Jun 12 2008
A UFO had a mid-air collision with a fighter jet over central Europe, a leaked report has revealed. Defence chiefs are investigating claims that the Romanian MIG 21 fighter plane was struck by ’strange objects’. The official report says...
Jun 12 2008
A video clip showing an attractive blonde in her underwear gyrating along to Nintendo’s Wii Fit game has been watched nearly TWO MILLION times.The woman, Lauren Bernat, 25, was unaware she was being filmed secretly by her marketing executive...
Jun 12 2008
Boxee, a start-up that will launch a test version of the service on Monday, has plans to enable users to transfer their digital content from computers to their TVs and eventually turn the TV set into a
Jun 12 2008
A Kansas man was shot in the head with a nail gun – but only realised a two inch tack was embedded in his skull after a friend pointed it out. George Chandler, of Shawnee, said his friend Phil Kern was using the gun on garden decking when the accident...
Jun 11 2008
IBM announced the completion of a one-petaflop supercomputer that runs Red Hat Linux. Twice as fast as the previous record-setter, the IBM Blue Gene, the Roadrunner uses a hybrid design that combines 6,948 dual-core AMD Opteron chips with 12,960 Cell...
Jun 10 2008
After her birth, the piglet refused to join her brothers and sisters as they splashed in the muck because she suffers with mysophobia - a fear of dirt.But now the pig has overcome her fears with a pair of green boots made of rubber - which have been...
Jun 10 2008
In the world of underwater robots, this is a team of pioneers. While most ocean robots require periodic communication with scientist or satellite intermediaries to share information, these can work cooperatively communicating only with each other.
Jun 10 2008
It’s news any time a Google executive talks about running the world.And that’s exactly what Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt did today, sort of.He didn’t say that Google wanted to run the world. But he did offer an interesting...
Jun 10 2008
The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has tapped Northrop Grumman to develop binoculars that will tap the subconscious mind. The Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System program, informally called
Jun 8 2008
A robot that can build itself: RepRap, a machine that can replicate itself by using rapid prototyping: manufacturing objects under the control of a computer, has been demonstrated recently. The machine is distributed under the GNU General Public Licence...