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iPhone 2.0.1 firmware update releasedWhile it’s not quite the iPhone 2.1 firmware that we are patiently waiting for, Apple has released the iPhone 2.0.1 firmware update earlier this evening. As you can see in the image above, all...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 2:41 pm Stylish Aluminum Livit Shelf Hides A Retractable ScreenBy Andrew Liszewski The Liv’it shelf, designed by Matteo Ragni, is the perfect solution if you’ve chosen to go the projector route for your home theater, but don’t necessarily want a...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 12:28 pm Mars Soil Found To Contain Toxin, Hope Of Finding Life Shrinks - dBTechno
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 5 Aug 2008 | 12:24 pm Let video games read your mind with headset (USATODAY.com)USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - Luke Skywalker, eat your heart out. Emotiv's elegant, lightweight EPOC headset is a piece of cutting-edge technology that grants Yoda-like telepathic powers, allowing players of computer games to move items on screen with merely their thoughts. Due for release by year's end, the $299 device will come bundled with an adventure game in which players complete tasks for an Asian sensei.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 5 Aug 2008 | 12:19 pm Meet A-Z: The computer hacker behind a cybercrime wave (USATODAY.com)USATODAY.com - He goes by the nickname A-Z and is one of Russia's bright young tech stars. He's a crack programmer, successful entrepreneur and creator of sophisticated software tools that help his customers make millions.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 5 Aug 2008 | 12:19 pm Cablevision wins in ruling on remote-storage DVR (USATODAY.com)USATODAY.com - NEW YORK - The U.S. Court of Appeals here cleared the way Monday for cable operators to offer millions of customers the flexibility to record and watch shows whenever they want - and even skip the ads - without getting a DVR.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 5 Aug 2008 | 12:19 pm FISA and Border Searches of LaptopsWith the recent attention to the DHS's draconian policy on laptop searches at borders, a blog post by Steven Bellovin from last month is worth wider discussion. Bellovin extrapolates from the DHS border policy on physical electronic devices and asks why authorities wouldn't push to extend it to electronic data transfers. "...it would seem to make little difference if the information is 'imported' into the US via a physical laptop or via a VPN, or for that matter by a Web connection. The right to search a laptop for information, then, is equivalent to the right to tap any and all international connections, without a warrant or probable cause. (More precisely, one always has a constitutional protection against 'unreasonable' search and seizure; the issue is what the definition of 'unreasonable' is.)"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 5 Aug 2008 | 12:19 pm 360 Avatars: 'You can't blow their heads off' - CVG Online
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 5 Aug 2008 | 12:16 pm Seven new phones added to the open LiMo Platform - The Tech Herald
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 5 Aug 2008 | 12:07 pm Forget Disney World, Im Going To Diggerland!By Andrew Liszewski If you’re a fan of heavy earth moving machinery, I’d suggest canceling that Disney World trip you have planned, and instead take the family to an even more magical place...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 12:04 pm Black Hat Puts Spotlight on Security Research - eWeek
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 5 Aug 2008 | 12:03 pm Jobs in 'Apple not perfect' shock - Register
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 5 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm Matrix Unplugged Chair Comes With Nuclear Sub TechnologyBy Andrew Liszewski Ok, so maybe that headline’s a bit misleading, since it’s not like this Matrix Unplugged chair is actually nuclear powered or anything. But it is made from the torpedo lifting...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:41 am Soon Nissans will push back when you floor it - Motoring
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:26 am Getting at Apple's core problems - BBC News
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:16 am Big Yahoo shareholder demands review of board vote (AP)AP - A major Yahoo Inc. shareholder has asked for a review of how its votes were cast in last week's re-election of the Internet company's board, raising questions about whether the opposition to the directors may have been understated.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:13 am Boffins claim solar energy breakthrough - Inquirer
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:02 am Eco-Safe Signs Agreement for the Acquisition of Ozonetics, Inc.Eco-Safe Systems USA, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ESFS) is pleased to announce signing an agreement with Ozonetics, Inc. an ozone disinfection company, based in Albuquerque, NM, currently focused on the dairy industry.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am Toxic Plastic Toys Could Go the Way of DinosaursBy Liz Szabo Children's advocates say they hope a sweeping consumer protection law passed by Congress last week will begin a broad national effort to shield youngsters from dangerous chemicals.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am BRIEF: Fire Destroys Motor Home in RiverbedBy Ventura County Star, Calif. Aug. 5--A fire of suspicious cause destroyed a motor home in the Santa Clara River bottom early Monday morning, authorities said.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am BRIEF: Revised Housing Plan Gets North Huntingdon Commission's OKBy Tribune-Review, Greensburg, Pa. Aug. 5--The North Huntingdon planning commission Monday night approved a revision for Lincoln Hills housing development plan at the end of Delaware Avenue.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am County Yanks Letter Seeking Santa Cruz River DesignationBy Tony Davis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Aug. 5--Pima County's top public works official has retracted a letter he sent to a federal agency about protection of the Santa Cruz River after learning that he hadn't had permission from the County Board of Supervisors to send it.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am Zoo Wants GOP to Ease Conditions on Bond: S.L. County Council Has Said Hogle Must Raise $20M Privately Before It Gets Any Public FundsBy Jeremiah Stettler, The Salt Lake Tribune Aug. 5--Hogle Zoo's multimillion-dollar renovation may not reach the ballot box this fall unless the Salt Lake County Council relaxes a private fundraising requirement that the animal park considers unreachable.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am Families Flee As Heavy Rain Puts a Strain on ReservoirBy Craig Brown FIREFIGHTERS and engineers worked yesterday to reduce the danger of a "catastrophic" flood after heavy weekend rain put a huge strain on the walls of a reservoir.