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Submission + - Researchers moved light

Submitted by

knight17

on Friday February 09, 2007 @07:51PM

knight17 writes: "The Researchers at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has found a way to move light.They not only moved light but also bring a pulse of light, thefastest of nature's particles, to a complete halt. That ability to catch, store, move and release light could be used in future computers to process information encoded in the light pulses."

Submission + - Microsoft refuses to assist police w/hot xbox 360

Submitted by

Karzz1

on Friday February 09, 2007 @07:45PM

Karzz1 writes: "Microsoft refused New Zealand police demands for information regarding a stolen Xbox360. Apparently the hot Xbox was registered with Microsoft with details the police sought to apprehend the thief. According to Microsoft, "The privacy and safety of customer information was a "huge issue" for the company and the details could not be handed out.". Is Microsoft being truly altruistic or is there possibly something else at play here?"

Submission + - MIT Team Makes Light Chip

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday February 09, 2007 @07:32PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said they've overcome a major obstacle in harnessing the full power and speed of the light waves. It promises to solve a problem that's long plagued fiber-optic networks: Light waves gradually weaken over distances as they become polarized, or randomly oriented horizontally and vertically. The tools available to fix it are expensive to deploy on a massive scale. It's a promising development as bandwidth-hungry video puts a strain on networks and consumers demand seamless transmissions."

Doomsday Seed Vault Design Unveiled 293

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 09, 2007 @07:25PM from the any-room-for-humans-in-there dept.

in2mind writes "The BBC News is reporting on the completion of a design for a 'doomsday' vault ... that will house seeds. All known varieties of food crops will be represented in the structure, which will be constructed by the Norwegian government. The vault aims to safeguard the world's agriculture from future catastrophes by building into the side of a mountain. On a remote island. Near the North pole. The Svalbard International Seed Vault will house the seed samples at a preservative -18C (0F), and could be used by post-apocalyptic people to feed a hungry planet."

Submission + - Hotmail is broken when accessed with Firefox

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09, 2007 @07:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: I can log in to Hotmail just fine using IE (well, as fine as it's possible to surf the net with the porous, sucking sponge attached to a Petri dish that is IE...), but trying to log in with Firefox gets me this:

Windows Live ID is unavailable from this site for one of the following reasons:

* This site may be experiencing a problem.

* The site may not be a member of Windows Live ID.

It's from the exact same computer at the exact same time as the IE login works. The link is the incredibly difficult http://hotmail.com./ And it worked earlier today.

Maybe we need to send this to that trial in Iowa?

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