Interactive wallpaper turns on the lights 
Photo A team at MIT has created electronically enhanced wallpaper that can be used to activate lamps, music systems and other devices with the touch of a hand [04 Nov 2009]
GPU to the future
Blog It’s time to state the plain truth, something that’s being hidden from us by special effects and shiny chrome: Computing as we know it is dead. We’re working with zombie operating systems that... [19 Nov 2009]
Dictatorial, disastrous, dire: Mandelson must not pass
Blog Without debate, without public consulation, without any form of mandate, Lord Mandelson - an unelected politician - is preparing to place the rights of powerful industrial concerns above those of... [19 Nov 2009]
Baguette 'dropped by bird' causes LHC disruption
News The Large Hadron Collider was hit by crouton torpedo when a rogue piece of bread caused an electrical system failure [06 Nov 2009]
'Gordon' supercomputer uses flash to go faster
News The system, which will use flash memory, will model climate simulations and the effects of earthquakes [06 Nov 2009]
HP 'sensing technology' to connect objects, people
News The company has announced a new Mems accelerometer that is 1,000 times more sensitive than existing products on the market [06 Nov 2009]
Paving slabs harness energy of pedestrians
Photo The Pavegen system uses flexible paving slabs that convert the energy made by footsteps into electricity [03 Nov 2009]
Watch out, your metadata is showing
Blog The Arizona supreme court has just decided that the metadata of a document is governed by the same rules as the document. If the metadata is attached to a public record, then the metadata too is a... [30 Oct 2009]
Typekit for the masses
Blog Back in May of this year, a new and potentially revolutionary web service was announced that could change the way we literally see the web. That service was Typekit, and the idea is to offer a... [27 Oct 2009]
CA moves into eco software market
News Computer Associates plans to unveil an integrated sustainability suite designed to track carbon emissions [22 Oct 2009]
LHC cooled to operational temperatures
News The Large Hadron Collider has now been completely recooled to its operating temperature, just two degrees above absolute zero [19 Oct 2009]
'Wimpy nodes' could cut datacentre power bloat
News An experimental computing cluster using embedded chips and small amounts of flash memory could help companies combat spiralling power costs in their datacentres [19 Oct 2009]
Mandelson: UK needs entrepreneurs
News The gap between research funding and real products can be closed by entrepreneurs, according to business secretary Peter Mandelson [14 Oct 2009]
Party Like It's 2009
Blog So we went to a Windows 7 House Party. And you know what? It wasn’t anything like the video... We’re currently in Microsoft’s home town, so it seemed churlish not to– and Microsoft’s PR... [14 Oct 2009]
Arrested al-Qaeda suspect has Cern links
Blog French authorities have arrested a man connected with Cern over suspected links to al-Qaeda. The 32-year-old man was arrested in the French town of Vienne on Thursday. The European... [09 Oct 2009]
IBM applies electronics to genetic sequencing
News IBM Research hopes its electronic automation technology will give people and their doctors individual genetic records for less than £600 [06 Oct 2009]
LHC on course for November restart
News The giant particle accelerator should restart in mid-November, and could commence high-energy experiments before the end of the year [05 Oct 2009]
Intel aims to make fibre optics mainstream
Analysis The chipmaker hopes its Light Peak project will bring fibre-optic speeds to ordinary computer users, and USB is the logical path to get there [29 Sep 2009]
Geekender Gallery: IDF 2009
Photo Check out the technology that attracted our on-the-spot editor, Rupert Goodwins, at IDF in San Francisco [25 Sep 2009]
Smart signs and digital slot machines at IDF 
Video Executive vice president Sean Maloney demonstrates a new digital billboard and virtual slot machine that can be remotely managed and reprogrammed using vPro processor technology [24 Sep 2009]
Environmental group publishes phone radiation list
Blog An environmental lobby group has published a list of the relative amounts of electromagnetic radiation given out by mobile devices. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) said in a statement... [10 Sep 2009]
We saved BT execs from jail, claims Azul Systems
Blog Azul Systems makes corporate Java compute appliances — big boxes of custom multicore processors that run Java virtual machines orders of magnitude faster and at hugely less power than can... [05 Sep 2009]
Lego Mindstorms robot solves Sudoku puzzles
Blog Swedish hobbyist Hans Andersson has build a robot that can complete a Sudoko grid all by itself, a report in The Escapist has noted. On his Tilted Twister website, Andersson said that the robot,... [28 Aug 2009]
Symantec seeks shift in cloud security
News The company is working to make it easier for customers of its existing products to manage their data stored in the cloud [28 Aug 2009]
Government rejects Bletchley rescue petition
Blog The government has rejected a petition calling for extra funding to save Bletchley Park, the base for the UK's codebreakers during World War II. The petition, which gained just under 22,000... [26 Aug 2009]
Weather puts Discovery launch on hold
Blog The launch of the space shuttle Discovery, set to take place at 6:36 this morning, has been delayed for 24 hours due to weather conditions at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, CNET News.com... [25 Aug 2009]
xG opens its doors, closes its mouth
Blog I've not written about my old Floridian muckers in xG Technology for a while, because there's not been anything to write about. That's changed. There have been press releases and intense online... [24 Aug 2009]
Video ad to appear in magazine this autumn
News Broadcast network CBS plans to advertise its autumn TV season with a video-chip ad in the September issue of US magazine Entertainment Weekly [20 Aug 2009]
Usability conference promises scents and sensible IT
Blog If you're involved in creating any sort of IT and don't care about usability, you're wasting your time, your users' time, and quite probably holding back the human condition from evolving to a... [19 Aug 2009]
Researchers prove kernel is secure
News An Australian research organisation says it has absolute mathematical proof of the security of an operating system core [14 Aug 2009]