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am Townships Happy Just As They Are: Salt Lake County's Unincorporated Suburbs Ask to Be Left AloneBy Jeremiah Stettler, The Salt Lake Tribune Aug. 5--They don't want to be their own cities. They don't want to join other municipalities. They just want to stay what they are: townships.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am Search Goes on for Teen Presumed Drowned: Boy Pulled Under Off Indiana BeachBy Robert Mitchum and Erika Slife, Chicago Tribune Aug. 5--Two days after 13-year-old Raphael Palomar was pulled under the water of Lake Michigan while swimming with his family off an Indiana beach, authorities Monday continued their somber search for the Chicago teen's body.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am Logan Paper's Lesbian Wedding Ad Hits Nerves: For Publishing the Announcement, The Herald-Journal Lost Some SubscribersBy Jennifer W. Sanchez, The Salt Lake Tribune Aug. 5--The marriage announcement of a lesbian couple published in a Logan newspaper is generating some heat in the northern Utah community.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am Mobile Armor to Launch Flash Drives That Offers Greater SecurityBy Christopher Boyce, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Aug. 5--As electronic data becomes increasingly portable, the risks in transporting storage devices have grown.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am PeopleThe most famous babies on the planet, those of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt , have made their world premiere on the Internet, having outfoxed the paparazzi since they were born three weeks ago.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am Germany Has Europe's Largest Telecom Market, Supported By a Large and Affluent PopulationResearch and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/5b1d08/germany_major_te) has announced the addition of the "Germany - Major Telecom Players" report to their offering.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am DSL Extreme Boosts Small Business Offerings With Higher-Speed DSL and T1 ServicesLOS ANGELES, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- DSL Extreme, a leading provider of DSL and business-related Internet services, announced today that it now offers higher-speed Covad ADSL 2+ and T1 broadband services to business customers.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am Center 7 and Trusted Network Solutions Partner to Provide Data Protection Solutions and ServicesCenter 7, Inc., a leading provider of colocation and hosted business solutions in the Intermountain West, announced today the addition of Trusted Network Solutions (TNS) as its newest technology partner.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am Free Wi-Fi at St Pancras StationLONDON, August 5 /PRNewswire/ -- - Romance is on Track and Online With Free Wi-Fi at St Pancras International St Pancras International is the first UK station to offer free Wi-Fi access, making it the perfect place to meet.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am New Life Hard for Old ChurchesBy Doug Moore, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Aug. 5--ST. LOUIS -- The building is a beauty. And its pedigree is impressive. Designed by the architect of St. Louis Union Station. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in the Italian Renaissance style.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am China's CCTV.Com to Stream Live Coverage of 2008 Olympic Games Via ViewCast TechnologyPLANO, Texas, Aug.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am BlueCat Networks Wins Network Products Guide Reader Trust AwardBlueCat Networks, the IPAM Intelligence Company(TM), today is proud to announce that Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and a world leading publication on technologies and solutions, has named BlueCat Networks' Proteus IPAM (IP Address Management) solution, a winner of the 2008 Best Products and Services Award in the Best Management and Security category.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am Meet A-Z: He's Behind a Cybercrime WaveBy Byron Acohido Anatomy of a cyber bank heist In summer 2007, a German gang skilled at pilfering online bank accounts forged a partnership with a Russian hacker known as A-Z, who security analysts say created ZeuS, a versatile tool for infecting PCs.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am 'China's first blogger' Isaac Mao on the impact blogging has had on his countryI had no idea, when I went online to make my first blog post just six years ago, how proud I would come to feel about being a blogger. Initially, I didn't even tell old friends and family my blog address...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 10:35 am Net access in the wake of FCC vs. Comcast - InfoWorld
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 5 Aug 2008 | 10:07 am Flypaper Raises $3.5 Million For Interactive PresentationsFlypaper Studio, a startup that allows users to create flash-based web presentations without any programming experience, has closed a $3.5 million round of funding. The round was led by Sierra Ventures...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 10:00 am Practice Fusion: 'Google Apps For Doctors' Ramps UpPractice Fusion is a startup making waves in the health 2.0 market. The product is a free, web-based EMR (electronic medical record) system for physicians. It runs in the browser and has been marketed...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 10:00 am DSL Extreme Boosts Small Business Offerings With Higher-Speed DSL and T1 ServicesLOS ANGELES, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- DSL Extreme, a leading provider of DSL and business-related Internet services, announced today that it now offers higher-speed Covad...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 10:00 am Beijing 2008 Summer Games Information, Daily Updates, Medal Counts & History Available From InfopleaseUp-to-Date Athlete & Game Information, Olympic Timeline, Quizzes & Puzzles Available on Reference Site BOSTON, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The 24-hour time difference...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 10:00 am ARCHOS WiFi Portable Media Player Now Available at RadioShack Stores Nationwide and Online at RadioShack.comFORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) and ARCHOS today announced availability of the new ARCHOS 605 WiFi Portable Media...