Slashdot
- Solar Powered Augmented Reality Contact Lenses
- ByronScott writes Want eyesight that could put your neighborhood cyborg to shame? Well, University of Washington professor Babak Amir Parviz and his students are working on solar powered contact lenses embedded with hundreds of semitransparent LEDs, letting wearers experience augmented
- Disgruntled Ex-Employee Remotely Disables 100 Cars
- hansamurai writes Over one hundred cars equipped with a Webtech Plus blackbox were remotely disabled when a former employee of dealership Texas Auto Center got hold of his employers database of users. Webtech Plus is repossession software that allows the
- Lord British's Lost Lunar Rover Found, After 37 Years
- Lanxon writes The guy behind Ultima Online once bought an old Russian rover, despite it being lost on the moon somewhere. And now, using images released by NASA, it has been located on the moons surface after nearly four decades
- Complex Life Found Under 600 Feet of Antarctic Ice
- Chroniton writes NASA ice scientists have found a shrimp-like creature and a possible jellyfish frolicking beneath 600 feet of solid Antarctic ice, where only microbes were expected to live. The odds of finding two complex lifeforms after drilling only an
- Wikipedia's Assault On Patent-Encumbered Codecs
- An anonymous reader writes The Open Video Alliance is launching a campaign today called Lets Get Video on Wikipedia asking people to create and post videos to Wikipedia articles (good, encyclopedia style videos only!). Because all video must be in
- Mississippi Makes Caller ID Spoofing Illegal
- marklyon writes HB 872, recently signed into law by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, makes Caller ID spoofing illegal. The law covers alterations to the callers name, telephone number, or name and telephone number that is shown to a recipient of
- Japanese Researchers Develop World's Fastest Book Scanner
- An anonymous reader writes IEEE Spectrum reports that Tokyo University researchers have developed a superfast book scanner that uses lasers and a high-speed camera to achieve a capture rate of 200 pages per minute. You just quickly flip the book
Digg Technology
- Steve Jobs Cheese Head
- Try Spicy Steve Nachos, iPad Thai and an Apple Cheese Plate and pay homage to the greatest consumer electronics company of all time.
- Hacker Disables Over 100 Cars Remotely
- More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control earlier this month, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers
- Twitter Will Be Available in China…Someday
- While most of the world happily enjoys Internet’s free services such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Google, in China these are either inaccessible or might become so in the following months.
- Web sites that can take a punch
- The recent, well-publicized cyberattack on Google was just the latest skirmish in a long war. And like most long wars, this one features an arms race, as hackers seek out new security holes, and web site administrators try to close
- The New IE9: More HTML5, CSS3, and No Windows XP
- Today, Microsoft released the developer preview of Internet Explorer 9. The preview is bare-bones: after playing around with it, I can tell you that it doesnt have much in terms of user interface. This is more of a proof-of-concept than
- Survey: Macs cost notably less to support than Windows PCs
- IT admins that manage mixed-platform environments agree that Macs cost less to support than Windows PCs. In fact, 66 percent plan to increase the number of Macs in the coming year.(Mac/PC flame war commencing in 3..2..)
- Broadband Plan: A Guide to America's Internet Revolution
- The federal government plans to give Americans the worlds fastest Internet access. Not everyone is thrilled with the National Broadband Plan: Television broadcasters say it will compromise their business, and are already gearing up to fight it. Here, a concise
CNET News.com
- Emergency Internet control bill gets a rewrite
- After private sector outcry, Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller has rewritten a cybersecurity bill that was criticized for giving the president emergency power over the Internet.
- Beware the new Facebook password reset scam
- McAfee warns of password stealer hiding in attachment that comes with an e-mail purporting to be from Facebook.
- FTC member: Google's 'irresponsible conduct' with Buzz
- FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour says she doesnt believe consumer privacy played any significant role in Googles thoughts when releasing Buzz.
- Hands-on: Xobni's insta-address book for BlackBerry
- Were excited to dive deep into Xobni for BlackBerry, an uber-utility that complements--or replaces--your address book.
- Is social media better than sex?
- A new study by Retrevo finds that 40 percent of respondents dont mind being interrupted for a message, and almost 10 percent admit theyd check a message during sex.
- Malware found on second Vodafone HTC Magic
- Another security firm finds Mariposa malware on a new Android-based HTC Magic from Vodafone, according to PandaLabs.
- If you modernize the grid, will consumers care?
