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Brits Want Microsoft Office 2007 Expelled From Classrooms

Pooja — Sat, 17 May 2008 05:26:38 +0000

The agency that governs educational technology in the U.K. has filed a formal complaint against Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) with the European Union.

The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) contends that Microsoft has failed to...

5 Amazing Oddball Flying Machines

Pooja — Sat, 17 May 2008 04:49:12 +0000

In honor of Yves Rossy, the Swiss man who flew over the Alps on a personal jet-powered wing Wednesday, Environmental Graffiti was inspired to search for some of the other strangest devices that have carried men aloft.

Biochips Can Detect Cancers Before Symptoms Develop

Leena Komarraju — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:41:46 +0000

In their fight against cancer, doctors have just gained an impressive new weapon to add to their arsenal. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have developed a chip that can save lives by diagnosing certain cancers...

MySpace Suicide Case Could Make Us All Criminals

Aneez — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:01:12 +0000

Think twice before you sign up for an online service using a fake name or e-mail address. You could be committing a federal crime.

Federal prosecutors turned to a novel interpretation of computer hacking law to indict a Missouri mother on charges...

How Apple is changing DRM

Jordan — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:00:24 +0000

When Apple approached record companies about selling their music digitally five years ago, they “were extremely cautious and required Apple to protect their music from being illegally copied”, according to Steve Jobs’s recollection of the process.

How to Escape From a Black Hole

Kevin — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:36:03 +0000

According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, black holes are regions of space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. And in the 1970’s physicist Stephen Hawking asserted that any information sucked inside a black hole would...

Taking your laptop into the US? Be sure to hide all your data first

Tomas — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:37:14 +0000

Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you’re entering the country. They can take your computer and download its entire contents, or keep it for several days. Customs and Border Patrol...

Why Gen Y Is Going to Change the Web

Hassan — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:18:48 +0000

Gen Y is taking over. The generation of young adults that’s composed of the children of Boomers, Generation Jones, and even some Gen X’ers, is the biggest generation since the Baby Boomers and three times the size of Gen X. As the Boomers fade into...

Apple OK with Safari's "Carpet Bombing" Vulnerability

Jonathan — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:50:39 +0000

Next time you get nagged to install Apple’s Safari browser keep this in mind: The company’s security team has dismissed research that shows a simple way miscreants can use the browser to litter an end user’s machine with malicious files.

Yahoo downgrades antispam measure after causing BT email chaos

Justin — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:48:32 +0000

A Yahoo security upgrade that caused chaos for thousands of BT customers who use their own domain name to send email has been temporarily removed after protests from users.