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1. Steve Jobs determines smoking is injurious to your Mac

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Sunday, 22 November 2009

   ... were void because computers were used in a house where people smoked. The reason? Cigarette smoke is considered a biohazard and employees repairing machines that were exposed to dangerous substances were ...

2. Tech Economy in the Hands of Nude Entrepreuners

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   Privacy is dead as is shame, self awareness, and common sense.... OPINION: Some guy in England called Milo Yiannopoulos is the mastermind behind a charity calendar that exposes the bare flesh of 24 so-called ...

3. Scientists develop 'Star Trek phaser'

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   Shame it only works on worms Its inventors are comparing it to the Star Trek phaser: a way of exploiting an on-off 'switch' in nematodes that paralyzes them when they're exposed to a beam of ultraviolet ...

4. Sprint launches Palm Pixi smartphone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Sunday, 15 November 2009

   ... blog post. "Palm Pixi is the newest webOS phone, packing in features like Palm Synergy, an exposed keyboard and a vivid multitouch screen, along with compatibility with Touchstone connectionless charging."  ...

5. Getting paid to watch porn

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Saturday, 14 November 2009

   ... at least - of the effects of prolonged exposure to the sadness and misery of the child images. That's an interesting topic, but not a suitable one for a semi-lighthearted piece like this. What about the ...

6. Firefox 'most insecure browser'

   (Security/Security Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   ... science," says Lars Ewe, Cenzic's chief technology officer. "We used several databases, including the CVE (common vulnerabilities and exposures) database to count the number of known vulnerabilities.  ...

7. Retreat of glaciers locks up carbon

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   So it's not all bad Phytoplankton are flourishing in areas of open water left exposed by  Antarctic melting  - and are acting as a carbon sink. As blooms die back, the phytoplankton sinks to the sea-bed ...

8. Nokia phone chargers could fall to bits

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   Nokia: Connecting People - to the mains Nokia has announced that up to 14 million of its phone chargers could fall apart, exposing users to a potentially-fatal mains electric shock. The company has kicked ...

9. OpenOffice debuts analog joystick mouse

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 07 November 2009

   ... macro support. Open source support software for creating, managing and customizing application profiles. Import and export of custom profiles in XML format. Optional audio notification of profile switching ...

10. IBM censured after massive server screw up

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... voters properly. According to the Statesman, the secretary of state got a "wake-up call" when a server crash led to a 13-day outage of the agency's business records filing system which exposed 'serious ...

11. Cops to get long range tasers

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... a number of cases where people have died due to being tasered and a hit with a longer range version will expose them to danger more. Tasering at that range also assumes that it will be only one police ...

12. Microsoft: Xbox 360 has the "best" FPS games

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... marketing and start to expose some of the things that are broader than just first-person shooters." However, Microsoft's latest claim about the Xbox 360 was met with skepticism from Destructoid's Jim ...

13. Army robot does callisthenics

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... exposure to chemical warfare agents." Now, that's what we call grace under fire. The robots will be delivered in 2011.    ...

14. Ubuntu bug subjects TG Daily hack to wrath of fanbois

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... - to install Ubuntu 9.10, we thought we had made it clear that the installer failed to recognize two of the three installed SATA drives in our test machine. Despite this, we were exposed to a torrent of ...

15. My 10 favorite Windows apps

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... and then you can format stuff inside your net CMS. 10. JASC Paint Shop Pro. I'm using version 8. It's such a versatile image editor and imports and exports just about anything you will throw at it. Yeah, ...

16. Flexible solar power modules unveiled

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... has release a set of flexible thin-film photovoltaic modules to the marketplace. The FlexPower series comes in modules for the building integrated photovoltaic market, for the mobile market, and for the ...

17. Night falls on Saturn's rings

    (Space/Space Features)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... camera was able to shoot 75 exposures in succession for this mosaic showing Saturn, its rings and a few of its moons on August 12, 2009, beginning about 1.25 days after exact Saturn equinox, when the sun's ...