- The benefits of a smart grid are far clearer to utilities than consumers at this point, but changes in regulations could spur more interest, say a panel of industry execs.
ZDNet
- Study: Businesses start to embrace Windows 7
- A new survey shows that businesses are increasingly planning their move to Windows 7, with more than half of those questioned planning to have some machines running the operating system in their corporations by the end of the year. by
- How the butterfly botnet was broken
- A joint operation by researchers from Canadian security firm Defense Intelligence and Spains PandaLabs led to the arrest of three men in Spain earlier this month in connection with the Mariposa botnet. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK
- HP sues Asian firms over patents
- Hewlett-Packard has filed a suit against four companies based in Hong Kong and Taiwan, accusing the defendants of patent infringement, according to various reports. by Vivian Yeo ZDNet Asia
- Apache bug prompts update advice
- IT security company Sense of Security has discovered a serious bug in Apaches HTTP web server, which could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of a database. by Colin Ho,ZDNet.com.au
- Wikileaks poses 'security threat' to US Army
- A leaked US Army intelligence report, classified as secret, says the Wikileaks website poses a significant operational security and information security threat to military operations. by Declan McCullagh CNET News
- Companies' outsourcing spend to increase
- A recent Gartner survey found that 85 percent of organizations anticipate their spending with external service providers ESP to increase or stay the same when the economy returns, pointing to a return to growth in the IT services market in
- Drudge Report, TechCrunch hit by ad malware
- Matt Drudge and Michael Arrington found themselves in an unpleasant position last week when visitors to their sites were targeted by malware that appeared to have come from ads. by Elinor Mills CNET News
Wired Technology
- The Oldest Trees on the Planet
- << previous image | next image >>Trees are some of the longest-lived organisms on the planet. At least 50 trees have been around for more than a millenium, but there may be countless other ancient trees that haven’t been discovered
- Cool: New Exoplanet Is Near Habitable Zone
- Extrasolar planet hunters are excited about a not-so-hot discovery. For the first time they’ve found a relatively cool extrasolar planet that they can study in detail. The finding is a milestone, says study coauthor Hans Deeg of the Instituto de
- Seminal 70s Environmental TV Series Now Online
- Every episode of what was probably the environmental movement’s first television series is now available on the Web.Our Vanishing Wilderness first aired almost 40 years ago. The eight half-hour episodes were broadcast by the New York public channel, National Educational
- Quantum Physics Used to Control Mechanical System
- By using a quantum device to control a mechanical object, researchers have linked the mind-bending laws of quantum physics to the tangible, everyday world.Until now, quantum physical behaviors were observed at atomic and subatomic scales, or in medium-sized molecules. Now
- Red in Jupiter’s Spot Not What Astronomers Thought
- The best thermal images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot yet captured have revealed surprising weather and temperature variation within the solar system’s most famous storm.The darkest red part of the spot turns out to be a warm patch inside the
- Methane May Be Building Under Antarctic Ice
- BALTIMORE — Microbes living under ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland could be churning out large quantities of the greenhouse gas methane, a new study suggests.In recent years scientists have learned that liquid water lurks under much of Antarctica’s massive
- Climate Quick-Fix Could Create Toxic Algae Blooms
- Pouring iron into oceans may combat global warming by feeding carbon dioxide-gobbling algae, but those algal blooms could become fountains of neurotoxin.According to a small-scale test, iron-enriched waters favor the growth of Pseudonitzschia, an algae that pumps out brain-damaging domoic
Tom's Hardware
- System Builder Marathon, March 2010: $1,500 Enthusiast PC
- In this System Builder Marathon, we get to make a great $1,500 Core i7-920 enthusiast PC and then pit it against the Core i5-750 system from our previous series. Is the extra money for the Core i7-920 worthwhile, or can
- System Builder Marathon, March 2010: $3,000 Extreme PC
- We loosened the leash on our budgets a little this month in order to pack all of your most
- Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: March 2010
- After Intels Core i3/Core i5 introduction and AMDs Athlon II/Phenom II refresh, things have been quiet on the CPU front. However, some prices have shifted and some familiar standbys are riding off into the sunset in this calm before the
- GDC 2010, Day 3: Diversity Or Fragmentation?
