Topic: COMPUTER - on May 21, 2004 at 5:03:00 PM CEST
'Silver Surfers' day targets the over-50s
In an effort to get more Brits over 50 online, today has been named "Silver Surfers" day, with 69-year-old Dennis Rogers scooping the "Silver Surfer of the Year, 2004" award.
Organiser Hairnet says it wants to combat digital exclusion by showing how technology is relevent to people's lives. To mark the occassion, Hairnet has fitted the York to London express train with Wi-Fi - one of many events taking place up and down the country.
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Topic: W A R - on May 21, 2004 at 5:01:00 PM CEST
New prisoner abuse accounts emerge
Graphic accounts by Iraqi prisoners of abuse at the hands of US soldiers have been published in a US newspaper, with fresh images depicting ill-treatment.
The Washington Post says it has seen hundreds of videos and photos which show previously unseen abusive methods used at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib jail.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 21, 2004 at 4:57:00 PM CEST
Drugs come to online game worlds
The Achaea text-based multi-user game has introduced an addictive drug into its virtual world.
Called Gleam, it occasionally gives characters a boost to dexterity but, as with many real world drugs, too much use can lead to addiction and death.
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Topic: W A R - on May 21, 2004 at 4:53:00 PM CEST
GI: Boy mistreated to get dad to talk
A military intelligence analyst who recently completed duty at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq said Wednesday that the 16-year-old son of a detainee there was abused by U.S. soldiers to break his father's resistance to interrogators.
The analyst said the teenager was stripped naked, thrown in the back of an open truck, driven around in the cold night air, splattered with mud and then presented to his father at Abu Ghraib, the prison at the center of the scandal over abuse of Iraqi detainees.
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Topic: TV - on May 21, 2004 at 1:27:00 PM CEST
Sony to ship Wi-Fi LCD TV this autumn
Sony will ship its first wireless, Internet-enabled TV this autumn, the consumer electronics giant announced yesterday.
Dubbed the LocationFree TV, the unit is based on an LCD panel and an integrated tri-mode Wi-Fi adaptor. Sony will offer two models, one with a 12in, 800 x 600 display, the other a more portable 7in, 800 x 480 panel.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 21, 2004 at 1:24:00 PM CEST
Internet baby sale mother jailed
A woman who tried to sell her unborn baby over the internet to two childless couples has been jailed for two years.
Moira Greenslade, 33, of Keighley, West Yorkshire, made £2,500 after offering to give her child to two couples she contacted through a surrogacy website.
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Topic: - on May 21, 2004 at 1:07:00 PM CEST
A Scan of the Headline Scanners
The Web is awash in little orange buttons.
Those buttons take readers to pages filled with XML code for RSS or Atom syndication services. People who don't know about XML or RSS or Atom get a screen full of ugly computer code. But those clued into the secret handshake -- or more accurately, the right decoding software -- know those buttons are the key to speed-reading the Web.
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Topic: BLOGLIFE - on May 21, 2004 at 1:06:00 PM CEST
Gates backs blogs for businesses
Blogs are good for business, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has said.
In a speech to an audience of chief executives, Mr Gates said the regularly updated journals, or blogs, could be a good way for firms to tell customers, staff and partners what they are doing.
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Topic: STRANGE - on May 21, 2004 at 1:05:00 PM CEST
Tauben sollten als Biowaffen eingesetzt werden
Laut neu veröffentlichten Dokumenten plante Großbritannien im Kalten Krieg den Einsatz von Tauben als Biowaffen. Die Tauben sollten je 30 Gramm biowaffenfähiges Material bekommen und damit in einem bestimmten Zielgebiet landen.
Der Vorschlag wurde vom Geheimdienst MI5 abgelehnt. Der Oberstleutnant, der den Vorschlag machte, wurde als 'Bedrohung in Taubenangelegenheiten' bezeichnet.
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Topic: W A R - on May 21, 2004 at 1:04:00 PM CEST
UK pondered suicide pigeon attacks
British spy chiefs secretly considered training pigeons to fly into enemy targets carrying explosives or biological weapons, it has been revealed.
British intelligence set up a "pigeon committee" at the end of World War II to ensure expertise gained in the use of the birds to carry messages was not lost.
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Topic: W A R - on May 21, 2004 at 1:02:00 PM CEST
Last Spanish troops leave Iraq
The last Spanish soldiers in Iraq are leaving, fulfilling the election pledge made by the new Spanish government to withdraw its troops from the country.
The troops have left their base in the southern town of Diwaniyah and are heading for the border with Kuwait.
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Topic: STRANGE - on May 21, 2004 at 11:11:00 AM CEST
Rosa Dino vorm Vulkan
Ein aus dem Nichts aufgetauchter rosaroter Dinosaurier gibt neuseeländischen Vulkanforschern Rätsel auf.
Die Wissenschafter hatten auf der abgelegenen, menschenleeren Vulkaninsel White Island eine Digitalkamera installiert, die stündlich ein Foto von dem aktiven Vulkan aufnimmt und ins Internet stellt. Vor einigen Tagen tauchte plötzlich ein schriller Spielzeugdinosaurier vor der Linse auf und grüßt nun unablässig in die Kamera.
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