Two ageing pranksters are facing fines and jail for repeatedly letting off fart spray
in a New Jersey supermarket
Surgeons have carried out a ground-breaking operation on Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics, so that his nervous system can be wired up to a computer
Operation Clambake, a project that exposes Scientology as a scam, has received a DMCA notification letter from Google that was issued at the request of the Religious Technology Centre and Bridge Publications — the Church of Scientology. A long list of URLs were listed as infringing, and Google has complied with the DMCA request by removing them
Can space aliens zap Web pages? Does Mr T have a grudge against Web surfers? And has the Internet’s missing link finally been found? Welcome to the far-out and far-flung world of 404Error File Not Found messages
An American scientist says he can improve people’s sight by stitching artificial muscle to the eyeball and squeezing it. The smart eye band could be turned on when needed by a switch hidden on a tiny power source behind the ear. It works as a cinema screen would if it was moved back and forth until the projector image came into focus
Telstra’s failure to comply with a Competition Notice demanding it play a fairer game in the wholesale arena will see the Notice come into effect today — leaving the telco heavyweight possibly facing legal action from disgruntled customers and the competition watchdog, which could chase penalties exceeding AU$10 million
A campaign by the shadow minister for information technology, Senator Kate Lundy, to expose Telstra’s use of line-splitting technology that degrades residential Internet speeds has left the telco facing a barrage of complaints from customers
Science minister Peter McGauran — another of Howard’s morons-in-residence — dismissed a plea by scientists that Australia spend money searching for potentially threatening asteroids that could only be spotted from the Southern Hemisphere, calling it a fruitless, unnecessary, self-indulgent exercise
A high security jail which aims to turn dangerous dogs into well-behaved pets has opened in Berlin. The Berlin Interment Home takes in stray fighting dogs and domestic pets courts have deemed a danger to the public. It even has a canine death row
While talking computers have long featured US and UK voices, the Aussie-accent was launched today by speech technology company Appen at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney
The 213 things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the US Army
A full-size virtual keyboard projected by light on to any surface has been invented. Beams of light, which detect the user’s movements, make up the keyboard
Fledgling telco COMindico has been restructured under a new chief and has launched direct broadband services to compete with the troubled Telstra, which has admitted that it is unable to determine a restoration date for a software problem that has left 1,300 customers unable to log on to their broadband service
Less than a week after Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told visitors at the massive CeBit exhibition in Hannover, Germany, that he wanted to see a warmer, friendlier Microsoft, his company has become embroiled in a row with Sony over gaming consoles. Microsoft complained to the show organisers, Hannover Messe AG, that Sony was breaching show rules by letting people play on Sony PlayStation 2 consoles. Technically, Microsoft was right, and the Messe was forced to act on the complaint
Our solar system may have had a fifth terrestrial planet, one that was swallowed up by the Sun. But before it was destroyed, the now missing-in-action world made a mess of things
According to a BBC report, it is possible that a secret CIA project to investigate methods of sending anthrax through the mail might have been responsible for the anthrax attacks in the United States last year
The Internet Industry Association’s is asking its members to commit to a revised version of the industry’s online content regulation code that will remove their discretion to set prices for content filtering software
European Union leaders have approved a controversial multi-billion-dollar satellite network that is designed to end reliance on United States technology and space-bound military systems
The giant Mr Potato Head statue given to the town of Belper in Derbyshire by its American sister city has been scratched and dismembered. He was sent to a fibreglass specialist for repairs and now stands outside the Safeway supermarket in the town
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