18. Nanotubes could cause lung cancer

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Sunday, 25 October 2009

    ... lungs and is affected by exposure to certain types of asbestos fibers which cause the cancer mesothelioma. The short-term studies described in the paper don't allow firm conclusions about long-term ...

19. Tilera challenges X86 architecture with 100 core-processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 25 October 2009

    ... frequency. Although higher clock frequency does lead to higher speeds, the power draw goes up exponentially as a result. Our belief is that the performance should be raised via parallelism -  or many ...

20. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... and makes it vastly more difficult for the firm to respond timely or well. The end result is an unprecedented exposure. Wrapping Up: Two good lessons here, even when you are on top it is very foolish ...

21. Researchers find 32 more planets - some like Earth

    (Space/Space Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ...  The announccement boosts the number of low mass planets by 30 percent and ESO claims it has discovered over 27 of the 400 or so expoplanets now discovered. Stephane Udry of ESO said that the search for ...

22. Wesley Chan is the Google Voice Speedy Gonzalez

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 11 October 2009

    ... called Hinkley, who told us we couldn't come in - we were already in - because Jean Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft France was in there talking to something or other. But, we expostulated, "we're ...

23. Microsoft kills Works

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 09 October 2009

    ... version of Office 2010, available exclusively on new PCs. Office Starter 2010 will provide new PC owners with immediate exposure to the Office 2010 experience on new PCs right out of the box.” Numoto ...

24. Khronos introduces OpenMax AL multimedia specification for MIDs

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    ... images and MIDI. Recording of audio and video from a microphone or camera. Still image shooting that supports extensive controls for the camera such as exposure settings, zooming and focusing. Extraction ...

25. Mincemeat the Money in the Etre Dragon's Den

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    ... with great ideas get exposed to a gang of very rich people who then proceed to interrogate the guys who want investment.This isn't an original idea, however. Alex Vieux pioneered the idea in 1994 at his ...

26. Nokia shrugs off Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry threats

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    ... Chinese market is open and fair, maintained Kallasvuo. Nokia has been there  for 25 years and holds the number one share and exports from China too. There is  new competition coming from China ...

27. Chips showed stronger sales in August

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 02 October 2009

    ... prices have risen sharply for DRAM, they still haven't reached $2 a chip. South Korean exports are expected to soar in September, aided by demand from Apple for its iPhone.  ...

28. EU criticizes "damagingly loud" MP3 players

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    ... excessive volume levels in an instruction manual. "Safe use depends on exposure time and volume levels. At 80 dB(A), exposure should be limited to 40 hours/week. At 89 dB(A) exposure should not exceed ...

29. Apple users search their dates' murky pasts

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 25 September 2009

    ... which has a database to conduct background checks, has created a DateCheck application that lets the phones expose information people are hiding. Katherine Herman said during an on-stage demonstration ...

30. Silicone skin reduces iPhone radiation by 60%

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 17 September 2009

    Pong Research has developed a silicone skin that reduces iPhone antenna radiation exposure by 60 percent. According to Pong chief scientist Dr. Alfred Wong, the protective case contains a proprietary ...

31. Green group lists the most radioactive phones

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 11 September 2009

    ... further research.  In the meantime, consumers can take steps to reduce exposure.” The EWG wants the FCC to tighten restrictions on emissions.  ...

32. FCC forms cyber security group

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 08 September 2009

    ... James Arden Barnett, Jr. of the FCC. "Recent cyber attacks on government and private-sector networks have exposed the hidden vulnerabilities that we face as a nation."Barnett's comments were made in the ...

33. Report forecasts one billion mobile cloud users by 2014

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 04 September 2009

    A recently published report forecasts that the number of mobile cloud computing subscribers will increase exponentially over the next five years - from 42.8 million subscribers in 2008 to 998 million ...