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 10:00 am Circuit City Declares 'Sales Tax Holiday' August 9-10 in Its California Stores; Extra Savings Will Help Back to School Shoppers Facing High Energy BillsRICHMOND, Va., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In a move to help consumers stretch their dollars during the important back to school shopping season, Circuit City storesSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 10:00 am China's CCTV.com to Stream Live Coverage of 2008 Olympic Games via ViewCast TechnologyPLANO, Texas, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CCTV.com, the online division of China Central Television (CCTV), China's primary television broadcaster, has deployedSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 10:00 am Telindus Belgacom ICT Deploys New Amdocs Customer Management Product Across Eight CountriesAgent-facing product to improve agent response time and operational efficiencies ST. LOUIS and HEVERLEE, Belgium, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Amdocs (NYSE: DOX),Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 10:00 am Samsung Contract Manufacturer Young Bo Tools Up New Bluetooth Production Line With Multiple Audio Precision APx520 Audio AnalyzersFlexibility for future applications and AP's superior performance are key decision factors BEAVERTON, Ore., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Audio Precision, the recognized ...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 10:00 am RC Flying Cockroach Isnt Going To Fool AnyoneBy Andrew Liszewski The PicooZ was the first real RC helicopter that you could safely fly indoors. I mean technically there’s nothing stopping a skilled RC chopper pilot from using a gas-powered...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 9:42 am SEC Lets Companies Disclose Via Websites, Blogsedadams passes along a note in the ABA Journal that reads "Corporations may now sometimes fulfill their public disclosure requirements under Regulation FD by posting information on their websites and blogs, rather than having news releases distributed by third-party companies, according to new guidance issued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The move is expected to cut compliance costs." Here is the SEC's policy announcement.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 5 Aug 2008 | 9:34 am Thailand Pulls GTA IV After Teen Kills CabbieWhen you read about this stuff it still seems incredulous. Officials in Thailand have banned Grand Theft Auto IV after a teen claimed to have murdered a cab driver after having seen it in the game. Thai...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 9:27 am Magic teaches us about human cognitionThe Boston Globe's Ideas section covers a paper just published in Nature Neuroscience about the way that magic tricks illuminate the inner workings of human perception -- the paper is co-authored by five magicians, including Teller of Penn and Teller:"Our picture of the world is kind of a virtual reality," says Ronald A. Rensink, a professor of computer science and psychology at the University of British Columbia and coauthor of a paper on magic and psychology that will be published online this week in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. "It's a form of intelligent hallucination."How magicians control your mind (via Architectures of Control in Design) Source: Boing Boing | 5 Aug 2008 | 9:26 am Magic teaches us about human cognitionThe Boston Globe's Ideas section covers a paper just published in Nature Neuroscience about the way that magic tricks illuminate the inner workings of human perception -- the paper is co-authored by five...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 9:26 am Free Wi-Fi at St Pancras StationLONDON, August 5 /PRNewswire/ -- - Romance is on Track and Online With Free Wi-Fi at St Pancras International St Pancras International is the...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 9:22 am Greg Bear's amazing slideshow for City at the End of Time, a novel set at the death of the universeEileen sez, "This cool home-grown slide show that Greg Bear made for his new novel, CITY AT THE END OF TIME (which is hitting the shelves today, from Del Rey/Orion) is an example of what a motivated writer...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 9:21 am Greg Bear's amazing slideshow for City at the End of Time, a novel set at the death of the universe
Eileen sez, "This cool home-grown slide show that Greg Bear made for his new novel, CITY AT THE END OF TIME (which is hitting the shelves today, from Del Rey/Orion) is an example of what a motivated writer can do with a camera, a few Photoshop chops, and generous splash of suspenseful pacing. It looks like the trailer for a very classy science-fiction movie. The book is set in Seattle, where Greg lives, so he (and his wife Astrid) took a few photos of local streets and alleys, P-shopped 'em until they looked alien and ominous, and stitched them together. Greg and his kids, Erik and Alex, also wrote and designed the rest of the site, and Erik created the music for the slide show. It's tough to impress me with slick marketing, but this low-tech trailer made my fingers itch to get my hands on the book. "
City at the End of Time slideshow,
City at the End of Time on Amazon
Source: Boing Boing | 5 Aug 2008 | 9:21 am Olympus, Matsushita to offer smaller SLR camerasTOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Olympus Corp and Matsushita announced a new digital camera format on Tuesday that will make single lens reflex (SLR) models smaller and lighter, in a bid to...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 9:11 am Dow Jones Insight Offers New Enhancements for Better Media Measurement and ReportingNew Functionality Builds on Dow Jones's Commitment to Power the Intelligent Enterprise with Metrics and Tools that Save Time and Increase Productivity NEW YORK, Aug. 5...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 9:00 am Intel's Larrabee-- more and less than meets the eye - CNET News
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 5 Aug 2008 | 8:39 am Softbank's 1Q profit falls on decline in salesJapan's No. 3 mobile carrier Softbank Corp. reported a 22.9 percent plunge in fiscal first-quarter profit Tuesday as people hung on to their handsets longer before upgrading them.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 8:24 am Shanghai 2020: a 1,000 meter^2 diorama Neatorama rounds up some of the best Flickr photos of the third floor of the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum, where abides a 1,000 square meter scale model of Shanghai as it will appear in 2020 (provided that all goes according to plan without variation for the next 12 years, a near certainty, natch). Gargantuan Scale Model of Shanghai in 2020
