A British woman may have discovered the ultimate in car security when she started her vehicle with a hi-tech electronic key — lodged inside the belly of her one-year-old son
321 Studios has released DVD X Copy, a US$99 program that is the first to let users create a mirror image of an entire DVD on a second blank DVD. The copy even includes menus, special features and enhanced audio
Brazilian company, Tec Toy, is releasing a new version of the venerable Sega Master System, dubbed the Sega Master System III, it will include 74 games built-in
Three small ISPs have been snapped up by Primus Telecom’s subsidiary HotKey
Growing numbers of lawyers are pushing the murky edges of the law, hoping to strengthen — or at least clarify — the rights of animals, beyond traditional bans on cruelty
Niki Passath, an Austrian electrician, has invented the world’s first tattooing robot — a tattoo gun powered by Palm OS
It’s scary to think that sophisticated 3G mobile systems may depend for their survival on Hello Kitty, that cutesy Japanese pink cat with whiskers but no mouth. But that’s what it might come down to
According to energy regulator Callum McCarthy, Britain’s push to build new wind farms could exacerbate current problems of overcapacity in the electricity industry — or nuclear power generators could be going out of business
Rumours are leaking out over the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn
, due out in test form next year and in final form in 2004. It will have a new look and feel, very different from Windows XP. Its guts will also be radically different from Windows XP, because they’re based on XML, the emerging lingua franca of the Internet. And it will be the first version that won’t function fully without new hardware
If you’ve ever wondered how the noxious John Edward runs his seedy little show, it has more to do with spewing lots of vague questions than with his alleged psychic gift
Telstra chief information officer Jeff Smith has revealed plans to shift the telco’s back-office systems to the Linux operating system ‘wherever possible’, to take advantage of the platform’s commodity pricing
Australian researchers searching for extraterrestrial life are cheering at their recent elevation to associate membership of NASA and a $250,000 in-kind donation by Sun Microsystems
To help protect the endangered Asian snow leopard, Thomas McCarthy and Priscilla Allen are trying to help people in a tiny Kyrgystan village sell hats, bags, slippers and other handicrafts
The Department of Family and Community Services has breached the Privacy Act by spamming web site competition entrants on behalf of a universit
Scientists say the steak knife is destined for the scrap heap thanks to a new DNA test able to identify cattle carrying a tenderness gene
A study by researchers at the University of North Carolina will concern environmentalists who say planted GM crops have cross-pollinated with normal plants to create superweeds that are resistant to insect attack and could spread rapidly
Defence Minister Robert Hill said the prototype Rapid Route and Area Mine Neutralisation System would significantly improve the army’s ability to clear anti-vehicle land mines from unsealed roads and airstrips
The .au Domain Administration has issued a warning concerning an e-mail by a domain services company, Open Your Mind, run by the same man who was in charge of disgraced domain name reseller Internet Name Group
Students are devising increasingly sophisticated countermeasures to protect their free supply of copyrighted entertainment
Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon and two legislators announced a plan to make spam illegal in the same way that the state already has put a stop to millions of unwanted telephone calls: through a No-Call Law
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