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1. 'Hobbits' really are a new human species

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... of the remains indicated that the 'hobbit' was about 106cm tall — far smaller than modern pygmies, whose adults grow to about 150cm. A scatterplot depicts it far outside the range of Southeast Asian and ...

2. Atom Hackintosh netbooks crash and burn

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   ... the rebellious masses - whose ranks were recently bolstered by the introduction of Psystar's rogue $50 Hackintosh patch. The patch, known as Rebel EFI, is reportedly compatible with Intel Core 2 Duo, ...

3. Chinese government attacks Yahoo over porn

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   Whose turn is it next? The Chinese government has turned its sights on Yahoo, ordering the company to remove pornographic content from a photo-sharing site that it was hosting. The Internet Society ...

4. Health insurance IT isn't dead, it just smells funny

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   ... all, who wants to hire someone whose job was figuring out ways to cut off benefits to sick people? But these newly unemployed will have one thing in their favor, at least they'll be able to get health ...

5. Apple drops Atom bomb on Hackintosh netbook rebels

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 02 November 2009

   ... against the rebellion - whose ranks were recently bolstered by the introduction of Psystar's $50 Hackintosh patch. The patch, known as Rebel EFI, is apparently compatible with Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 ...

6. Control your enthusiasm

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 28 October 2009

   ... mind you whose main pent up desires revolved around melting their credit cards. Control your enthusiasm. As cynical as that may sound about gladly being willing to pay you Thursday for a hamburger today, ...

7. Insecurity leads to fascism

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Monday, 19 October 2009

   Opinion: This weekend we were treated to two yarns from security experts whose main role appears to be making a living from people's fears. Both reveal a considerable amount about the mindset of the ...

8. Judge protects Verizon ringtones from greedy publishers

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 16 October 2009

   ... to pursue "fair payment for individual music creators whose creative works are used to build the businesses of others." As expected, the Electronic Frontier Foundation applauded the ruling and described ...

9. The best IT vendor CEO of the decade is...

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Friday, 16 October 2009

   ... be easily overlooked include Intel's Craig Barrett and Paul Otellini, whose tenure at the top of the microprocessor giant overlapped during the decade. Even their combined genius was not enough to lead ...

10. Global warming debate hots up

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Monday, 12 October 2009

    ... of cooling to come. Molina's team, whose paper appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), certainly has no doubts. "By targeting these short-term climate forcers, we can ...

11. Windows, users, guns and stupidity

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Monday, 12 October 2009

    ... every 30 seconds know a guy in a bar whose brother once met someone who’d heard that a chick at work’s PC had blue screened. This then becomes an urban myth/fact that Windows crashes more often than a ...

12. Apple threatens Woolworths over new logo

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... at a music festival promoter, Poison Apple, which wants to trademark an apple with a bite out of it above crossed bones, and Foxtel, whose new porn channel has a logo comprising an apple with an arrow ...

13. Google prepared to compromise on digital books deal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 20 September 2009

    ...  The Department acknowledged in its filing that the deal would give Google a virtually exclusive license to millions of books which are either out of print or whose rights holders are unknown - so-called ...

14. Allman Brothers tie record company to the whipping post

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 16 September 2009

    ... catalogs stretching back to the 1960s and 1970s whose work was originally released on vinyl. "We are pleased that the Allman Brothers Band will now have the opportunity to show the court how badly UMG ...

15. British PM apologises to dead codebreaker Alan Turing

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Friday, 11 September 2009

    ... being gay. He was sentenced to chemical castration through injections of female hormones. Two years later, he ate an apple laced with cyanide. "He truly was one of those individuals we can point to whose ...

16. Popping steam bubbles used for underwater communications

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Tuesday, 08 September 2009

    ... aircraft to communicate with submarines. The technique could also be used for underwater acoustic imaging, by using a moveable mirror to create an array of pops whose echoes would give a detailed picture ...

17. Munich Airport: just a short flight from Munich

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Tuesday, 01 September 2009

    ... are nowhere near the cities whose names they bear and Scottish travel site Skyscanner has just posted a listing of the worst offenders. Munich West (Memmingen) Airport is an alarming 70 miles from downtown ...

