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Top news on 28 September 2009 |
Sony's Motion Controller Challenging Wiimote In Early 2010
Sony asserts that the Motion Controller will usher in a "whole new entertainment experience" on the console, with the new controller being equipped with an array of motion sensors. It can also recognize faces and voices when used in combination with the PlayStation Eye.
Top Ten - Shocking Videogame Plot Twists
A look at the moments in gaming that make you scratch your head and say WTF?!
Silence That Idiot Box and Give Your Kids Å Break
FTA: You're a prudent parent, and you protect your children from behavior that is needlessly risky or harmful. You wait with them for the school bus, or drive them to school yourself. You wouldn?t dream of letting them drink alcohol, and if you caught them with cigarettes, you?d go through the roof. So why do you let them watch so much television?
Lego House Gets Destroyed--You Can Cry Now
Total sadness. It finally happened and James May's beautiful Lego House met its destiny. It has been destroyed. See the results in the following gallery and cry.
Gordon Brown: new laws 'will curb banking bonuses', Gordon B
Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, will introduce new laws to curb bankers%u2019 bonuses and force financial institutions to act more responsibly before the next election, he has announced.
8 Major Customer Support Fails
Some people just can?t make an honest living. And, sometimes, businesses fail to outdo this axiom as well. The following are some of the most memorable experiences of the last several years.
More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation - Yahoo! Ne
Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way.
Undiscovered New York: Times Square ?
New York's unexpected and off-the-beaten-path attractions.
Defense Chief Says Iran Faces ?Severe? New Sanctions
The disclosure of a new nuclear enrichment site in Iran places the government ?in a very bad spot? and raises the prospect of ?severe additional sanctions,? Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
Water on the Moon Buoys India's Space Program
The scientific breakthrough boosts India's ambitious plans for future space missions and will help the country compete in the commercial satellite launching business
AT&T vs. Google Voice: Dirty Details
Behind AT&T's snark, Google's indifference, the rules and what they mean for consumers.
7 Dogs That Accomplished More Than We Ever Will
Despite having a lifespan shorter than an average Mazda 626, some dogs have managed to accomplish more than most of us could ever hope to.
By 2040 you will be able to upload your brain...
Should, by some terrible misfortune, Ray Kurzweil shuffle off his mortal coil tomorrow, the obituaries would record an inventor of rare and visionary talent. In 1976, he created the first machine capable of reading books to the blind, and less than a decade later he built the K250: the first music synthesizer to nigh-on perfectly duplicate the...
Website rates best and worst cellphones by radiation output
You're surely aware that your cellphone bleeds radiation into your face the whole time you're on the phone with your mom, best friend or lover, right? Yes, it's a fact we try not to think about most of the time, but now there's a tool out there on the internets for the more reality-facing folks among us.
Polaroid Last picture show
Next month a love affair lasting more than 60 years will end. The last batch of Polaroid film will pass its use-by date and the era of instant Polaroid photography, one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, will draw to a close... article and photo art images
South African marries four brides to save money
A South African man walked four brides to the altar, marrying them at the same time to save money and prevent cheating.
Ancient Farmers Caused Climate Change, Says UVA Professor
An emeritus professor at the University of Virginia has suggested that man really began altering the climate thousands of years ago, as primitive farmers burned forests and built methane-bubbling rice paddies. Those practices produced enough greenhouse gases, he says, to warm the world by a degree or more.
93.8 Percent of Business Emails in Idaho are Spam
The top recipient of spam? Idaho, which shot from No. 44 to No. 1 with a rate of 93.8 percent.
Iran test-fires missiles amid nuclear tension
Iran test-fired missiles on Sunday to show it was prepared to head off any military threat, four days before the Islamic Republic is due to hold rare talks with world powers worried about its nuclear ambitions.
Detroit Lions Break 19 Game Losing Streak
The Detroit Lions defeated the Washington Redskins 19-14 to end the second longest losing streak in the NFL. Their last victory was December 23, 2007.
Scientists Create Glass Object Using Conventional 3D Printer
A team of engineers and artists working at the University of Washington's Solheim Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory has developed a way to create glass objects using a conventional 3-D printer. The technique allows a new material to be used in such devices.
