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Submission + - Search for New Autism Genes

Submitted by

iuvasago

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @09:37PM

iuvasago writes: "The largest search for autism genes to date, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has implicated components of the brain's glutamate chemical messenger system and a previously overlooked site on chromosome 11. Based on 1,168 families with at least two affected members, the genome scan adds to evidence that tiny, rare variations in genes may heighten risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASD). [Read More] from Physorg.com"

Submission + - Illegal Immigration Coalition Boycotts Bank of Ame

Submitted by

aktiveradio

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @09:37PM

aktiveradio writes: "The National Illegal Immigration Boycott Coalition, which includes over 100 organizations, is launching a boycott of Bank of America because of the bank's offer to issue credit cards, mortgages and accounts to illegal aliens in the US. http://www.bankofamericasucks.com/viewtopic.php?t= 952"

Journal Journal: Geeks race in the 2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race

Journal by gizmateer on Sunday February 18, 2007 @09:25PM

Several Flight Simulator geeks are flying around the world in the 2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race. The race pits teams from AVSim, FlightSim and Sim-Outhouse against each other in a race around the world with special rules, conditions and bonuses.

Submission + - CoHEmu receives cease and desist from NCSoft

Submitted by

Malign

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @09:17PM

Malign writes: "The CoHEmu (now known as CoXemu) Project received a cease and desist order from NCSoft today. The cease and desist can be found here: http://www.tonster.com/ncsoftceasedesist.pdf The CoHEmu Project is an open source City of Heroes and Villains server emulator written in C++. The topic in their project IRC channel reads: "cohemu site shut down" Apparently, the webhost that powered the project forum was taken offline by the ISP and the server maintainer had to call them and explain what was going on to get it back on the net. The project source code was completely open, but NCSoft accused them of using copyrighted material. They also warned of possible outcomes if the content was not brought down such as court and heavy fines of approximately $100,000 USD. Another emulation project bites the dust to the will of corporations."

Submission + - How A "Superbaby" Is Leading To New Medic

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18, 2007 @09:13PM

An anonymous reader writes: A baby boy with unusually big muscles — caused by a gene mutation — is leading to new muscular dystrophy drugs. Forbes has the story, from the gene's discovery in mice, then in cattle (lots of beefy breeds have a mutated copy) to the current quest for new medicines, which pits a tiny biotech against drug giant Wyeth.

http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2007/0226/074.ht ml?partner=yahoomag

Submission + - nVidia's new mobile GUI

Submitted by

Istrancis

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @09:03PM

Istrancis writes: "Check it out, it's nVidia's new mobile GUI!!! This thing is sweet!!! You should note that the video doesn't actually display the GUI on a cell phone, but it uses the same chipset that the supported phones will use. Enjoy!"

Submission + - Blender 2.43 released - with Google SOC tools

Submitted by

LetterRip

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @07:08PM

LetterRip writes: "Blender 2.43 the free 3d animation suite has been released. There are a number of amazing new features including sculpting (which was supported by Googles Summer of Code) — you can now sculpt huge poly counts (6.5 million!) on Linux; fast 3D texture painting and numerous animation tool improvements."

Submission + - Lakes found under Antarctic ice using space lasers

Submitted by

Reverse Gear

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @06:53PM

Reverse Gear writes: "There is a new study circling the media about these newly found big lakes found underneath the antarctic ice sheets that apparently empty and fills back up quite fast (study has been working in 3 years and has detected massive movements), from the article:

The scientists allay fears that global warming has created these pockets of water. They say these lakes lie some 2,300 feet below compressed snow and ice, too deep for environmental temperature to reach. However, it is necessary to understand what causes the phenomenon as it can facilitate an understanding of the impact of climate change on the ice sheet in Antarctica
NASA also has some information on the technique used to detect these lakes"

Submission + - World's largest tropical glacier is vanishing.