18. Desseret Funderburk starts fresh Bapco, Intel class action

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 31 August 2009

    ... actual user would actually use the computer." It continues: "In addition, Intel failed to inform consumers that the basis for their battery life claims was created by defendant Bapco, a consortium whose ...

19. Wikipedia turns iffy entries orange

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 31 August 2009

    ... text' will show the edit where the word was introduced. Authors whose contributions have persisted a long time get a high trust rating; those whose work is removed quickly lose trust. Anything that's ...

20. Scientists call for mirrors in space

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 27 August 2009

    ... are calling for giant mirrors to be put into space. According to the Calgary Herald, the call for space mirrors comes from none other than the Royal Society, whose members once included one of the the ...

21. Google: Ah, Mr Bond. I've been expecting you…

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 25 August 2009

    ... paid Google for top billing. God forbid that such a thought should cross anyone's mind. The mysterious Google program has obviously made its own, completely impartial, choice on the matter of whose story ...

22. AMD takes lead in discrete mobile graphics

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    ... computing capabilities in their notebooks, the market for discrete graphics is only expected to grow," said Jon Peddie of Jon Peddie Research, whose Market Watch forms the basis for AMD's claim. "The ...

23. ARM joins body with serial legs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    ... whose technology solutions are powering the majority of mobile devices today, join our organization," said Jim Venable, the consortium's president. There's an overview of SPMT technology at the consortium's ...

24. Sony Ericsson aims phone at angry mistresses, wives

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 12 August 2009

    ... whose wives/mistresses need placating. Naturally, these handsets offer real 24 carat gold plating. But the real icing on the cake is that, at the touch of a button, the handset's two inch screen turns ...

25. War declared: Apple’s Cult Takes on Google’s Borg

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009

    ... any good fight, some folks may get hurt in the process. But big spectacles like this tend to force companies to bring their A game. Which, in the end, can only benefit consumers, regardless of whose cheering ...

26. Apple working on super secret social networking app?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009

    ... a better investment than the rumored iPad, whose most exciting feature seems to be the integration of 3G connectivity. In any way you look at it, iTunes 9 could become a milestone release for the application, ...

27. Flies get a go on flight simulator

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Sunday, 02 August 2009

    ... they're developing small, flying robots whose position and movement in flight will be controlled by a computer system for visual analysis inspired by the example of the fly's brain. One mobile robot, the ...

28. Microsoft sets Windows 7 upgrade prices

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 31 July 2009

    Microsoft has published a list of price points for various Windows 7 upgrades. The corporation also extolled the virtues of Windows Anytime Upgrade (WAU), a utility geared towards customers 'whose PC needs ...

29. Microsoft releases emergency IE patch

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 28 July 2009

    ... with Internet Explorer. However, users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be "less impacted" than those browsing with administrative user rights. "As a defense-in-depth ...

30. UK broadband speeds are way worse than advertised

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 28 July 2009

    ... consumers on ‘up to’ 8Mbps packages whose broadband service is delivered through second-generation DSL technology (ADSL2+) received faster speeds than those who use the more common ADSL1. But the results ...

31. Half million credit card details stolen from Network Solutions

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 27 July 2009

    ... sites hosted by the Herndon company could be effected. More than 4,343 of its nearly 10,000 e-commerce merchant customers were told about the hack. It  affects 573,928 cardholders whose name, address, ...

32. EU to probe Google

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 21 July 2009

    ... exclusivity on online works whose rights holders are unknown. While Google's $125 million putative copyright deal - stuck last October to resolve a class-action lawsuit filed against it by publishers ...

33. Amazon to replace broken Kindles free of charge

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 16 July 2009

    Reacting to a lawsuit widely reported on yesterday, Amazon now says that it will generously replace Kindles with broken screens for free. Until yesterday, the company asked customers, whose Kindle screens ...

