Topic: WEB - on October 22, 2007 at 5:13:00 PM CEST
Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections.
Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections.
The research libraries, including a large consortium in the Boston area, are instead signing on with the Open Content Alliance, a nonprofit effort aimed at making their materials broadly available.
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Topic: Space - on October 22, 2007 at 5:08:00 PM CEST
How to build your own Sputnik
It seems incredible that the technology that went into building the first successful satellite 50 years ago can now be found lying around the average house. You could even build one yourself, as Paul Rubens explains below. Fancy having a go? Then, sign up to the Magazine's Sputnik Challenge at the bottom of this page.
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Topic: MUSIK - on October 22, 2007 at 4:11:00 PM CEST
Top 10 live music venues in Madrid
The Spanish capital has grown up and become one of Europe's leading live music destinations, says Anthony Ham.
In the 1980s, with Spain shaking off the shackles of almost four decades of dictatorship, Madrid embraced its freedom with all the undiscerning zeal of an ex-convent schoolgirl. It was wild and chaotic and quickly burned itself out. The Spanish capital has grown up and become sophisticated since then, and Madrid is now one of Europe's leading live music destinations. Jazz is all the rage, joining home-grown flamenco and the pick of the rockeros who survived the 1980s by playing intimate venues with a quintessentially Madrid atmosphere.
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Topic: ART - on October 22, 2007 at 1:31:00 PM CEST
Jell-O Architecture
Liz Hickok is a San Francisco based artist working in photography, video, sculpture, installation, and currently, Jell-O. The following photographs are from her exhibits featuring various San Francisco landscapes and Scottsdale, AZ Center of the Arts.
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Topic: e-bay - on October 22, 2007 at 12:02:00 PM CEST
The Linux Number Plate (L1NUX)
This is the "real" L1NUX plate as opposed to the L7NUX plate previously auctioned on EBay. This is the first time this plate has been put up for sale since it was released in 1993.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 22, 2007 at 11:37:00 AM CEST
Hand-held supercomputers 'on way'
Experts at a Scottish university say they have paved the way for the creation of tiny supercomputers which could fit in the palm of the hand.
Engineers at the University of Edinburgh studied the behaviour of wires which were 1,000 times thinner than human hair.
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Topic: WEB - on October 22, 2007 at 11:35:00 AM CEST
I Was a Hacker for the MPAA
Promises of Hollywood fame and fortune persuaded a young hacker to betray former associates in the BitTorrent scene to Tinseltown's anti-piracy lobby, according to the hacker.
In an exclusive interview with Wired News, gun-for-hire hacker Robert Anderson tells for the first time how the Motion Picture Association of America promised him money and power if he provided confidential information on TorrentSpy, a popular BitTorrent search site.
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