Veterinarians have harnessed the power of New Zealand green lip mussels to produce a dog food that helps to relieve arthritis pain suffered by ageing canines around the globe
Sony is dropping some hints about PlayStation 3‘s likely lack of shape — it’s looking into installing an OS that could run game programs in various home appliances
The FTC encourages consumers to forward any spam they receive to the e-mail address uce@ftc.gov — via Slashdot
Detectives are investigating the mystery of a hamster found driving a toy racing car along a promenade at a northern seaside resort
A Hong Kong animal rights group, Animals Asia Foundation, will honour eight dogs this weekend to raise awareness of the therapeutic benefits of man’s best friend
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have created atomic scale
memory using individual atoms of silicon
There is a method of extracting audio from scanned images of vinyl records. While this method creates exceptionally noisy samples, you can definitely hear the underlying music
Net venture business Planet Co has developed a PDA that enables customers to listen to the contents of music CDs simply by having the PDA sensor recognise the bar code attached to CD’s plastic cover
Inspired by NASA’s planetary exploration program, this miniature caterpillar drive
ROVer (Remote Operated Vehicle), belongs in the way too cool category
A Canadian Parliament committee has called for legalising marijuana use by adults, increasing pressure on the government to shift drug laws far from the zero-tolerance policy of the neighbouring United States
The tyranny of distance that has ruled over Australia’s inland and remote regions for two centuries is nearing the end of its oppressive reign. Dramatic advances in communications and information technology will start to transform life in the Outback within five years
Duke University’s law school has received an anonymous US$1 million gift to fund advocacy and research aimed at curtailing the recent expansion of copyright law. The school is using the money to fund a centre focused on finding ‘the correct balance’ between intellectual property rights and material that should be in the public domain
eBay, one of the biggest success stories on the Web, is being threatened with a patent infringement lawsuit that could force it to modify its winning auction format. MercExchange founder Thomas Woolston, an inventor and patent attorney who has been granted four online auction-related patents since 1998 and has some 10 others pending, said he sued eBay in 2001 after negotiations broke down over the auction site’s offer to purchase his patents
Advances in optical-fibre making at the Australian Photonics research centre could bring communications at the speed of light into Australian homes and businesses in the next few years. The centre holds patents over a new way to make optical fibres using plastic polymers instead of the traditional silicon-based glass
Governments around the world, afraid that Microsoft has become too powerful in critical software markets, have begun working to ensure an open-source
alternative
On track for its full commercial launch next year, wireless broadband i-Burst technology is starting commercial engineering trials in Sydney
A flat-pack furniture kit whose parts are fitted with cheap microprocessors that monitor what you are doing during assembly has been developed in Switzerland. The kit will warn you if you are doing something wrong or dangerous
At the recent O’Reilly Open-Source Convention, writer Bruce Sterling held court with A Contrarian View of Open-Source
Spam has become such a menace to the Internet that the Federal Trade Commission should take swift steps to staunch the flow of bulk e-mail, three consumer groups — Telecommunications Research and Action Centre, National Consumers League and Consumer Action — have announced
Foxtel has pledged to spend $600 million on digital television by October 2003 if the competition watchdog approves the revised pay-TV deal with Optus
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