Hogwart's invisibility cloak a close reality

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Posted 794 days, 4 hours ago by Bronwen

It won't help you sneak around Hogwarts without being seen or let you stalk the USS Enterprise just yet, but scientists have unveiled the world's first cloaking device, using technology designed to make solid objects vanish from sight.

The IE7 vulnerability that isn't.

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Posted 794 days, 5 hours ago by sandi

Once again the popular security sites are labelling a vulnerability as an "Internet Explorer" vulnerability when in fact the vulnerability is in components from another Windows programme...

Touchscreen iPod Comes This December

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Posted 794 days, 21 hours ago by Bronwen

The iPod/iPhone rumour mill is something so clouded that as TR News Ed I made the executive decision to circumvent the vast majority of it a long time ago, but yesterday I had a conversation with an extremely well informed exec which I’m going to s…

Beware of fake IE7 download site

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Posted 794 days, 22 hours ago by sandi

A bogus Internet Explorer 7 download site is attempting to load trojan code onto the PCs of visitors.

Internet Explorer 7 goes gold

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Posted 794 days, 22 hours ago by sandi

Internet Explorer 7 has been released to the public.

Virus poisons Apple iPod

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Posted 796 days ago by Tama

Apple Computer has issued a warning to customers that some of its latest Video iPods have shipped with a Windows virus. According to the company, less than one percent of Video iPods released after September 12 were infected with a Windows virus t…

Computers breed new addiction

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Posted 797 days, 7 hours ago by Newshound

Addiction to computer games is as serious as gambling and drug use, a psychologist has warned. Computer game addicts spend so much time playing they can lose their jobs, break up their families and stunt their social development, says clinical psy…

Anti-piracy system could hurt YouTube

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Posted 798 days, 19 hours ago by Bronwen

A technology designed to detect copyright material could give YouTube a needed dose of legal legitimacy and calm any concerns Google Inc. has about spending $1.65 billion on the Internet video site. But that same technology could hurt YouTube's edgy…

Optus D1 satellite launched by Ariane

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Posted 799 days, 6 hours ago by Bronwen

The first of Optus fourth generation satellites, D1, has been successfully launched and placed into a geostationary transfer orbit by an Arianespace rocket launched from French Guiana.

Digital Smell

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Posted 800 days, 3 hours ago by Ozone

A Japanese Professor has developed a device that can not only fingerprint smells, but reproduce them as well. The device will have various uses for the fragrance industry, food industry and may even lead to a revivial of 'smellovision' that has bee…

Aussie Cricketers Use GPS To Prepare for Ashes Win

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Posted 800 days, 4 hours ago by Ozone

In their quest to defeat their old nemesis, England, the Aussie lads have switched to the latest in Sport Science to get that extra edge. GPS systems have been used to monitor physical activity in both matches and training sessions so that the traine…

New Red iPod Nano Debuts To Help Fight AIDS

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Posted 800 days, 8 hours ago by Bronwen

The new red iPod nano being introduced today by Bono on the Oprah Winfrey Show is just like other second-generation nanos: It has 4 GB of memory and will sell for $199. The only difference is that $10 from every sale of the red iPod nano will be dona…

TV Reporter 'Phones In' a Story

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Posted 801 days, 1 hour ago by Ozone

Fox News camerman, Scott Wilder, arrived on the scene of the NY plane crash and started reporting live, streaming video from his Palm Treo mobile phone.

YouTube fans crash UTube servers

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Posted 801 days, 1 hour ago by Ozone

The website for "Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corp", been innundated with web hits since Google announced its aquisition of YouTube.

Google bundles Writely, Spreadsheets into package

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Posted 803 days, 3 hours ago by Techi

Search leader Google has announced the formation of an embryonic online Google Office suite by bundling its online word processor Writely and Google Spreadsheets into an integrated package called Google Docs and Spreadsheets, allowing a single sign-o…

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