A new invention could help the blind to see
again — with their tongues
Declassified Australian government documents suggest a
Microsoft bashers were out in full force last week, chastising the company for a new technology in the forthcoming version of its Windows operating system they say infringes on free speech, intellectual property and the copyrights of Web content creators Dr Who, the hero of the world’s longest-running science fiction series has visited many worlds, but next month he will visit the unexplored terrain of cyberspace with the BBC’s first ever Internet-only broadcast A tongue-in-cheek warning says AOL’s removal will free up disk space and save money The US Supreme Court has allowed a religious use of public schools that will pose a serious threat to principles of religious neutrality and church-state separation — I have a fix for this little problem. A chip needs to be implanted in everyone’s head. The moment somebody says; ‘My god is the true god and I will force my ignorant narrow minded beliefs upon you’, the chip is activated and their head explodes. This would leave the remaining population free to worship their own gods safe from the obnoxious god botherers — should end the odd religious war at the same time Indonesian immigration officials yesterday freed 29 foreigners, including 18 Australians, who were detained at an international conference in Jakarta, as criticisms grew of police-sanctioned brutality against the organisers A virtual bomb was lobbed on the sleepy town of Texas on the NSW and Queensland border. It sat undiscovered until Mr John Beale, owner of the Lilyvale Estate winery, logged on to update his Web site on Friday Two oil companies on Friday announced another big discovery in the Gulf of Mexico — but this time it was a sunken World War II German submarine rather than oil or natural gas. The wreckage of the U-boat was found 5,000 feet below the surface, and it may may rewrite a bit of wartime history Woman on Waves, a privately financed Dutch ship equipped to perform abortions near countries where the practice is banned, will sail to Ireland on its maiden voyage Intel Corporation researchers have demonstrated that there are no fundamental barriers to extending Moore’s Law for another decade by building the world’s fastest silicon transistors. These transistors — featuring structures just 20 nanometers in size — will allow Intel to build microprocessors containing a billion transistors, running at speeds approaching 20 gigahertz and operating at less than one volt in approximately 2007 A useful game for long car trips is After almost two months at the negotiating table, the workers who play characters such as Mickey Mouse and Cinderella at Walt Disney World have won an important concession: clean undergarments Now they’ve come up with computer memories in which information is recorded, read and erased by molecular switches. That means super-tiny machines with powerful capabilities By studying genetic data and fossil records of a common California snail, biologists from Louisiana State University and the University of California, San Diego have found that a change in a species’ territory can bring on rapid morphological, or structural, evolutionary changes — evolution is faster than you think A program created to automatically overload Microsoft’s Web and e-mail servers has been discovered on several corporate networks and may have spread further on the Internet, antivirus researchers said Friday. First reported this week, the worm — dubbed DoS.Storm — spreads on Web servers running Microsoft software and is designed to use the infected servers to level an Internet attack against the company Vying for prime position in outer space, Australian scientists hope to secure one of the largest radio telescope projects to observe the universe. As part of a consortium of countries, which include the United States, Europe and China, Australia is grappling for the opportunity to be the host of the AU$1 billion Square Kilometre Array telescope project Remote-controlled car locks replace not only the traditional key but also the coat hanger and the rock through the window In spite of stereotypes, women who consider themselves hackers have been part of the computer world for decades A privately financed group that works for abortion rights overseas sued the Bush administration yesterday to challenge its rule denying federal funds to foreign family planning or health organisations that perform or advocate abortions
If Only He Had Lived to See
. If only Gregor Mendel had lived to see the first cloned pig. If only Icarus had hung on long enough to fly the Concorde. If only Zapruder had used a better-resolution camera, with more frames per second, on the grassy knoll. And if only Alfred Hitchcock had a mobile phone
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