(Image: shanghai_planning1, a CC Attribution photo from larryncelia's Flickr stream) Source: Boing Boing | 5 Aug 2008 | 7:43 am Naomi Alderman: Financial incentives beat the Wii FitMuch has been made of WiiFit, Dance Dance Revolution and My Health Coach as the future of fitness. These active gaming-style applications are challenging perceptions of gaming as a sedentary, unhealthy...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 7:24 am UV branding iron for newbornsThe December, 1938 issue of Popular Science carried a glowing (heh) account of a UV branding iron used to scorch newborns' initials into their tender skin so that the nurses wouldn't mix up the babies.New Sun Lamp Held in Hand Brands Babies (Dec, 1938) Source: Boing Boing | 5 Aug 2008 | 7:05 am Tokyo overgrown with vines and vegetation illustrations Tokyo Genso's photoshopped post-apocalyptic images of Tokyo overgrown with vegetation are haunting and beautiful. Shown here is Akihabara, but there's also several views of Shibuya, Shinjuku and other neighborhoods. Tokyo Fantasy: Images of the apocalypse (via Geisha Asobi) Source: Boing Boing | 5 Aug 2008 | 7:05 am Stop prostate exams at age 75, federal panel recommendsSide effects of cancer treatments and stress from false positives outweigh any potential benefits, the group says. There's a backlash to the recommendation among some experts. ...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 7:00 am Medication increasingly replaces psychotherapy, study findsFewer patients are undergoing in-depth treatment as antidepressants and other drugs are more widely used. The shift is attributed partly to insurance reimbursement policies. ...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 7:00 am Scientists look to HIV drugs as preventativeResearchers are conducting far-reaching trials to determine whether existing treatments can be used prophylactically to block infection. ...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 7:00 am Lenovo to unveil IdeaPad S10, a 'netbook' laptopLenovo Group Ltd., China's biggest maker of personal computers, said it would start selling "netbook" laptops designed to run basic applications to enter a market that's forecast to rise more than twentyfold...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 7:00 am Olympic ticket websites close downConsumers who bought Olympic tickets through beijingticketing.com report receiving e-mail saying company has no tickets to distribute, blaming suppliers. Judge approves restraining order. ...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 7:00 am Online advertising growth slowsThe slowing economy is starting to hurt an unexpected segment of the advertising world: the Web. The slowing economy...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 7:00 am HIV drugs to be used in preventionResearchers are conducting trials to determine whether existing treatments can help block infections. Disheartened...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Aug 2008 | 7:00 am A Quasi-QuasicrystalAn anonymous reader sends along a link to a mindbending article in Science News on quasicrystals — odd materials with a structure partway between order and disorder. Now researchers have found something even odder: a material that's partway between a quasicrystal and a regular crystal. The order in the new structure is provided by the Fibonacci sequence. It was constructed with plastic beads and laser beams, so no new materials science inventions are on the horizon. "'We are absolutely sure that this structure should have properties that are not usual,' Mikhael says, because materials with odd structures almost always do. Now they just have to figure out what those properties are."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 5 Aug 2008 | 6:47 am Softbank says to cut monthly fees for iPhone (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 5 Aug 2008 | 6:38 am Polymeme: the stories that Digg and Reddit missEthan Zuckerman sez,Belarussian journalist Evgeny Morozov was getting sick of encountering the same stories about US politics on many of the blogs and news sites he frequents. So he decided to engineer some serendipity, building a new type of news aggregation site: Polymeme.Polymeme (Thanks, Ethan!) Source: Boing Boing | 5 Aug 2008 | 6:36 am ETech 2009 call for proposals: "Living, Reinvented"The call for proposals for O'Reilly Emerging Tech 2009 has just gone up: "Living, Reinvented." I was involved in every ETech from the first P2PCon in 1999 right up to last year (I'm taking a year or two off while I catch up on fatherhood and book-deadlines), and I have had some of my most mind-blowing, life-altering conversations and experiences at these events, which showcase the leading edge of (often impractical but never boring) experimentation, skunkworks, and passionate development. This year's theme sounds fantastic, too. Proposals are due Sept 17, and the event is next March 9-12 in San Diego.Link Source: Boing Boing | 5 Aug 2008 | 6:33 am DMCA does not apply to US government, which can crack DRM with impunityA US appellate division court has thrown out a DMCA claim against the Air Force (a former soldier wrote some software on his own time for the USAF, added in a time-bomb that made it stop working, and quit and sold the software's copyrights to a company that sued the Air Force for defusing the time-bomb rather than buying a license) and has made it clear that the DMCA doesn't apply to the US government at all.But the court also addressed the DMCA claims made by Blueport, and its decision here is quite striking. "The DMCA itself contains no express waiver of sovereign immunity," the judge wrote, "Indeed, the substantive prohibitions of the DMCA refer to individual persons, not the Government." Thus, because sovereign immunity is not explicitly eliminated, and the phrasing of the statute does not mention organizations, the DMCA cannot be applied to the US government, even in cases where the more general immunity to copyright claims does not apply.Link Source: Boing Boing | 5 Aug 2008 | 6:25 am Respected radio scanner hobbyist Gene Hughes passes away Gene Hughes (aka Gene Costin), the radio monitoring expert who published the first "scanner-geek bible" Police Call some 40+ years ago, has died at 80 years of age. Photographer Steve Diet Goedde shot the portrait of this wireless master above for a 2005 profile in Wired News. Kevin Poulsen, who wrote that profile, has a post up today on Wired.com about the wireless master's passing. [He] became a household word among geeks in the 1970s when he started cataloging the radio frequencies used by various police and fire departments and other agencies, giving hobbyists something to do with the first generation of programmable scanners then hitting the market.Police Call Publisher Gene Hughes Dead at 80 (Wired.com Threat Level) Source: Boing Boing | 5 Aug 2008 | 6:00 am Internet companies agree on China code of conduct: report (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 5 Aug 2008 | 5:57 am AT&T joining cloud-computing field (CNET)CNET - AT&T is joining the burgeoning field of cloud-computing service providers that offer networking and storage services, according to a report late Monday on The Wall Street Journal site.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 5 Aug 2008 | 5:20 am USAF Violates DMCA, Escapes Unscathedeldavojohn recommends coverage at Ars on a Byzantine case just thrown out by an appeals court. The US Air Force cracked the code that would expire a piece of software. For this they were sued under the DMCA in Blueport v. United States. The Court of Federal Claims heard it and threw it out. "The reasoning behind the decisions focuses on the US government's sovereign immunity, which the court describes thusly: 'The United States, as [a] sovereign, "is immune from suit save as it consents to be sued... and the terms of its consent to be sued in any court define that court's jurisdiction to entertain the suit."' ... 