The German city of Cologne has set up drive-in brothels in a bid to move the red light district away from near its landmark cathedral
The priestesses of the Delphic Oracle in ancient Greece may have been intoxicated on natural gases when they issued prophecies that helped shape the foundation of Western civilisation
Biometric-enabled ATMs could be doling out cash to Australian bank customers within a year following the launch of technology that promises to reduce the expense of converting existing ATM security infrastructure
Imagine getting shot by your best friend. But the triggerman in one case was a dog. Authorities in Douglas County, Washington, said that goose hunter Michael Boyle was shot in the leg when a dog stepped on the trigger of a 12-gauge shotgun
While military forces are engaged in a war of weapons in Afghanistan, frustrated civilians on both sides of the conflict are waging a war of words online. Discussion boards and chat rooms across the Internet have become a battleground for pro- and anti-American Web surfers locked in well-reasoned debates as well as vicious clashes in which vitriol-fueled tirades are the weapons of choice
Thirty years ago, a simple message launched a revolution in the history of human communications. That dispatch is now considered the first e-mail, or electronic message, to have been sent from one computer to another through a network. Devised by BBN Technologies scientist Ray Tomlinson, the system for sending e-mail was initially a demonstration of what ARPAnet — the Internet’s precursor — could do
Evil Bert, meet Evil Osama. Right now, the two appear to be inseparable — at least on ubiquitous posters carried by pro-Taliban demonstrators
iPrimus, is scrapping its unlimited DSL plan and has given users a month’s notice to find an alternative service
Disgruntled Dingo Blue customers are threatening to swap providers unless service levels are returned to what they were before last week’s redeployment of dial ports caused major congestion
An Albuquerque policeman and his pilot face disciplinary measures after using a police helicopter this week to swoop in for a midnight snack of doughnuts
Australia’s love affair with mobile phones looks set to pay environmental dividends following the launch of a mobile handset recycling scheme. Established by Planet Ark in conjunction with major mobile phone retail outlets, the scheme aims to recycle 500,000 handsets in the next 12 months
Toshiba is bringing its low-temperature polysilicon display technology to notebooks in hopes of eventually lowering their price. Such technology is already used in smaller devices, including some handheld computers and mobile phones, and offers higher quality images using fewer components — 40 percent less, according to Toshiba — than its counterpart called amorphous silicon
The pending liquidation of Excite@Home has AT&T offering to pick up some assets — to creditors’ dismay — but a buyer for the Excite portal could be harder to come by
SETI@home, the peer-to-peer computing project that ties together millions of computers to examine radio waves coming from space, has 3 million users — and thousands of new people sign up to crunch data each day — making the entire SETI@home network more powerful than the biggest of supercomputers. So powerful, indeed, that there is the possibility of running out of data to process. To solve this problem, SETI@home is installing a Linux-based, super-fast digital data recorder that was donated by Hewlett-Packard. According to the company, the new machine can record data 10 times faster than the previous recorder
An investigation by Calgary cops is underway into alleged death threats made from the mobile phone belonging to the mother of leading mayoral candidate Dave Bronconnier
The rotting remains from a sunken cargo ship carrying 3300 tonnes of frozen fish just off Norway’s western coast have been shipped to Denmark where the cargo is being used as biofuel
A Melbourne man who patented the wheel has been awarded an Ig Nobel Prize by Harvard University. Freelance patent attorney, John Keogh, patented the circular transportation facilitation device
last June to highlight problems with Australia’s new Innovation Patent system. He shares the prize with the Australian patent office, IP Australia, which granted him innovation patent #2001100012
The Dallas city council overwhelmingly voted down a proposed site for a new inner city McDonald’s restaurant. This followed months of intense community organising and coalition building among diverse groups including Vegetarian Society of Dallas, Krishna religious community, Mt Auburn neighbourhood association, UPROAR — United People Resisting Oppression And Racism — Hindu organisations and others
How to build your own supercomputer: Take a few off-the-shelf, stripped-down PCs, add some network switches, a maze of Ethernet cabling and some home-grown Linux software, and you’ll be well on your way. Hewlett-Packard, together with a national laboratory in France, tried this recipe out. To the great surprise of many scientists, it worked. What they ended up with is the I-Cluster, a Mandrake Linux-powered cluster of 225 simplified PCs from HP that has benchmarked its way into the list of the top 500 most powerful computers in the world
South Africa is carrying out the greatest transfer of wildlife the world has seen in 50 years to create the world’s greatest game park. It is transferring 1000 elephants from the famed Kruger National Park into neighbouring Mozambique under a project to create a 35000 sq km trans-frontier wildlife park
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