A Florida family that received ID chip implants won’t have much company in the United States until the FDA decides whether to regulate the subdermal device
Microsoft will announce a new program, code-named XDocs, that it says will be the first to let ordinary computer users view and interact with information encoded in Extensible Markup Language
It’s nurture over nature for a lioness in Kenya who keeps choosing to dote on baby antelope rather than devour them. Kamuniak, a lioness in northern Kenya’s Samburu National Park has adopted her fifth new-born oryx this year
Food poisoning killed thousands of foxes at Finnish fox farms last weekend in the largest case of poisoning in the world’s top pelt producer
The Scottish Executive is ready to bring in unprecedented legislation to tackle the scourge of sectarian hatred in Scotland after violence at the Old Firm game on Sunday
Australian computer scientists Alexander Barmouta and Rajkumar Buyya have brought grid computing one step closer to commercialisation, releasing a preliminary prototype of their Grid Bank resource accounting infrastructure
Telstra’s digital CDMA mobile network, covering rural and regional Australia, is less congested but suffers more call dropouts than the older GSM network
The entertainment industry is facing a formidable obstacle in pursuing Napster’s major successor, KaZaA: geography
In a move that marks an image make over for Palm, the handheld computing pioneer on Monday releases a sleek, affordable personal digital assistant for first time buyers
A single number for e-mail addresses, phone number and web sites is being considered in Australia, despite fears the technology could become a de facto identification number
Dennis Hopper is to play Sinatra in a re-creation of the singer’s notorious 1974 Australian tour
After a year of painstaking scientific research, scientists have revealed what they say is the world’s funniest joke
Police in France’s Normandy region say a 31-year-old hunter trying out his marksmanship has accidentally cut power to 1,200 country homes and killed a cow
An international consortium formed by the Agha Khan’s charity foundation has been named as Afghanistan‘s second mobile phone service provider after winning the country’s first ever public tender contract
Asian CD pirates now produce thousands of pirated VCDs on anchored ships in international waters to avoid getting caught. Malaysian marine police have been asked to be on the lookout for pirate ships — via Slashdot
LifeGem Memorials, the world’s first purveyor of diamond memorials, announced the availability of the LifeGem, a certified, high quality diamond created from the carbon remains of deceased loved ones
Italian porn star and former Italian parliamentarian La Cicciolina
has offered to give herself to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in exchange for world peace
Think your tower case with led fans, a cold cathode and a window is cool? See what this guy did to two Sun Enterprise 15Ks — a case mod on US$1.3 million dollars of hardware
In a submission to a senate inquiry looking into Australia’s telecommunications network, Telstra admitted its vaunted ADSL broadband service was not compatible with the copper cables used by many households
Microsoft appears to have shut down one of the world’s largest distributors of mod chips
— grey-market add-ons that allow Microsoft’s Xbox and other video game consoles to play pirated games
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