Submitted by Socguy on Sunday February 18, 2007 @06:20PM

Socguy writes: "Ohio State glaciologist Lonnie Thompson and a team of scientists said they have found evidence the Qori Kalis glacier of the Quelccaya ice cap in the Peruvian Andes could lose half its mass in 12 months and could be gone five years from now."
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/02/16/scie nce-glacier.html

Submission + - The future of packaging software in Linux

Submitted by

michuk

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @06:12PM

michuk writes: "There are currently at least five popular ways of installing software in GNU/Linux. None of them is widely accepted throughout the popular distibutions. This situation is not a problem for experienced users — they can make decisions themselves. However, for a newcomer in the GNU/Linux world, installing new software is always pretty confusing. The article tries to sum up some of the recent efforts to fix this problem and examine the possible future of packaging software in GNU/Linux."

Submission + - Quake Ported to Nintendo DS

Submitted by Joan Cross on Sunday February 18, 2007 @06:11PM

Joan Cross writes: ID Software`s Quake the first-person shooter computer game that was released back in 2006 has today been ported to the Nintendo DS, the coder Simon Hall has manged to squeeze the program, working state and game data into the four megabytes of main memory of Nintendo`s handheld. The game is fully playable with both shareware or commercial pak files, total conversions and mods will work also.

Submission + - Blender 2.43 released!

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18, 2007 @05:15PM

An anonymous reader writes: The 2.43 release of Blender is out today (January 18, 2007)! Lots of goodies here — check out the 2.43 release log to get an impression of just how much has changed. Also, for the first time we have a series of Feature Videos demonstrating the power of some of the most important new features. Very cool stuff. Download 2.43 now! Also, a lot has changed behind the scenes: obviously we redid the entire website with a design by Matt Ebb. We also have a new webserver for the website dubbed 'Emo',and we also have three separate download servers (not counting our international mirrors), bringing our total download capacity up to 300mb. Slashdot and Digg? Bring 'em on!

Journal Journal: SIP over TCP - using it in NAT friendly way

Journal by neutrino38 on Sunday February 18, 2007 @04:49PM

I have recently browsed through the latest SIP RFC looking for ways to be more NAT friendly for VoIP.

What I found is not very conclusive: The latest RFC indeed tries to push TCP as default transport for SIP (Yessss signalling links are making a come back) but the use of TCP connection is left to a lot of ambiguities.

Submission + - Most Comprehensive Reverse Hash Lookup (MD5, etc)

Submitted by

Dustin Fineout

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @04:29PM

Dustin Fineout writes: "A new reverse hash look-up web site has been launched which conglomerates the separate efforts of many such sites into a single resource. http://md5.dustinfineout.com/ searches both local databases and several remote servers to create the most comprehensive reverse hash look-up available anywhere, and in under ten seconds.

The initial version, launched yesterday, offers reverse hash look-up for the MD5 algorithm on a total of six servers' databases. By the end of the week, support for SHA1, MD2, MD4, LanMan, and NTLM algorithms have been promised, as well as expanding the server pool to at least 10 different data sources. The web application also allows visitors to add entries to the datapool by checking for their existence in all servers in the datapool before adding to a local database. The source code for both the online PHP application and several Java programs are also scheduled to be released under the BSD license by the end of this week."

Rollable E Ink Displays Get Real 116

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday February 18, 2007 @12:02PM from the just-don't-crease-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Two years ago Philips unveiled a prototype of a functional electronic-document reader, called the Readius, which could unroll its display to a scale larger than the device itself. Unfortunately, that was only a prototype. According to Cnet, however, Polymer Vision, which spun out from Philips in 2006, has redesigned the Readius and turned it into a real product that it is going to be available by the end of this year. There are some notable differences between this Readius and the prototype version, in particular, the ability to display 16 shades of grey instead of just 4 and the connectivity options. What doesn't make sense though, is given the energy efficiency and easy-to-read high contrast functionality of E Ink, why other than Motorola with its Motofone, has no other cell phone manufacturer incorporated E Ink technology into its handsets?"

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