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News from at at 11:20 PM on Saturday 10/11

Roland Piquepaille writes "Researchers at the University of Maryland are developing a robot able to detect and destroy breast cancer cells in a single session. After a tumor is located on an MRI, the robot will perform a biopsy of the breast while the patient is inside the scanner. 'If the biopsy di More

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News from at at 10:30 PM on Saturday 10/11

Filed under: Cellphones T-Mobile sold right out of its original allotment of G1 pre-orders quick, fast and in a hurry, and even the second round has been claimed in a flash. What's it all mean? It means that someone at T-Mobile and Google are sitting in a fancy restaurant in France sipping on the go More

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News from at at 8:50 PM on Saturday 10/11

Filed under: Cellphones Hey, it's not like you really expected Nokia to ride the coattails of its N95 / N96 forever without adding in a dash of innovation, right? At a recent Nokia event held in New Delhi, Devinder Kishore (the director of marketing for Nokia India) was quoted as saying that "We wil More

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News from at at 8:20 PM on Saturday 10/11

dominique_cimafranca writes "The Dynamic Graphics Project of the University of Toronto has released a pretty nifty 3D curve sketching system. Apart from the large drawing area, the tablet software looks very intuitive to artists. From the site: 'The system coherently integrates existing techniques o More

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News from at at 6:20 PM on Saturday 10/11

Filed under: Cellphones Oh sure, you've seen the 8.1-megapixel C905 Cyber-shot in the wild and in our very own hands, but have you seen it unboxed entirely on video? No? Well, today's your lucky day. Sony Ericsson's shutterbug-of-a-cellphone is a touch on the thick side and doesn't come with too man More

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News from at at 5:50 PM on Saturday 10/11

penguin_dance writes "The Register reports that 'OpenOffice.org is throwing a launch party in Paris on 13 October' to celebrate eight years, and hopefully announce the release of version 3.0. Some notes: [OpenOffice.org 3.0] will support the OpenDocument Format 1.2 standard, and be able to open file More

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News from at at 5:00 PM on Saturday 10/11

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds We'd been encouraged in previous spy shots that AT&T was intending to keep a clean, brand-free look on the front of the Fuze, but what were we thinking? That'd never sit well with the suits up on the 49th floor of AT&T's headquarters (we just made that up,  More

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News from at at 5:00 PM on Saturday 10/11

Filed under: Laptops Ah, how convenient! Just hours after finding out that Samsung's NC10 netbook would one day be at home here in the United States of America, along comes a host of unboxing / in the wild photos and even a few benchmarks to get you ready for its arrival. Granted, the writeup is in  More

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News from at at 5:00 PM on Saturday 10/11

Filed under: Wireless, Networking La Fonera fans, it's finally time to celebrate. Iteration 2.0, which is fittingly dubbed the Liberator, is at long last ready for shipment... to developers, at least. The La Fonera 2.0 box will certainly look familiar to owners of the first, with just 1,000 of these More

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News from at at 5:00 PM on Saturday 10/11

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video Goodie! The long, excruciating wait for more information on Cowon's exceptionally sleek O2 PMP is finally over, and two of the more important tidbits you could ever want to know have been revealed. The PMP, which supports a gaggle of file types including M More

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News from at at 4:20 PM on Saturday 10/11

The open-source software community released some exciting new software this week. Ars tested the latest beta releases of Ubuntu and Fedora, the new versions of Mono and Python, and an intriguing new location-aware extension for Firefox.Read More... More

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News from at at 4:20 PM on Saturday 10/11

Anthony_Cargile writes "Microsoft announced Friday their new 'M' language, designed especially for building textual domain-specific languages and software models with XAML. Microsoft will also announce Quadrant, for building and viewing models visually, and a repository for storing and combining mod More

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News from at at 3:20 PM on Saturday 10/11

Mighty Squirrel writes "This is a fascinating interivew with Hugh Loebner, the academic who has arguably done more to promote the development of artifical intelligence than anyone else. He founded the Loebner prize in 1990 to promote the development of artificial intelligence by asking developers to More

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News from at at 2:00 PM on Saturday 10/11

The big news of the week was the AMD spinoff and Intel's reaction to it, but we did see some action in other areas as well. Info on Nehalem, ATI, and ten minute battery recharges inside.Read More... More

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News from at at 12:50 PM on Saturday 10/11

Anonymous Coward writes "Cruxlux has a perspective-based search engine up. It provides a map of results laid out by viewpoint. For example, querying 'Obama' shows a map with liberal blog posts, articles, and video clumped together, conservative stuff nearby, and nonpolitical sources farther away. It More

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News from at at 12:40 PM on Saturday 10/11

In this week's top Microsoft news, we cover a Windows XP reprieve, Internet Explorer market share loss, and the upcoming release of Silverlight 2.Read More... More

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News from at at 11:50 AM on Saturday 10/11

DynaSoar writes "Esther Dyson, known to many as a founding and consistently guiding member of ICANN, and for working with the startups of Flickr, de.icio.us, Medscape and others, is now expanding her interests upwards. She recently announced that she will be heading to Moscow to train as backup astr More

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News from at at 11:30 AM on Saturday 10/11

Would a lumpy universe rid us of the need for dark energy? Is low efficiency worth it if our solar cells bend without breaking? Answers to these and many other questions appeared in this week's science news.Read More... More

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News from at at 10:20 AM on Saturday 10/11

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from MarketWatch: "A one-megaton nuclear bomb detonated 250 miles over Kansas could cripple many modern electronic devices and systems in the continental US and take out the power grid for a long time. ... A solar storm similar to the one that occurred in More

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News from at at 10:10 AM on Saturday 10/11

Google wants to save you from the modern equivalent of the drunk dial, while a bank robber goes both high- and low-tech, recruiting a distraction through Craigslist and using an inner tube as a getaway vehicle. All that and more inside.Read More... More

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