The US Department of Commerce has quietly renewed ICANN’s contract to run the Internet — but other organisations are crying foul, saying ICANN is simply not up to the job
The construction of one of Britain’s most famous ancient landmarks, the towering megaliths at Stonehenge, might have been supervised by the Swiss, or maybe even the Germans
A start-up company, Neah Power Systems, says it has developed a way to make fuel cells out of silicon, a change that potentially could increase the performance of cells and make them easier to manufacture.
Several Colorado lawmakers are supporting legislation to elevate the status of cats and dogs from property to companions
Mobile phone maker Nokia has warned that a growing number of its handsets are being damaged by badly made or counterfeit batteries from other companies
Ratepayers in the City of Stonnington have helped pay for a booklet by a pro-life group that claims there is a link between abortion and breast cancer. The claim has been condemned by a leading cancer specialist as untrue and scare mongering
France and Germany have developed a secret alternative plan to war against Iraq in which thousands of armed UN troops would enforce Saddam Hussein’s disarmament
GE has a new polymer called Sollx that covers plastic surfaces and is more resistant to scratches and random chemicals compared to conventional paint — via Slashdot
Michael Fey, a priest from Duisburg Germany, built a computer interface into his washing machine to let it run an automatic brewing program
Madeleine Rees, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bosnia, has broken ranks to demand that UN officials, international peacekeepers and police who are involved in sex crimes be should be stripped of their immunity and prosecuted in their home countries
Ageing television satellites in orbit could become part of a European digital radio service for drivers
Engineering Professor Susumu Tachi, from the University of Tokyo, claims he and his research team have developed a system that can make you invisible
A man has been charged with killing twelve wombats in multiple hit and runs along a road in the Wollemi National Park
The retarded monkey boy has signed a secret directive ordering the government to develop, for the first time, national-level guidance for determining when and how the United States would launch cyber-attacks against enemy computer networks
The retarded monkey boy‘s plan for a massive antiterrorism database centre, announced in his state of the union address last week, could be up and running within months, from a technology standpoint. But harder to overcome will be privacy concerns of a non-technical nature
The Bush administration is drafting a proposal that would greatly increase logging in national forests in the Sierra Nevada and effectively jettison an elaborate set of environmental protections adopted in 2000 after years of study and analysis
British scientists at the National Physical Laboratory in London have invented the darkest material on Earth. The key to the nickel and phosphorous coating’s blackness is that its surface is pitted with microscopic craters — via Slashdot
The cut-throat battle between Microsoft’s Xbox games machine and Sony’s PlayStation 2 has put Microsoft’s Home and Entertainment division US$348 million in the red
Only a couple of weeks after its networks became infected with the ExploreZip virus, the BBC has managed to mail a copy of the Sobig worm to fans of the long-running Radio 4 show, The Archers
Five jurors in the trial of a medicinal marijuana advocate issued a public apology to him and demanded that the judge grant him a new trial
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