F-16 fighter jet test pilots at Edwards Air Force Base are flying with sophisticated helmets, resembling a bug’s eye, that allow them to aim their weapons and sensors simply by looking at potential targets on the ground or in the air
A coalition of governments, businesses and public interest groups last week launched a global campaign to encourage companies to issue public reports on their impact on society and the environment. The Global Reporting Initiative is aimed at elevating such non-financial reporting
to the same level as the reports that public companies around the world periodically issue on their financial health
Overture is suing Google over its AdWords advertising method since it may be infringing upon patent 6,269,361; System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine
Applied Digital Solutions has announced that the FDA has ruled that an implantable microchip used for ID purposes is not a regulated device, paving the way for the chip’s immediate sale in the United States
Brian McConnell is releasing a new distributed computer program — World Wide Lexicon — which works like programs such as SETI@home. However, while most distributed computer projects make use of spare computer power to perform complex computational tasks, in this case people will be asked to provide short translations themselves
Gravity, not technology, is being proposed for the ultimate safety shutdown at the proposed Replacement Research Reactor slated for South Sydney’s Lucas Heights
For a mere $78 million, you can purchase the ultimate in boys toys — your own personal luxury submarine. The price may seem a little steep until you discover that it comes with its own docking mini sub
Forget the roar of rocketry and those bone jarring lift-offs, the space elevator would be a smooth 100,000km ride up a long cable. Payloads can shimmy up the Earth-to-space cable, experiencing no large launch forces, slowly climbing from one atmosphere to a vacuum
A virtual country has entered into the world economy. Norrath, the setting for the online game Everquest, has been found to be the 77th richest country in the world, sandwiched between Russia and Bulgaria
Ronald Mallett, a physics professor at the University of Connecticut, says he is building a time machine that will transport things to the future or the past. He says his machine could transport anything from an atom to a person
Eurobodalla Shire Council staff, on the NSW south coast, have taken a walk on the wild side to solve a problem with the public toilets at Bodalla Oval. The toilets had been working only on and off in recent weeks with no apparent reason for their fickle behaviour. But a close inspection by council staff revealed that frogs had taken up residence in the old-fashioned cisterns and were sitting on the flaps that allow the units to refill
To librarian Anne Lipow, filtering software isn’t merely a bad idea. She told a panel of federal judges on Tuesday that Congress’ attempt to force the use of anti-smutware in public libraries is positively Stalinist
The phase-out of Microsoft’s Java virtual machine from products such as Windows XP is being blamed for the inaccessibility of an Australian Internet banking site for some users
Around 2,000 BigPond customers have lost their personal homepages, in the latest outage to hit Telstra users
A loophole in new employment legislation could mean gay and lesbian workers or even single parents are sacked if their lifestyles are deemed at odds with the ethos of their employers
Internet giant AOL has won a civil lawsuit against Florida-based Netvision Audiotext, a company it accused of sending unsolicited pornographic e-mail to AOL members
Manufacturers could design Harry Potter
style computers for children or other specialised users, if restrictions are imposed on Microsoft. AOL has revealed the plans while testifying at penalty hearings in the Microsoft antitrust case
Print on demand (POD) is rapidly changing the way books are printed, published and consumed world-wide. The first POD facilities are already up and running in Australia, both at point-of-sale and publisher level
A needle which mimics the mosquito’s unique stinger
, making injections painless, has been developed by Seiji Aoyagi at Kansai University in Osaka and his colleagues, a team of Japanese microengineers
An ad hoc bunch of ‘Net police’ has helped save Australian Internet service provider, Labyrinth Connections, and its users from being blackbanned after the ISP was a recent victim of impersonation by a shadowy group that manages Internet pornography sites
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