Topic: NEWS - on February 12, 2008 at 4:54:00 PM CET
The Japanese people on whaling… We don’t care… What’s for dinner?
Recently in the international news media there has been a lot of hype surrounding photos released by the Australian government showing whaling by Japanese scientific research fleets [those interested can read British, American, and Australian ]. As an Australian who often checks newspaper websites from home, I found it was a featured news story getting a lot of attention. The Australian federal environmental minister went on the record and called the images “sickening.”
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Topic: NEWS - on January 7, 2008 at 1:23:00 PM CET
World's Smallest Projector Set for Launch
Just 12 months after demonstrating a working prototype of the world's smallest projector, Redmond, Wash.-based Microvision is unveiling a fully functioning, self-contained prototype that should be available as a real product—possibly from Motorola—later this year.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 27, 2007 at 1:11:00 PM CET
Psst! DVDs Are Starting To Die Too...
For years, we've been pointing out that disc-based media was on the way out, but for the industries (mainly music and movies) that make money from selling those discs, the allure of the cash cow was too strong.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 27, 2007 at 1:06:00 PM CET
The Top 10 New Organisms of 2007
Genetic engineering isn't just for scientists in ivory towers or corporate R&D labs anymore. Researchers are still creating new mice and crops every week, but the tools and knowledge necessary to create organisms never before seen on Earth have pushed out to pet breeders, artists and college kids.
A Wired News first, here we count down the top 10 organisms that didn't exist on Dec. 31, 2006.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 22, 2007 at 8:34:00 PM CET
Top 10 Discoveries of 2007
Hardly week goes by without a major archaeological discovery or the publication of a radical new theory about the human past. Reducing a year's worth of these stories to the 10 most important was a tall order, especially since our intent was to go beyond the headlines and select those we thought made a significant impact on the field--ones that will be talked about for decades.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 14, 2007 at 3:38:00 PM CET
The transistor turns 60
The transistor, the ubiquitous building block of all electronic circuits, will be 60 years old on Sunday. The device is jointly credited to William Shockley (1910-1989), John Bardeen (1908-1991) and Walter Brattain (1902-1987), and it was Bardeen and Brattain who made the first working point-contact transistor on 16 December 1947.
The Transistor and the Dawn of the Information Age Wikipedia.org
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Topic: NEWS - on December 14, 2007 at 1:53:00 PM CET
Digital and Analog: Simultaneous pursuit of technology and sensibility
Capturing the real sounds and sensations of an outdoor field or stage environment, Sony's "Densuke" series gave birth to a live recording boom in the 1970s. The "PCM-D1" linear PCM recorder has transformed the "Densuke" series' spirit to its current cutting edge state. Two designers who created the design reveal the source of their ideas and their approach to design in relation to sound quality and ease of use.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 13, 2007 at 2:20:00 PM CET
PETA hates the Olsens?
To say that PETA is not a fan of the Olsen twins would be to put it lightly.
In fact, they’ve actually created an entire site that’s just designed to bash on the fur-wearing twins.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 5, 2007 at 1:43:00 PM CET
"Süßweinpapst" Alois Kracher gestorben
Der erfolgreiche Weinmacher aus Illmitz, der seine Weine in die ganze Welt exportierte, starb im Alter von 48 Jahren nach schwerer Krankheit.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 4, 2007 at 10:24:00 AM CET
Open Source Hardware Gift Guide
It's been a year since our last open source gift guide - this year there is so much going on in the world of MAKE, open source, and beyond that we have a series of gift guides for this holiday season. The first one is our open source hardware gift guide - these are physical things you can buy that fit in to the new and exciting category of hardware we call open source hardware.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 2, 2007 at 1:26:00 PM CET
Wachovia Bank Tells Man He Owes $211 Trillion
It’s one thing to bounce a check and it’s another to be so far in the red Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Donald Trump combined couldn’t come close to bailing you out. A Cobb County man got a letter from his bank with that very shocking news.
“And I open up the letter and I look at it and I’m like, ‘No, you’ve got to be kidding me,’ said Joe Martins.
Martins said he recently closed an account at Wachovia Bank and made good on an outstanding check. He just got a letter about the closure and his negative balance -- $211,010,028,257,303.00. That’s $211 trillion.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 1, 2007 at 11:45:00 PM CET
Global effort on World Aids Day
President George W Bush has urged the US Congress to authorise the doubling of financial aid to combat HIV/Aids to $30bn (£15bn) over the next five years.
"We will turn the tide against HIV/Aids once and for all," he said, adding that he would visit Africa during 2008.
He spoke as millions of people around the world prepared for World Aids Day.
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