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Submission + - Leisure Suit Larry on your iPad, thanks to Sarien (gamepron.com)

Submitted by dotarray on Thursday January 13, 2011 @08:44PM

dotarray writes: If you’re a retro game fan, chances are you’re also a fan of new and innovative ways of playing your old favourites. Enter Sarien.
It’s a website designed specifically for the iPad web browser that will give you access to, oh, pretty much the entire old-school Sierra point-and-click adventure library – including the classic Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards!

Submission + - Red Cross: Nurse Outfit Violates Geneva Convention

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13, 2011 @04:12PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Red Cross apparently takes the sanctity of its "red cross" symbol quite seriously. The UK branch of the Red Cross has threatened a patomime theatrical production of Robin Hood, because one of the actresses, playing a nurse, has an outfit that includes the standard red cross. The Red Cross told the producers of the play that using such a costume, no matter how accurate, is a violation of the Geneva Conventions.

Submission + - Sony files lawsuit aginst Mr. George Hotz! (psx-scene.com)

Submitted by Kayot on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @12:04AM

Kayot writes: George Hotz or as he is known on the internet, Geohot has been served court papers. Shorty after Team fail0verflow discovered faults in the PS3's TPM's, Geohot and others figured out how to extract the long sought after holy grail encryption keys. Apparently Sony is not pleased and is very keen on defending their poorly defended system with the U.S. legal system. The basis is that Geohot released programs that allow the signing of homebrew which can be used to make PSN like games out of normal PS3 games. However Geohot has never supported any form of piracy and in fact has taken a constant stance against it. Leaving many to wonder, just what is Sony planning.

Additional documentaion
PDF: http://geohot.com/Motion%20For%20TRO.pdf
PDF: http://geohot.com/Proposed%20Order.pdf

Source Site:
http://psx-scene.com/forums/f6/sony-mib-team-full-speed-ahead-lawsuit-filed-against-mr-george-hotz-75467/

Submission + - Does Windows Phone 7 have a data transmission bug?

Submitted by blarkon on Monday January 03, 2011 @12:50AM

blarkon writes: Microsoft commentator and Windows Phone 7 Expert Paul Thurrott has reported a serious bug that indicates Windows Phone 7 is uploading up to 50 MB of unidentified data every day. The phone operating system apparently ignores Wi-Fi connections for sending this data, leading some Windows Phone 7 owners hitting their 2 GB plan data limit while doing little more than checking email and social networking sites. Thurrott has written a book on Windows Phone 7 and is unlikely to be making such a claim unless it has some substance. At the moment no one knows what this data contains or where it is going, though Thurrott suspects it may be related to the Windows Phone Marketplace

Submission + - Australian police use Helicopter to retrieve a sto (geekword.net)

Submitted by TechieAlizay on Thursday December 16, 2010 @01:24AM

TechieAlizay writes: That’s what you call using all available resources to get done with the task lying ahead. A lady’s iPhone was stolen in from a hospital northeast of the city of Melbourne. When the Victorian police were informed of the theft, they set out to apprehend the criminal and used a chopper to track down the stolen iDevice...

Submission + - Man cured of HIV (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by Genocaust on Thursday December 16, 2010 @12:20AM

Genocaust writes: For the first time, a man has been declared officially cured of HIV. The remedy may nearly have killed him, but it opens a door—just a crack—to hope that we may someday kill off the scourge for good.

Submission + - Ultrasonic toothbrushes: overrated pieces of junk (ultrasonictoothbrush.info) 1

Submitted by reubenfit on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @11:37PM

reubenfit writes: A rather humorous look at the latest toothbrush technology along with quasi-scientific explanations to back up the strong opinions present in this article.

Submission + - Reproductive Scientists Create Mice from 2 Fathers

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @05:14PM

An anonymous reader writes: Using stem cell technology, reproductive scientists in Texas, led by Dr. Richard R. Berhringer at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, have produced male and female mice from two fathers. The study was posted today (Wednesday, December 8) at the online site of the journal Biology of Reproduction. The achievement of two-father offspring in a species of mammal could be a step toward preserving endangered species, improving livestock breeds, and advancing human assisted reproductive technology (ART). It also opens the provocative possibility of same-sex couples having their own genetic children, the researchers note.