- In his last day of GDC 2010 coverage, Loyd Case sits in on a handful of sessions, listening to some of the most influential voices in the gaming community. Is Farmville the future of gaming, or will big-budget blockbusters continue
- In Pictures: GDC 2010, Day 2
- Loyds second day on the floor of GDC 2010 comes back to us in the form of a picture story. Real-time motion capture, virtual reality, stereoscopic showings from Nvidia and Sony, plus a brain wave detector kit were all on
Ars Technica
- iMacs expected to boost desktop market growth in 2010
- Mobile computing has taken over as the main driver of growth in PC sales for the past year, with notebooks overtaking desktops in late 2008 and sales of desktops declining for the last two years. However, Caris & Company analyst
- PlayStation Move ad mocks Natal, attacks Nintendo Wii
- The PlayStation Move was just announced, but Sony is wasting no time before going on the attack. The newest—not to mention first—advertisement for the peripheral makes fun of the Nintendo Wii, attacks Microsofts Project Natal, and basically buries the entire
- Google intros Exchange migration tool for small businesses
- Google is continuing its quiet war on Microsoft Office by making it easier for users to switch from Exchange to Google Apps for e-mail. The company has launched a new server-side tool called Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange, which
- After Google dustup, should the US ban Chinese computers?
- Should the Google/China spat over censorship start a trade war that puts an end to Chinese-made computers? One international trade lawyer argues that it should: If China shuts out our Internet companies,
- iWork.com improves public URLs, adds iPad compatibility
- Apples iWork.com document sharing and collaboration service still carries the beta tag that it has worn since it was introduced with iWork 09 last January. (Perhaps its just another hobby, like Apple TV?) Still, with the iPad ready to launch
- NBP: Time for a new copyright notice!
- Critics of the National Broadband Plan released yesterday by the FCC are already complaining that the document goes far beyond its broadband mandate. They may have a point; were not quite sure
- 'Net addiction at a new level: users update from bed, dinner
- Nearly half of Internet users check for or post updates to Twitter and Facebook after they have already gotten themselves tucked into bed, during the night, or first thing when they wake up, according to a new report from Retrevo.
Hard OCP
- DRM is Dead, RIAA Says
- The RIAA says DRM is dead. Wait. What? Who are you people and what have you done with the real RIAA?For years the RIAA has defended the use of DRM, much to the dislike of millions of honest customers who
- Undercover Cop Arrests Undercover Cop
- You have to wonder how effective an undercover operation is when one undercover cop arrests another undercover cop for trying to sell him drugs. Regardless, once the newspaper ran this story, everyone’s cover was blown. If either police department bothered
- Apple Approves Marijuana App
- Let’s see, you can’t get an iPhone app showing boobies but you can get an app to help you find weed. I guess I’m not surprised by an iToke app, we are after all talking about Apple here. You now
- Microsoft Responds to Obama’s Xbox Criticism
- Damn you Xbox machine for making our kids stay up late and be stupid. If my kid ends up being a high school drop out, we know who to blame now! For our kids to excel, we must accept our
- New Pirate Bay to Be Based on Give-And-Take Models
- Does anyone seriously think this is going to work? Remember how much everyone loved Napster? Remember how much they liked it once it became a legit site? Yeah, that’s what is going to happen here too. The more you give,
- Creating Font Using a Car
- Here is your creative font of the day (its free too). A group of people made a new font using a computer, a sophisticated camera tracking system and a car. I use my car all the time to make fonts
- Ping Pong Table-Door
- From the why didn’t I think of that files comes the amazing ping pong table/door! From the looks of it, this amazing product not only makes you popular, it gets you chicks too! Comments
AnandTech
- Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview: Investigated
- Yesterday, Microsoft launched the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview at MIX10. Though the current release of the platform preview is very rough around the edges, it promises to bring Internet Explorer into full web standards compliance, partially erasing the web-standard
- Asus Eee PC 1001P—A Matte Seashell Netbook
- ASUS has an updated Pine Trail netbook that cuts the price to $330 and includes one of the nicest looking LCDs weve seen in a netbook. If youre after a $330 netbook and cant spend a penny more, this is
- The Intel Xeon 5670: Six Improved Cores
- The new Xeon “Westmere” 5600 series, has arrived. ...
- Windows Phone 7 Series at MIX10
- Microsoft answered nearly all of the questions we had about Windows Phone 7 Series after Mobile World Congress at this years MIX. 7 series is quickly shaping up to be one of the more impressive things weve seen from Microsoft
- ASUS N61J-X2: Optimus GT325M Meets Arrandale
- Mobile users that actually use their laptop unplugged for any extended amount of time should absolutely love NVIDIAs Optimus technology. The ASUS N61J pairs a higher spec GT325M GPU with an Arrandale processor to bump performance to the next level.
