NASA detects 'heartbeat' of pint-sized star-sucker

NASA detects 'heartbeat' of pint-sized star-sucker


NASA detects 'heartbeat' of pint-sized star-sucker

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 03:11 PM PST

Smallest black hole ever found – and maybe ever will be

In what is turning out to be one of the best months ever for black-hole fanbois, a team of Dutch, Italian, and US space boffins has detected the "heartbeat" of what appears to be teensiest, weensiest black hole ever discovered.…

The cure for US job woes: More immigrants

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 12:37 PM PST

New pro-business report begs: 'Let 'em in!'

Radically increasing the number of immigrants – from the highly skilled professional to the seasonal agricultural field hand – is the solution to the US economy's dismal inability to create jobs.…

Samsung shifts Apple A5 chip production to Texas

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 10:27 AM PST

A $3.6bn $9bn investment

Apple's A5 chips are now being made in Texas, not Asia as was its predecessor the A4, according to a report from Reuters, citing "people familiar with the operation".…

Manning's lawyer calls for pre-trial officer to quit case

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 09:14 AM PST

Alleged Wikileaks source appears in pre-trial hearing

Alleged Wikileaks cables source Private Bradley Manning will not get an unbiased military trial unless the officer presiding over his case is replaced, said Manning's defence lawyer David Coombs today.…

Angry Birds maker now aims at Asian IPO

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 08:36 AM PST

Rovio and the Hong Kong flock exchange

Rovio, maker of the incredible phenomenon that is Angry Birds, is mulling the obligatory next step in tech firm domination: an IPO.…

Swiss-based Balesio takes the knife to PDF files

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 08:09 AM PST

Screws them down to less than half the size

Swiss-based file compressor Balesio has added PDF file compression to its space reduction capabilities for Microsoft Office and image files.…

Euro cops cuff 112 in paedophile network raids

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 07:47 AM PST

Terabytes of child abuse video seized from one suspect alone

Police across Europe have arrested 112 suspected members of a child abuse ring.…

Microsoft will beat Linux clouds at their own game - with open source

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 07:24 AM PST

Developers, developers, developers, developers

Open... and Shut  Amazon may dominate public cloud computing, but not amongst the Microsoft groupies. Microsoft has managed to be an end-to-end cradle-to-grave supplier within the data centre, and is attempting to extend this motherly embrace to the cloud with its Azure platform.…

Assange™ wins Supreme Court extradition appeal bid

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 07:08 AM PST

WikiLeaker-in-chief to spend another Christmas in Blighty

Julian Assange has been granted permission to appeal against his extradition to Sweden where he faces allegations of sexual molestation and rape.…

Salesforce gobbles 'Facebook for the office' startup

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 06:52 AM PST

Rypple of excitement among HR suits

Salesforce has made a bold move into human resources software by buying up Rypple - a social platform for the workplace.…

Duff Mars probe's flaming shards to rain down mid-January

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 06:41 AM PST

Up to 30 bits of Phobos-Grunt to hit Earth

The remains of dud Martian probe Phobos-Grunt will fall to Earth next month, the Russian space agency announced.…

Dell flees netbook market, dumps Minis

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 06:12 AM PST

Long live the ultrabook, right?

Dell have pulled out of the netbook market in a move that pretty much seals the fate of the pint-sized form factor. The Dell Mini range is no longer available on the website and the tech titan's US office has confirmed that the product line is dead.…

'Self-aware' bank account robbing code unleashed by hacker

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 05:48 AM PST

'XSS on steroids' crafted to highlight web security holes

A hacker has published code for potent cross-site scripting attacks that he claims go beyond the usual cookie stealing and phishing for users' private details.…

2011's Best... DSLRs

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 05:27 AM PST

Get snappy and improve your image this Christmas

Xmas Gift Guide  While few would argue that a DSLR offers the best combination of features, performance and image quality, 2011 didn't really set the world alight with new models. For the most part manufacturers patched holes in their respective ranges, to provide a full spectrum of models to suit both budgets and ability.…

RIM's top bosses slash salaries to $1 a year

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 05:21 AM PST

Shake-up promised at floundering BlackBerry biz

Troubled BlackBerry maker RIM appears to have been listening to its irate shareholders - promising a "comprehensive review" of the company while top shareholders and CEO-cum-chairmen Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis cut their wages to a dollar a year.…

Met to push rape warnings over Wi-Fi to Xmas partygoers

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 05:01 AM PST

Capital's nightspot hotspots to emit safety alerts

London police are turning to Wi-Fi to beam alerts to revellers in the capital, warning them of the danger of rape while out partying and drinking over Christmas.…

Shed Xmas flab and debug code with treadmill laptop contraption

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 04:44 AM PST

For fatties who can't leave their keyboards

No self-respecting techie would ever be seen dead in a gym. If you want to get fit, just put down the doughnut and go for a walk. However for those of you who do submit to treadmill workouts but don't want to miss a minute's coding time, this might interest you.…

E-book reader sales to boom as prices plunge

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 04:31 AM PST

Rivals follow Amazon and cut

World shipments of e-book readers with electronic ink screens topped 6.5m in Q3 2011, market watcher IDC has said.…

Farmville maker Zynga raises $1bn for IPO

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 04:24 AM PST

Offering is biggest since Google

An online games company that derives most of its revenue from privately-held Facebook has raised $1bn in its initial public offering.…

Fanbois locked out of iTunes store, iCloud in Apple outage

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 04:11 AM PST

Fury as Cupertino's login servers fall over

Updated  A number of Apple fanbois have been shut out of their iTunes store and iCloud accounts since last night as their login details fail to work as expected.…

