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1. GM is world's least green automobile maker

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   ...  It also looked at how efficiently automobile manufacturers used key natural resources. It caclulated the ratio of sustainable value to sales so that different companies could be compared directly, irrespective ...

2. Ubuntu is still rubbish

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... OS installs, what sort of confidence is that expected to inspire in non-techy users? It certainly scared the crap out of me. Linux is like a really ugly baby: only its mother could possibly love it. ...

3. Peer pressure can lead to big energy savings

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   ... line instead of the dryer could cut total US carbon emissions by five percent over just five years and 7.4 percent in 10 years, MSU Professor Thomas Dietz says. Astoundingly, that's the equivalent of ...

4. Geeks Are Losers

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   ... the bomb tonnage and body counts relative to the tiny nation of (then) North Vietnam was surely overwhelming. Human courage and tenacity could not fit into his equations, so hundreds of thousands of people ...

5. Arctic sea ice melting at rapid pace

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   A study conducted by the Catlin Arctic Survey and WWF has concluded that Arctic Ocean sea ice is rapidly thinning. The accelerated meltdown could create an ice-free Arctic Ocean within a decade. A study ...

6. Apple takes on Microsoft's Zune with FM Radio iPhone app

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... networking in its latest iPhone and iPods." The introduction of a native iPhone FM radio app could help lure Microsoft fanbois away from the Zune HD. The upgraded device - powered by Nvidia's Tegra processor ...

7. Intel Developer Forum was a bishop’s egg

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... “a curate’s egg” comes from a cartoon in Punch in 1895, the punchline being that the egg Mr Jones was eating was only “good in parts” – that is to say, downright inedible.You couldn’t say that about last ...

8. Windows 7 won't help PC sales until next summer

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 7 won't create as big a shot in the arm as some are hoping, suppliers run the risk of over-optimistic sales predictions and could end up with warehouses full of unsold machines.     ...

9. People are pining for power for your PC

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Scientists have worked out that there is enough electricity in a tree to power an electronic circuit. The discovery could pave the way for a house's computers to be powered by the tree that is planted ...

10. Why play a plastic guitar when you can have a real one?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    ... with no effort at all could well mean we run out of real musicians when old fogeys like Wyman and myself finally kick the bucket. Wyman was speaking at the recording of a charity single at the Abbey ...

11. World's quietest room opens for business

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... information about its surface properties could be obtained, aiding those engaged in the fight against cancer. Such tools may also be capable of modifying cells using a kind of nanosurgery. The ...

12. Scientists call for mirrors in space

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... said that there could be two approaches to geo-engineering. The first could include techniques that remove CO2 from the atmosphere, and solar-blocking schemes that reflect a small percentage of the sun's ...

13. Paint your house green with solar cells

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Solar cells could soon be printed like newspaper or painted onto rooftops. Austin, Texas - Solar cells could soon be printed like newspaper or painted onto rooftops. Brian Korgel, a University of ...

14. Asimov's Fourth Law: Call a lawyer

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... insurance-classified as 'accidental', could reliably point the finger at the guilty party? The report continues: "All technologies are liable to failure, and autonomous systems will be no exception ...

15. Megacities are like organisms, says scientist

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... says that megacities in Asia and Africa urgently need to modify their urban metabolism in similar ways. A few fundamental changes could pay off quickly. "We need to start with low-hanging fruit," he ...

16. Dell’s mobile nightmare: The dumbest move yet?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    ... saw mobile devices as tangential to Dell’s core business – hasn’t changed a whole lot over the past couple of years. If PC companies could easily apply their economies of scale to mobile devices, RIM wouldn’t ...

17. Self-cleaning materials will cut detergent use

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... in settings ranging from home kitchens to industrial machine shops that must contend with heavy oil spills." The materials could be used in a range of consumer and industrial products, Youngblood said. ...

18. Claim: P2P "jeopardizes" national security

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... Reform has claimed that P2P network sharing is responsible for "jeopardizing" national security. "At any time your computer is connected to the Internet, other computer users with similar software could ...

19. New Ferrari F458 a waste of money

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... obscenely expensive to service and painted red. So it has a 4.5 liter V8 producing 570 horsepower, will top 200 mph and do 0-60 in 3.4 seconds. You could buy 100 used motorcycles for the same price ...

20. Mars simulation aims to study astronauts' performance

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... were to see how different mission situations affected the various performance measures and to evaluate whether the interventions could indeed improve performance." Final data will be received in the ...

21. Permafrost survey fuels global warming fears

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... surrounding the extent to which permafrost carbon thawing could further accelerate climate change. "Permafrost carbon is a bit of a wild card in the efforts to predict future climate change," said Dr ...

22. Global warming is irreversible, U.S. study concludes

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... gas emissions, such as eruptions of volcanoes, as well as effects of climate change that may push us beyond certain thresholds of additional climate change that could create a virtually unstoppable chain ...

23. The Great Digital Scam: TV is irrelevant

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... us would rather not use if given a realistic choice. Instead, we should be asking whether that money would be better spent on technologies and processes that could make IP-based television a mainstream ...

24. Apple patches Java bugs

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... to the version of Java that ships with  the operating system, was first noticed in January. It's of the variety that Microsoft is so used to with Windows - it could be exploited by a nasty person ...

25. Tiny Firewall of China mandated for new PCs

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... could corrupt impressionable minds. China blocked access to Microsoft's new Bing search engine last week, adding it to a list of banned sites including YouTube and several blogging services. Twitter and ...

