Submission + - NIST opens competition for new hash algorith

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08, 2007 @02:43PM

An anonymous reader writes: The National Institute of Standards and Technology has opened a competition to develop a new cryptographic "hash" algorithm, a tool for converting a file, message or block of data to a short "fingerprint" for use in digital signatures, message authentication and other computer security applications. NIST says the competition is its response to recent advances in the analysis of hash algorithms, and that the new hash algorithm will be called Secure Hash Algorithm-3 (SHA-3).

302737 submission

Submission + - Experiment involving rope trick in space goes awry (gulfnews.com)

Submitted by

Tjeerd

on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @06:00AM

Tjeerd writes: "Quote from the site: "Moscow: An experiment that envisaged sending a parcel from space to Earth on a 30-kilometre tether fell short of its goal yesterday when the long fibre rope did not fully unwind, Russian Mission Control said. It was intended to deliver a spherical capsule, called Fotino, attached to the end of the tether back to Earth — a relatively simple and cheap technology that could be used in the future to retrieve bulkier cargoes from space.""

302049 submission

Submission + - Scientists freeze water at body temperature (physorg.com)

Submitted by

Spy der Mann

on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @06:20PM

Spy der Mann writes: "Harvard physicists have shown that specially treated diamond coatings can keep water frozen at body temperature, a finding that may have applications in future medical implants. The process works only for layers of ice of two to three nanometers, depending on the temperature."

256367 submission

Submission + - 30 years since the 'Wow!' signal

Submitted by smooth wombat on Thursday August 16, 2007 @01:04PM

smooth wombat writes: Thirty years ago, a signal was received by Ohio State University's Big Ear Radio Observatory which, for a brief moment, set the scientific community ablaze. Had we heard the first proof of an intelligent civilization outside our own?

Unfortunately, the signal was not repeated and has not been heard from since despite the best efforts of astronomers during the last three decades. The debate over what the signal actually was continues to this day but new help is on the way. The SETI institute will soon be using the Allen Telescope Array in California to search the same area of sky. The array uses dozens of separate radio dishes to produce an instrument that will eventually become more sensitive than the world's largest single-dish telescope in Aricebo.

251727 submission

Submission + - Endeavour's Thermal Tiles Completely Breached (www.cbc.ca) 2

Submitted by

jhylkema

on Sunday August 12, 2007 @07:58PM

jhylkema writes: "The CBC is reporting that the previously reported gouge in the Space Shuttle Endeavour's thermal tiles is complete and exposes the underlying insulation. This is similar to the damage that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia to break up on reentry, killing all aboard."

235635 submission

Submission + - Sex Hacks: Technology can be very stimulating

Submitted by First Person on Friday July 27, 2007 @03:43PM

First Person writes: Kudos to those engineers who challenge social conventions, pushing technology into places it has never been (and probably should never go). Consider these recent achievements from the 'Sex Hacks' conference as described in The Register. One might wonder "How could our society advance without access to Fourier-modulated sex toys, platform shoes for trollops, or appliances for interfacing ambient noises with various bodily orifice?" Thankfully, we need not wonder, as all these technologies are available today.

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Richard Garriot Argues Against Stagnant MMOG Design 175

Posted by Zonk on Friday July 27, 2007 @03:43PM from the kill-ten-rats dept.

The creator of Ultima Online and Tabula Rasa and well-known designer Richard Garriot spoke at the Develop Conference in Brighton, England on the subjects of stagnating MMOG design and the NCSoft deal with Sony. His commentary on Massive game design is fairly direct: "If you look at the vast majority of MMOs that has come out since Ultima Online and Everquest, you can look at the features and they are almost exactly the same. Even though the graphics have got better and the interface is much slicker, fundamentally the gameplay is unchanged. Worse yet, there are many things that have become standard that I look at and even though they are powerful enough to encourage the behavior of people obsessed with playing these games, I don't think they are the right way of building the future."

234027 submission

Submission + - Hell Has Frozen Over: Dvorak Has a Mac 1

Submitted by

sjaskow

on Thursday July 26, 2007 @11:51AM

sjaskow writes: "It appears that Dvorak has taken the plunge. He's got a Mac and, horrors, actually seems to like it!"

192745 submission

Submission + - Flex 3 Out (adobe.com)

Submitted by discoguy77 on Monday June 11, 2007 @02:08PM

discoguy77 writes: From the article: Adobe Systems Incorporated ... today released the beta version of Adobe® Integrated Runtime (AIR), formerly code named Apollo. Adobe AIR(TM) is a cross-operating system application runtime that allows developers to use HTML/CSS, Ajax, Adobe Flash® and Adobe Flex(TM) to extend rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop. New features in the Adobe AIR beta include an embedded local database, PDF support, enhanced capabilities for JavaScript developers, and deeper integration with Adobe Flex.

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