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Vulture 1 Mk 2 release mech prepped for testing
Coming soon: Hypobaric chamber - The Revisiting
The Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) team is preparing to turn down the pressure with a second visit to Qinetiq's hypobaric chamber.?
3 Sep 2010 at 7:20am
Monster Afghan spy airship to feature quad drinking straws
Also: New vid of unsold P-791 Walrus suck-belly ship
US aero-weapons goliath Lockheed, builder of the famous P-791 airship prototype, was beaten to a half-billion-dollar deal to supply spy ships above Afghanistan earlier this year - but the firm is still marketing its P-791 technology aggressively.?
3 Sep 2010 at 7:01am
HP and EMC vie for disk storage lead
IBM looking peaky
IDC's latest quarterly disk storage tracker shows EMC and HP competing for the market lead, with EMC growing faster than HP. NetApp is growing faster still but has a lot of ground to make up.?
3 Sep 2010 at 6:32am
Wanted: Front End / Client Side Web Developer
El Reg is hiring
Situation Publishing, owner of The Register and Reg Hardware, is looking for a full time developer to primarily work on HTML(5), CSS, JavaScript/jQuery and template engines such as XSLT and Perl?s Template Toolkit.? Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
3 Sep 2010 at 6:27am
Google Wave washes ashore in soggy cardboard Box
Drops unwanted code in open source developer laps
Google has boxed up its unsuccessful Wave project and handed the unwanted code to open source developers.?
3 Sep 2010 at 6:18am
Glasses-less 3D TV by Xmas? Not likely, says 3D TV exec
More like 2013
Toshiba may be gearing up to release a no-specs 3D TV in Japan by the end of the year, but Philips' 3D TV development partner reckons we will have to wait longer. It doesn't reckon any vendor will have one out before 2013.?
3 Sep 2010 at 6:11am
Apple Ping unfriends meanie Facebook
Snazzy new social thing walled off
Ping, Apple's latest foray into social networking, won't play nice with Facebook - despite the connection appearing in Steve Jobs's on-stage demonstration and in the documentation.?
3 Sep 2010 at 6:02am
Energizer bunny hits iPhone, BlackBerry - wirelessly
Qi gets branded products
The wireless power consortium, Qi, is celebrating the launch of a solution with a known brand - Energizer - attached, but the technology is still a long way from the mainstream.?
3 Sep 2010 at 5:55am
Superhuman Chinese monk does a bunk
Celeb Taoist conman on the run
A celebrity Taoist monk has gone awol after it was revealed he probably couldn't in reality sit crossed-legged under water for two hours.?
3 Sep 2010 at 5:51am
ViewSonic outs Windows/Android 10in tablet
For OS fence-sitters
Here is ViewSonic's other Android-based tablet, though here the Google OS is secondary to Windows 7.?
3 Sep 2010 at 5:48am
Wired
Best Exploitation Flicks: 'Machete' and Its Over-the-Top Ancestors
From bad girls and zombies to circus freaks and killer cars, the shock-and-awful recipe for grindhouse movies' tasty cinematic sausage never fails to satisfy. As Robert Rodriguez's timely homage hits screens, we look back at several decades of surprisingly influential B movies.
by Hugh Hart
3 Sep 2010 at 7:00am
Sept. 3, 1976: Viking 2 Lands on Mars
Viking 2, the second mission to Mars, lands on the planet and begins transmitting pictures and soil analyses.
by Jason B. Jones
3 Sep 2010 at 6:00am
Jargon Watch: Synthia, Teabonics, Flash Crash
Learn the nickname for the first synthetic organism and a derisive term for ungrammatical Tea Party signs.
by Jonathon Keats
3 Sep 2010 at 6:00am
Alt Text: Make a Nasty World Nice With Virtual Rewards
Using Foursquare to stamp out sexually transmitted diseases is just the beginning of a brave new war on bothersome reality. Just think of all the amazing problems we can solve with the proper mix of badges, exclusive offers and unbridled optimism.
