Software developers find fault in Google's recent announcement that its Android software platform for mobile phones will be released under the Apache open-source license, which experts say will fail to free mobile devices from many of their current restrictions.
The fossilized remains of a previously unknown plant eater, whose distinguishing feature is a vacuum cleaner-sized mouth, go on display at the National Geographic Society.
An anonymous reader writes: Students in an MIT competition are helping build a dev-kit for cells. Together with synthetic biologists, they're building a Registry of Standard Biological Parts called BioBricks. They aim to do for cells for what open source software has done for computers.