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'Boring' IT classes put off future careers

News The UK's status as a world class IT nation is being threatened by a skills black hole which is getting bigger ever year as fewer and fewer kids choose to study computing. The teaching of IT in secondary schools needs radically overhauling as it is...

Tags: kids, industry, entry, study

18 June 2008, 8:55

Photos: MythBusters test sharks and ninjas

News Hyneman uses a power drill to drill a hole through a fish that he and Savage will be using shortly to test the fish flapper device. Each episode of the Discovery Channel show MythBusters takes on multiple myths and uses modern-day science to show...

Tags: shoot, weight, water, air

3 March 2008, 9:31

News.blog: Kodak boosts mobile megapixels

News If you pick up a camera phone from 2003 or and compare to one from 2008, that old one will produce nicer pictures.For product purposes, Kodak is pairing the hole-detector technology with a new colour filter array Kodak calls Clear Pixel that's...

Tags: megapixel, detect, pixel, mobile phones

5 February 2008, 9:11

Photos: The insides of a Roomba

News You can see the battery hole, brushes, rubber wheels and dirt bin. Here's the unsuspecting Roomba intact. Actually, this photo was taken after post-operation reassembly, so you already know how this story's going to end.

Tags: detect, credit, edge, switch

9 January 2008, 11:48

Top ten weird data disasters

News Slick, real slickA scientist was fed up with his hard drive squeaking, so drilled a hole through the casing and poured in oil -- which stopped both the squeaking and the hard drive. Ant infestations, oil and failed parachute jumps are some of the...

Tags: hard drive, usb, failed, recovered

6 December 2007, 9:26

Photos: Roam the heavens with Google Sky

News This galaxy is thought to be powered by a black hole at its core. Google added a feature a couple of months ago called Sky -- which lets users roam the heavens from its Google Earth application. Effectively turning Google Earth on its head, users...

Tags: navigate, earth, credit, star

29 November 2007, 9:53

Photos: Competition shines at Solar Decathalon

News They have built-in cavities on the floor where home features can be put in, such as speakers, shelves or this hole for a bed. Welcome to the Solar Decathlon at the National Mall in Washington, DC. It's a competition between 20 universities to build...

15 October 2007, 10:54

Photos: Cracking open the iPhone

News To remove the SIM card, insert a paper clip or other thin, round tool into the small hole on top of the iPhone. The iPhone blends a revolutionary touchscreen interface, media player and smart phone into a slick package.

9 July 2007, 10:47

Businesses advised to be wary of iPhone

News Analyst Gartner claims the iPhone could "punch a hole" through corporate security systems if staff are allowed to use the phone for work purposes. When end users install such tools, they effectively 'punch a hole' through the enterprise security...

29 June 2007, 9:51

Sony bids farewell to father of PlayStation

News It's been a huge embarrassment for the firm, and a huge hole that money has been pouring into. It appears the disappointing PlayStation 3 has claimed its first executive victim inside Sony. Sony and PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi made a joint...

27 April 2007, 11:20

MacBook breached in hack-a Mac contest

News Macaulay, a software engineer, was able to hack into a MacBook through a zero-day security hole in Apple's Safari browser. Shane Macaulay just got himself a free MacBook. The computer was one of two offered as a prize in the 'PWN to Own' hack-a-Mac...

23 April 2007, 9:50

Christmas e-commerce breaks records?

News If people could specify they want goods to arrive on Thursday morning, or Wednesday evening, we could avoid the vague black hole that it may turn up in the next few days. Britain's online spending in the run up to Christmas has exceeded...

3 January 2007, 9:17

Apple's iTunes DRM cracked

News In March 2005 Johansen found a security hole in Apple's iTunes program which allowed music to be downloaded stripped of its copy protection. And although Apple closed that hole, within days Johansen had opened up iTunes once again, this time for...

26 October 2006, 10:17

IE 7 launch has only minor issues

News Microsoft has defused what would be the most serious issue: a first security hole in the browser since its official release. A day after its release, some minor issues with Internet Explorer 7 have materialised, but overall the new Microsoft...

20 October 2006, 9:30

Photos: Ten views of Apple's Leopard

News As users scroll back through 'time' in order to find the last saved instance of a file, it looks as though they are flying into a black hole. The next version of Apple's Mac OS X operating system, code-named Leopard, will allow application...

10 August 2006, 10:24