Craft activities are not commonly associated with personal computers, yet for those who like to make paper crafts, or even design their own fabrics, a computer can be a very useful tool
Somalia‘s only internet company and a key telecoms business have been forced to close because the United States suspects them of terrorist links. Both companies have stated they are not linked to terrorists. Along with denying all internet access to Somalis, the closures have severely restricted international telephone lines and shut down vitally needed money transfer facilities
Telstra cable users in Victoria and ADSL customers nationally suffered the repercussions of a denial of service attack last night, with services unavailable for up to four hours
Companies with servers running Microsoft’s database application should watch out for a new hacker tool that scans and then infects systems, network security experts have warned
British rocket enthusiasts say they have successfully tested the most powerful rocket motor ever launched from the UK. The blast-off, to an altitude of 2134m, took place from a remote part of Scotland on 18 November
Paintings of mythical animal-human hybrids are among the oldest surviving art ever produced. New research suggests that minotaurs, satyrs, the werewolves beloved of Hollywood and even Egypt’s animal-headed gods are latecomers to the art scene compared with the therianthropes carved by the earliest artists on bone and painted on stone
A fire-damaged painting by Claude Monet could be restored to its former glory, thanks to a technology designed to simulate the ravages of low-Earth orbit on spacecraft. Conservators at the institute are talking to space chemists at NASA’s Glenn Research Centre in Cleveland, Ohio, after hearing of their success in removing an overzealous art lover’s lipstick from an Andy Warhol painting. Their trick? They vaporise contaminants by blasting them with oxygen
Bandwidth isn’t cheap, and — despite the pre-election rhetoric — private schools don’t have money to waste. Caulfield Grammar School’s 80 boarders have been contributing significantly to the load by using peer-to-peer applications such as Napster and Gnutella. Now the school is cracking down
A Hong Kong company hopes to sell signal jamming technology, previously used by the military to thwart lethal missiles, to block annoying mobile phone calls in places such as hospitals, places of worship and restaurants
Thousands of tonnes of waste slag from steel mills can now be recycled into a range of useful products for building roads and pavements, and to substitute for virgin quarried products in concrete
A Florida man died after a duck hit him in the head, knocking him off a personal watercraft and into a lake
A computer so small that a trillion of its kind fit into a test tube has been developed by researchers at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. The nanocomputer consists of DNA and DNA-processing enzymes, both dissolved in a liquid held in a test tube
A new gravity map of the Earth suggests that if you want to lose weight you should go to India, where the pull of gravity is slightly less than it is elsewhere on the planet. You would be slightly less than 1% lighter there
Tired of all that Spam? Try invoicing them for wasting your time, while it probably won’t eliminate Spam, it sure makes the parasites think twice about doing it again
A Salmon of Doubt — the sixth episode of Douglas Adams’ Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series — will hit book shops next May on the anniversary of the writer’s death
One man was killed and another wounded when a brawl broke out in a Philippines karaoke bar over the quality of singing
A hands-on hacker course developed by US-based Foundstone ended up fully subscribed in Australia, with local course operator eSec looking to expand into Asia Pacific next year
Japan’s Super-Kamiokande telescope, which has helped answer fundamental questions about the Universe, is almost destroyed in an accident
Hundreds of beetles will today set about attacking blue heliotrope, a major weed of Australian pastures and crops
Astronomy‘s next great discovery may be found not by telescope, but instead with little more than a laptop computer, an Internet connection and a learned and persistent amateur. In fact, astronomers are already pulling new findings from old data, the start of what some say is a looming change in how science gets done
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