by Lore Sjöberg
3 Sep 2010 at 6:00am
Murdoch Reporters' Phone Hacking Was Endemic, Victimized Hundreds
A phone-hacking scheme involving British royals and reporters working for one of Rupert Murdoch's tabloid newspapers went far beyond what was previously disclosed and prosecuted. The British Prime Minister's current media adviser is accused of having encouraged the hacking.
by Kim Zetter
2 Sep 2010 at 5:30pm
Win Your Fantasy Football League
If it's September, it's football season — which also means it's time for millions of fantasy football drafts around the world to commence. Maximize your in-season points while dealing with the setbacks that are bound to occur by following our guide.
by How-To Wiki
2 Sep 2010 at 5:00pm
Video Artist Transforms YouTube's TOS Into a Paranoid Nightmare
The video site's ever-evolving terms of service drive an observer mad in this arty clip by Carlo Zanni. No charge for the 1984 references.
by Michael Calore
2 Sep 2010 at 4:59pm
Apple TV's Meager Offerings Are Due to Business, Not Tech
This week?s big Apple announcement featured one big disappointment: Apple TV?s relative lack of, well, TV. Out of all of the hundreds of channels available on cable and satellite, only ABC and Fox agreed to offer their programs for rent on Apple TV. The fact that Steve Jobs is the largest single shareholder in, and on the board of, Disney ? owner of ABC ? perfectly illustrates this digital divide.
by Eliot Van Buskirk
2 Sep 2010 at 4:00pm
Clustered Networks Spread Behavior Change Faster
Unlike infectious disease and information, behavior change spreads faster through online networks that have many close connections instead of many distant ties. Redundancy is key, as people are more likely to engage in a behavior if they see many others doing it.
"There has been a lot of theory about the difference between information and behavior spreading," said economic sociologist Damon Centola of MIT and author of the study published Sept. 3 in Science. "We've assumed that they are the same, but you can imagine that behavior is not really like that, that you need to be convinced."
by Jess McNally
2 Sep 2010 at 3:45pm
Exotic New Mars Images From Orbiting Telephoto Studio
A new batch of sharp Martian close-ups from NASA's HiRISE camera were released, and we've gathered some of the best in the gallery.
by Lisa Grossman
2 Sep 2010 at 3:13pm
MacWorld Reviews
Review: Hurricane tracking apps for iPhone and iPad
You can keep an eye on hurricanes from your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad with the help of an assortment of App Store offerings. But which app should you choose for your storm watch? Jeff Merron rates five contenders.
by Jeff Merron
2 Sep 2010 at 6:45pm
Review: Quad-core and eight-core Mac Pros (Mid 2010)
These days, the consumer-oriented iMacs stand on their own against (and in some cases, surpass) the Mac Pro in day-to-day performance. Does that mean that the Mac Pro has lost its relevance in today?s work environment? Hardly.
by James Galbraith
2 Sep 2010 at 5:45pm
Review: Cisco WebEx online conferencing
Need to have a meeting? Don't want to fly everyone to the same place? WebEx offers just about every online conferencing tool you could want.
by Zack Stern
2 Sep 2010 at 4:30pm
Review: HoneyDo for iPhone
This slick, easy-to-use task manager makes navigating chores a breeze. The ability to share tasks and assign them to other people helps HoneyDo stand out from the crowd.
by Brendan Wilhide
2 Sep 2010 at 11:49am
First look: iTunes 10
It?s become a tradition in recent years: to coincide with Apple?s September music event, where new iPods and related hardware are presented, iTunes increases its version number by a notch. This year?s vintage features one major new feature, a handful of interface changes, and some minor tweaks. Here?s an overview of what?s new and different in iTunes 10.
by Kirk McElhearn
2 Sep 2010 at 11:30am
Review: Blogo 1.3
Blogo 1.3 is a versatile blog editing application that goes the extra mile by offering features you won?t find in similar applications.
