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"You might remember an Irish company called Steorn: ... it took out a full page advert in the Economist to announce that it had discovered a source of free energy, a perpetual motion machine no l

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"13: The AI locks onto a bizarre subculture and expresses it across the whole of human space. (E.g., Furry subculture, or hentai anime, or see Nikolai Kingsley for a depiction of a Singularity ba

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"The main camera for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is out of commission again, but this time, the agency believes it can never be fully revived." Just when they'd made a plan to fix the thin

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"I have run a few simulations of a space elevator breaking. This page summarizes some results, and gives you access to animations." Realistic disaster scenarios - not quite as disastrous as

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"Tuesday's midterm election provided a sobering reminder that electronic voting technology is still not ready to shoulder the responsibilities of democracy."

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"A plutonium device should produce a yield in the range of the 20 kilotons ... No one has ever dudded their first test of a simple fission device. North Korean nuclear scientists are now official

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"...clearly indicating that efforts to stem the spread of illegal drugs on Britain's streets are failing." No, really? Well, who'd have expected that.

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"The first self-contained implanted artificial heart received U.S. government approval for patients who are all out of options and would otherwise die." The transhumanist lobby must be stoke

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See, didn't I tell you?

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No, nothing Star Trek related; the DSN is three antennae that we use to receive space probe signals. With one out of action until 2007, the boffins will have to be very choosy about what data takes pr

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Does what it says on the tin. Good to see them acting responsibly about this; let's hope they unearth the causes sooner rather than later.

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Financiers unimpressed by Microsoft's not-actually-very-effective speech recognition demo.

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Bad news for the organisations with CubeSats headed for orbit - the booster failed. No details as to the cause yet, nor the fate of the payload.

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Seth Shostak rounds up the top four reasons people suggest for why SETI hasn’t found a signal. Humerous and informative. Plus it mentions the Fermi Paradox, so it *must* be good.

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A new study suggests that failing abysmally at a computer game can be just as enjoyable as PWN1N9 at it. That's my new excuse, and I'm sticking to it.

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Nicolas Nova : "Discussing with some friends lately about location-based applications, I tried to sort out my ideas about that. Anne for instance asked how what I meant by the fact that LBS faile

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Certain circles are buzzing with the news that Kiko is on sale on eBay. I first heard the news last week, but it wasn’t public until today so I didn’t want to write about it.

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