A 28-year-old Panamanian accused of killing a judge was eaten by a crocodile as he swam across a river after escaping from prison
Telstra is in hot water again over revelations it has been double-billing some mobile phone customers, resulting in refunds reportedly totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars
Philips is demonstrating a prototype miniature disc drive that uses a coin-size disc capable of storing nearly twice as much data as a standard-sized CD
Scientists running a pioneering experiment with living robots
which think for themselves said they were amazed to find one escaping from the centre where it lives
Greenpeace has said it would name smog-filled days in Toronto after local members of the federal Liberal government in order to draw attention to Canada’s failure to ratify the Kyoto accord, a world-wide effort to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases
A Boy Scout who went a little too far in trying to achieve a merit badge in Atomic Energy. From smoke alarms, lantern components, the paint from radio clocks, and a little help from the Nuclear Regulator Commission, David Hahn attempted to build a nuclear reactor in his mother’s shed
Minerals explorer Michelago and ANZ plan to pursue Australian and international wind power projects through a trust which could list within two years
A seal saved an elderly dog from a watery grave after it was swept away by fierce currents in a fast-flowing river in northern England
The sweet scent of roses or almonds could take some of the pain out of your stay in hospital. But only if you’re a woman
In a new suit that echoes earlier charges from Netscape, Sun Microsystems and others, Microsoft is accused of bullying companies out of using Burst.com products and stealing the streaming company’s technology
The tooth phone
consists of a tiny vibrator and a radio wave receiver implanted into a tooth during routine dental surgery. The phone was designed by Royal College of Art graduates James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau
Being a Star Wars fan has made Jeff Parks a millionaire, he makes customised light sabres — via Slashdot
Canadian doctors implanted an artificial eye into a blind man — it performs well enough for him to be able to drive — admittedly in an empty parking lot — via Slashdot
A consortium of industry heavyweights will offer wireless broadband in Australia next year, a move which will allow broadband access anywhere and offer a viable alternative to DSL technology
Industry groups have welcomed the recommendations in a recent report that legislation dealing with Internet censorship be repealed, which would return Internet law enforcement to the Crimes Act of 1900
In an about-face, Microsoft said that it will reinstate the ability to run Java programs in Windows XP. Microsoft said it would include its own Java software in the Service Pack 1 update to Windows XP due late this summer. In the long term, though, the company plans to remove Java from Windows altogether
Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, the maverick former professional wrestler whose election stunned the political establishment, announced on Tuesday that he would not seek a second term
There is intense competition surrounding control of the .org domain, which Verisign coughed up in order to keep .com and .net from going to the highest bidder. Open-source and Internet pioneers Paul Vixie and Carl Malamud have entered the fray; central to their bid is their announced intent to place all the software necessary to manage a TLD in the public domain
A reporter for The Guardian is being prosecuted in Zimbabwe for a report that appeared on the newspaper’s web site. If the case is successful, it would allow Zimbabwe’s courts to apply the country’s draconian media laws to any online publisher, putting reporters and editors at risk of arrest if they go to Zimbabwe, or any country with extradition treaties with Zimbabwe
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