Hillary Rosen, chairman and CEO of the ever clueless RIAA, has said that telcos and ISPs will be asked to pay up for giving their customers access to free song-swapping sites
Imagine the human genome as music. Unravel DNA’s double helix, picture its components lined up like piano keys, and assign a note to each. Run your finger along the keys. Spanish scientists did that just for fun and recorded what they call an audio version of the blueprint for life
Four people are confirmed dead and up to 400 homes are in ruins after the devastating firestorm that swept through large areas of Canberra at the weekend. The historic Mount Stromlo Observatory was largely destroyed, along with equipment and property worth an estimated $20 million. Fierce flames claimed five telescopes, the workshop, eight staff homes and the main dome
A day of world-wide protests against a looming US-led war on Iraq has culminated in giant peace rallies in Washington, San Francisco and other US cities
The increase in use of embedded operating systems is causing strange things to happen to consumer products. Such as Windows CE in the BMW 745i occasionally causing the car to go nuts
A New York court has ruled that Network Associates, a maker of antivirus and computer security software, may not require people who buy the software to get permission from the company before publishing reviews of its products
At the heart of Microsoft’s new CD protection technology is the laying of songs onto a copy-controlled CD in multiple layers, one that would permit normal playback on a stereo and a PC — via Slashdot
The Western Australian Internet Association has criticised MediaForce, an organisation claiming to represent Warner Bros, for sending letters to Australian ISPs asking them to terminate the accounts of users alleged to have breached copyright requirements
Scientists have announced they had devised an instant test for detecting the plague, providing a powerful weapon in the fight against bioterrorism and for combating the disease in poor countries where it remains a peril
A Europe-wide ban on the use of animals to test cosmetic products has been approved with an overwhelming majority by the European Parliament. It took 10 years of argument, but under the final compromise agreed the European Union will bring in the ban by 2009. However, there are some loopholes which have been condemned by animal rights groups as unacceptable
The United States of America has gone mad. The reaction to 11 September is beyond anything Osama bin Laden could have hoped for. As in McCarthy times, the freedoms that have made America the envy of the world are being systematically eroded
The Supreme Court’s decisive ruling to uphold a law extending copyrights for 20 years will force public-domain advocates to compete ever more fiercely with the powerful entertainment lobby
An aerospace company is proposing to deploy what it calls a space sheepdog
to usher space junk safely out of orbit. It could even put the junk’s spare momentum to good use
Using just 30 pounds-worth of equipment, 19 Greenpeace protesters successfully broke into the control building at Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk in a bid to highlight what they said was the plant’s vulnerability
Global warming and the pollution believed to lie behind it are key reasons for the severity of Australia’s drought, an ominous sign for the future of the food-producing nation. The report, by the environmental group World Wide Fund for Nature Australia and two meteorologists, said record day-time temperatures last year led to unprecedented rates of water evaporation
In a case that underscores the increasing importance search rankings have on business, Google Technologies is fighting to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that it purposely devalued the search rankings of online advertising network Search King
Hackers from around the world will converge on MIT on Friday to swap intelligence and marshal their collective brainpower for the fight against a seemingly indomitable opponent — spam
Local ISPs have doused reported attempts by a US digital copyright solutions company to force them to terminate the Internet contracts of customers suspected of breaching copyright rules
PalmSource has decided to stop using Graffiti for text input in all future versions of its operating system. Instead, it will switch to using a version of CIC’s Jot recognition system, which will be called Graffiti 2
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