- Cassini spies new Saturn radiation belt
August 8, 2004
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The Cassini spacecraft discovered a new radiation belt around Saturn and found that lightning in the ringed planet's atmosphere occurs differently now than it did during visits by NASA's Voyagers in the early 1980s, scientists said.
- 'Dead zone' spreads across Gulf of Mexico
Wednesday, August 5, 2004 Posted: 2:17 AM EDT
HOUSTON, Texas -- A huge "dead zone" of water so devoid of oxygen that sea life cannot live in it has spread across 5,800 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico this summer in what has become an annual occurrence caused by pollution.
- Satellite radio captures ears of millions
Wednesday, August 4, 2004 Posted: 4:26 PM
When Mike Alden first tuned in to satellite radio, he simply could not turn it off.
- Sun chips away at wireless chip connections
Updated August 3, 2004
It will take a lot of work, but Sun Microsystems says it is making headway on a technology that will allow chips to communicate without circuit boards or wires.
- PayPal Payout Pending
Updated August 1, 2004
PayPal, the payment platform owned by eBay, is taking steps to pay out millions of dollars to settle a class action suit.
- What are the rules on using gadgets on planes?
Updated July 26, 2004
If mobile phones are banned on planes, what's this man playing at? And why do some airlines prohibit Gameboys, but others don't? As the great summer get-away begins, travellers are no doubt confused. But change could be on the way.
"Hi, I'm on the plane."
- Scientists could make Lincoln be heard again
Updated July 26, 2004
Queen Victoria, Abraham Lincoln, Florence Nightingale and other characters from history may soon be able to speak again, as scientists perfect techniques to recover the sound from recordings that are far too delicate to be played.
- Stephen Hawking reveals a solution to a problem with his black hole theory
Hawking's hole storySCIENCE is forever a work in progress. Moulded by the hands of many, the body of scientific knowledge is like a sculpture that is never quite finished. Sometimes, as in...
- Domain name sells for $2.75 million
In the biggest-ticket domain name sale in years, a small Austin marketing firm has paid $2.75 million for CreditCards.com.
- eBay removes listing for King tub
The bathtub where James Earl Ray stood to assassinate Martin Luther King Jr. is no longer for sale on eBay, the item's owner said Friday.
- Hawking backs down on black holes
Stephen Hawking says he was wrong about a key argument he put forward 30 years ago on the behaviour of black holes...
- Windows XP to Get Major Security Upgrade
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will release a major update to the Windows XP computer operating system in August that focuses on boosting protection against malicious intrusions...
- Nasdaq Snares Google IPO
Internet search firm Google Inc. said Monday it would list its hotly anticipated $2.7 billion initial public offering on the Nasdaq Stock Market...
- Alleged Hacker Now Works for Microsof
A man accused of hacking into search engine company AltaVista's computer systems about two years ago is now employed by Microsoft Corp., reportedly working on search technology...
- The evolution of the music industry
The shift to digital technology is a profound change from today's music industry because record companies currently profit by selling music as a hard good and not as a service. ...
- Experts studying Internet attack
Government and industry experts warned late Thursday of a mysterious, large-scale Internet attack against thousands of popular Web sites....
- Coconuts in Wyoming?
It's almost summer in the northern hemisphere, and that can only mean one thing — it's time for global-warming (search) activists to sound the alarm...
- Chinese to help build largest aeroplane
Chinese aircraft manufacturers will participate in the production of the A380 jet, the world's largest aircraft produced by Airbus ...
- Touchy Circuits
T-Ink is replacing switches and wires with a novel and cheap idea: conductive ink ...
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