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Beethoven's rarest works re-created online

News In a little-trafficked corner of the Web, a pair of classical music enthusiasts has spent half a decade obsessively re-creating hundreds of obscure pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven. The pair contacted archives around the world, such as San Jose State...

20 July 2005, 10:07

Tomorrow's games, designed by gamers

News The only way out of this trap is to enlist players to help create their own worlds, a pair of top videogame creators said on Thursday. Instead of spending hours dunking or trash-talking with his friends, the boy spent two hours creating a pair of...

3 February 2006, 11:25

IBM sees the light in carbon nanotubes

News Then the injected carrier, when it comes to this field, will be energised or accelerated to energy high enough to generate the electron-hole pair. The strong attraction between the pair will emit photons, without losing heat.

21 November 2005, 9:10

Photos: Robot gets the teas in

News In a demonstration this week at Tokyo University, a pair of humanoid HRP-2 machines from Kawada Industries showed off their dexterity with a demitasse. You probably won't see a robo-barista at your local Starbucks anytime soon, but in Japan a new...

5 March 2007, 10:32

Photos: Jet-powered wing propels solo flight

News On Wednesday, the Swiss aerial adventurer stepped out of this small propeller-driven aircraft at an altitude of 8,000 feet and launched himself with a pair of jet-powered wings strapped to his body. A veteran pilot of fighter jets and commercial...

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21 May 2008, 12:01

BenQ and Siemens protect their phones

News The pair have signed up B2X Care Solutions to service phones bearing the Siemens or BenQ-Siemens marque, as of this month. While the future of BenQ Mobile hangs in the balance, the future of its handsets is now secure: BenQ and Siemens have secured...

23 January 2007, 9:23

Vodafone announces handsets for developing world

News Vodafone has unveiled a pair of low-cost handsets for the developing world, which it hopes will help millions access mobile technology for the first time. The Vodafone 125 and 225 models -- identical except for the fact that the former has a black...

22 May 2007, 9:54

News.blog: Sniffer dogs stop DVD pirates

News The newest recruits in the hunt for pirated movies -- a pair of black Labrador retrievers. NPR reported on Friday that the Motion Picture Association of America and the Federation Against Copyright Theft, a British group, recently tried out the...

22 May 2006, 10:18

Skype plugs 'highly critical' security flaws

News Skype Technologies updated its popular Skype Internet telephony software on Tuesday to fix a pair of security bugs. The most serious flaw could allow an attacker to commandeer a user's PC. That flaw, which is similar to a bug Skype fixed last year...

26 October 2005, 9:29

Service lets you rip videos from YouTube

News A pair of services run by one person in Australia are giving people new ways to access and use video content from sites like YouTube and Google Video, and copyright holders may well find themselves up in arms about it.

15 June 2006, 10:25

Video sites in ongoing battle against smut

News The text accompanying the video says a man has stolen a pair of women's underwear. The clip, first posted on video-sharing site YouTube on 31 May and viewed more than 1,500 times over six days, shows a man standing in what appears to be a dimly lit...

20 June 2006, 11:23

Kodak packs two lenses in its latest camera

News The new EasyShare V570 digital camera from Eastman Kodak includes a pair of lenses in a slim body. Kodak calls the V570 the world's first dual-lens digital still camera. The device incorporates both a wide-angle (23mm) lens and a 5x optical zoom...

3 January 2006, 10:24

Java flaws open door to hackers

News Sun Microsystems has fixed a pair of security bugs in Java that could be exploited by attackers to take over computers running Windows, Linux and Solaris. The flaws are 'highly critical', security monitoring company Secunia said in an advisory...

15 June 2005, 10:10

Motorola unveils Bluetooth sunglasses, not iTunes phone

News Motorola announced a new range of wireless products on Monday, ranging from a BlackBerry-like keyboard phone to a pair of sunglasses with a phone built in to the stems. Still missing, however, was the iTunes-compatible phone that the company first...

26 July 2005, 10:01

Vodafone and Microsoft team up on phone software

News According to the operator, the pair will now work on software designed to speed up the development of new services and applications for Windows Mobile devices, as well as getting them up and running more cheaply.

7 November 2006, 9:35