26. High Voltage brings death and glory to the Wii

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... gets old. The Grinder is what Doom could have been, once, long ago.   Gladiator AD Gladiator AD offers players the opportunity to battle adversaries in highly detailed 3D arenas that reflect a ...

27. Speaker calls for probe into nuclear information leak

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... added that he was concerned the list could provide an "easy locator" for uranium storage sites and other facilities related to the country's civilian nuclear program.  ...

28. Space shuttle Atlantis prepares for Friday landing

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... structure composed of spreader bars and a large composite shell. The JWST sunshield will block the sun with a giant beach-umbrella-like sunshield the size of a tennis court. If you could imagine, this ...

29. Missing National Archives hard drive lacked any encryption

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... 2.5 pounds. NARA staff began a hunt for the missing device on March 24 and when it couldn’t be found opened a criminal investigation and told everyone and organisation concerned, including former president ...

30. Magnets to enable green refrigerators?

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Researchers claim they have found a way to create new technology concepts for two of the most power hungry appliances in our homes – refrigerators and air conditioners. Future cooling devices could utilize ...

31. Tech gadgets use too much power

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Manufacturers could cut the energy consumption of electronic devices by more than 50 percent if they chose, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Without such measures, it says, energy ...

32. The Gaming Renaissance Movement

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    ... whereby a publisher could make an investment in a game from a developer that is backed by a guaranteed insurance policy. This is precisely the approach Seahorn Capital Group is working on. Seahorn is ...

33. Apple, Marvell and the promise of changing the world

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Opinion)

    ... wedded a microscope to a cellphone so that people in the field trying to identify and track diseases could inexpensively and quickly send back images to centralized organizations and perhaps prevent the ...

34. Americans gamble over $100 billion online

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... and corporate taxes - the amount to be collected could be as much as $62.7 billion over the next 10 years, the SSIGI claims. So what is the SSIGI? According to the organization's web site, "endorsers" ...

35. Archaeological looting reduced by eBay effect

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... their own 'almost-as-good-as-old' objects and go directly to a person in a nearby town who has an eBay account," he said. "They will receive the same amount or even more than they could have received for ...

36. NASA and IMAX team up for 3-D Hubble spacewalk

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... bars and a large composite shell. The JWST sunshield will block the sun with a giant beach-umbrella-like sunshield the size of a tennis court. If you could imagine, this would be like an SPF of 1.2 million." ...

37. Somniloquy lets PCs talk in their sleep

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... less power than a PC in idle state, which could translate to energy savings of 60 to 80 percent depending on their use model. In the future, Somniloquy could be incorporated into the network interface ...

38. Electric cars: the shocking truth

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... a head to head comparison of the Prius with a BMW M3 sports sedan last year. The deal was that the Toyota would blast round the show's test track as fast as its little green wheels could carry it and the ...

39. International space travel threatened by orbital junk

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... within 25 years of their original launch date could help significantly reduce the chances of collisions in space."Spacecraft are supposed to have enough 'gas' in their tanks to propel them downward toward ...

40. Dinosaurs didn't die from asteroid strike

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... the Deccan Traps in India may be responsible for the extinction, releasing massive amounts of dust and gases that could have blocked out sunlight and brought about a significant greenhouse effect.  ...

41. Smiths Detection unveils new handheld bio warfare detection device

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... consist of living organisms and are capable of replicating once disseminated. "In a civil situation, major subway systems in a densely populated urban area could be targeted for biological agent strike, ...

42. When MySQL becomes LarrySQL will it be NoSQL?

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... a butterfly wing in Paraguay can trigger world events. Maybe not. But when Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, snatched Sun Microsystems from under IBM’s nose, I couldn’t help wondering what this would mean ...

43. Astronomers find mysterious space blob

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... It could be ionized gas powered by a super-massive black hole; a primordial galaxy with large gas accretion; a collision of two large young galaxies; super wind from intensive star formation; or a single ...

44. Dell bites Tiger's tail

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... no longer sold by Dell". Dell believes that Tiger was "engaged in recidivist wrongdoing". It repeatedly protested about giving warranties it couldn't do, it's alleged. In December 2008, Dell said in ...

45. Why I won’t be celebrating Earth Day today, and instead every day

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Opinion)

    It’s April 22, and there is absolutely no way I could have possibly forgotten. For the past couple of weeks my e-mail inbox and unfortunately even my postal mailbox has been flooded with marketing materials. ...

46. 62 trillion spam e-mails = power used by 1.5 million homes

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... for business users and 95% for most home users. And yes, you guessed right, a lot of power could be saved by filtering spam or using security software. ICF claims that viewing and deleting a piece of spam ...

47. TWC stomps its feet over metered Internet plans

    (Networking/Networking Opinion)

    ... to the FCC that there is no way that the government could sponsor potential competitors to deliver broadband to “underserved” areas. Gee guys, could it be that you need a bit more competition to live ...

48. The netbook-killing HP DV2

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    ... if, for a few hundred dollars more, you could remove the performance limitations and create a product that had fewer major tradeoffs and could actually be your primary carry box even though it remained ...

49. Vandals in CA cut eight fiber optics cables, $100K reward offered

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... evening. An AT&T spokesman said the cables which were severed could not have been cut accidentally, as they are over 1" in diameter, encased in "tough plastic". According to Santa Clara spokeswoman, ...

50. Texas Senate severely limits Vista purchasing for gov computers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Resources spokesman, David Duncan claims that state agencies are allowed to make their own IT purchasing decisions. He also stated that he could not make any comments regarding the legislation. "As a state ...