Topic: MUSIK - on March 27, 2008 at 1:59:00 PM CET
Smoking Gun scoops the L.A. Times
Last week's bombshell Los Angeles Times report claiming that the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur in the lobby of a Manhattan recording studio was carried out by associates of Sean "Diddy" Combs and that the rap impresario knew of the plot beforehand was based largely on fabricated FBI reports, The Smoking Gun has learned.
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Topic: VIDEO - on March 27, 2008 at 1:56:00 PM CET
Trunk-cam reveals jungle secrets
Cameras held by elephants' trunks have been used to provide an intimate view of tigers in the jungle.
Because the big cats are used to the presence of elephants, the tusked giants were able to get far closer to them than a human film crew ever could.
Thanks to the "trunk-cams", the team was able to follow four newborn tiger cubs all the way through to adulthood.
The footage was recorded over a period of three years in the Pench National Park in India.
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Topic: WEB - on March 27, 2008 at 1:48:00 PM CET
Apple forbids Windows users from installing Safari for Windows
n using Apple Software Update to slip his Safari browser onto millions of Windows PCs, Steve Jobs didn't just undermine "the security of the whole Web". He's made a mockery of end user licensing agreements.
As spotted by our Italian friends at setteB.IT, Apple's Safari license says that users are permitted to install the browser on no more than "a single Apple-labeled computer at a time." This means that if you install Safari for Windows on a Windows PC, you're violating the license.
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 27, 2008 at 1:40:00 PM CET
Are your eyes closed? Then you must be in the Metaverse
Ranit Mishori's story in yesterday's Washington Post Health section about the new new thing in nanotech — a contact lens (above and below) that displays videos, images, email and anything else that can be rendered on a screen — right on your eyeball, in real time, heralds a whole new era.
Makes "heads-up display" seem positively last century.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 27, 2008 at 1:39:00 PM CET
FBI examines parachute in 70s hijack inquiry
The FBI is analysing a torn, tangled parachute found in south-west Washington to determine whether it belonged to a notorious hijacker who disappeared 36 years ago when he jumped out of an airplane.
Children playing outside their home near Amboy found the chute's fabric protruding from the ground in an area where their father had been repairing a road, FBI agent Larry Carr said yesterday. They pulled it out as far as they could and cut the parachute's ropes with scissors.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 27, 2008 at 1:36:00 PM CET
Net activists in the firing line -Monks disrupt Tibet media visit
Governments need to do more than just protect themselves against cyber attacks, says Bill Thompson.
In common with other administrations the UK government is concerned about the security of the realm and its ability to cope with natural disasters, foreign aggression and terrorism.
Over the years the importance of computer systems, networks and of course the internet have become apparent even at the highest level of the administration.
Governments need to do more than just protect themselves against cyber attacks, says Bill Thompson.
In common with other administrations the UK government is concerned about the security of the realm and its ability to cope with natural disasters, foreign aggression and terrorism.
Over the years the importance of computer systems, networks and of course the internet have become apparent even at the highest level of the administration.
Net activists in the firing line Monks disrupt Tibet media visit
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Topic: Green - on March 27, 2008 at 1:23:00 PM CET
Will California Kill the Electric Car — Again?
EV advocates say the California Air Resources Board is trying to kill the electric car -- again.
Under a proposal pending before the Air Resources Board, state regulators would slash -- from 75,000 to as few as 27,500 -- the number of zero-emission vehicles automakers must build between 2012 and 2017. Under the changes, the big automakers could put fewer than 2,500 nonpolluting cars on the road in the next four years. That's only 300 more than Tesla Motors plans to produce in the next two.
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Topic: Green - on March 27, 2008 at 8:50:00 AM CET
Paint on Solar Power!
Installing solar panels on the roof of every new building in the world would go a long way towards solving our energy needs, but as we all know, solar panels are costly and often difficult to install. But what if the solar panel was an integral part of every building? What if solar cells could be painted on building products? Well, according to a team from Swansea University this type of technology will soon be coming to a hardware store near you.
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