A piece of software being distributed anonymously online has successfully cracked part of Microsoft’s anti-piracy technology, the centrepiece of much of the giant’s recent forays into the audio and video world
A future where you can remotely switch on your garden sprinkler, receive a call from your mobile telling you you’re home has been broken into or where vending machines phone for a refill aren’t too far off, with a group of Australian scientists developing Web-based infrastructure to pull off multiple stunts of this kind
Australians will continue to increase their appreciation of the goods and services that they get from the natural world, says Dr Steve Morton, Chief, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
Scientists have puzzled for years how insects manage to fly. The bumble bee, for instance, has the aerodynamics of a tiny brick and it has been theoretically proved several times it’s impossible for it to fly. Now we’ve found out the secret of insect flight — it’s all to do with complex tiny air vortices produced from their wings
Me and all of my work mates, have found ourselves back on the streets thanks to the underhanded dealings of the New Zealand-based Advantage Group. About a year ago Whitewolf was purchased by Advantage Group, now we find that out new parent company has asset-stripped our office and retrenched all of us — although they have put a very warm and fuzzy spin on the process in the news release of the decision. So if you have buyers sniffing around your company, it’s well worth checking out their intentions thoroughly before signing a deal
Australia’s top Internet domain name regulator auDA has terminated a year-old hosting relationship with NetRegistry on the advice of lawyers, following a security breach
A brief history of Ulughbek, a 15th-century Afghan astronomer-prince whose quest for knowledge led to his overthrow by religious extremists
Rob Rosenberger, editor of the V-Myths web site and a critic of fire engine-chasing anti-virus companies, claims he was treated to an early morning visit by the FBI last weekend. He says he was forced to pull a column he was planning to run that would have caused embarrassment to one of the anti-virus vendors
Software-maker Macromedia is claiming it owns the patent to Adobe Systems’ popular Photoshop program, according to a suit filed in a US federal court
Scientists believe it may be possible to halt and even reverse the progress of multiple sclerosis by targeting key chemicals of the immune system
The left-wing bastion of Berkeley, California, narrowly voted Tuesday night to condemn US military action in Afghanistan and not before the addition of an amendment denouncing the terrorist mass murder of thousands of Americans on 11 September
SRI International, a research firm in Menlo Park, California, is working with the Defence Department to create a shoe that will convert the mechanical energy of walking into electric power to charge up gadgets, batteries and other devices
An online artificial conversation program named ALICE wins a top prize in the Loebner artificial intelligence contest, in which computers try to convince judges that they’re human
An Italian man has killed his 72-year-old wife after she made him a bad cup of coffee
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Kirsch is currently advocating the creation of a voluntary federal database of brain fingerprints, a record of a person’s brain wave activity when shown images with which a terrorist would have a strong personal connection, and correlating these to iris scans
Look out, music pirates: The recording industry wants the right to hack into your computer and delete your stolen MP3s
There is no banking system in Afghanistan, but there is a network of money-changers with a system that has withstood 20 years of war and corrupt governments and may come close to a theoretically pure marketplace
Charles Darwin could not have known he might one day improve mobile phone communications and help win wars. But a new computer-based genetic algorithm based on Darwin’s ideas about how the fit survive may do just that
A Japanese company has launched the latest in cyber-pets — a robot cat that purrs when stroked
Top British scientist Stephen Hawking has warned that the human race is likely to be wiped out by a doomsday virus before this millennium is out unless it starts to colonise space
RSS – Posts