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Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 11:58pmGMT

Psystar Will Countersue Apple

An anonymous reader sends us to CNet for news that Apple clone maker Pystar plans to countersue Apple. We discussed Apple's suit last month. 'Mac clone maker Psystar plans to file its answer to Apple's copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday as well as a

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 11:58pmGMT

Phil Zimmermann Replies To CNet On Biden

A couple of days ago we discussed a CNet article on the tech voting record of Joe Biden, Barack Obama's running mate. Philip Zimmermann, who was mentioned in that piece, sends the following note to set the record straight. 'In his 23 August opinion piece

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 10:46pmGMT

TELUS Forcing Customers Off Unlimited Plans

An anonymous reader writes 'Canadian telco TELUS sold a bunch of (expensive) Unlimited EV-DO aircard accounts last winter and are now summarily canceling them or forcing people to switch to much less valuable plans. TELUS is citing 'Violations,' but

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 10:07pmGMT

MapReduce Goes Commercial, Integrated With SQL

from the patterns-in-the-data dept. CurtMonashwrites 'MapReduce sits at the heart of Google's data processing ? and Yahoo's, Facebook's and LinkedIn's as well. But it's been highly controversial, due to an apparent conflict with standard data

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 9:17pmGMT

Panic updates Coda Web development application

Mac software developer Panic released an update for its Web development tool, Coda on Tuesday. Coda 1.5 adds a variety of new features including Subversion, which allows users to check out code, make changes and check it back in. The update also allows

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 9:07pmGMT

Paralyzed Man Walks Again Using Exoskeleton

dominique_cimafranca notes a story up at the Daily Mail in the UK about a partially paralyzed man who is able to walk again using an exoskeleton frame. The article goes a bit far in comparing the device to Robocop, but it does show pictures of the man,

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 8:20pmGMT

Examining Portal's Teleportation Code

Gamasutra is running a story deconstructing the mechanics of Portal's teleportation programming. They present a snippet of Portal's code and a downloadable demo. They ran another article in this series earlier this year with sample code from Mario

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 7:35pmGMT

Scientists Discover Cows Point North

Dr Sabine Begall and colleagues from the University of Duisburg-Essen have discovered that cows tend to point north. The researchers studied deer in the Czech Republic and looked at thousands of images of cattle on Google Earth. The animals tended to

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 6:59pmGMT

Web Fraud 2.0 — Point-and-Click Cracking Tools

An anonymous reader writes 'The Washington Post's Security Fix blog is running a fascinating series that peers inside some of the Web-based services cyber crooks are using to ply their trade: from masking their identity, to defeating CAPTCHAs, to

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 6:48pmGMT

Gamepark Holdings Officially Announces the WIZ Handheld

Croakyvoice writes 'Gamepark Holdings, the makers of the GP2X Console, have today announced the successor, which is called the WIZ. The new GBA Micro-sized console features a touchscreen, Linux OS, an Arm9 533MHZ 3D processor with 64MB of ram and will

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 5:28pmGMT

New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal

ThinkCompwrites 'In what could possibly be a major blow to a scientific consensus that has held for decades, recent research suggests that the traditional conception of Neanderthals being 'stupider' than Homo sapiens may in fact be misleading. As

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 5:07pmGMT

Google Drops Bluetooth API From Android 1.0

Ian Lamont writes 'Google has , but says that handsets using the Android OS will work with other Bluetooth devices such as headsets. According to a post on the official Android developer blog, Google dropped the Bluetooth API from the mobile OS because

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 5:07pmGMT

California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily Hackable

An anonymous reader writes 'Nate Lawson, a researcher at RootLabs, has found a way to clone the wireless transponders used by the Bay Area FasTrak road toll system. This means you can copy the ID of another driver onto your own device and, as a result,

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 2:23pmGMT

Fuel-Cell Car Racing Series Aims To Spur Green Motoring

Anonymous Cow writes 'The world's first international fuel-cell powered motor racing series kicked off in Rotterdam over the weekend. The organisers hope that 'Formula Zero,' like Forumula 1, can become a forum for competing technology as much as

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 1:39pmGMT

Terror Watchlist "Crippled By Technical Flaws"

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes 'The database used by the government to generate lists like the No-Fly List is 'crippled by technical flaws,' according to the chairman of a House technology oversight subcommittee. And the upgrade may be

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 12:29pmGMT

Software Quality In a Non-Software Company?

Nicros writes 'I work for a publicly traded biotech company that happens to write software that is, in fact, kind of critical for the business without it no data would ever be read from our instruments, and no analyses would be performed on that data.

