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Submission + - How Lala Works and the Legal Bomb Lurking

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: This week Lala launched a new locker service. Michael Robertson, founder of MP3.com and inventor of previous 'instant loading' locker system Beam-It took a look at how Lala's technology works and the possible legal perils confronting them. (They are bypassing the upload step sometimes.) Fascinating reading and something lawyers and online music companies will be following closely.
NASA

Submission + - Ex-Aerospace Engineer Wins NASA Glove Contest

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: An unemployed former aerospace engineer has built a better spacesuit glove, claiming the first payoff in the NASA-backed Centennial Challenges competition. Peter Homer clinched a $200,000 prize in this week's Astronaut Glove Competition with a spacesuit glove that proved more comfortable, durable and flexible than gloves currently used by spacewalking astronauts. "When I started, I didn't know anything about making a glove," Homer said. "It was a great learning experience along the way."
NASA

Submission + - Hurricane Forecasts Were Dust-Busted

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SeaDour
SeaDour writes: "A NASA study is claiming that one of the major reasons last year's hurricane season was so tame compared to the initial forecasts may have been due to increased dust storm activity in Africa's Sahara Desert. The dust particles drifted over the Atlantic, blocking sunlight to the water below which allowed it to cool significantly. "Dust concentrations may play as big a role as other atmospheric conditions, like El Nino, and offer some predictive value, so they should be closely monitored to improve hurricane forecasts," said lead author William Lau."

Feed ESA wants to send you to Mars* (theregister.com)

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*A simulation of Mars, anyway

The European Space Agency (ESA) is recruiting volunteers for a simulated trip to Mars. Wannabe astronauts will have to be made of sturdy stuff: the mission will involve being locked, with five other people, in a metal tank somewhere in Moscow for 500 days.
Graphics

Submission + - ATI Catalyst 7.3, BSOD on Vista

Submitted by The Great Danton
The Great Danton writes: Recently, Tech ARP wrote about how the ATI Radeon X1950 GT graphics card had managed to obtain Vista certification without a working driver. The first working driver for the Radeon X1950 GT finally appeared on March 28, 2007, the Catalyst 7.3. Should X1950 GT owners jump for joy? Not quite yet as ATI didn't do a pretty good job with this driver set either. This article will show you how wrong it would go if you decided to install it on your Vista system. A nightmare would be an understatement.
Programming

Submission + - No Foolin': Morfik Patents AJAX Compiler

Submitted by MikeyTheK
MikeyTheK writes: Sorry for the title, the subject can only take so many characters. No April Fools joke here. It appears that under the radar, the USPTO granted Morfik a patent for the "System and method for synthesizing object-oriented high-level code into browser-side javascript". Reading further, it appears that they have patented the compiling of high-level languages into AJAX apps. The high-level languages include "Ada, C, C++, C#, COBOL, ColdFusion, Common Lisp, Delphi, Fortran, Java, Object Pascal, SmallTalk, Visual Basic, and Visual Basic.NET".

It would appear that the application date is September, 2005.

Feed AT&T Weighs Bid in Italy (nytimes.com)

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AT&T said it was in negotiations to buy a major stake in Italy’s largest telecommunications company, Telecom Italia.
The Internet

Submission + - A new musician's network

Submitted by johnjohn07
johnjohn07 writes: There's a new social network on the web tailored for musicians, as mentioned here by a frustrated musician. The site itself is calledMeetyourband.com. As a fellow musician, I can empathize with the process of finding bandmates, considering I've yet to get my own band together. I hope this works, because let's face it... classified ads really don't.

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