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Cancer corral considered

Aussie nature-boffins have a new scheme to prevent the extinction of the Tasmanian Devil by the simple means of a great big fence.…

Plans to ship CE3100 with Flash Lite support by mid-2009

Adobe has teamed up with Intel to port the software giant’s Flash platform to Chipzilla’s Media Processor CE 3100.…

But Cabinet minister goes for individual title

Ministry of Defence staff are responsible for the vast majority of security passes that have gone AWOL since 2001, research by the LibDems has revealed.…

Flip-flop fiddling

NEC has announced the development of a memory circuit element that, it claims, will allow chips to consume no power when they're put in stand-by mode.…

Zero chance of WD buying Fujitsu's hard drive business

Fujitsu did not give Western Digital a Christmas present - in fact it said 'No deal'.…

Cyber Range Pandora's Box goes live in '10

Pentagon plans to develop a Matrix-style simulated computer world in which to try out the cyber WMDs of tomorrow appear to be moving forward. Reports indicate that the ambitious plans for a "National Cyber Range" - in which weapons-grade government malware would be test-fired much as missiles are on a normal firing range - have now moved forward to the stage of contracts.…

Opportunity and Spirit demonstrate the right stuff

NASA's Mars rover Spirit last Saturday passed the fifth anniversary of its arrival on the Red Planet on 3 January 2004 - an achievement which will be matched on 24 January by its twin Opportunity.…

Matt Smith handed keys to Tardis

The BBC has announced that 26-year-old Matt Smith will be the 11th Doctor Who, hitting screens in the fifth series in 2010 as the youngest actor* to tackle the role.…

Snapping up SourceLabs?

Storage giant EMC is rumoured to have bought SourceLabs, a Seattle-based open source startup with nifty software technology for identifying developer problems and finding answers, for its Decho 'digital echo' business unit.…

Government flies kite

Communications minister Lord Carter is to free BT from its universal service obligations - its legal duty to run a phone line to every home in the country, as well as provide payphones and other basic services available at a reasonable cost.…

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