Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Computer games are ‘good’ for kids say experts

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Experts are now telling us computer games are good for kids.

A study has found children who play computer games before school achieve better grades than those who don’t.

$500,000 Bail for Teen Hacker Who Dispatched SWAT Team

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

A teen accused of hacking a 911 police computer system and triggering the deployment of a team of heavily armed police officers to the home of an innocent and unsuspecting California family will be arraigned next month, as bail was set Monday at $500,000.

Tests reveal high chemical levels in kids’ bodies

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Michelle Hammond and Jeremiah Holland were intrigued when a friend at the Oakland Tribune asked them and their two young children to take part in a cutting-edge study to measure the industrial chemicals in their bodies.

Sex and marriage with robots? It could happen

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Humans could marry robots within the century. And consummate those vows.

Making a play for data

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Popular children’s online playsites are being used by marketers to pump kids for information and even manipulate their behaviour, experts attending an international conference warned yesterday.

Teleportation breakthrough made

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Scientists have performed successful teleportation on atoms for the first time, the journal Nature reports.

The feat was achieved by two teams of researchers working independently on the problem in the US and Austria.

Should Schools Fingerprint Your Kids?

Friday, September 28th, 2007

The lunch lines weren’t moving fast enough for Linda Stoll, head of food programs at the Boulder Valley, Colo., school district. Because of that, kids had barely enough time to sit and eat before the lunch period was over.

Sources: Staged cyber attack reveals vulnerability in power grid

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Researchers who launched an experimental cyber attack caused a generator to self-destruct, alarming the federal government and electrical industry about what might happen if such an attack were carried out on a larger scale, CNN has learned.

Iceland phasing out fossil fuels for clean energy

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Iceland may be best known for world-famous musical export Bjork but there’s a new star quickly gaining this island nation worldwide acclaim — clean energy.

The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go Public

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

When we reported in July that an Anti-Piracy Gang Launches their own Video Download Site to Trap People and that the company was called Media Defender and, as anyone who aims to be a credible news resource would, we checked and double checked our sources. We said, with some confidence: