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Google are getting into bed with NASA, with the annoucement of a 1 million square foot campus...

In this week's "waste of perfectly good scientific time" column, we have THIRTY (yes, three-zero) German researchers who have developed...

Shuttle a Mistake, Says NASA Chief

Posted in Geek Sep 28, 2005 by mat8drb

For a lot of us, the shuttle has been ever present as we grew up —one of my earliest memories of "news" is seeing the shuttle Challenger sadly explode...

Sport isn't usually covered here on the NewsWire, but every now and again, there's something worth a mention. A...

Type Quietly. Very Quietly.

Posted in Geek Sep 19, 2005 by mat8drb

Some companies don't allow the connection of wireless keyboards and mice to their corporate networks: you never know who's around to steal your passwords,...

It would be foolish to say that we no longer understood the effects of flooding: the Tsunami and New Orleans reminded us all of the devastating power of...

I'm not a Mac User, but am considering the switch. And as far as I know, Tiger (the current Mac OS) comes in just one version. Not so Windows: we're all...

Ever since mobile phones have become widespread, people have been worried about them in the same ways that they used to care that pylons were next to schools.

With the constantly high demands by broadcasters, the internet, music, and sports, it becomes harder and harder to find time for the simple things: namely...

CSI seems to be generating spin-off shows at a rate of knots: at this rate, there'll be CSI:SG by 2015, as they'll have run out of real life cities, and...

Ten years ago this week (this will make some people old), the cream of British Indie artists went into the studio to make the "Help" album for the charity...

Lost an arm in a fight with someone you thought was your arch-nemesis but turned out to be your father? Need a replacement? Well, thanks to the University...

We Could Be Aliens

Posted in Geek Sep 7, 2005 by mat8drb

Remember NASA's Deep Impact craft that crashed into a comet on Independence Day, July 4th, this...

"Rockin on the horse size pills" is a line from a song on the Dandy Warhols' classic, Thirteen...

There's been plenty of stories recently on how stem cell research will solve all our ills, from growing replacement organs to manufacturing meat in the...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, (UAVs), last deployed by the Army in support of the Iraq War, have been sent out to New Orleans to aid the army in their...

The cost of the next generation of games consoles seems that it is going to be huge for all involved: last month, Microsoft announced that there will be...

ID Cards Bloody Useless

Posted in Geek Sep 5, 2005 by mat8drb

The proposed introduction of biometric identity cards into the UK has hit yet another yet another stumbling block. A University Of East Anglia criminologist...

Choc And Awe

Posted in Culture Sep 5, 2005 by mat8drb

Popping candy may be one thing, but some recently declassified documents show that the Germans planned...

SNES: Best Console Ever

Posted in Geek Sep 5, 2005 by mat8drb

Sal Cangeloso, over at XYZ Gaming has played them all and is of the opinion that the Super Nintendo is the perfect...

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