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Bismillah writes:
Australia will allow travellers to use their devices — in flight mode, no data or calls allowed — on flights from now on.
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Bismillah writes:
Flight mode without calls and data will be good enough for Australian fliers, with new rules kicking in that allows offline operation
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sandbagger writes:
The UK has banned the teaching of creationism as science in all schools receiving public money. The new regulations were published last week with little to-do, state the 'requirement for every academy and free school to provide a broad and balanced curriculum in any case prevents the teaching of creationism as evidence based theory in any academy or free school.'
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Bismillah writes:
The Aussie digital postbox service didn't last long and is now shutting down due to lack of senders.
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Diggester writes:
Cambridge has finally finished a series of eighty studies involving half a million people and the conclusion they've reached is that saturated fats have little or no connection to heart disease. The study also says that "good" fats (vegetable fats mostly) do not lower the risk of a heart attack either. This new study is turning heads and confusing the hell out of diet enthusiasts who have constantly been obsessed over reducing their fat intake (admittedly just to stay wafer thin). Hasn't fat ALWAYS been the reason for heart failure? Well, apparently not.
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sciencehabit writes:
Even though daytime temperatures in the tropics of Mars can be about –20C, a summer afternoon there might feel about the same as an average winter day in southern England or Minneapolis. That’s because there’s virtually no wind chill on the Red Planet, according to a new study—the first to give an accurate sense of what it might feel like to spend a day walking about on our celestial neighbor. “I hadn’t really thought about this before, but I’m not surprised,” says Maurice Bluestein, a biomedical engineer and wind chill expert recently retired from Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. The new findings, he says, “will be useful, as people planning to colonize Mars need to know what they’re getting themselves into.”
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braindrainbahrain writes:
An outfit in Massachusetts is poise to offer — no, make that "is offering" — consumer light bulbs based on induction technology, challenging the market share of LED and CFL light bulbs. Induction lighting, long used in industrial applications, was invented by none other than Nikola Tesla, and said Massachusetts company has miniaturized the technology enough to fit an implementation in a standard light bulb size.
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Bismillah writes:
The British government is wants life in prison for hackers who cause disruption to computer networks, resulting in loss of life or threaten the country's national security. Not any such disruption has happened yet, but anyway...
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Mcusanelli writes:
Zettaset Orchestrator version 7 now provides value-added security, compliance and management features for open source Hadoop platforms.
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Bismillah writes:
An interesting study by WilmerHale lawyers and Intel's assistant general counsel Ann Armstrong looked into how much royalty payments and demands actually amount to per device, and found the cost so high it threatens industry profitability and competitiveness.
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Bismillah writes:
Once again, after the Red Flag Linux effort that petered out this year, China is ogling the Penguin to sort out its pressing Windows XP issue. The Windows 8 ban by China's government procurement agency and promises of official support may help.
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VT-802-Software writes:
A bipartisan proposal to curb patent trolls was shelved by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Wednesday....
"Supporters of the compromise accuse trial lawyers, universities, pharmaceutical companies and biotech companies for foiling the plan at the eleventh hour."
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Bismillah writes:
Australian Federal Police say they have arrested and charged one of the people behind the 2012 attack on MelbourneIT that saw 40GB of data taken by exploiting a backup server running a vulnerable version of Adobe ColdFusion.
The AFP says they also arrested an eighteen year old Penrith, New South Wales, resident for hacking.
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coondoggie writes:
Future autos leased by the federal government will be equipped with some advanced high-tech safety technology in an effort to test the equipment in real-life situations. The General Services Administration (GSA) and the Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said they would team up on the program to further develop high-tech driver and vehicle safety technology.
