Namco Bandai is shuttering between 50 and 60 arcades in Japan, and it’s laying the blame squarely on Nintendo’s shoulders. “A lot of the types of games that people played at an arcade can now be done at home,”
A shadowy loose-knit consortium of activists and hackers called ‘Anonymous’ is just the latest thorn in Scientology’s side.
As if reaching out with a come-hither motion, a giant gas finger emanating from two neighboring galaxies has hooked into the starry disk of the Milky Way and is pulling all three galaxies closer…But then new Hubble Space Telescope measurements revealed the clouds are paying our galaxy a one-time visit rather than being its lunch.
Flock, the Mozilla-based social web browser has made the announcement that everyone has been waiting for: they will now integrate with MySpace. Building on the MySpace Developer Platform, Flock will allow users to surf the web with their MySpace friends in their sidebar. This integration will expose all of the . . .
Two Australian real estate agents have filed suit against Google for their vanity search results. Apparently, an article alleges that they are scummy businessmen, and they don’t like that.
What’s new in this release: Direct3D improvements, including driver version emulation; Beginnings of support for OLE objects in Richedit; Several fixes to the animation control; A bunch of fixes for regression test failures; Lots of bug fixes.
With a militant style more associated with the crew of The Pirate Bay, TorrentFreedom promises to put the user back in control, by offering a new BitTorrent-optimized, zero-logging, 100% anonymous VPN service, guaranteed to punch a hole through throttling ISPs. Be quick for a free account!
Yahoo! has finally decided to release their Yahoo! Live Video Stream site up to the public. Check it out and comment below.
Content filter version one: A massive, network-wide dragnet. Not really feeling that Big Bro deal, even though RIAA chief Cary Sherman says it “doesn’t give rise…to any privacy concerns because it can operate automatically and anonymously”?
Scientists from around the world are discussing how to improve the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Program after 50 years of “The Great Silence” The shear size of the known universe is inconceivably vast. The odds of there being only one single planet that evolved life among all that unfathomable vastness seems so incredibly small.
Scientists have created ghostly transparent fish to make human biology clearer. The feat has been achieved with zebrafish are genetically similar to humans and are already in widespread use as models for human biology and disease.
US intelligence officials are warning that web sites that enable users to adopt personas in three-dimensional online spaces also are creating security vulnerabilities by opening novel ways for terrorists and criminals to move money, organize, and conduct espionage…and to think, all this time we’ve looking in Afghanistan & Iraq for terrorists
