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News.blog: Weight loss 2.0

News The key to weight loss, I've read a hundred times, is information. If you tell the system your stats (height, weight, age, exercise level), and your goal (how much weight you want to use and how fast), it will track your intake against the amount...

22 June 2006, 10:23

Study: Wii weight-loss works

News Liverpool John Moores University has published findings that state that playing 'active' games on the Nintendo Wii could lead to weight loss of up to 12kg in a year. The study used a sample of five girls and seven boys between 13 and 15 years old...

23 February 2007, 8:28

eBay not pulling weight against fraud?

News eBay has hit back at claims from consumer magazine Computing Which? that suggest the company should do more to protect its users from fraudsters. The magazine has said eBay shows too little interest in identifying fraudsters among its user-base and...

28 February 2006, 9:15

Motorola and Nokia bond over DVB-H

News The pair have also thrown their collective weight behind DVB-IPDC standardisation efforts. DVB-H is thought by many industry watchers to be the eventual winner in the standards war -- a prediction that will likely be given more weight in light of...

12 September 2006, 10:37

Photos: Dell's giant hybrid laptop

News At around 9kg, the new Dell XPS M2010 is almost twice the size and four times the weight of compact laptops. The original Compaq Portable, seen here, even matched up to the new Dell in price ($3,590, according to Oldcomputers.net) and weight (okay...

1 June 2006, 11:07

Nanotech golf ball delayed

News The NDMX can fly straighter than normal golf balls because the internal weight of the ball can shift dynamically. Shifting the weight allows the ball to fly along its so-called natural angle of flight -- in other words, where the golfer intended it...

6 October 2005, 10:15

Photos: Prepping for the X Prize

News In contrast to the highly polished entries, Kinetic Vehicles from Oregon is using the body of an early '80s Toyota wagon to test its low-weight, low-drag diesel engine that will end up in a two-seater for the competition.

Tags: mpg, weight, air, car

28 March 2008, 9:29

Photos: MythBusters test sharks and ninjas

News Savage and Hyneman test the weight of some rubber tubing that is, for the moment, being used as a stand-in for a fish at the end of a line dangling into the water below. As they worked on their fish flapper experiment, Hyneman and Savage discovered...

Tags: shoot, weight, water, air

3 March 2008, 9:31

Scientist pitches adhesive Spider-Man suit

News The challenge in creating nanotube materials strong enough to hold the weight of a human is that at such a large scope, they can either bunch up and become brittle, or they can become elastic, collapsing under their own weight, according to the...

30 April 2007, 10:19

UK government details game rating options

News The second suggestion is that of enhancements to the PEGI system alone, with the backup of a UK-based body such as the Video Standards Council to give the current system weight in law. This would see the ratings bodies continuing to act as they do...

Tags: children, role, industry, weight

1 August 2008, 10:39

'Fat Man Walking' gains Web following

News Steve Vaught -- a 350-pound self-described 'Forrest Lump', who's walking across the country to shed weight -- has the same such following, except his real-life fame has been fuelled by the Internet. Vaught left his hometown outside San Diego on 10...

25 July 2005, 10:33

Windows becoming 'too monolithic'

News Microsoft's Windows juggernaut is collapsing under its own weight, as it tries to support 20 years of applications and becomes more complicated by the minute, according to analyst firm Gartner. To compound Windows' problems, it has outgrown the...

Tags: silver, vista, computing, architecture

14 April 2008, 9:59

TalkTalk's 'free' broadband trouble

News Carphone Warehouse's much-hyped offer of free broadband for its TalkTalk customers seems to be stumbling under the weight of its own success. Amid reports on Monday that customers signing up for the service now would not be connected for up to...

6 June 2006, 11:01

Hackers should spend more time in prison, say MPs

News A committee of MPs has thrown its weight behind an attempt to introduce longer jail terms for hackers. The All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG), a group of tech-savvy MPs, said it welcomed a Ten Minute Rule Bill presented by MP Tom Harris...

15 July 2005, 10:45

News.blog: Asus readies 13.3-inch laptop

News Its 1.77kg weight (granted, that's with the tiny three-cell battery) straddles the line between ultraportable and thin-and-light, and the screen is large enough for watching movies or to comfortably make it through a work day without squinting.

9 August 2007, 10:45