New ATLAS particle part of “everyday mass”

New ATLAS particle part of “everyday mass”


New ATLAS particle part of “everyday mass”

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 03:00 PM PST

This boson isn't the Higgs

While we've been paying all our attention to the elusive Higgs boson, the ATLAS experiment has turned up another particle which researchers say could be responsible for much of the mass of "everyday objects".…

Foxconn beefs up iPhone output to 400k units a day

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 02:30 PM PST

Apple's iPhone maker Foxconn is doubling production capacity to 400,000 units a day.…

LCD cartel case claims seven more scalps

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 02:00 PM PST

Samsung, Sharp lead half-billion settlement

Seven LCD screen makers have joined together to offer $US553 million to settle charges that the screen industry has acted as a price-fixing cartel.…

Internode itching to leverage iiNet scale in NBN battle

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 01:30 PM PST

Hackett readies to kick ass

The founder of Internode, Simon Hackett has promised not to go "riding off into the sunset" following the completion of iiNet's acquisition of his company, but will instead be kicking "some serious ass" as he works directly with iiNet CEO Michael Malone.…

Japanese boffins crack arse-based ID recognizer

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 01:08 PM PST

For two per cent it's a bum rap

Researchers at Japan's Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology have developed a seat that can identify the user by the shape and heft of their buttocks.…

Spire crack brings Siri to jailbroken iPhones

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:08 PM PST

Chpwn workaround needs Apple's OK

Siri, Apple's much loved or otherwise personal assistant, can be accessed by jailbroken iPhones using an application dubbed Spire, says noted cracker Chpwn.…

Chinese confirm Beidou satnav system is operational

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:06 AM PST

GPS rival plans world domination by 2020

Chinese officials have confirmed that the country's Beidou satellite navigation system is operational, albeit mainly in China, and say they plan to have free, global coverage in place by 2020.…

What you can do to enforce endpoint security

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 04:00 AM PST

A strategic roundup

Thirty years after the PC was launched, security and management problems for the endpoint seem to be getting worse rather than better.…

Inventor flames <i>Reg</i>, HP in memristor brouhaha

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST

Empties flammenwerfer tank over hapless hack, boffins

Here is some Christmas holiday reading. HP's claim that RRAM, PCM, and MRAM are all memristor technologies is bullshit, the memristor is not a fourth fundamental circuit element, HP didn't find it, and its developing memristor product is a not a memristor - really.…

Apple land-grabs fuel cells for mobiles

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 03:34 PM PST

Too late to patent the battery, after all

And the patent land-grab continues unabated, with Apple filing patent applications to forestall anybody else trying to plug smartphones into fuel cells.…

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