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Submission + - Flame Red 3DS Arrives On September 9 (gamergaia.com)

Submitted by Calidreth
Calidreth writes: Nintendo has definitely been in a lot of news headlines as of late. From Iwata slashing his salary in half to the 3DS dropping to 170 dollars, a lot of the focus has been on the poor sales of the 3DS. Nintendo is hoping to get sales rolling again with the help of their holiday lineup and a brand new color for their newest handheld. On September 9, Nintendo will roll out the “Flame Red” 3DS, which conveniently debuts the same day as Star Fox 64 3D. Nintendo is hoping that these new releases will put them back in the driver’s seat this holiday season.
The Internet

Submission + - Users Try To Snare NZ Govt With Own 3-Strikes Law (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by aesoteric
aesoteric writes: An anonymous activist claimed to be downloading copyright material through a 'Government ISP' less than an hour after an anti filesharing law came into effect in New Zealand. The law, passed in April, held internet account holders liable for infringement instead of the filesharers themselves. The activist was apparently testing whether they could get the New Zealand Government fined by their own law.
NASA

Submission + - Never Seen Before Photos from NASA's Mars Rover

Submitted by oxide7
oxide7 writes: After a nearly three year journey, NASA's Mars rover "Opportunity" has reached its destination at a edge of a crater-rim, sending back photographs of never seen before rocks. "We're soon going to get the opportunity to sample a rock type the rovers haven't seen yet," said Matthew Golombek, Mars Exploration Rover science team member, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. "Clay minerals form in wet conditions so we may learn about a potentially habitable environment that appears to have been very different from those responsible for the rocks comprising the plains."

Submission + - Mosquitoes Use Many Odor Sensors to Track Human

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It now appears that the malaria mosquito needs more than one family of odor sensors to sniff out its human prey. That is the implication of new research into the mosquito's sense of smell published in the Aug. 31 issue of the online, open-access journal Public Library of Science Biology. The experiments described in the paper provide striking new evidence that Anopheles gambiae – the species of mosquito that spreads malaria that infects some 250 million and kills 900,000 people annually – has a second set of olfactory sensors that are fundamentally different from the set of sensors that scientists have known about and have been studying for the last 10 years.
HP

Submission + - Corporate Espionage For Dummies: HP Scanners

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Despite typically being completely insecure, web servers on printers/scanners are generally of little interest from a security perspective, even though they may be accessible over the web, due to network misconfigurations. HP has for some time, embedded remote scanning capabilities into many of their network aware scanners, a functionality often referred to as Webscan. Webscan allows you to not only remotely trigger the scanning functionality, but also retrieve the scanned image, all via a web browser. To make things even more interesting, the feature is generally turned on by default with absolutely no security whatsoever.
Science

Submission + - Moore's Law has been extended (techeye.net)

Submitted by bossanovalithium
bossanovalithium writes: Rice University scientists have created two terminal memory that uses only Silicon. The new technology places multiple layers of memory capacity on the same chip, creating a 3-D memory architecture. The new technology could withstand radiation and temperatures of 200 degrees Celsius that would cause solid-state disk memory to disintegrate.

They claim that the discovery will extend the limits of miniaturisation subject to Moore's Law.
Cellphones

Submission + - fiber line cut knocks out land AND cell phones (sfgate.com)

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mtrachtenberg
mtrachtenberg writes: "Phone service sabotaged for thousands
Henry K. Lee,Ryan Kim, Chronicle Staff Writers
Thursday, April 9, 2009
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(04-09) 11:20 PDT SAN JOSE — Vandals cut four AT&T fiber-optic cables in San Jose early this morning, knocking out landline and cellular phone service and the Internet to thousands of residential customers and businesses in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties, authorities said."
Programming

Submission + - The Truth About: Programmers - Web Dev Myths Debun (352media.com)

Submitted by
pvr352
pvr352 writes: "http://www.352media.com/rantingandraving/rave.aspx?raveid=570 All programmers are nerds who live with their parents and attend sci-fi conventions. At least, that's what the stereotypes say. In this second video of a multi-part series examining myths about Web development employees, we look at the myths and truths about programming staff."
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Red Dwarf Returns!

Submitted by Logrusweaver
Logrusweaver writes: It looks like Red Dwarf is finally returning! Red Dwarf:Back to Earth is airing in 3 parts in the UK starting this Friday. It seems to be a 3-parter followed by a "Making Of" special. Not trying to give away anymore of the plot than the title does, but it does involve the crew finally returning to Earth. More details by following the link. http://dave.uktv.co.uk/ (just hope it's not a bombed out planet with 'space angels' running around...)

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