Hunting skills may not after all have triggered the tremendous burst of human evolution at the beginning of the ice ages nearly two million years ago. Instead of man the hunter, the driving force behind this evolutionary surge may have been woman the gatherer, with both mother and grandmother playing a vital role
McDonald’s has pulled the plug on what had been envisioned as a global digital network linking its fast-food restaurants, headquarters and vendors
Portland politicians said it was okay for police to seize a citizen’s garbage without a search warrant. But when some reporters swiped their garbage and reported the contents they screamed foul play — via Slashdot
Dan Jackson is distributing an unfortunately named program that will remove the security from Microsoft Reader ebooks. Once the security is removed, it then allows the book to be converted to html, text or any other format — via Slashdot
Bill Talen, known as Reverend Billy, has been exhorting people to resist temptation — the temptation to shop
Internet domain name registrar Register.com last week won a preliminary injunction against Domain Registry of America, a reseller of domain name registrations, that it accuses of deceiving Register.com customers into transferring their registrations
Microsoft’s biggest threat isn’t Linux, OpenOffice, or any piece of software at all — its themselves. Over the last eighteen months two distinctly different Microsoft cultures have emerged, often in opposition to each other
New Zealand scientists are redesigning how the ‘Back’ button works in your browser. They point to the fact that the current Back
is more of an Up
in a stack of pages. They propose a system that records all pages visited
Apple is applying for a patent to release devices capable of dynamically changing their ornamental or decorative appearance — via Slashdot
Lesley McCulloch is paying the ultimate price for her own academic integrity
. After being jailed by the Indonesian authorities for her academic research into human rights abuses
Does abortion lead to breast cancer? Does condom use lead to increased sexual activity? According to the government, the answer is now inconclusive, as they blindly alter low-level scientific conclusions to satisfy conservatives
Each year, governments chip away at citizens’ civil liberties. It’s a tactic the United States condemned during the Cold War but now uses in the war on terror
On the internet, you can learn about virtually anything. You can seek comfort from others similarly afflicted by a rare disease or explore such sensitive topics as birth control. Just as long as you’re not connecting from work, a school or a public library
Hole after hole, breach after breach, flaw after flaw is found — and most of the time, it’s in a Windows system. Yet hackers generally don’t exploit them. Why is that?
Renewable Energy Generators Australia said that a report recommending the end to a mandated target for increased green energy use was flawed and would put at risk billions of dollars in investment
After seeing wolves in the zoo and on television, the Utah trapper who accidentally caught a wolf near Morgan last month was sure he would recognise a wolf if he ever saw one in the wild. An event that has caused somewhat of an uproar in Utah
Ukrainian police at Rovno, southern Ukraine, have seized a batch of radioactive xmas trees that businessmen were selling at local markets for the upcoming Orthodox festive season
A British woman, told by her construction worker husband to expect an expensive vehicle
for Christmas, naturally expected a sports car, but she was wrong. Denise Guy, 54, opened her front door on Christmas day to find her 40-year-old husband dressed as Santa Claus, behind the wheel of a seven-tonne excavator
After 19 years as a state Fish and Wildlife officer, Bob Lantiegne says he is being harassed because he’s gay — and that a number of investigative agencies say they can do nothing about it
Joseph Turow has begun a crusade to de-capitalise the word Internet and, by extension, to acknowledge a deep shift in the way that we think about the online world
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