Topic: COMPUTER - on March 17, 2008 at 2:04:00 PM CET
Starjournalist wirft MacBook aus Versehen weg
Steven Levy ist ein Veteran des Technik-Journalismus: Der 57-Jährige hat 1984 eines der ersten Bücher über Hacker veröffentlicht, hat für alle großen US-Magazine vom "New Yorker" bis "Wired" geschrieben. Heute testet er beim Nachrichtenmagazin "Newsweek" Technik-Spielzeug. Sein Testgerät von Apples MacBook Air – das beinahe dünnste Notebook der Welt hat er mit dem Papiermüll weggeworfen.
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 17, 2008 at 10:08:00 AM CET
Keith Richards: Amy is only singer I rate, but she won't be around for long unless she cleans up her act
Rolling Stone Keith Richards has revealed the only modern pop star he rates is troubled Amy Winehouse.
But the guitarist - famous for his huge consumption of illegal drugs - warned that Amy, who was pictured recently smoking crack, "wouldn't be around for long" unless she cleaned up her act.
The Stones' lead singer Mick Jagger also said Winehouse's music would suffer because of the time she spent dealing with the authorities over drugs.
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 17, 2008 at 10:04:00 AM CET
Wikileaks Releases Early Atomic Bomb Diagram
Wikileaks has released a diagram of the first atomic weapon, as used in the Trinity test and subsequently exploded over the Japanese city of Nagasaki, together with an extremely interesting scientific analysis. Wikileaks has not been able to fault the document or find reference to it elsewhere. Given the high quality of other Wikileaks submissions, the document may be what it purports to be, or it may be a sophisticated intelligence agency fraud, designed to mislead the atomic weapons development programs of countries like Iran. The neutron initiator is particularly novel. 'When polonium is crushed onto beryllium by explosion, reaction occurs between polonium alpha emissions and beryllium leading to Carbon-12 & 1 neutron. This, in practice, would lead to a predictable neutron flux, sufficient to set off device.'
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Topic: ART - on March 17, 2008 at 10:02:00 AM CET
MIT Student Gets Artistic With LED Art
An MIT graduate student has up a page showcasing a standout art project. He's designed custom LED light fixtures which are seven times brighter than the closest similar commercial models, and include colors which can't be reproduced by a normal RGB cluster (including two ridiculously bright UV LEDs). The result: some beautiful mixed media artwork.
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Topic: WEB - on March 17, 2008 at 10:00:00 AM CET
Web creator rejects net tracking
The creator of the web has said consumers need to be protected against systems which can track their activity on the internet.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee told BBC News he would change his internet provider if it introduced such a system.
Plans by leading internet providers to use Phorm, a company which tracks web activity to create personalised adverts, have sparked controversy.
Sir Tim said he did not want his ISP to track which websites he visited.
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