'The DMCA itself contains no express waiver of sovereign immunity,' the judge wrote, 'Indeed, the substantive prohibitions of the DMCA refer to individual persons, not the Government.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 5 Aug 2008 | 4:03 am Gallery: Rain Forest, Coral Reef and Planetarium Under One Green Roof : Photo: Annaliza Savage/Wired.comSAN FRANCISCO -- The California Academy of Sciences is practicing what they preach. The organization's new 410,000-square-foot eco-friendly facility in Golden Gate Park is a living, breathing science experiment. The Renzo Piano-designed structure is the only building in the world to house a planetarium, museum of natural history and aquarium under the same roof. It's a fitting home for the 155-year-old academy and a proper tribute to the science wonders in its collections. Click through the gallery for a sneak preview of this gorgeous building, which features a rain forest biodome, a coral reef, an underwater tunnel and one of the greenest roofs ever built. You can check it out in person on opening day, Sept. 27, 2008. Left: The rain forest biodome is kept hot and humid with special lighting and atmospheric control systems. It has four levels designed to mimic different rain forest environments. A 100,000-gallon tank serves as home to Amazonian river dwellers. Stacked on top of it, and accessible via curving ramps, are biomes patterned on habitat in Borneo, Madagascar and Costa Rica.  : Photo: Annaliza Savage/Wired.com
The central plaza of the building features an open roof, seen in the center of this photo. The design isn't just for show; it's a key part of the building's natural ventilation system, which CAS hopes will keep energy costs down for the enormous building.  : Photo: Annaliza Savage/Wired.comThe "green roof" on the CAS building spans 2.5 acres and uses a complicated rainwater catchment system to reduce its water needs. Planted only with plants native to Northern California, the lines of rocks visible in this picture will help prevent erosion. The CAS planetarium sits underneath the "hill" to the far left.  : Photo: Annaliza Savage/Wired.comThe planetarium sits atop the coral reef tank. Seven high-definition projectors will provide an immersive space trip beginning in San Francisco and zooming all the way through space to the edges of the universe.  : Photo: Annaliza Savage/Wired.com
The circular windows in the roof automatically open and close to help regulate the temperature of the building.  : Photo: Annaliza Savage/Wired.comThe coral reef tank visible here is partially heated by high-powered lights placed close to the water. The lights are like football stadium lights that have been tuned to more closely emulate the sunlight that the coral needs.  : Photo: Annaliza Savage/Wired.comThis pulley system will be used to lower alligators into the so-called Swamp exhibit at the back of the museum.  : The reef exhibit features the deepest coral colonies created by human beings. The corals were grown off-site and delivered into position by scuba-diving biologists.  : Photo: Annaliza Savage/Wired.comThis ugly mug belongs to Bocolo, the museum's 35-year-old giant sea bass, a species native to the coast of California.  : Photo: Annaliza Savage/Wired.comThis 25-foot tunnel underneath the Amazonian flooded-forest tank allows visitors to gaze up at the anacondas, piranhas and giant catfish in the exhibit. Little-known fun fact: Most piranha species, including the fish in the tank, are actually vegetarians. Pity the fool papaya that falls into this tank though, because the herbivorous fish can still take care of business.  : Photo: Annaliza Savage/Wired.comThe view from inside the tunnel underneath the Amazonian flooded-forest exhibit. Until all the fish species are introduced into the tank, the ecosystem is slightly out of balance, resulting in the out-of-control algal growth you see here.  : Photo: Annaliza Savage/Wired.comThe rainforest biodome is a fascinating mix of natural and human-produced parts. Live trees intermingle with concrete habitat, small exhibit spaces and humidifiers. Natural rainforest sounds will be piped into the space via special randomized algorithms.  : Photo: Annaliza Savage/Wired.comWhen this area opens to the public, birds and butterflies will be released to fly free within the 90-foot dome.  : Photo: Annaliza Savage/Wired.com
The Tusher African Center is a room filled with dioramas featuring stuffed animals like these antelope, which are still under wraps. The academy has had these specimens since they underwent preservation decades ago. To touch them up for the new building, they were sent to a taxidermy cleaning center, where they were essentially dry-cleaned to look like new. But not all the dioramas feature stuffed animals: The academy's live African penguin exhibit also makes its home in the center. 
Source: Wired Top Stories | 5 Aug 2008 | 4:00 am 15th Anniversary: Absinthe Goes From Banned Drug to Legal LiquorIn the 20,000 years or so that humans have been getting piss-drunk, no spirit has earned a worse rap than absinthe. Said to turn mild-mannered imbibers into raving maniacs, it was banned in the US and much of Europe in the early 1900s. (Remember Van Gogh's ear incident? Some scholars blame the green fairy.) The chemical culprit was thujone, a toxic compound found in the crushed flowers and leaves of absinthe's key ingredient, wormwood. Or so we thought. Three years ago, Wired sent me to meet Ted Breaux, a chemist and microbiologist who had reverse engineered the liquor's recipe and discovered that there was barely any thujone present (November 2005). During harvest and distillation, he explained, its concentration was reduced to a minuscule five parts per million. Breaux's research — finally published this spring in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (.pdf) — and that Wired story have helped change absinthe's image from drug to drink. The US has been slowly peeling away its ban, and in March, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau approved the sale of absinthes that were "thujone free" (containing less than 10 parts per million). To date, there are four brands on US shelves: Lucid (Breaux's formula), Kuebler, Green Moon, and St. George Absinthe Verte. "The US is lucky in that its first absinthes are high-quality products, distilled from whole herbs," Breaux says. "In the European market, 80 to 90 percent is industrial junk." Under the Jade label, Breaux is making his own absinthes in France and trying to get them green-lighted for sale in the US. "Even at this point, gaining that approval seems to involve more luck than anything," he says. Luck, and a little chemistry.