Submission + - Australian town to become first digital smart city (freeaccess.com.au)

Submitted by destinyland on Saturday October 30, 2010 @11:50PM

destinyland writes: New South Wales is spending $100 million to build a 50,000-home smart grid — and one town hopes to become Australia's "first digital smart city". Parramatta (near Sydney) is installing free WiFi hotspots covering most of the city, and even apps to provide information on parking availability. They're also planning online healthcare services, streaming security camera footage to catch criminals, and an SMS service for texting complaints and requests to the city council. "The possibilities are limited only by the imagination," says the town's mayor, adding that a connected city "is a vital piece of our future infrastructure." And the city even expects a return on their investment through corporate partnerships with Google, Microsoft, and Telstra.

Submission + - A flying Humvee (wtkr.com)

Submitted by JDmetro on Sunday October 24, 2010 @11:54PM

JDmetro writes: Pratt & Whitney's Rocketdyne division in Canoga Park is awarded $1 million to design a propulsion system for the airborne vehicle.

MIT Unveils Portable, Solar-Powered Water Desalination System 117

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @01:07AM from the water-the-chances dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Field and Space Robotic Laboratory has designed a new solar-powered water desalination system to provide drinking water to disaster zones and disadvantaged parts of the planet. Desalination systems often require a lot of energy and a large infrastructure to support them, but MIT's compact system is able to cope due to its ingenious design. The system's photovoltaic panel is able to generate power for the pump, which in turn pushes undrinkable seawater through a permeable membrane. MIT's prototype can reportedly produce 80 gallons of drinking water per day, depending on weather conditions."

Submission + - The World's Cheapest Hydrogen Production Process (gizmag.com)

Submitted by ElectricSteve on Monday October 18, 2010 @11:14PM

ElectricSteve writes: FUKAI Environmental Research Institute has announced a new technology for obtaining hydrogen that it claims is less expensive and more efficient than anything that's been tried so far. FUKAI's process involves adding aluminum or magnesium to boiling "oefunctional water," a proprietary substance that can be produced simply by running regular tap water through a natural mineral-containing "functional water generation unit." The bonds that join hydrogen and oxygen molecules in regular water, which ordinarily require some energy to break, are weakened in functional water. The liquid yields 2 liters (122 cubic inches) of hydrogen gas per gram of aluminum, or 3.3 liters (201 cubic inches) per gram of magnesium. FUKAI claims that the cost of producing enough hydrogen to generate 1kWh of electricity is about 18 cents US. That cost could be lowered through the use of recycled aluminum.

Submission + - Moving Monopoles Caught on Camera (sciencedaily.com)

Submitted by Thorfinn.au on Monday October 18, 2010 @11:09PM

Thorfinn.au writes: Science Daily is reporting on magnetic monopoles.
For decades, researchers have been searching for magnetic monopoles — isolated magnetic charges, which can move around freely in the same way as electrical charges. Magnetic poles normally only occur in pairs. Now a team of researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland and University College Dublin has managed to create monopoles in the form of quasiparticles in an assembly of nanoscale magnets and to observe how they move using a microscope at the Swiss Light Source (SLS) to make the magnetic structures visible.
As with the elementary monopoles, which were first predicted by the British physicist Paul Dirac in 1931, each monopole is connected by a "string" to a monopole of opposite charge. The two monopoles can nevertheless move independently of each other. These results are not only of scientific interest, but could also provide a basis for the development of future electronic devices. The results are published online in the journal Nature Physics (Oct. 17, 2010).

Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover 264

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @10:40PM from the get-me-off-that-thing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Astronaut Bruce McCandless is suing Dido for her album cover that uses a famous NASA photograph of a tiny, tiny, tiny McCandless floating in space. McCandless doesn't own the copyright on the photo, so he's claiming it's a violation of his publicity rights ... except that he's so tiny in the photo, it's not like anyone's going to recognize him."

Submission + - Indian law frim drags Microsoft to court (indiatimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 18, 2010 @08:40AM

An anonymous reader writes: FTA: Global software major Microsoft Corp has been dragged to the Competition Commission of India (CCI) by a law firm for allegedly abusing its dominant position as a market leader.

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