by Jeffery Battersby
2 Sep 2010 at 9:15am
Review: PongVaders: Episode 1 for iPhone
Aliens have taken over the center of your screen and are intent on destroying Earth. Using your square, tennis-like paddles, you and a partner (the game is multiplayer only) must work together to deflect any missiles the aliens throw at our homeworld.
by Sam Felsing
2 Sep 2010 at 7:37am
Review: Chronicles of Mystery for iPhone
Chronicles of Mystery is a hidden picture mystery game that is riddled with software bugs, a complicated plot, dull character dialogue and repetitive gameplay.
by Sam Felsing
1 Sep 2010 at 3:31pm
Review: Corkulous for iPad
While this brainstorming tool has a few quirks, it provides a great way to map out ideas on your iPad.
by Kyle Baxter
1 Sep 2010 at 7:20am
Review: Knight's Rush for iPhone
Knight?s Rush is an expansive and impressive side-scrolling beat-em-up in the vein of the addictive medieval console title Castle Crashers.
by Ryan Rigney
31 Aug 2010 at 4:45pm
US CERT Technical Cyber Alert System Documents
SB10-242: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 23, 2010
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 23, 2010
TA10-238A: Microsoft Windows Insecurely Loads Dynamic Libraries
Microsoft Windows Insecurely Loads Dynamic Libraries
SB10-235: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 16, 2010
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 16, 2010
TA10-231A: Adobe Reader and Acrobat Vulnerabilities
Adobe Reader and Acrobat Vulnerabilities
SB10-228: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 9, 2010
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 9, 2010
TA10-223A: Adobe Flash and AIR Vulnerabilities
Adobe Flash and AIR Vulnerabilities
TA10-222A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
SB10-221: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 2, 2010
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 2, 2010
SB10-214: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of July 26, 2010
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of July 26, 2010
SB10-207: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of July 19, 2010
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of July 19, 2010
Slashdot
HP Backs Memristor Mass Production
neo12 writes with news that Hewlett-Packard is teaming with Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second-largest producer of memory chips, to mass produce memristors for the first time. Quoting the BBC: "HP says the first memristors should be widely available in about three years. The devices started as a theoretical prediction in 1971 but HP's demonstration and publication of a real working device has put them on a possible roadmap to replace memory chips or even hard drives. ... Steve Furber, professor of computer engineering at the University of Manchester, explained that the potential benefits lie in the fact that memristors are 'much simpler in principle than transistors. Because they are formed as a film between two wires, they don't have to be implanted into the silicon surface — as do transistors, which form the storage locations in Flash — so they could be built in layers in 3D,' he told BBC News. 'Of course, the devil is in the detail, and I don't think the manufacturing challenges have been fully exposed yet.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
by Soulskill
3 Sep 2010 at 8:18am
Wireless Power Group Has 'Qi' Prototypes
judgecorp writes "Steady progress on inductive wireless charging. There are now certified prototypes of chargers for Blackberry and iPhone devices that meet the Qi specification of the Wireless Power Consortium, which was announced last year. The spec has advanced from version 0.95 to 1.0, too." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
by timothy
3 Sep 2010 at 7:28am
New Calculations May Lead To a Test For String Theory
dexmachina writes "A team of theoreticians, led by a group from Imperial College London, has released calculations that show string theory makes specific, testable predictions about the behaviour of quantum entangled particles. Professor Mike Duff, lead author of the study from the Department of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London, commented, 'This will not be proof that string theory is the right "theory of everything" that is being sought by cosmologists and particle physicists. However, it will be very important to theoreticians because it will demonstrate whether or not string theory works, even if its application is in an unexpected and unrelated area of physics.' In other words, string theory may finally have shed its critics' most common complaint: unfalsifiability. However, given the second most common complaint, I can't help but wonder: which string theory?" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
by timothy
3 Sep 2010 at 4:37am
Facebook To Add Remote Logout
angry tapir writes "Facebook users will soon have a new way of knocking spammers out of legitimate accounts. The social-networking company is rolling out a new security feature that lets users see which computers and devices are logged into their Facebook accounts, and then removing the ones that they don't want to have access." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
by timothy
3 Sep 2010 at 1:32am
Google Releases Chrome 6, Pays $4337 In Bounties
Trailrunner7 writes "Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser and has included more than a dozen security fixes in the update. The new version, 6.0.472.53, was released two years to the day after the company pushed out the first version of Chrome. Google Chrome 6 includes patches for 14 total security vulnerabilities, including six high-priority flaws, and the company paid out a total of $4,337 in bug bounties to researchers who reported the vulnerabilities. A number of the flaws that didn't qualify for bug bounties were discovered by members of Google's internal security team." (Read on for more, below.) Read more of this story at Slashdot.
