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Robo-fish to 'police' the oceans
Written by Dailynews.vn Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:43
In the shallow waters of Gijon harbour, in northern Spain, a large, yellow fish cuts through the waves.
But this swimmer stands apart from the marine life that usually inhabits this port: there's no flesh and blood here, just carbon fibre and metal.
This is robo-fish - scientists' latest weapon in the war against pollution.
This sea-faring machine works autonom...
Spellcheck reliance 'revealed'
Written by Dailynews.vn Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:43
Spellcheckers and other technology have created an "auto-correct generation" unable to spell many common words, a survey suggests.
The poll of more than 2,000 adults for learning disability charity Mencap claims a third could not spell the word "definitely".
While two-thirds picked a wrong spelling for "necessary".
Some 96% said spelling wa...
Two patients get eye stem cells
Written by Dailynews.vn Tuesday, 22 May 2012 06:43
Two people have had stem cells transplanted into their eyes as part of a clinical trial to restore their sight.
The technique has been developed by Scottish specialists to reverse corneal blindness, and it is believed to be the first treatment of its kind in the UK.
Both have corneal blindness, and until now the only treatment was a transplant of cornea tissue from an organ donor...
Apple and Samsung kick off talks
Written by Dailynews.vn Tuesday, 22 May 2012 06:43
Apple and Samsung are holding two days of talks that will try to find a way to end the many legal rows between the rivals.
Over the last year, the firms have clashed in courtrooms around the world over who invented or has to the right to use particular technologies.
The talks have been ordered by a US judge as a way to short-circuit the ongoing legal action.
If the talk...
SIM card to fight phone bullying
Written by Dailynews.vn Tuesday, 22 May 2012 06:43
Parents will be able to control their child's mobile phone thanks to a SIM card remotely managed from a computer.
The Bemilo system, to be run on the Vodafone network, offers a service for parents to prevent their children from going online, texting or calling during certain hours.
Unlike an app, a child will not be able to switch the service off.
The UK's Fami...
Facebook: Living 'the hacker way'
Written by Dailynews.vn Monday, 21 May 2012 11:43
"How do we make this thing not go down?"
That was Dustin Moskovitz's overriding concern the first 12 months into creating "thefacebook" at Harvard with college chum Mark Zuckerberg.
The dorm-room project they had embarked on as undergrads was growing like a weed and was proving just as unwieldy.
Mr Moskovitz had only enrolled in an introductor...
Pakistan restores Twitter access
Written by Dailynews.vn Monday, 21 May 2012 11:43
Pakistani authorities have restored access to the social media website Twitter, hours after blocking it for messages deemed "offensive to Islam".
No clear reason was given for the ban, which came into force shortly after Interior Minister Rehman Malik said there were no plans to block Twitter.
Correspondents say it appeared to stem from tweets about a 2010 competition o...
Silicon trick for next-gen memory
Written by Dailynews.vn Saturday, 19 May 2012 19:43
Researchers have revealed details of a promising way to make a fundamentally different kind of computer memory chip.
The device is a "memristor", a long-hypothesised but only recently demonstrated electronic component.
A memristor's electronic properties make it suitable for both for computing and for far faster, denser memory.
Researchers at the Europea...
Twitter backs web privacy effort
Written by Dailynews.vn Saturday, 19 May 2012 19:43
Micro-blogging service Twitter has declared its support for an initiative that lets people browse the web without being monitored.
The "Do Not Track" initiative stops firms tracking people as they visit several different websites.
The monitoring is done to help advertisers craft ads to a user's preferences and lifestyle.
Blocking the tracking depends on we...
Anonymous attacks Indian websites
Written by Dailynews.vn Saturday, 19 May 2012 19:43
The hacker group Anonymous has carried out a series of attacks against websites in India.
Websites for government departments, India's Supreme Court and two political parties all came under attack.
Anonymous said the attacks were carried out in retaliation against blocks imposed on well-known video and file-sharing sites.
The Indian anti-piracy firm behind the block...
Computer game for stroke patients
Written by Dailynews.vn Saturday, 19 May 2012 19:43
Scientists at Newcastle University have developed a computer game designed to help stroke victims recuperate.
The Circus Challenge game, created with a computer game studio, aims to help patients recover motor functions.
Players use wireless controllers to perform virtual circus acts such as lion taming and plate spinning.
It is hoped the PC-based game will serve as a ch...
Facebook's first female engineer
Written by Dailynews.vn Saturday, 19 May 2012 00:43
Ruchi Sanghvi was 23 years old when she became the first female engineer at Facebook.
She developed the news feed and saw the company grow from a small start-up into the world's biggest social network.
Despite her successful career in Silicon Valley, she says when she decided to pursue engineering, she was confronted with old-fashioned views.
"People asked m...
Iran 'to sue Google' over Gulf
Written by Dailynews.vn Saturday, 19 May 2012 00:43
Google is facing legal action over its decision to not label the body of water separating Iran and neighbouring Arab Gulf states on its online map service.
The Iranians call the waterway the Persian Gulf, while Arab countries often refer to it as the Arabian Gulf.
Iran has warned Google it will face "serious damages" if it does not denote the as the Persian Gulf.
...
Japan launches S Korea satellite
Written by Dailynews.vn Saturday, 19 May 2012 00:43
Japan has completed its first successful commercial launch of a foreign-made satellite.
The H-2A rocket blasted off from the space centre on Tanegashima Island in southern Japan at 1:39 am on Friday (16:39 GMT Thursday).
The South Korean satellite separated from the rocket 16 minutes after launch, followed by three Japanese satellites.
This marks Japan's entry into...
Government may miss cloud targets
Written by Dailynews.vn Saturday, 19 May 2012 00:43
The government may miss its cloud computing targets because of a lack of enthusiasm from public sector IT staff, a report has found.
The G-Cloud plan calls for 50% of new government IT spending to move to cloud computing services by 2015.
A government "app store" called CloudStore was launched in February to offer such services to the public sector.
G-Cloud aim...
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