- Designing Our Next GPU Test Suite
- In keeping with our desire to refresh our GPU test suite periodically, we’re going to be redoing our GPU test suite to rotate in some more modern games, along with rotating in some DirectX11 games capable of taking advantage of
- Intel Core i7 980X Overclocking Update: Breaking 4GHz With 6 Cores
- Our initial 980X overclocking results were bad, so we put in more time and managed to push the chip past 4GHz....
O'Reilly Network
- Launchpad SF Submissions Are Open Until 3/31
- Startups! The Web 2.0 Expo is in two months. We want to highlight your work. Each year we put five of you onstage in a Launchpad session. The deadline for submitting your company is 3/31. The criteria is below. Entrants
- Don't Click That Link! Net & Email Mistakes 101
- Get a strange email from an account you think you recognize? You might want to take a closer look. Recently, an email told me, I just won a cool $1,000,000 from an account with the address award@microsoft.co.uk. A quick look...
- Find Your Inner Leprechaun - A St. Patrick's Day Limerick Contest
- Since our limerick contest was such a hit last year, we decided to host it again! Today, were encouraging you to write a limerick that is either tech-themed or that references OReilly Media or one (or more) of our books,
- Google Buzz and hybrid blogging
- A couple Google Buzz experiments with long-form posts hint at a new use for the service. Its emerging as a hybrid option in the social/publishing space; a spot thats well equipped for deeper inquiry and conversation.
- Google's New Marketplace Has over a Thousand Apps
- One week† into its public launch, the Google Apps Marketplace has just under 1,500 (enterprise) apps. Combined with Salesfore.coms app exchange (also with over a thousand apps), enterprises interested in moving to cloud apps have an increasing number of software
- Four short links: 17 March 2010
- Common MySQL Queries -- a useful reference. MySocietys Next 12 Months -- two new projects, FixMyTransport and Project Fosbury. The latter is a more general tool to help people organise their own campaigns for change. riak -- scalable key-value store
- SkyHook and SimpleGeo Present SpotRank, Now You Can Always Find Where The People Are
- In an under-appreciated announcement Skyhook Wireless released a huge set of location trend data. SpotRank, as the data is called, shares out ranking trends for locations around the world. The maps above show the SpotRanks of those locations. Skyhook has
VNU Net
- Google claims 25 million Apps users
- Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 17 March 2010 at 21:17:00Company pushes productivity suite to enterprise usersGoogle has reached the 25 million user mark for its Apps online productivitysuite.The company said on Wednesday
- Japanese scientists build world's fastest scanner
- Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 17 March 2010 at 21:15:00Device scans a 200 page book in one minuteJapanese scientists has beendemonstratinga scanner that uses revolutionary chip technology to scan a 200 page
- Cisco launches new Borderless Access products
- Dan Worth, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 17 March 2010 at 17:48:00Networking firm overhauls fixed-switching portfolioCisco today announced the release of Cisco Borderless Access (CBA), part ofthe companys Borderless Networks architecture designed to offer a completeoverhaul of
- Commercial lighting thinks for itself
- Danny Bradbury, BusinessGreen, Wednesday 17 March 2010 at 17:35:00Computer-controlled LED system can cut running costs by 90 per cent, companyclaimsBoston-based lighting company DigitalLumens unveiled a new LED lighting technology for commercial installationsthis week.The system
- Conservatives value environmental carrots over sticks
- Cath Everett, BusinessGreen, Wednesday 17 March 2010 at 17:24:00Emphasis on incentives, says shadow environment ministerIf elected, the Conservatives would encourage business to behave in anenvironmentally-friendly way by shifting the focus away from regulation towardsan
- Novell and Ingres team up to tempt channel
- Sara Yirrell, CRN, Wednesday 17 March 2010 at 17:23:00Vendors tempt ISVs and system integrators by offering savings on set-up andbuild timesNovell and Ingres are offering ISVs and system integrators (SIs) savings ofup to 80
- Government boosts civil nuclear industry with £80m loan
- Andrew Charlesworth, BusinessGreen, Wednesday 17 March 2010 at 16:50:00Large forgings firm recipient of largesseBusiness Secretary Lord Mandelson today put £80m behind Britain’s nuclearrenaissance - or at least behind one company in Sheffield – intended
Kuro5hin
- kitten: The Text Adventure
- Location: Party You are at a great party. There are lots of people milling about. It is a lot of fun. You see several lines of cocaine here. You can: snort cocaine
- Ogg Frog Magazine #6
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- The Secret: A Review of Dulcinea Technologies Corporation's Debut Product
- After weeks of e-mails and days of phone calls, yesterday I drove to San Jose for a demo of Michael David Crawfords secret project. Michael was eager to show off his work, but urged me not to share my interest
- Cars, Value Engineering, and Bugs
- Two trends in automotive development, value engineering and drive-by-wire have the potential to reduce driver safety. Toyotas recent travails provide some food for thought.
