The global economic downturn has not put many people off attending this week’s Consumer Electronics Show.

About 130,000 people are expected to travel to Las Vegas for the show.
The show is the highlight of the hi-tech calendar and is a showcase for top gadgets of 2009.
"It will be a bright spot compared to the uncertainty in […]

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(Jan. 3, 2009) — European researchers have designed an innovative new system to help keep motorists on the right track by constantly updating their digital maps and fixing anomalies and errors. Now the partners are mapping the best route to market.

The ‘oddly enough’ sections of newspapers regularly feature amusing stories of GPS mayhem. For […]

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In a recently conducted study, a multidisciplinary French-American research team with expertise in archaeology, past climates, and ecology reported that Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with Cro-Magnon populations, rather than the consequences of climate change.

Maps of geographic projections of conditions identified as suitable by eco-cultural niche models for Neanderthals (A — pre-H4, […]

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Every year, we see scores of innovations trickle onto the web — everything from new browser features to cool web apps to entire programming languages. Some of these concepts just make us smile, then we move on. Some completely blow our minds with their utility and ingenuity — and become must-haves.

For this list, we’ve compiled […]

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Buying a keyboard shouldn’t be a difficult process—just as long as you know what you want to do with it. Are you solely a typist, or do you like to fire up a game or two? What types of games? Are you a sucker for bells and whistles like backlighting, LCD screens, extra USB […]

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(Jan. 1, 2009) — Independent security researchers in California and researchers at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands, EPFL in Switzerland, and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands have found a weakness in the Internet digital certificate infrastructure that allows attackers to forge certificates that are fully trusted by all […]

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Suppose you want to build a computer that operates like the brain of a mammal. How hard could it be? After all, there are supercomputers that can decode the human genome, play chess and calculate prime numbers out to 13 million digits.

Scientists are studying complex wiring of the brain to build the computer of the […]

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A French ship has begun repairing two undersea cables in the Mediterranean that were severed on Friday, disrupting internet and phone communications.

A robot submarine will locate the ends of the cables on the sea bed and bring them to the surface to be re-connected.
They were cut within 5 minutes of each other, possibly by a […]

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Microsoft has given yet another reprieve to its seasoned Windows XP operating system.

The cut off date for PC makers to obtain licenses for the software was 31 January 2009.
But now Microsoft has put in place a scheme that will allow the hardware firms to get hold of XP licences until 30 May 2009.
Previously Microsoft extended […]

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Grid computing technology has long been the darling of cash-strapped academics in desperate need of raw processing power. Now a European research effort has created an industrial-strength platform already appearing in commercial applications.

The SIMDAT project has created a portfolio of tools and services that can finally bring the power of grid computing to industrial applications. […]

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