Genetic material has been used to store information for around five billion years. Now scientists have discovered a way to use it to store the information we desire
Terry Jones: I’m really excited by George Bush’s latest reason for bombing Iraq: he’s running out of patience. And so am I!
Telstra is considering launching a 128kbps symmetrical ISDN product before the end of the financial year in a move to extend high-speed Internet access across its regional user base
Andrew O’Conner, a former public defender, was abruptly interrupted at the St John’s College Library when city police officers arrested him at the computer terminal he was using, handcuffed him, and brought him for questioning by Secret Service agents who accused him of making threatening remarks about the retarded monkey boy in an Internet chat room. Interestingly enough, US senators from both parties are accusing the FBI of excessive secrecy and demanding details of how federal agents use antiterrorist laws to spy on people’s Internet activity
Members of the W3C are leading by fiat, not example, according to the third biannual survey, published by Helsinki, Finland-based Web designer Marko Karppinen. It showed that a vast majority of the W3C member home pages do not pass the standards body’s own test for compliance with W3C recommendations
The South Australian Government is drafting legislation to fight identity theft — the process of assuming another persons identity for nefarious reasons
Telstra is rigging a major upgrade of its network switching gear from 1 gigabit a second to 10 gigabits a second
The vast majority of people say they have been mentally tortured at one point in their lives by a song that keeps repeating itself over and over in their heads
One of the Federal Government’s main policy objectives, a free trade agreement with the United States, could damage the interests of farmers and hurt Australia’s broader economic interests, according to an independent report
Amnesia, a small Australian dot-com, claims to have found the solution to the problem of selling music online in a way that satisfies both consumers and record labels, and has received backing from Telstra to bring it to market
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service took careful note last summer as computer hobbyists Jason Kaczor and Brad Haines invited participants to help find access points to wireless networks in Red Deer, Alta
Computer games that simulate killings of particular races are being sold over the internet and Australian laws are ineffective to deal with them
Greenpeace activists, some dressed as tigers, forced the closure of Esso’s British headquarters and 100 petrol stations yesterday as a protest against what it called the firm’s fuelling of the Iraq crisis
Environmental pollution crusader Erin Brockovich and her partner, Ed Masry, have a new cause — allegedly cancer-causing gases they say are leaking into the air in Los Angeles
Hard working Nigerian craftsmen say they have run into an unexpected problem when trying to sign up for a new national identity card scheme: their fingerprints have worn out
School officials ordered a 16-year-old student to either take off a t-shirt emblazoned with the words International Terrorist
and a picture of President Bush or go home, saying they worried it would inflame passions at the school where a majority of students are Arab-American
A lawsuit over possibly fraudulent withdrawals from cash machines in London could gag academic research into the vulnerabilities of banks’ cryptographic systems
Dr Klaus Lackner has invented an artificial tree designed to do the job of plants. But the synthetic tree does not much resemble the leafy variety
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences. On this February day, as this nation stands at the brink of battle, every American on some level must be contemplating the horrors of war… Robert Byrd, a US senator, appeals to fellow Americans to reject the administration’s outrageous, reckless and inexcusable
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