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 5 Aug 2008 | 4:00 am Aug. 5, 1962: First Quasar Discovered1962: A nearly botched observation of a distant radio source leads to the identification of the first-known quasi-stellar astronomical object, or quasar. Until the development of radio astronomy in the 1940s, our knowledge of the universe outside our own solar system was pretty much restricted to objects that emitted light in or near the visible spectrum. Then, astronomers began discovering objects that emitted radio waves. Excitement. They also found some points in the distant skies that emitted both visible light and radio frequencies. Big excitement. Astronomers Allan Sandage and Thomas Matthews were looking around in 1960 when they discovered a blue star-like object that sends out particularly intense radio waves. Big mystery. British radio astronomer Cyril Hazard applied his method of observation to the growing puzzle in 1962. The technique, lunar occultation, used the well-calculated orbital path of the moon to mark exactly where an object is when the moon passes in front of it, blocking the emissions, and again where it is when the radio signal re-emerges as the moon moves out of the way. Hazard was then at the University of Sydney and booked observation time on the 210-foot Parkes Radio Telescope a few hundred miles inland. Hazard was apparently better at astronomy than getting around on land. The night he was supposed to observe the powerful radio source in Virgo, he took the wrong train in New South Wales and missed the whole show. Good luck for him, science is a social endeavor (or endeavour in Australia). Observatory director John Bolton and his staff took over. But the radio source in question was low on the horizon, so they cut down some trees and even removed the giant radio telescope's safety bolts. Only then could they tilt the dish low enough to make the observation. Kluge city. The object of their attraction, 3C 273, was emitting a huge amount of energy, with a very unusual -- and never-before-seen -- spectrum. Bigger mystery. Maarten Schmidt used the Hale optical telescope at California's Mount Palomar observatory to puzzle it all out the following year. He saw a visible jet rising from the optically faint object. Like a hydrogen jet. When Schmidt analyzed the spectrum's strange, wide emission lines, he realized they were hydrogen lines shifted an astonishing 16 percent toward the red -- which is why they hadn't been recognized earlier. But a red shift of that magnitude meant the object was moving away from Earth at almost 30,000 miles per second (one-sixth the speed of light) and was 3 billion light-years away. It was farther away and brighter than most known galaxies. Astronomers soon were calling this new class of objects -- of which 3C 273 is the granddaddy and archetype -- quasi-stellar radio sources. A NASA scientist trimmed that to quasars. Today they're called quasi-stellar objects, or QSOs, because not all of them emit radio waves. After nearly half a century of research, new discoveries about quasars seem to raise new questions even as they answer the old ones. Source: HubbleSite
Source: Wired Top Stories | 5 Aug 2008 | 4:00 am Q&A: SpaceX's Elon Musk Vows to Make OrbitThe third time was definitely not a charm for SpaceX. The spaceflight company run by PayPal founder Elon Musk suffered its third high-profile mishap Saturday when an undisclosed problem caused a rocket launch to fail. The light-lift Falcon 1 was lost after its two stages failed to separate during the launch from the Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. Also lost were a Department of Defense satellite, two NASA satellites and the ashes of 208 people, including astronaut Gordon Cooper and James Doohan, the actor who played Scotty in the original Star Trek television show, according to The New York Times. Wired.com spoke with Musk about SpaceX's string of setbacks, the power of patience and the future of privately funded spaceflight. Wired.com: What happened up there Saturday? Elon Musk: We're not quite ready to release details on the initial investigation yet, but we should do it very soon. We think we have a very good idea but I don't want to get ahead of ourselves and then be wrong. We definitely know where the problem occurred, but 'why?' is the question. We think we know, but have to be sure. We think it's very small and will require a tiny change, so tiny that if we had another rocket on the pad we could launch tomorrow. Wired.com: You always emphasize testing and testing and more testing, and you've been super careful to make sure everything is right before launching. So what's the disconnect -- why do things still go wrong? Musk: Some things can only be tested in space. Bear in mind, Falcon 1 is our test vehicle. The reason we started with F1 isn't because I'm passionate about launching small satellites, but because I want to make mistakes on a small scale and not a large one. And this doesn't appear to be a quality issue or a manufacturing issue. It's a design issue related to new hardware that has only flown on this flight. It was our first with the new Merlin 1C regeneratively cooled engine. The problem we think we've identified is a lesson learned and thus we won't make it on the big Falcon 9, and in that sense it's helpful. Wired.com: Your whole mantra is "cheaper and more reliable." But so far you're zero for three, which is anything but cheap and reliable, and guys like GlobalSecurity.org's John Pike say the reason it has taken billions of dollars and tens of thousands of people to successfully launch rockets is physics, not some new design or economic model. Musk: Guys like John Pike have existed since the dawn of time, and if you listen to people like that then things will never get better, never change. It's a false point of view. Yes, we need to put some rockets into orbit. But the first order of business is to get rid of design errors, which we're doing, and once those are eliminated then you're dealing with repeatability, and people should judge what we're doing from the point of view of all the design issues we've ironed out through these F1 test flights. Wired.com: You've been quoted many times saying you had enough money for three unsuccessful flights, and then ... Musk: That was the dumbest thing I've ever said. I meant that after three unsuccessful flights we might be abandoned by our customers -- if they abandoned us I couldn't see how it would work. But that has turned out not to be the case. We've gained customers between missions and so it would be silly to abandon the business when we have 12 flights ahead of us. Wired.com: But you're about to formally announce SpaceX's first outside investment? Musk: Yes, we took an investment from the Founder's Fund, a fund run by a bunch of guys I used to work with at PayPal. They've been interested in SpaceX for a long time and I knew that, and thought it might be smart to take an investment from them to increase our war chest in case something didn't go right on flight three. Which turned out to be true. Wired.com: At the end of the day you're still zero for three; you have so far failed to put a rocket into orbit. Musk: We haven't gotten into orbit, true, but we've made considerable progress. If it's an all-or-nothing proposition then we've