34. Stanford team develops open source 'Frankencamera'

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 04 September 2009

    ... all the features of the Stanford camera - such as focus, exposure, shutter speed and flash – can be software-controlled by programmers anywhere. The plan is to make the Frankencamera available at minimal ...

35. Law makes an ass of donkey bloggers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 02 September 2009

    ... donkey expounds on the many benefits of living in Azerbaijan and praises the government for 'its positive attitude towards donkeys'. Bloggers Andnan Haji Zadeh and Emin Milli were later arrested in a restaurant ...

36. Doctors dubious about internet health information

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 01 September 2009

    ... that the internet complicates their relationship with patients and undermines their credibility. "Although the e-patient is a new phenomenon that is growing exponentially, very few studies analyze it ...

37. China mulls export ban on hi-tech minerals

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is calling for a total ban on exports of metals used in hi-tech products. Beijing, China - China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ...

38. Facebook jealously rears its ugly head

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 07 August 2009

    ... of a feedback loop whereby using Facebook exposes people to often ambiguous information about their partner that they may not otherwise have access to and that this new information incites further Facebook ...

39. Scientology founder exposed as fake

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 06 August 2009

    Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard made up his qualifications along with his religion, as shown by secret documents released to the Times. London, UK - Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard made up his qualifications ...

40. US-developed insecticide may damage central nervous system

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 05 August 2009

    ... linked to Gulf War Syndrome. "It has been proposed that one possible factor that could be related to these symptoms is the simultaneous exposure to multiple agents used to protect the health of these ...

41. 9/11 still causing new health problems

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Wednesday, 05 August 2009

    Intense, prolonged exposure to the World Trade Center attack is causing new health problems years later, according to researchers. New York - Intense, prolonged exposure to the World Trade Center attack ...

42. US Marine Corps bans access to social networking sites

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 04 August 2009

    ... a proven haven for malicious actors and content are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries," the Marine Corp explained in a statement. "The ...

43. Rumor: Sony prepping PS3 Slim for August 18 launch

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 04 August 2009

    ... expo. San Francisco (CA) - Sony is reportedly preparing to launch a new version of its Playstation 3 console. According to RTL Info, the "PS3 Slim" will be unveiled in Germany on August 18 before the ...

44. Journalists flunk online security 101

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 03 August 2009

    ... indicator of the practices of the general consumers," explained Siobhan MacDermott, head of global communications and investor relations with AVG. "If the informed press is exposed, then even more so is ...

45. Khronos Group releases OpenGL 3.2

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 03 August 2009

    ... diverse market needs, OpenGL 3.1 used those mechanisms to streamline the API while adding new functionality. Now we have OpenGL 3.2 that fully exposes state-of-the-art GPU capabilities in a form that meets ...

46. Claim: P2P "jeopardizes" national security

    (Security/Security Features)

    Wednesday, 29 July 2009

    ... use P2P are "totally unaware" that they may expose some of the most private files on their computers to being downloaded by others. Washington (DC) - The US House Committee on Oversight and Government ...

47. Half million credit card details stolen from Network Solutions

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 27 July 2009

    ... and credit card number were exposed between March 12 and June 8. Susan Wade, a spokeswoman for Network Solutions, said that code was found on the server in early June on servers hosting e-commerce ...

48. New Apple tablet rumor suggests September launch

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 27 July 2009

    ... start saving money for Apple’s next gadget.   Given the wave of rumors surrounding an Apple tablet we have been exposed to already, it is somewhat surprising that there is no such device yet. The ...

49. Motorola looks to accelerate Android development

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 24 July 2009

    ... via private discussion boards; and market exposure for applications as soon as new mobile devices ship to users. Motorola will also make publicly available the Motodev Studio for Android Beta, an Eclipse- ...

50. Steal from my Kindle, please

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 21 July 2009

    ... book readers don’t expose consumers to a Pandora’s Box full of privacy concerns worthy of Big Brother. Until it does, it’ll be paper for me.Carmi Levy is a Canadian technology analyst and journalist covered ...