- Hopeless romantic Chinese Ph.D candidate arrested
- He did it for love and he is a model employee with his employer The Rutgers University according to his friends and colleagues And the TSA security officer that should have been stationed where the trespass occurred is on administrative
- The Jarmidor, Part 3
- Having discovered that Im not the only pipe-faggot on Kuro5hin I decided to see whether I could get my loose shag as moist as a 14 year old baptist girl at her first Jonas brothers concert. Unfortunately my girlfriend doesnt
- 15 Yards: The Unsportsmanlike Tax Evasion of the NFL
- Superbowl XLIV approaches, pitting two potent offensive teams against one another. The inimitable Peyton Manning, this years winner of the National Football Leagues MVP award (his fourth, most of any player all time), will try to use his bottomless well
Techdirt
- ACS:Law Keeps Sending Out More Threat Letters -- Condemned By Politicians, ISPs And General Com(...)
- Just as Davenport Lyons lawyers are being sent for disciplinary action over the firms practice of sending large numbers of pay up or we sue pre-settlement letters, ACS:Law, the shady firm that effectively spun out of Davenport Lyons to do
- Kodak Says Intellectual Ventures Behind Patent Lawsuit Filed By Shell Company
- Last year, Zusha Elinson broke the story that, despite Nathan Myhrvold hiding behind the claim that Intellectual Ventures hadnt sued anyone over patent infringement, IVs patents were miraculously showing up in lawsuits being filed by shell companies. Of course, IV
- Accountant Sues Craigslist Over Negative Post About His Services
- And heres a lawsuit thats going nowhere fast. Alex points us to the news of a NY accountant, Leo Kehoe, who is suing Craigslist for $1 million because someone insulted him on the site. He is also suing the anonymous
- Yet Another DRM Failure Leaves Customers High And Dry
- By now you should know this -- as DRMd music service after DRMd music service has screwed over their customers by shutting off the servers on the music they were supposed to be able to access -- but its yet
- Court Effectively Says No 4th Amendment Protection To Copies Of Emails
- Earlier this year, we wrote about some Fourth Amendment questions when it came to information stored in the cloud -- and a recent legal ruling provides some new troubling views on this matter. Slashdot points us to Orin Kerrs excellent
- IMAX Threatens Open Source 3D Engine With Bizarre Reasoning
- Proffer alerts us to the bizarre story of how IMAX (last seen suing competitors and misleading people about what an IMAX film really is) is now threatening the folks behind the Sandy3D open source 3D flash engine. Apparently, IMAX has
- Harvard Law Prof's Poor Economic Analysis Used As Cover For Unnecessary Fashion Copyright
- For many years, weve pointed to the fashion industry as a perfect example of how a creative industry can be incredibly innovative and fruitful, even without copyright protections. Its a great story, and studies have shown, in fact, that the
X-bit labs
- NEC Electronics Ships Third Millionth USB 3.0 Host Controller
- NEC Plans to Double Production of USB 3.0 Controllers Due to High Demand
- Microsoft Readies Xbox 360 Slim - Photo of the Motherboard
- Image of a Possible Xbox 360 Slim Mainboard May Reveal Microsofts Plans
- Asus P7H57D-V EVO: Unique LGA1156 Mainboard
- In our todays review of the most extraordinary mainboard we are going to dwell not only on its features. We will also take a glance at solutions from other makers, reveal their peculiarities and discuss the existing tricks for successful
- LSI and Seagate Develop Enterprise-Class PCIe Solid-State Drives
- LSI and Seagate Create PCIe SSDs for Enterprises
- 250 Million of PowerVR Graphics Cores Shipped - Imagination Technologies
- PowerVR Chips Reach Shipments Milestone
- AMD: Sixteen Server Makers to Offer Next-Gen Opteron Servers in Coming Weeks
- AMD Opteron Magny-Cours Processor Receives Strong Infrastructure Support
- MIT Researchers Explore Self-Assembling Chips
- Scientists Propose to Use Self-Assembly Instead of Lithography