34. Bill Gates reckons he can control the weather

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Thursday, 16 July 2009

    ... company believes the project could be funded by selling insurance to coastal residents whose hurricane risk would be reduced by the new equipment. "It might be possible to suppress hurricanes so they ...

35. Meet your new boss: Google

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 08 July 2009

    ... content viewing devices. If I believe my sources then it is clear that Microsoft has been working for more than two years on an entirely new operating system whose idea originates in the Singularity OS, ...

36. Google faces antitrust action over book scans

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 03 July 2009

    ... Justice Department thinks the deal could compromise efforts by other companies to enter the digital book market and could give Google exclusivity on online works whose rights holders are unknown. Amazon ...

37. Dead discs: Blu-ray’s failure to launch signals end of spinning media

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Monday, 22 June 2009

    ... Blu-ray’s plight. Of the 2401 people who responded to the poll, 11% said they owned an HD DVD player console. This is pretty remarkable given the fact that HD DVD is a defunct standard whose promotion ...

38. Browser wars: When will the madness end?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Monday, 15 June 2009

    ... chip was running. The whole affair was a sad indictment of publications with an unhealthy oscilloscope and benchmark fixation, who genuinely seemed interested in whose processor was the faster. Needless ...

39. Europe to get Windows 7 with E, but without IE

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 11 June 2009

    ... with the Commission, since they would have a significant impact on computer manufacturers and Web browser vendors, whose interests may differ. Given the complexity and competing interests, we don’t believe ...

40. Twitter isn't a two-way thing

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 04 June 2009

    ... more than its fair share of attention from the media and celebrities, whose tweets about each mundane detail of their glittering lives are avidly followed by slack-jawed, vapid tabloid readers who hang ...

41. Laser fusion plant delivers the power of the stars

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Friday, 29 May 2009

    ... process. Credit is given to Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Department of Energy under whose auspices this work was performed.   The ...

42. Time Warner to spin off AOL

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 27 May 2009

    ... to a spin-off. Since then, several senior staff have left, including AOL People Networks President Joanna Shields, whose departure was announced yesterday. Time Warner's ownership of AOL was never a ...

43. New telescope to map the southern skies

    (Space/Space Features)

    Monday, 25 May 2009

    ... holes in the universe, whose light has taken 13 billion years to reach us", said Professor Brian Schmidt, the project’s lead scientist. The telescope includes Australia’s largest and most sensitive digital ...

44. Space - the final frontier

    (Space/Space Features)

    Monday, 25 May 2009

    ... them into space - notably the French, whose government stuck with the European launch program and today forms the basis of the successful - and profitable - Ariane launch vehicle. Rise of the accountantsBritain's ...

45. Taxonomists describe ten weirdest new species

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Sunday, 24 May 2009

    ... inches. Also making the hall of fame are a fossilized specimen of the oldest known live-bearing vertebrate and a snail whose shell twists around four axes, as well as a palm that flowers itself to death, ...

46. "E-cigarette" firm claims pharma industry behind proposed ban

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 14 May 2009

    ... Association of Public Health Physicians is opposed to Senator Lautenberg's proposals. Said ecigaretteschoice.com in a statement today: "Should we listen a non-medically licensed politician whose motives ...

47. Updated: Craigslist dumps erotica amidst prostitution claims

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 13 May 2009

    ... considered: Our users, whose suggestions shape every aspect of craigslist Attorneys General, who provided valuable constructive criticism Law Enforcement officers nationwide, hugely supportive as always ...

48. Microsoft issues critical PowerPoint patch

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 12 May 2009

    ... of an affected system," Microsoft warned in a security bulletin. "An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts ...

49. UC Berkeley confirms data breach affecting 160,000 people

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 11 May 2009

    ... that will reduce our exposure to future attacks." The university recommended individuals whose names and personal data were stolen to place a fraud alert on their credit reporting accounts. The campus ...

50. Facebook may not trash your grades

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 07 May 2009

    ... what these studies measure - simply doesn't have generalizable consequences for grades," said Hargittai, whose research explores the social and policy implications of the web. The authors see a parallel ...