A web designer has found a way of hacking into Sony’s PlayStation2 (PS2) online gaming service to enable the console to be used to browse the web, not just webpages associated with the gaming system, according to the BBC.
Martyn Brook has created a specially designed website that is functioning as a web browser and already attracting over a hundred users a day, the development having spread by word of e-mouth.
Satellites really could be used to spot ancient archaeological treasures buried underground, two researchers in Israel have shown.
Scientists had previously suspected that certain types of imaging system could look beneath the surface of the Earth under some circumstances, but no-one had the proof.
Dan Blumberg and Julian Daniels, of the Ben Gurion University, told New Scientist magazine how they were able to detect flat squares of aluminium which they had buried at different depths in the sand of the Negev desert.
The pair used radar sensors on board an aircraft.
Source: CNN
Coldplay, my favorite band, is performing on a Saturday Night Live rerun tonight, but I wouldn't have known about it had I not gotten an e-mail this morning.
The message came from something on AOL called MyBestBets, which is powered by a startup called ChoiceStream. Its technology could signal the future of how we find, pick, and learn about what entertains us.
South Korea's largest mobile phone operator said Thursday that it will offer cell phone users a new noise service that it says will repel mosquitoes.
SK Telecom Co. said subscribers can pay 3,000 won (US$2.50) to download a sound wave that is inaudible to human ears but annoys mosquitoes within a range of three feet. Customers can then play the sound by hitting a few buttons on their mobile phones.
The company claimed that the service worked during tests.
Source: ZDNet UK
A US company has developed email-encryption software that is effective if run by only one participant in an email exchange
A Palo Alto start-up has its sights set on making sure that more people encrypt their email.
As the J2EE platform has matured, it has opened up the opportunity to deploy commodity servers in networked cluster configurations for scaling of Web services and Web applications at the Web tier. These commodity servers, interconnected through commodity LAN hardware, can provide cost-effective clustering solutions. The last piece of the clustering puzzle is in the software.
Grid computing is gaining a lot of attention within the IT industry. Although it has been used within the academic and scientific community for some time, standards, enabling technologies, toolkits, and products are becoming available that allow businesses to use and reap the advantages of Grid computing. As with many emerging technologies, you will find almost as many definitions of Grid computing as people you ask. However, one of the most used toolkits for creating and managing a grid environment is the Globus Toolkit.
This whitepaper presents ROCI, a .NET-based software framework that is intended for distributed embedded applications such as coordinated teams of robots. ROCI is being developed as part of the MARS project at the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP laboratory. ("GRASP" stands for General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception; "MARS" stands for Multiple Autonomous RobotS.) For the past year, the project has been focusing on small robotic systems that are intended to work individually and cooperatively to solve various sensing and surveillance problems.
Source: CNN
The era of personalized medicine has come a step closer as Switzerland's Roche Holding AG launched the world's first "gene chip" for testing how individuals will react to drugs.
Today's medicines are a hit-and-miss affair, with different people reacting differently to the same treatments, leading to adverse side effects or no effect at all in some cases.