failed. But it's not all or nothing. We must get to orbit eventually, and we will. It might take us one, two or three more tries, but we will. We will make it work. Wired.com: How do you maintain your optimism? Musk: Do I sound optimistic? Wired.com: Yeah, you always do. Musk: Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work. Wired.com: So what have you learned so far? Musk: Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 5 Aug 2008 | 4:00 am NASA's Mars News Is Not Life, But Perchlorateleighklotz writes "In an update to the little green men story of not-life-on-Mars, NASA has twittered: 'The buzz this weekend was due to an interesting soil chemistry finding, still preliminary, but now avail here:' where 'here' is NASA Spacecraft Analyzing Martian Soil Data. The exciting bit: 'Within the last month, two samples have been analyzed by the Wet Chemistry Lab of the spacecraft's Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer, or MECA, suggesting one of the soil constituents may be perchlorate, a highly oxidizing substance.' Also, 'NASA will hold a media teleconference on Tuesday, Aug. 5, at 2 p.m. EDT, to discuss these recent science activities.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 5 Aug 2008 | 2:01 am Fruitful Developer Camp Proves iPhone's Web ProwessIf there was any doubt the iPhone shook up the mobile web, these six iPhone applications should put those doubts to rest. The apps are the result of a weekend-long iPhoneDevCamp showcasing what we have in store for the next generation of the internet.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 5 Aug 2008 | 12:45 am Sensors, Photos Prove Beijing's Anti-Smog Efforts FailingDespite major efforts by the Chinese government to clean up Beijing's air ahead of the Olympics, independent sensors and photographs confirm that the anti-smog program is having little impact.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 5 Aug 2008 | 12:00 am Source Claims 240K Kindles SoldNaturalist writes "Exact data on (the Linux-powered) Kindle sales figures have been hard to come by. Amazon is notoriously tight-lipped about it, and although CEO Jeff Bezos did give some Kindle-related information back in July, the company has yet to break out how many readers it has sold to date. Now TechCrunch claims to have spoken to a source close to Amazon with direct knowledge of the company's sales figures. According to this unnamed source, Amazon has sold 240,000 Kindles to date, for an estimated hardware revenue between $86 million and $96 million; media sales would push the total above $100M." We've been following the Kindle since its launch nine months ago.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 4 Aug 2008 | 11:59 pm Unfulfilled space funeral for "Scotty": words from his son.
[ Editor's note: Actor James Doohan was best known in life for his role as "Scotty" on Star Trek. Since his passing, it seems he has been most often spoken of in the context of a planned "space funeral" he requested in his will. That wish has not yet been fulfilled, despite repeated attempts. Doohan's family provided a portion of his ashes to Celestis, Inc., a subdivision of the Houston-based company Space Services which offers "post-cremation memorial spaceflights." This Saturday, August 2, 2008, those remains were part of the payload for a SpaceX rocket that didn't make it into orbit because of technical problems. There have been previous attempts to send Doohan posthumously to the stars, one of which ended with the eventual recovery of the rocket's payload, including those ashes. The remains of astronaut Gordon Cooper were also destined for this same service. I understand that both Cooper and Doohan's surviving kin are receiving the memorial services as a gift, but the company has paying customers, too. Space is tough. Of all the unusual and technically-specific ways to memorialize a loved one (morph their ash into a man-made diamond; mix it with concrete to seed a coral reef), ascending to orbit is probably the most complicated, and the most vulnerable to technical unknowns. The human remains, you could say, are just another payload. The odds for getting any new kind of craft into space are hard. Historically, there is much failure before there is success. But families want honor and closure when a loved one passes on. One of James Doohan's seven children is a Boing Boing reader, and part of our extended community of friends and kindred happy mutants. I asked him if he would share his thoughts with us, and he very generously obliged. Below, his words. -- XJ ] FOR WANT OF A TRANSPORTER
My father loved engineering. Anything he could do to visit NASA, an aircraft carrier, a submarine, he'd do it. There was no end to the enjoyment he received when people would come up to him and say, "I'm an engineer because of you." So when a company in Texas offered to launch his remains into orbit, we could only accept. It's been just over 3 years since my dad, James Doohan, passed on. In that time, there have been many memorials, the most recent of which to commemorate Linlithgow, Scotland, as the future birthplace of Scotty. But his launch into space was the most publicized, and it was to be the most significant. There have been many attempts to send my father on his way. On Saturday, the latest launch attempt by SpaceX, with a portion of my father's remains aboard, failed to achieve orbit. While there are many complicated reasons why this is a disappointment, mine is simple: I'd like to finish saying goodbye. Every launch attempt is like reliving his funeral. There’s a lot of pomp and ceremony, and a retelling of his deeds in life. But at the end of these funerals, something goes awry, the body doesn't get buried, and you know you're going to have to come back to do it over again. I'm not laying blame on anyone for the delays. It's difficult, living on the cusp of technology. Where most of us lament the premature obsolescence of our cell phones, there are those few of us who've pinned the memories of our family members on a rocket, hoping it will touch the sky. My dad believed in human ingenuity, and he believed in mankind's destiny beyond the exosphere. That it would take several attempts in these early stages to successfully achieve orbit would not have phased him. I can accept this, because of who he was, and because he knew it was all a part of progress. For those reasons, I know that his spirit will persevere, and others will keep those launch attempts coming. The act of sending a loved one's remains into space will someday be commonplace, even if we have to book a space flight ourselves to make it happen. That's the kind of progress my father believed in. But I'm not sure I can hang on until then. Grieving can't wait for the pace of progress, and I have to say goodbye now. So when news of the next launch rolls around, please don't ask me about it; I won't be paying attention. If my father has anything to do with it, though, I'm sure that ship will get where it's going. -- Ehrich Blackhound (Image: courtesy of Wende Doohan and the Doohan family. Thank you, Ehrich.)
