Volvo Introduces a Collision-Proof Car carazoo.com sends along a story on Volvo's upcoming crash-proof car. The company will introduce a concept car based on the S60 this month at the Detroit Auto Show, looking ahead a few years to the goa

Category :Technology | 6 views | read more | 2009-01-02 10:36:00

MPC Computers Shutting Down davidphogan74 writes "MPC Computers (formerly Micron's computer division) notified the Idaho Department of Labor in a letter on 12/29/2008 that it would terminate its remaining employees. The company

Category :Technology | 4 views | read more | 2009-01-02 09:44:00

More Evidence For a Clovis-Killer Comet fortapocalypse sends word that a new paper was published today in the journal Science on the hypothesis that a comet impact wiped out the Clovis people 12,900 years ago. (We discussed this hypothesis

Category :Technology | 4 views | read more | 2009-01-02 08:52:00

SMS bug: Nokia's Conversation goes mute Not a word, so far Comment Did you have a quiet Christmas? What about New Year? While New Years Eve is the busiest time for text messages, maybe you didn’t get any. And if you're a Nokia user, there

Category :Security | 7 views | read more | 2009-01-02 08:09:14

The Secret Origins of Microsoft Office's Clippy Harry writes "Most folks think that Microsoft Office's Clippy, Microsoft Bob, and Windows XP's Search Assistant dog were perverse jokes — but a dozen years' worth of patent filings shows that Mi

Category :Technology | 6 views | read more | 2009-01-02 08:02:00

Google Wants You To Be Its Unpaid Muse theodp writes "So where do you turn to for great ideas when tough times force you to abort your engineers' brainchildren? If you're Google, reports Nicholas Carlson, you simply outsource brainstorming

Category :Technology | 5 views | read more | 2009-01-02 07:10:00

UK Government To Outsource Data Snooping and Storage bone_idol writes "The Guardian is reporting that the private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone's calls, emails, texts and internet use u

Category :Technology | 8 views | read more | 2009-01-02 05:40:00

Nokia 'Curse of Silence' SMS exploit uncovered Old bug, new tricks Mobile phone security vendors were rejoicing last night when it emerged that an obscure bug in an old version of the Symbian OS could allow an attacker to crash a target's mobile p

Category :Security | 9 views | read more | 2009-01-02 05:08:03

Why Not To Shout At Your Disk Array Brendan Gregg of Sun's Fishworks lab has an interesting video demo up at YouTube demonstrating just how bad vibes, if expressed with sufficient volume in front of a rack full of disks, can cause a spi

Category :Technology | 6 views | read more | 2009-01-02 02:58:00

Falcon 9 Is Now Fully Integrated At Cape Canaveral RobGoldsmith writes "SpaceX's Falcon 9 is now fully integrated: an update from Elon Musk states 'Falcon 9 is now fully integrated at the Cape! Today we mated the 5.2 m payload fairing to the Falcon 9

Category :Technology | 5 views | read more | 2009-01-02 00:08:00