Scattered around the planet are hundreds of creatures that have been to the Moon and back again. None of them are human. They outnumber active astronauts 3:1. And most are missing. They’re trees. Moon trees
Egyptian police have arrested a man who performed brain surgery on a number of people even though he had only a primary school education
In Australia, pharmaceutical companies are barred from advertising drugs directly to the public. But they don’t need to. The media does the job for them. The recipe is simple. All the companies have to do is use phrases such as independent study
and medical breakthrough
, and journalists queue up to be manipulated. Then take an expert to talk up the product, add a victim who needs it, stir in some research findings commissioned by the drug company, and you have an advertisement dressed up as a legitimate news story
Security researchers say they have found a serious flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser that could expose credit card and other sensitive information of Internet surfers
Wireless mice have been around for a while, but how about deskless ones? Gyration makes a mouse that doesn’t need a surface of any kind and can even be used in the air
An intrepid bunch of rabbits have emulated Indiana Jones, turning into archaeologists to unearth a rare and ancient glass window in central England
Toho — current owner of all things Godzilla — has launched a cease and desist notice on Davezilla
Australia is set to become home to the world’s first Solar Tower, a one kilometre high structure with the potential to generate enough electricity to supply a city of more than 200,000 people
The FBI accidentally pulled the plug on its own web sites. A misconfiguration in the bureau’s domain name set up meant that many visitors to FBI.gov could not get through
Seattle-based HighLift Systems is hosting a conference this week to meet with investors and other parties potentially interested in a device that could open the final frontier to the masses within 15 years because of the space elevator‘s relatively low costs and extremely high traffic volume
Ever since their computerised ID system switched on a few days ago, Japanese citizens have dropped out in droves from what many resent as a big brother
monitoring of the people
Human Rights Watch have announced that Yahoo is complicit
in rights abuses by the Chinese government after agreeing to a Beijing-backed self-censorship pledge for web pages
Cybercrime investigators for NASA are trying to figure out how 43MB of sensitive design data about planned space vehicles got into the hands of a hacker — and then into the hands of a reporter
Despite continual problems with its BigPond service, Telstra continues to play down the extent of disruptions experienced by its internet customers
Computer scientists in India have cracked an age-old mathematical problem by designing a method for computers to quickly prove whether a figure is a prime number — a vital step in cryptography
On Wednesday, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will begin awarding contracts for the design and implementation of a Total Information Awareness (TIA) system. The TIA program, with its ability to provide persistent storage of everything from credit card, to employment, to medical, to ISP records, is a recipe for civil liberties disaster unless there are provisions for citizens to find out who is looking at their records and to see and correct those records
A new drug being developed for commercial use in Australia and the United States called Melanotan — more alluringly dubbed the Barbie
drug — seems to be an answer to prayers of millions of people who desire to sport the perfect tan. As a bonus it also promises reawakening of sexual desire
Microsoft’s new Software Choice
campaign is all for your right to choose… as long as you choose Microsoft. It’s too bad that Intel and the US Government couldn’t see through the rhetoric
BBC has investigated allegations that Downing Street illegally hacked into its computer system in order to influence critical news items before they were broadcast
US lawmakers have asked Attorney General John Ashcroft to go after Internet users who download unauthorised songs and other copyrighted material, raising the possibility of jail time for digital-music fans
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