Toshiba has developed a hard drive for notebook computers that can hold 100GB of data. The new hard drive offers a quarter more storage space than the company’s current highest capacity notebook drive and is the first 2.5-inch drive from any manufacturer to store 100GB. The company expects to begin selling it later this year
Language experts believe that text messages, e-mails and the push for faster and more efficient communications are taking their toll on grammar. Queensland University of Technology sociolinguistics lecturer Jo Carr said people using e-mail and SMS text messaging were unconcerned about grammar and punctuation
I got an unexpected shiny thing in my e-mail this week. Greg Brotherton has a luscious new creation available that I desperately want: the Brotron Hamilton D-6.
The lightest of the rapid fire pulse cannons, this compact power house turns you from a tank commander into an actual tank. Choose from a range of antipersonnel and armor shredding settings for the variable auto-feed. Repeated firing can damage internal organs so be sure to add a rapid fire recoil vest before hitting the field as one man wrecking crew.
The Gene Web Information site is a new site to keep up to date with the latest news from the world of genetics
Clever geometry is the basis of a new material that is said to be ideal for secure data encryption and dense optical information storage. The material consists of a lattice of onionlike spheres in which the particle core and its layers each contain a different dye. The material can hold four or more pieces of information in one spotónot just two as in binary optical data storage. And it opens a door to high-density three-dimensional optical data storage
A mammal that is the daughter of two female parents has been created for the first time. Until now such a feat had been considered biologically impossible. But the mouse, called Kaguya, was born without the involvement of any sperm or male cell — only female eggs were needed — via GeneWeb
Carlos Machuca, a tamale-maker, killed his drinking buddy, cut up his body and boiled him in herbs, according to police who fear he may have been turning him into tamales. Officers found a man’s mutilated corpse in the living room and body parts simmering in saucepans on the patio
Catfish Hotel is a french cartoon well worth the huge download. As the title hints, it’s a hotel run by a cat who smokes a cigar.
The production is very slick, the characters are gorgeous, the colouring superb and just overall yummy.
Researchers have set a new data transmission record over the Internet2’s high-speed backbone. The new record announced Tuesday at the Spring 2004 Internet2 member meeting in Arlington, was for transmitting data over nearly 11,000 km at an average speed of 6.25 Gb/s. This is nearly 10,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection. The network link used to set the record spans from Los Angeles to Geneva, Switzerland
Russia may be about to perform a dramatic policy U-turn in ratifying the Kyoto climate change protocol despite months of saying that it would cause irreparable damage to its booming economy. Such a decision would allow the United Nations treaty to finally become legally binding and leave America isolated on the world stage as an environmental sinner
Yahoo has fixed a bug in its Web based e-mail system that would have allowed attackers to seize control of users’ e-mail accounts
Art alert!
This looks like it’s going to be very cool indeed: www.resistcrew.com
Sydney Exhibition:
29th April 2004
Galeries Victoria
Level 2, Shop 4
500 George Street
Sydney
A flaw in TCP, the most popular communications protocol for sending data on the Net, could let attackers shut down connections between servers and routers, according to an advisory released Tuesday by Britain’s national emergency response team
An AOL job listing indicates intentions to recharge its neglected portal and Web browser, and take Netscape in a dramatically different direction
John Howard had the bone pointed at him as part of a warning by embattled ATSIC chairman Geoff Clark yesterday that he was not welcome in western Victoria. Moorap, an Aboriginal woman from the Tjapwuurrong people, from Mortlake, performed the traditional ceremony yesterday morning as the Prime Minister arrived in Colac
Allowing a big-budget Hollywood movie team to film in sensitive areas of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area is evidence the Carr Government is prepared to sacrifice irreplaceable areas of wilderness to commercial operators. The Carr Government has established many new wilderness areas but now appears to want a return on its investment and is opening the door to more commercial operations.
Greens MLC Ian Cohen said it is unacceptable that the production team of the movie Stealth will use explosives in sensitive wilderness areas in the Blue Mountains and called on Environment Minister Bob Debus to intervene
iStab is a must have accessory for all iPodders who are paranoid, living in the US, want to defend themselves against muggers with good taste or homicidal maniacs.
Ooooh! Check out the new icons for Mozilla Thunderbird by the same guy who did the gorgeous Mozilla Firefox icon over at Hicks Design.
Finally something to compliment the Firefox icon. I can’t wait until this baby is sitting on my desktop at work!
Apple releases new hardware and software:
Newer, faster G4 PowerBooks
Newer, faster iBooks
New motion graphics software
Hmmm…
It’ll be interesting to see how Motion stacks up to Adobe After Effects, and even more interesting to see what other apps Apple has up their apparently very long flowy sleves.
Hmmm… web page editor? 2d animation package? One might even go so far as to speculate that a drawing app not unlike Illustrator would be on the cards what with the Inkwell built into OS X+.
Okay that’s probably quite far fetched.
Public Patent Foundation, a little-known public interest group, last week asked the US government to revoke a Microsoft patent that covers the company’s Windows file system
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