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  • Russia tests anti-missile system

    Putin has been busy – but I would imagine there is still quite a way to go before the technology is perfected. Russia has successfully tested a modernised anti-ballistic missile at a range in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan, its defence ministry says. The A-135 missile is said to have successfully hit a training…

  • Firefox browser sees surge in use

    Kind of old news, but it is great to see the growth of Firefox. I am a firm convert – and don’t even consider using Internet Exploder unless I absolutely have to – such as on MSNBC.com.

  • First look at PlayStation 3 chip

    The BBC are reporting on the first reports of some details about the PS3 chip, and its use in things other than the new Playstation. I expect Sony, IBM and Toshiba expect to make a tidy sum out of this, and I bet they will. The three firms claim that the Cell chip will be…

  • US heavyweights storm supercomputer league

    Yet more supercomputers: The US government’s latest supercomputer, BlueGene/L, has been officially crowned the most powerful number cruncher on the planet. The latest TOP500 supercomputer ranking list has undergone a major upheaval, with three new machines in the top four places. The list will be presented on Tuesday at the Supercomputing Conference 2004 in Pittsburgh.…

  • US ready to put weapons in space

    The Guardian is reporting that recent documents have revealed that the US is looking towards the using orbital platforms for weapons, and researching the use of weapons in space: Internal USAF documents reveal that seizing control of the ‘final frontier’ is deemed essential for modern warfare. Counterspace Operations reveals that destroying enemy satellites would improve…

  • Exclusive: Rules Set for $50 Million 'America's Space Prize'

    A rather ambitious successor to the Ansari X-prize: Anyone who wants to follow in the shoes of Burt Rutan and win the next big space prize will have to build a spacecraft capable of taking a crew of no fewer than five people to an altitude of 400 kilometers and complete two orbits of the…

  • Microsoft seeks top search spot

    On the same day that MSN launches its new MSN search engine… In a statement Microsoft said its search engine returned results from five billion web pages. At the time of writing, Google was only indexing 4,285,199,774 web pages. As well as a large number of pages, the Microsoft search engine, which operates under the…

  • Power on a Chip

    This is one of the most interesting and exciting technologies that I’ve read about in a while. Gas turbines powered much of 20th-century technology, from commercial and military aircraft to the large gas-fired plants that helped supply U.S. electricity. But these days it isn’t the hulking machines in the lab’s museum that capture Epstein’s enthusiasm.…

  • Internet about to collapse, says Finnish scientist

    The Internet will collapse around 2006 apparently: In today’s edition of “they sky is falling,” we pick up on the woeful predictions of one Dr. Hannu Kari, who pinpoints 2006 as the end of the Internet as we know it. Today the good professor warned that the fun bus could all come to a crashing…

  • Bono's IPod

    Many people are expressing dismay at Bono’s decision to do a deal with Apple. I think it’s a smart move. The thing about players like iPods is that not only are the medium through which you listen (like CD players and stereos), but they are also the holders of the content (like CDs themselves and…