed the sale of their first cat to a customer, GS&C acknowledges it has been hired by anonymous buyers in Hollywood to bank genes of show business animals
Russia has announced that it will no longer ferry US astronauts to space for free as it has been doing for two years. From 2006 the US will be expected to pay
Transparent electronics is an emerging technology which aims to produce invisible electronic circuits. Now, researchers from Oregon report they made a major advance in transparent electronics. Their zinc-tin-oxide thin-film
materials are amorphous, physically robust, chemically stable and cheap to produce at just above room temperature. These new materials and transistors offer many new possibilities for consumer electronics, transportation, business and the military
There’s a trailer for Sin City on Apple’s preview site. The film is being co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller himself. The video is dinky in size but it is gorgeous, it really looks like they somehow took Miller’s comic style and made it into a movie. High contrast, sometimes looks like line art, cool sparse use of colour — via Slashdot
Consumers will spend billions this holiday season on CDs, DVDs and machines to record and play the ubiquitous silver discs. But the inventor of the underlying technology won’t make a cent. Today, Jim Russell does consulting from a lab in the basement of his Bellevue home to keep in the game and supplement a modest pension from Battelle
British design engineer Glynne Bowsher and his team, the British Steam Car Challenge, have almost finished building a super-fast steam-powered vehicle reminiscent of the Batmobile. And this car puts a new technological breath of life into what is regarded as a traditional means of power
An all IPv6 backbone was launched this weekend in China. CERNET2 is the biggest next-generation Internet network in operation in the world and connects 25 universities in 20 cities. The speed in the backbone network reaches 2.5 to 10 gigabits per second and connects the universities at a speed of 1 to 10 gigabits per second
This week CleanSoftware.org was launched, a resource site with a unique goal: listing free, daily-use software that is free from spyware, adware, and other malicious/intrusive components
Authorities in New Zealand’s South Island say thieves have dismantled and carried off most of a 30-metre long bridge. Large sections of the aluminium bridge were taken from a wetland reserve south-west of Dunedin. It had been installed with the aid of a helicopter. Authorities say the bridge pieces will probably be sold for scrap
Dropping its daily diet of stories on crime, corruption and evil wrongdoing, Germany’s top-selling Bild newspaper printed only good news in its Christmas issue. No parking tickets today — traffic wardens have day off!
the newspaper with 12 million readers wrote. The paper turned a scandal involving the opposition Christian Democrats on its head, cheering a generous severance payment of 52,000 euros that the disgraced general secretary, Laurenz Meyer, received after quitting under pressure on Wednesday
Ben Browder, best known as Farscape’s John Crichton, will become a Stargate SG-1 regular starting from season nine, joining the SG-1 team although is role is unclear. He will fill the gap left by Anderson who’s unlikely to return except for small appearances. Claudia Black, Farscape’s Aeryn Sun, is also going to play in a fair number of episodes
A 16-foot wide asteroid has passed the Earth in a phenomenally close call. The Asteroid, named 2004 YD5, passed just below the 22,300 mile range where geostationary satellites sit. What makes the incident most interesting is that the asteroid was not seen until after it passed the Earth, due to the well-known Cosmic Blind Spot caused by the Sun
The Metropolitan Police will no longer describe black people as black, as part of a new attempt to counter charges of racism in the force. Both black and Asian people will in future be referred to as visible minority ethnics. The term, which replaces the phrase black and Asian minority ethnics
, is expected to be adopted officially in January
A course of injections in childhood might help protect people from heart disease later in life. And for those whose arteries are already clogged up, a dose of antibodies could provide immediate benefits. That is the enticing vision raised by animal studies
An image-scanner built into a light and bendy sheet of plastic that you can keep in your wallet has been developed in Japan. The credit-card-sized device will be powered by plugging it into a mobile phone, which also displays and stores the scanned images. It’s so flexible it can even scan curved surfaces such as wine bottle labels. With no moving parts or lights needed, its developers hope it could be on the market in three years’ time for just $10
Hundreds of thousands of secret Whitehall files are being shredded before the public gains the right to see them under the Freedom of Information Act on 1 January. Figures obtained by The Independent show a dramatic escalation in the destruction of confidential papers before the new rights of access come into force. Whitehall departments, including the Department of Trade and Industry, have almost doubled the number of files they have destroyed since the Freedom of Information Act became law
A European court on Wednesday dealt a blow to Microsoft, ordering the company to start offering a version of Windows without a bundled-in media player. Bo Vesterdorf, president of the European Court of First Instance, said that Microsoft must comply with penalties imposed by the European Commission in March even as the company’s appeal wends its way through the system
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