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Distributed computing cracks WWII code

News Last enemy position 0830h AJ 9863, [course] 220 degrees, [speed] 8 knots. I am] following [the enemy]. More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was...

28 February 2006, 9:35

News.blog: Turn your iPod nano into a weapon

News This may not necessarily kill the enemy, in which case, you may be forced to run. Should your enemy be enamoured with tea, try rubbing the contents of a tea bag with the nano's battery (after breaking into the device).

3 July 2006, 12:02

iRobot unveils sniper detector

News With a new sensor system, iRobot aims to help soldiers locate enemy snipers. On Monday, the company announced a prototype system designed to pinpoint incoming rounds from rifles and mortars, and also to provide surveillance and targeting capabilities.

5 October 2005, 10:34

Execs unsure of in-game ads

News Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. More and more companies are starting to integrate in-game ads into their games, and recent examples include Guitar Hero III, Skate, and Some publishers, such as Splash Damage, claim it's a necessary evil to combat...

Tags: ads, ad, advertising, financial times

31 January 2008, 8:46

Chuck D sets the record straight on DRM

News The rapper, who was a founding member of hip-hop group Public Enemy and now runs a content service, told delegates at the Mobile Content World conference in London that he had always looked at technology as "something you can apply to a better...

20 September 2006, 10:39

New on eBay: 6-metre, flame-fisted mech

News The 6-metre-tall giant in steelworker Carlos Owens' Alaska garden isn't quite up to smashing Volkswagens -- or taking the kind of pounding footsteps that might strike fear into the heart of an enemy. With a rumbling gasoline engine and creaking...

13 July 2005, 9:52

NASA hacker begins battle against extradition

News In the process, he gained password information that could be useful to an enemy and caused the US Army's Washington military district to shut down its systems for about a day, the US authorities say. The British man charged with hacking into a...

28 July 2005, 10:07

Teachers want videogames in class

News Marius Frank, headmaster at Bedminster Down school in Bristol, who has already embraced computer games in the classroom, said he is intrigued to see how pupils will react to something so often regarded as the enemy of homework.

16 January 2006, 8:39

News.blog: Another setback for Napster founder

News Napster, was public enemy number one in the sector for years. Snocap, the music-licencing company best known for being the follow-up act of Napster founder Shawn Fanning, has cut its staff by 60 per cent, a spokeswoman for the company said on...

Tags: sale, digital music, myspace, artists

12 October 2007, 10:04

Top ten Bond gadgets

News This super-sleek, ultracompact 7.2-megapixel camera is perfect for slipping into your back pocket when enemy action is expected. This limited edition Spy Gear kit features an 11-inch Vaio TX multimedia laptop equipped with an Intel Core Solo...

6 November 2006, 16:59

Consoles steal buzz from games at E3

News Grossman said he had enjoyed Activision's Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, and that he will buy Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed when it is available. Though the halls of the Los Angeles Convention Center are filled with tens of thousands of E3 attendees...

15 May 2006, 12:17

NATO tests RFID to stop friendly fire

News The next step is to develop the tags, so they don't respond to enemy radar, and to add encryption and anti-tamper features. NATO has been testing technologies, including radio frequency ID tags, to try to reduce casualties from friendly fire.

21 October 2005, 10:04

The all-singing, all-dancing robot vacuum cleaner

News It is all about picking out the enemy in a sea of noncombatants," Angle said. These prevent the Roomba from going beyond a certain point, like electronic chicken wire. The vacuum itself comes with improved software, but is otherwise identical to...

24 June 2005, 10:23

'WoW' accounts still susceptible to attack

News Complacency is the enemy. For months, hackers -- most likely in China and Russia, according to security watchers -- have been surreptitiously installing keylogging software on WoW players' Windows computers, hijacking their accounts and selling off...

11 April 2007, 11:20

Site of the living dead -- cult films hit Web

News But Shapiro's personal favourite is Reefer Madness, a 1938 propaganda film aimed at marijuana: "A violent narcotic -- an unspeakable scourge -- the real public enemy number one! Jekyll, Bruce Lee and the hunchback of Notre Dame's are all finding...

9 March 2006, 9:19