Take a tour of campus an shoot some monsters. The Wearable Computer Lab at the University of South Australia has developed a prototype wearable Quake suit
NSW Police Minister Michael Costa is seeking to shut down the web site www.snifferdogalert.com, operated by the state’s Council for Civil Liberties and Redfern Legal Centre, which alerts the public via SMS to where drug sniffer dogs are being patrolled
South African police have made a breakthrough against organised criminals who spam Internet users in an attempt to defraud them of thousands of pounds. Six people were arrested in South Africa last weekend on suspicion of being involved in the infamous Nigerian e-mail and letter fraud
New Jersey will begin examining the possibility of placing limits on roller coaster G-forces. Pointing out that the G-forces on coasters are considerably greater than even those experienced by astronauts and race car drivers, legislators on both the state and national levels want to start reining in coaster G-forces which have been blamed for a number of injuries and deaths over the past few years — via Slashdot
A group of children who adorned their bodies with industrial-strength magnets narrowly avoided permanent disfigurement
It’s a well-known mark of Google’s success that its name has become a verb. The company is launching the future tense of that verb in the form of two sites for experimental search and browsing technologies. The first experiment page, Google Labs, lets Google users try out technologies fresh from Google’s research and development team
According to a United Nations study on the state of the global environment, almost a quarter of the world’s mammals face extinction within 30 years
The Eldred vs Ashcroft case concerns the constitutionality of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) which, following intense lobbying by media conglomerates such as Disney and Time Warner, was enacted by Congress in 1998 and extended the term of all existing and future copyrights by twenty years. Eric Eldred, who maintains a web site that gives readers free access to materials whose copyrights have expired, challenged the CTEA with the assistance of the Openlaw project of the Berkman Centre. Although Eldred has lost in both the district and appellate courts, the case has been accepted for review by the Supreme Court
The Chinese government plans to put a human on the moon by 2010, with a long-term goal to set up a base on the moon and mine its riches for the benefit of humanity
. Yeah, right
While the events of 11 September have focussed the attention of CIOs on catastrophic outside threats to operations, they should keep their attention closer to home. Australian CIOs and IT managers are being put on alert after a survey found that computer crime here has been higher than in the US
The World Intellectual Property Organisation has upheld Spanish entrepreneur Christian Castresana’s right to use InternetNews.info, rejecting a challenge from media giant INT Media Group
IBM researchers have created transistors out of carbon nanotubes that can outperform similar silicon transistors, a development that helps build the case that carbon may one day become a building block of computing
Honda is investing more cash into hydrogen powered cars. It is helping to develop home-based generators which produce the fuel so drivers don’t have to fill up at stations
The biggest enemy of free software may be Senator Ernest F Hollings. Legislation introduced in March 2002, by the South Carolina Democrat to require that copyright-protection software be embedded in PCs, handheld computers, CD players — and anything else that can play, record, or manipulate data — could make open-source software such as the Linux operating system illegal
Tom Lonsdale, an Australian vet, claims that pet food diets of processed meat and cereal are making animals ill and shortening their lives
What do a 17th-century Swedish warship, an opulent Chicago theatre and a Kansas City hotel skyway
have in common? All met catastrophic ends — and they have important lessons to teach today’s innovators
Three cast-iron Scottish cannons believed to date back to the late 1700s have been found by workers at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo
Lindows has announced that a Seattle Judge has denied Microsoft’s appeal to shut them down, citing that Microsoft’s own use of evidence helped determined Windows
is a generic word
Hackers posing as Ford employees have managed to steal some 13,000 credit reports which include, not only credit card numbers, but also such useful information as address, SSN, bank account details and credit ratings
In an effort to preserve and expose scholars around the world to rapidly plundered historical texts, a joint project between the University of California and the Max Planck Institute have photographed and digitised around 60,000 tablets. Ironically enough, the digitised versions will probably not go anywhere near to outlasting the original clay tablets — via Slashdot
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