Best Western Loses Details On 8 Million Customers Albanach writes "Scotland's Sunday Herald newspaper has an exclusive report that the Best Western hotel chain has lost the personal details of each and every guest who has stayed at any of its 1300 ho

Category :Technology | 2 views | read more | 2008-08-24 06:42:00

How To See In Four Dimensions An anonymous reader writes "Think it's impossible to see four-dimensional objects? These videos will show you otherwise. Some mathematicians work with four-dimensional objects all the time, and they'v

Category :Technology | 11 views | read more | 2008-08-24 03:31:00

A Turning Point for Touch Screens, Says the NYT The New York Times has a story up on the suddenly brisk market for touch screens and the devices which can make use of them, which it says "has grown quietly for years, both in commercial applications

Category :Technology | 12 views | read more | 2008-08-24 00:20:00

Solving Sudoku With dpkg Reader Otter points out in his journal a very neat use for the logic contained in Debian's package dependency resolver: solving sudoku puzzles. To me at least, this is much more interesting than the s

Category :Technology | 12 views | read more | 2008-08-23 21:38:00

Facebook & Myspace Taking Some Spammers To Court kevinqtipreedy writes "Social networks like Facebook and Myspace are now bringing spammers into the court systems in new attempts to put a stop to it. Although spammers rarely show up in court and the

Category :Technology | 13 views | read more | 2008-08-23 20:12:00

Full Facial Transplant Is One Step Closer Hugh Pickens writes "A Chinese medical team led by Shuzhong Guo of the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi'an has successfully completed the first transplant to include facial bone in a transplan

Category :Technology | 12 views | read more | 2008-08-23 18:59:00

5 Ways Newspapers Botched the Web nicholas.m.carlson writes "Remember Knight-Ridder and AT&T's Viewtron from 1983? With a $900 terminal and $12 a month, you could access news from the Miami Herald and the New York Times, online sh

Category :Technology | 4 views | read more | 2008-08-23 17:51:00

MediaSentry Defied Michigan Investigation For Months NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "You may recall that MediaSentry, the RIAA's unlicensed investigator, has been the subject of an investigation by Michigan's Department of Labor and Economic Growth for its

Category :Technology | 5 views | read more | 2008-08-23 16:40:00

A Full-Time 2-Way Video Link To Grandparents? uid7306m writes "We have elderly parents who live a long way off. However, my technological radar tells me that it's possible to set up a 24/7 video link between our kitchen and theirs. It'd be good f

Category :Technology | 5 views | read more | 2008-08-23 15:33:00

id CEO Claims PC Hardware Manufacturers Love Piracy arcticstoat sends a link to an interview with the CEO of id Software, Todd Hollenshead, in which he suggests that hardware manufacturers count on piracy to help drive profits, rather than doing someth

Category :Technology | 5 views | read more | 2008-08-23 14:30:00