Xmas heralds bumper tablet shipments

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 04:01 AM PST

Q3 sales down, Q4 to make up and then some

Is fondleslab fever fading? They might be if you're IDC, a market watcher, which had to admit that its forecast for Q3 2011 tablet shipments was almost six per cent off mark.…

Pop teen beats Steve Jobs in Google's 2011 popularity contest

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 03:41 AM PST

Zeitgeist admits Apple is popular, no sign of Android

Google has acknowledged the global dominance of arch-rivals Apple as the Chocolate Factory's 2011 Zeitgeist chart shows Apple placed not just once but three times in the internet popularity contest.…

Adobe startles Wall St with Q4 sales climb

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 03:21 AM PST

Time to pump more money from cloud

Just one month after Adobe confirmed it was axing around 7 per cent of its global workforce and backing away from its Flash Player software on mobile gadgets, the company has reported final quarter results that surprised Wall Street.…

Doctor Who girl Amy Pond axed in 'heartbreaking' exit

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 03:06 AM PST

Sidekick search starts as companion couple leave next series

Doctor Who is in the market for a brand new sidekick, as current companions Amy and Rory Pond will leave the show during the next series in a "heartbreaking" fashion.…

'Android malware must be kind of thrilling for Microsoft'

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 02:44 AM PST

Plus: 'Young people are fed up with iPhones'

QuotW  This was the week when in a rather ironic about-turn, peer-to-peer veterans decided to start a suit against companies like Google, Amazon, Dropbox and VMWare for using their intellectual property to make their cloud and virtualisation offerings.…

Apple 7in iPad not out until Q3 2012

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 02:37 AM PST

LG doing the display, moles claim

Keenly hoping Apple will bring out the 7in iPad of rumours past? You'll get your wish next year, apparently.…

Brit PhD student excels in Pentagon digi-forensics challenge

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 02:29 AM PST

Makes global top ten, heads UK rankings

A computer science student from Lancaster University has become the UK winner of the digital forensics challenge, a global competition designed and hosted by the US Department of Defense.…

Google's Siri-a-like to be named 'Majel' after Trek actress

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 02:16 AM PST

Software that acts human named after human acting like software

Google are working on a voice-recognising Siri-beater say the blogs, and it's going to be called Majel. Google phones have had voice control for donkey's years but the Majel app will be better than the old stuff says a Google insider quoted on AndroidandMe.…

Asus pushes Prime pre-orders

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 02:07 AM PST

Ask for Ice Cream Sarnie, Tegra 3 tablet now

Asus has said some 16 UK retailers are now taking advance orders for its Nvidia Tegra 3-based Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet-netbook combo, the Eee Pad Transformer Prime.…

Marmitek Gigaview GV820 wireless HDMI sender

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST

Give me stream

Accessory of the Week  When it comes to HDMI senders, it's the quality of transmission and ease of set up which generally sets one apart from another. The smart-looking Marmitek Gigaview - yes, it does sound like the name of an Austin Powers villain - does well on both counts.…

The Google Review: Now Speak Your Brains

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 01:44 AM PST

Opt-in for your rights

The Business Department BiS has launched a copyright consultation, inviting views on the recommendations raised in the "Google Review", as the "Hargreaves Review into IP and Growth" became known.…

UK.gov imposes broadband deadline for councils

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 01:29 AM PST

Mmmm. Get your chops around juicy pork barrel goodness

It's been a week since the Countryside Alliance made a noise about the lack of activity around the rollout of a broadband network in rural areas. That came after a Freedom of Information request from the pro-fox hunting group revealed that councils were bumbling along with the fibre upgrade process.…

Google+ gets group vid, Nokia still has a Pulse

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 01:14 AM PST

Social networks for people who don't like people

Google+ is adding group video to its hangouts on Android, while Nokia Pulse gets updated for those who like their social networking a little less social.…

Seagate matches and raises WD disk warranty cuts

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 12:55 AM PST

'We're just being consistent with the industry'

Seagate is cutting most Barracuda and Momentus warranty periods down to one year with others moving from five-year warranties to three.…

Jedi light-sabre beats Taser in Oregon parking-lot fracas

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 12:28 AM PST

Mumbo-jumbo mystic impervious to cops' electric blasters

For those of you who've ever wondered, like you do, whether the Jedi lightsabre or the Taser is the more effective weapon, we're delighted to report that the electric dispenser of justice is no match for Obi-Wan Kenobi's mighty glowing tool.…

Nvidia ditches homegrown C/C++ compiler for LLVM

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 12:01 AM PST

Revs CUDA tools to 4.1

Graphics processor and SoC chip maker Nvidia is hosting its GTC Asia conference in Beijing this week, and with the next-generation Kepler GPUs being pushed out to early next year, there isn't any new chippery to salivate over. But Nvidia has some new compilers and a revved up CUDA development kit to make things interesting just the same.…

Nikon 1 V1 interchangeable lens compact camera

Posted: 15 Dec 2011 11:00 PM PST

The 1 worth having

Review  The V1 is the flagship model of Nikon's newborn mirrorless, interchangeable lenses camera system simply called 1 that currently has only two models, the cheapest, being the smaller and less sophisticated J1 reviewed recently. Yet having entered the Compact System Camera's (CSC) scene with some considerable delay, can Nikon really bring anything new and truly competitive to this increasingly saturated market?…

Judge dismisses charges against accused Twitter stalker

Posted: 15 Dec 2011 05:13 PM PST

Offensive tweets protected by US Constitution

A federal judge has dismissed a criminal case against a man charged with stalking a religious leader on Twitter on the grounds that the more than 8,000 messages he posted, some predicting her violent death, were protected by the US constitution.…

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