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snydeq writes Google Wave will morph into an application bundle for real-time collaboration, according to a blog post by Google Wave engineer Alex North. We will expand upon the 200K lines of code weve already open sourced (detailed at waveprotocol.o...
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coondoggie writes NASA today said it had picked five experiments that will ride aboard one of its most ambitious space missions to explore the Sun. The Solar Probe, a car-sized spacecraft, is scheduled to launch no later than 2018 and will fly closer...
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An anonymous reader writes I have an 18-month-old who loves bright screens (TV and computer), loves loud noises, and loves to mash buttons. He targets my laptop with the button-mashing, and I sort of hate having to tell him no when he wants to explor...
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An anonymous reader writes It looks like Brazil may be the country to watch if youre interested in much more consumer-friendly copyright laws (assuming US diplomatic pressure doesnt interfere). As that country goes through a copyright reform process,...
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An anonymous reader writes TorrentFreak has shed some light on the dark practice of installing stealth-mode P2P clients during game downloads and using unsuspecting gamers PCs as bandwidth slaves. The clients operate in the background and largely go ...
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pickens writes Erik Hayden writes in the Atlantic that children will see endearing portraits of Chewbacca rendered in the style of Winnie-the-Pooh in the book of drawings Wookie the Chew, a tribute to the combined genius of George Lucas, A.A.Milne an...
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eldavojohn writes Analysts are saying that this year will be the first year YouTube turns a profit. From the New York Times article: In the last year, the video site has become a significant contributor to the family business at a time when Google, w...
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tsu doh nimh writes Credit card giant VISA International has suspended its business with ePassporte, an Internet payment system widely used to pay adult Webmasters and a raft of other affiliate programs. A number of adult Webmaster forums are up in a...
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jamie sends in a story about an unexpected finding by the Phoenix Mars Lander which has shed new light on experiments done by the Viking landers back in 1976. The Viking experiments found traces of chlorine compounds that were interpreted to be the r...
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MojoKid writes NVIDIA has announced an entire line-up of Fermi-based GeForce GT and GTX 400M mobile GPUs, seven in total, and revealed a number of notebook design wins from major OEMs. Like their desktop-targeted counterparts, the mobile GeForce GT a...
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crimeandpunishment writes It was the big deal Dell wanted in a big way. But now that it has lost out to Hewlett-Packard in the bidding war it started for 3Par, where does Dell go in its effort to diversify its business and move into the higher-profit...
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Hugh Pickens writes The NY Times reports that Consumer Watchdog is running a 540-square-foot video billboard advertisement in Times Square, New York that shows Google CEO Eric Schmidt as an ingratiating ice cream truck driver who knows everything abo...
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jamie writes A grassroots campaign has begun to get Stephen Colbert to hold a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to counter Glenn Becks recent Restoring Honor event. The would-be rally has been dubbed Restoring Truthiness and was inspired by ...
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An anonymous reader writes Always bet on Duke. It seems he was right about himself, at least. The longest, most storied in-development game in history seems like its finally going to be released by Gearbox Software sometime within the next year. Acco...
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Jake writes with this excerpt from Ars: Microsoft is warning about a new piece of malware, Rogue:MSILZeven, that auto-detects a users browser and then imitates the relevant malware warning pages from Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome. The fake wa...
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waderoush writes On top of all the other features that it has crammed into iTunes, Apple this week added Ping, a Facebook-like social network for music discovery. Its all part of the companys plan to dominate the world of consumer media, but Xconomy ...
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Lucas123 writes After a storage area network in a data center run by Northrop Grumman went down last week, crippling 26 state agencies websites — some for more than a week — Northrop Grumman has now apologized to Virginia, saying it will learn from i...
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Dangerous_Minds writes Drew Wilson has been following HADOPI (Frances three strikes law) a lot lately, and the latest developments are that the French ISPs and the French government are edging closer to a full-on war over compensation. The French gov...
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In May we discussed news that producers of the film The Hurt Locker filed a lawsuit against 5,000 John Does, known only by their IP addresses at the time, for sharing the movie over peer-to-peer sites. Now, reader suraj.sun notes that subpoenas for t...
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neo12 writes with news that Hewlett-Packard is teaming with Hynix Semiconductor, the worlds second-largest producer of memory chips, to mass produce memristors for the first time. Quoting the BBC: HP says the first memristors should be widely availab...
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judgecorp writes Steady progress on inductive wireless charging. There are now certified prototypes of chargers for Blackberry and iPhone devices that meet the Qi specification of the Wireless Power Consortium, which was announced last year. The spec...
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dexmachina writes A team of theoreticians, led by a group from Imperial College London, has released calculations that show string theory makes specific, testable predictions about the behaviour of quantum entangled particles. Professor Mike Duff, le...
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angry tapir writes Facebook users will soon have a new way of knocking spammers out of legitimate accounts. The social-networking company is rolling out a new security feature that lets users see which computers and devices are logged into their Face...
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Trailrunner7 writes Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser and has included more than a dozen security fixes in the update. The new version, 6.0.472.53, was released two years to the day after the company pushed out the first version...
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itwbennett writes According to Harvard magazine, Harvards Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted at its meeting on May 11 to require instructors to officially inform the Registrar at the first week of the term of the intention to end a course with a form...
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