A new chemical process may help unlock biofuels from trees and plant waste in a shift from using food crops such as sugar cane to generate fuel, scientists said Thursday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
On tuesday october 5th, Mexican Senate took the first step to take Mexico out of ACTA by voting through a non-binding point of agreement that makes a strong call to reject any type of international policy fabricated behind closed doors, at least in Mexico — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Super-strong, highly conductive yarns made from extraordinarily thin carbon tubes could one day find use in spacesuits, bulletproof vests and radiation suits, researchers now suggest.
Carbon nanotubes are hollow pipes just nanometers or billionths of a meter in diameter – dozens to hundreds of times thinner than a wavelength of visible light. They can possess a range of extraordinary physical and electrical properties, such as being roughly 100 times stronger than steel at one-sixth the weight– via redwolf.newsvine.com
A scrap metal dealer who paid thieves £61 for £15,000 worth of musical instruments has been found guilty of handling stolen goods.
Marcus Egan, 35, who runs Egan Metals in Gorseinon, then crushed the instruments belonging to Pontardulais Town Band to make a profit of £10 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A bid by a Cumbrian museum to buy a rare Roman helmet and keep it in the county has failed after an anonymous phone bidder bought it for £2m — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Three of five Victorian children allegedly starved in Adelaide’s northern suburbs were so malnourished their brains had shrunk, the South Australian Supreme Court has been told — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Love watching the ABC? We’re really happy to announce that the ABC has added long-form shows to YouTube. Now you can watch separate channels for comedy, entertainment and documentaries, which showcase full episodes of great Australian-made shows — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the early 1970s, three men working for the British Government developed an encryption system that – almost 40 years later – underpins every transaction on the internet. There was only one problem: they couldn’t tell anyone about it.
Between them James Ellis, Clifford Cocks and Malcolm Williamson invented Public Key Cryptography, a system that permits secure communications and electronic transactions without the prior exchange of a secret key. Their work was used to secure Government communications – and naturally their bosses at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) wanted to keep their discovery top secret — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Just a few days ago we broke the news that the first BitTorrent app had been allowed into Apple’s App Store. The developer managed to get it approved despite Apple’s hatred towards BitTorrent. Unfortunately, the fun was soon over as Apple has already kicked the App from the store. The developer is not giving up that easily and hopes to convince Apple they’re wrong — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Libyan government has removed an adult-friendly link-shortening service from the web, saying that it fell foul of local laws.
It could have an impact on similar services registered in Libya — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The formation of Saturn’s rings has been one of the classical if not eternal questions in astronomy. But one researcher has provided a provocative new theory to answer that question. Robin Canup from the Southwest Research Institute has uncovered evidence that the rings came from a large, Titan-sized moon that was destroyed as it spiraled into a young Saturn — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Viewed from the outside, it could be any old warehouse in the country.
Inside, though, it has the equivalent of 153 miles of storage space to store more than eight million books which form the bulk of the stock of arguably the country’s most famous library.
Welcome to the new home for books owned by Oxford University’s Bodleian Library, which has found that its historic entitlement to a copy of every volume published in the UK had led to it running out of storage space — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A near-final version of the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) released this week won praise from organizations representing copyright holders and some sighs of relief from groups that had opposed proposals in earlier drafts.
Still, concerns about the copyright-enforcement trade pact remain, said some groups critical of language in earlier, leaked versions of ACTA. The proposed trade agreement has been improved, with Internet service providers no longer on the hook for the copyright infringement of their customers, said the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), a tech trade group — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Spammers have jumped on the little-used soft hyphen (or SHY character) to fool URL filtering devices. According to researchers at Symantec Corp., spammers are larding up URLs for sites they promote with the soft hyphen character, which many browsers ignore — via redwolf.newsvine.com
NSW and Victoria have ruled out following Tasmania’s lead and legislating for all homes to be connected to the National Broadband Network — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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In the face of China wielding menacing control over 97% of the world’s rare earth materials, the US House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would bolster R&D of the key elements and help find substitutions for the materials — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Countries in Eastern Europe and Africa that harbour cyber criminals should be locked out of the global internet until their governments do something to reduce the threats, the former chief technology officer at the US National Security Agency says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
During the last week, French Internet users have been starting to receive letters as part of the graduated warning system built in to the controversial Hadopi anti-piracy legislation. The email warnings are being sent by Hadopi via France’s ISPs. But even at this early stage at least one ISP is refusing to forward them to their customers prompting complaints from rivals that they are seeking to achieve a competitive advantage — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Johnny Depp has taken show-and-tell to a new level at a London school, turning up in full pirate regalia after a young fan wrote to him seeking help to stage a mutiny
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