10 things you might not know about the Olympics
On Friday, the International Olympic Committee will decide whether the host city for the 2016 Summer Olympics will be Chicago, Tokyo, Madrid or Rio de Janeiro. Here are 10 facts about the five-ring circus:
EPA Attacked Over Clean Air Act
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has proposed an amendment that would deny the EPA its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from "non-mobile" sources. This means that the EPA would only be able to enforce limits and regulations on vehicles, and not on the industrial players that are sending millions of tons of carbon emissions...
Clinton and Gore: Still the odd couple
Appearances can be and often are deceiving when it comes to the complicated case of Al Gore and Bill Clinton, whose trial separation during the Monica Lewinsky scandal in 1998 led to a full-blown divorce in 2000.
La Jolla Is The Most Expensive Real Estate Market in U.S.
The comparison of similar 2,200-square foot homes in 310 U.S. housing markets found that the average home price in La Jolla, Calif., is $2.125 million while at the other end of the spectrum, Grayling, Mich., was the most affordable market in America, where a similarly sized home costs $112,675.
Obama at the Precipice
President Obama, like the young President Kennedy in 1961, is wrestling with sending more troops to an unpopular war during his first months in office.
6 foreign troops killed in Afghanistan
A suicide car bomb explosion targeting Afghanistan's energy minister killed four civilians Sunday, while attacks and a violent storm killed six international troops, including three French and two American forces, officials said.
Vick Is Sick: Protestors Picket QB's 1st Philly Eagles Game
"Hide your Beagle. Vick's an Eagle." PHILADELPHIA--About two dozen protesters are outside Lincoln Financial Field before quarterback Michael Vick's first regular season game with the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.
Microsoft Office Web Apps: First Look
Office Web Apps merges key elements of the Microsoft Office productivity suite into the cloud. Does it have what it takes to fend off Google Docs?
Jenny Slate drops F-bomb on SNL premiere (Video)
Frickin' awesome
Woman with wrong embryo gives birth
An Ohio woman who had the wrong embryo implanted by a fertility clinic has given birth to a boy, her family says.
RIM Working on New Touch BlackBerry/QWERTY Keyboard Combo
We knew it was only a matter of time before we saw the first touchscreen BlackBerry with a QWERTY slider keyboard. With the Storm 2 set to be released in early October rumors of a new type of BlackBerry phone could overshadow the launch. Codenamed "Mr. T" and no that is not a typo, this new model BlackBerry is something RIM has never done before.
Unhackable Netbooks Given To Students
The NSW Department of Education is using asset-tracking software, RFID tags, and BIOS-embedded filtering smarts to roll out 240,000 netbook computers into what is called "the most hostile environment you can roll computers into" - the local high school. A massive logistical and IT security challenge...
APOD: 2009 September 27 - To Fly Free in Space
At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was further out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, was floating free in space. McCandless and fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart were the first to experience such an "untethered space walk"
Dog sledding -Trail Sled Dog Race, covers 1,868 km [pics]
Photography You Must!! see , absolutely superb.As winter begins to wind down, we are still in the middle of sled dog racing season. The Iditarod in Alaska had its ceremonial start in Anchorage last Saturday.............................................
NASA found 99% Pure Water Ice on Mars
NASA?s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed sub-surface water ice that may be 99 percent pure, halfway between the North Pole and the equator on the Red Planet.
Demonoid Warns Of Severe Torrent and User Data Loss
There are many popular BitTorrent sites on the Internet that are sorely missed when they go offline, but of course, the larger the site, the larger the disappointment.One major site having serious technical issues at the moment is Demonoid. At the beginning of September, TorrrentFreak reported that the Ukranian-based site would go down for possib
Bird-eating frog among 163 new species found in Mekong regio
A frog that eats birds and a gecko with leopard stripes are among the 163 new species discovered last year in the Greater Mekong region of southeast Asia, according to a report by the World Wildlife Fund.
Translator collapsed during Khadafy's rambling diatribe
After struggling to turn Khadafy?s insane ramblings at the UN into English for 75 minutes, the Libyan dictator?s personal interpreter got lost in translation. "I just can?t take it any more," Khadafy?s interpreter shouted into the live microphone in Arabic. At that point, the U.N.?s Arabic section chief, Rasha Ajalyaqeen, took over and translation
ALMA Telescope Reaches New Heights
The ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) astronomical observatory has taken another step forward ? and upwards. One of its state-of-the-art antennas was carried for the first time to the 5000m plateau of Chajnantor, in the Chilean Andes, on the back of a custom-built giant transporter.
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