UPDATE: John Schwartz has an update piece at the New York Times' LEDE blog which includes a comment from the folks at Celestis. Source: Boing Boing | 4 Aug 2008 | 11:58 pm Linux Pre-Installs In the UK Hit 2.8%schliz alerts us to a story out of the UK PC distribution channel. It seems that the percentage of systems pre-installed with Linux has gone up 28 times since Vista shipped, from 0.1% in January 2007 to 2.8% last June. Still not huge numbers, but Apple did OK for years with similar market share figures. Linux's headway comes in the face of the marketing money that manufacturers pass out to distributors, money that has historically been important to their profits: "In the late 1990s competition was so keen that distributors were said to sell at or below cost and take their profit direct from the marketing funds they received from vendors. Vendors nowadays keep watch to see their marketing funds are actually spent on marketing, but distribution runs on single figure profits and vendor marketing funds are a crucial aid."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 4 Aug 2008 | 11:16 pm University of Maryland Team Wins Robot Sub CompetitionWilliam Cox writes "A team from the University of Maryland has won the 11th Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition, held in San Diego, CA, this weekend. Twenty-five teams from around the world (US, Canada, Japan, and India) built autonomous submarines to complete a series of tasks using vision recognition, autonomous navigation, and sonar. Maryland unseated the 3-time record holder, University of Florida, to win first place. University of Texas at Dallas took 2nd, and a Canadian team, École de Technologie Supérieure, took 3rd."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 4 Aug 2008 | 10:31 pm SLIDE SHOW: Antarctica's Once-Living ValleysFourteen million years ago, Antarctica's now-barren valleys were thriving with life.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 4 Aug 2008 | 10:00 pm Fossils Evince Once-Living AntarcticaAntarctica's now-barren valleys were once teeming with life, new fossils show.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 4 Aug 2008 | 10:00 pm RIAA's $222k Verdict Is Likely To Be Set AsideNewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Apparently the RIAA's 'big gun' didn't fare so well this morning in Duluth, when he tried to persuade the judge in Capitol v. Thomas that the part of the Copyright Act which says 'by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending', can be disregarded. According to an in-person account by Wired.com the Judge indicated that he is likely to grant a mistrial, setting aside the $222,000 jury verdict based upon his incorrect jury instruction, and that he will probably hand down his decision in September. Just yesterday some of the same lawyers got rebuffed by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in their attempt to argue that Cablevision's online storage for its customers constitutes a copyright infringement, in Cartoon Network v. CSC Holdings. There, too, the content owners had argued that the wording of the Copyright Act did not mean what it said. There, too, the Court politely but firmly disagreed."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 4 Aug 2008 | 9:53 pm How to Get Comped in VegasCasinos use a simple formula to determine who the high rollers are. Learn how to do the math, and you can easily game the system to your benefit. Follow our advice to get the free meals, free rooms and other perks usually reserved for high-rollers.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 4 Aug 2008 | 9:30 pm Motorola snares Qualcomm's Jha for handset unit (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 4 Aug 2008 | 9:17 pm iPhone Nano To Be Launched By Christmas?the-s-dog writes writes to mention that while there have been many people wishing on a star for an iPhone nano, it seems that at least one UK news pub is confident that it will happen, and in time for this Christmas no less. Still completely unfounded rumor, but an interesting possibility. "Apple is about to launch a 'nano' version of the hugely successful iPhone. It is expected to be in the shops in time for Christmas. The product will be launched in the UK at up to £150 for pay-as-you-go customers by O2, the mobile phone group owned by Spain's Telefonica. 'This will be a big one,' said an industry source."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 4 Aug 2008 | 9:11 pm Undersea 'Black Smokers' Found Off ArcticJets of hot water spewing from the ocean floor are discovered in the Arctic Ocean.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 4 Aug 2008 | 7:51 pm Rocket Racing Debuts With Grounded PlaneThe first head-to-head race between two rocket-propelled planes was a bit of a bust.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 4 Aug 2008 | 7:51 pm New 'Switzerland' Software Exposes Bandwidth-Throttling ISPsNet neutrality advocate group Electronic Frontier Foundation releases a new open source application to detect any bandwidth-shaping practices your internet provider may be employing. Users can download the application, named Switzerland, and run it on their own computer to put their ISP to the test.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 4 Aug 2008 | 6:30 pm LiMo Adds New Members and Mobile Technologies (NewsFactor)NewsFactor - The Linux Mobile Foundation has announced that 11 new companies have joined the global consortium for the open-source mobile platform.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 4 Aug 2008 | 6:28 pm Judge Hints at Mistrial in RIAA v. Jammie ThomasA federal judge on Monday suggests he would declare a mistrial in the nation's first and only peer-to-peer file sharing case to go to trial.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 4 Aug 2008 | 6:20 pm Asus' Mini-Invasion Continues With Pint-Size Eee BoxAsus' newest diminutive PC is out and it's awesome. The Eee Box is just a little larger than a paperback book but is undeniably cuter, with a powerful Atom processor and a price hovering right at three Benjamins.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 4 Aug 2008 | 6:00 pm Asus' Mini-Invasion Continues With Pint-Size Eee BoxAsus' newest diminutive PC is out and it's awesome. The Eee Box is just a little larger than a paperback book but is undeniably cuter, with a powerful Atom processor and a price hovering right at three Benjamins.Source: Wired: Gadgets | 4 Aug 2008 | 6:00 pm With automated tagging, Web links can surprise (AP)AP - It wasn't what anyone expected to see while perusing a news article.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 4 Aug 2008 | 5:59 pm Rescue Efforts Ongoing at K2 After Deadly AvalancheAt least 11 climbers have been killed in an ice fall while climbing K2.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 4 Aug 2008 | 2:47 pm Pelican Vs. Trout: Who Wins in Idaho?Pelicans are an emerging menace to commercial fish in Idaho, say anglers.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 4 Aug 2008 | 2:45 pm Study: Warming Won't Drive More HurricanesA new analysis of old storm records suggests hurricane numbers aren't growing.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 4 Aug 2008 | 1:35 pm Spaghetti-Thin Snake Is World's SmallestA snake as thin as spaghetti that can rest on a U.S. quarter may be the world's smallest.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 4 Aug 2008 | 1:16 pm
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