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 9:49amGMT

IE8 Will Contain an Accidental Ad Blocker

JagsLive sends in a Washington Post blog post reflecting on one privacy-enhancing feature of the upcoming Internet Explorer 8, the so-called 'InPrivate Blocking' that has privacy advocates quietly cheering, and advertisers seriously worrying. Here is

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 6:49amGMT

LHC Fully Documented Online

Physicser writes 'Want to read every single technical detail of the design and construction of the Large Hadron Collider and its six detectors? The whole shebang seven reports totaling 1600 pages, 115 MB, with contributions from 8000 scientists and

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 4:14amGMT

Websites Still Failing Basic Privacy Practices

DigitAl56K writes 'Large companies still can't seem to get the basics of privacy and security on the Web pulled together. Today I went to enter a competition from Duracell to win a Nintendo Wii by filling out an online form. It requires entering your

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 2:12amGMT

Making Statements With Video Games

You may have heard about the recent controversy at the Leipzig Games Conference over a modification of Space Invaders in which the invaders are slowly demolishing the World Trade Center. The creator intended it as an artistic expression, but has since

Posted: Tueday, August 26, 2008 at 12:27amGMT

Linux Not Supported For Democratic Convention Video

bucketoftruth writes 'If you browse to the Democratic Convention website and attempt to check out any of their upcoming streams, you bump into the following limitation: 'We're sorry, but the Democratic Convention video web site isn't compatible with your

Posted: Monday, August 25, 2008 at 11:38pmGMT

Has Google Lost Its Mojo?

CWmike writes 'Google looks as if it's on top of the world right now, holding an ever-increasing lion's share of the search market. So why do I think it's lost its mojo? Let's start with the way it treats its employees, writes Preston Gralla. Another

Posted: Monday, August 25, 2008 at 10:40pmGMT

Software To Provide Astronaut Counseling

Currently, whenever an astronaut needs to talk to someone, a counselor is only a radio call away. Unfortunately, for voyages further out, this contact time starts to increase quite a bit, so researchers have started to look for alternative methods of

Posted: Monday, August 25, 2008 at 10:09pmGMT

Carbon-Neutral Ziggurat Could House 1.1 Million in Dubai

Engadget is reporting that a new pyramid-shaped city of the future, dubbed a 'Ziggurat', is being touted by Dubai-based environmental design company, Timelinks. Claiming that their design allows for an almost self-sufficient energy footprint and,

Posted: Monday, August 25, 2008 at 9:11pmGMT

Should Companies Share Criminal Blame In ID Theft?

snydeq writes 'Deep End's Paul Venezia criticizes the lack of criminal charges for corporate negligence in data breaches in the wake of last week's Best Western breach, which exposed the personal data of 8 million customers. 'The responsibilities

Posted: Monday, August 25, 2008 at 8:47pmGMT

Wizards of the Coast Declares Gleemax Site a Critical Failure

In a recent blog post, Wizards of the Coast's Vice President of Digital Gaming, Randy Buehler announced that they were killing their Gleemax social networking site. Originally designed to create a central hub where gamers could meet, discuss, and play

Posted: Monday, August 25, 2008 at 7:41pmGMT

The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy

SlappingOysters writes 'Gameplayer has gone live with their best PC hardware configurations for Q3 2008. They've broken it into three tiers depending on the investor's budget. And while the prices are regional, it is comparative across the globe. 'In

Posted: Monday, August 25, 2008 at 7:07pmGMT

Browser Extension Defeats Internet Eavesdropping

Pickens writes to tell us that researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created a simple system to help prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. Using a preset list of friendly sites called 'notaries', the Tnew 'Perspectives' system helps users to

Posted: Monday, August 25, 2008 at 5:54pmGMT

Bottom of The Barrel Book Reviews-Confessions of a Recovering Preppie

An anonymous reader writes 'Michael de Mare's, Confessions of a Recovering Preppie, has been sitting on my desk a long time, for good reason. They say you can't always judge a book by it's cover but in this case, the unintentionally embarrassing front is

Posted: Monday, August 25, 2008 at 5:05pmGMT

NewsTrust Founder Fabrice Florin Answers Your Questions

On August 18 and 19, you submitted questions for NewsTrust founder Fabrice Florin about his (non-profit) site's ability to live up to its claim, 'Your guide to good journalism.' We sent selected questions to Fabrice on August 19. Here are his answers.

Posted: Monday, August 25, 2008 at 4:30pmGMT