An anonymous reader writes Next month, New Zealand is scheduled to implement Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act. The controversial act provides 'Guilt Upon Accusation,' which means that if a fi...
phyr writes The European Space Agency (ESA) has released its Next ESA SAR Toolbox (NEST) freely as GPL for Linux and Windows. It provides an integrated viewer for reading, calibrating, post-processing...
game A Portsmouth, N.H., couple yesterday blamed each other for their black and blue Christmas when they got into a violent fight - and arrested - after an argument over a gift of the popular Nintendo...
Techdirt has a wonderful summary of how hard it is sometimes to stay upbeat when faced with some of the complete idiocy that intelligent, tech-savvy readers often have to deal with in their day-to-day...
lazyforker writes A NYTimes blog post reports the results of security researcher Kate McKinley's tests of various browsers' (FireFox, Chrome, IE, Safari) privacy protection mechanisms. Specifically sh...
ackthpt writes Headlines have been popping up on Google News: 'Terry Pratchett declared himself flabbergasted to receive a knighthood as he led a group of writers, actors and performers honoured today...
An NFL placekicker. A UFC fighter. A priest from Santa Ana.
Orange County had a mixed bag of residents and other people arrested on suspicion of committing crimes this year. It led us to compile our ...
Michael writes AMD has just released code that will allow for open-source 3D acceleration on their ATI R600 and R700 graphics cards, including all of their newest Radeon HD 4xxx products. This code co...
There has definitely been a resurgence of old games being made new again through various methods. Unfortunately, any time you reinvent an old classic you risk of either alienating the original audienc...
An anonymous reader writes Gazan resident Abed Ar-Rahman has revealed what he is claiming as an alternative to cooking gas that he developed since Israel has prevented deliveries of cooking gas to Gaz...
iammani writes The NYTimes runs a story about a blind man (blind because of damaged visual cortex) successfully navigating an obstacle maze, unaided. Scientists have shown for the first time, that it ...
(And other celebrinanigans) - Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt were barred from ]
- Lindsay Lohan & Samantha Ronson are a couple of brawlers. Neighbors heard the two breaking glass and flipping the les...
Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin get female dogy. (Socialite Life) Kate Beckinsale in the best photo of the year. (CollegeHumor) Yummy Audrina Patridge cleavage. (Popoholic) Mischa Barton's business plan is ...
