Submission + - Apple to port Safari to Windows (apple.com)
DaphneDiane writes: "Apple is releasing a version of Safari for windows. Claims it is faster than both IE and Firefox."
Submission + - Power-generating spacesuits
Maggie McKee writes: "Could piezoelectric sensors help power future space missions? From the article: "Astronauts' spacesuits may one day be covered in motion-sensitive proteins that could generate power from the astronauts' movement, according to futuristic research being conducted by a new lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US. Such 'power skins' could also be used to coat future human bases on Mars, where they could produce energy from the Martian wind."
Eventually, the biologically derived suits might even be able to heal themselves."
Submission + - Jean Ichbiah, Chief Architect of Ada, Dies
An anonymous reader writes: Jean Ichbiah, the chief architect of the Ada programming language, has died (http://www.adaic.org/news/ichbiah.html). Although Ada is not widely used today outside of DoD, the language introduced a generation of programmers to practical language constructs for what had until then been esoteric features such as overloading, exception handling, and multi-tasking.
Submission + - Can you sue for randomly generated profanity?
Anonymous Coward writes: "It looks like a patent searcher has managed to get the European Patent Office CAPTCHA system to generate risque words. Are the EPO responsible for the content? Should/Could CAPTCHAS be censored?"