by timothy
2 Sep 2010 at 10:36pm
Harvard Ditching Final Exams?
itwbennett writes "According to Harvard magazine, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted at its meeting on May 11 to require instructors to officially inform the Registrar 'at the first week of the term' of the intention to end a course with a formal, seated exam, 'the assumption shall be that the instructor will not be giving a three-hour final examination.' Dean of undergraduate education Jay M. Harris 'told the faculty that of 1,137 undergraduate-level courses this spring term, 259 scheduled finals — the lowest number since 2002, when 200 fewer courses were offered. For the more than 500 graduate-level courses offered, just 14 had finals, he reported.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
by timothy
2 Sep 2010 at 9:36pm
Flash On Android Is 'Shockingly Bad'
Hugh Pickens writes "Ryan Lawler writes on GigaOm that although many have touted the availability of Flash on Android devices as a competitive advantage over Apple's mobile devices, while trying to watch videos from ABC.com, Fox.com and Metacafe using Flash 10.1 on a Nexus One over a local Wi-Fi network connected to a 25-Mbps Verizon FiOS broadband connection, mobile expert Kevin Tofel found that videos were slow to load, if they loaded at all, leading to an overall very inconsistent experience while using his Android device for video. 'While in theory Flash video might be a competitive advantage for Android users, in practice it's difficult to imagine anyone actually trying to watch non-optimized web video on an Android handset,' writes Lawler. 'All of which makes one believe that maybe Steve Jobs was right to eschew Flash in lieu of HTML5 on the iPhone and iPad.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
by timothy
2 Sep 2010 at 9:21pm
Samsung Shows Off Galaxy Tab, Android Allegiance
cgriffin21 writes "Samsung is making no bones about it: Google Android is its future. And with the revealing of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the company is showing that it's all in when it comes to Android. At the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, Samsung finally pulled the curtain off the long-rumored and teased Galaxy Tab, the electronics maker's touch-screen tablet and answer to the Apple iPad." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
by CmdrTaco
2 Sep 2010 at 9:13pm
Video Appliance For a Large Library On a Network?
devjj writes "For the past year or so I have been trying (and failing) to figure out a reasonable solution for bringing my large media library to my living room. All of my media lives on an Ubuntu server that sits on my network. It's been very reliable and it's fast enough for streaming purposes. My content is exposed via SMB. It's the living room side where I keep running into problems. I am currently using Windows 7 and XBMC, but the case is too big and noisy, I don't particularly care for Windows, and the whole thing just seems overkill. What I want is a device that can present a decent UI that the non-Slashdot crowd would be able to use, but that is still powerful enough to stream full-fidelity 1080p. I dream of a small box that can transcode video over a network, but that's probably a pipe dream. The new Apple TV would be great if it could connect to network shares. What say you, Slashdot? Is what I'm looking for possible, or should I just give in to the iTunes/Amazon/whatever juggernauts?" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
by timothy
2 Sep 2010 at 6:36pm
Canon Develops 8 X 8 Inch Digital CMOS Sensor
dh003i writes "Canon has developed a 8 x 8 inch CMOS digital sensor. It will be able to capture an image with 1/100th the light intensity required by a DSLR and will be able to record video at 60 fps in lighting half the intensity of moonlight. There are already many excellent quality lenses designed to cover 8 x 10 inches, although Canon may develop some of their own designed specifically for their requirements." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
by timothy
2 Sep 2010 at 5:42pm
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