Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare came in dead last out of a group of 17 anti-virus programs tested against hundreds of thousands of worms, viruses, Trojan horses and other malware, an Austrian anti-virus researcher reported yesterday. The AV Comparatives Web site, which is maintained by Andreas Cleminti from Innsbruck, Austria, posts quarterly results of tests that […]
For the Fatherland… Germany takes part in space race and is planning to land an unmanned craft on the Moon by 2013. “Why shouldn’t we do it alone?†asks Walter Doellinger, director of the German Air and Space Centre. “We have the technology, we have the know-how and we have the experience with robots.†There […]
NAPLES, Italy –74-year-old Italian grandmother who bought a sack of potatoes at the her local market found a live grenade among the spuds. “I found a bomb in the potatoes,” Olga Mauriello said in a telephone interview with Reuters. “I went to the market to buy some potatoes and that’s where the bomb was. But […]
Professor Andre Geim and Dr Kostya Novoselov from The School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Manchester, reveal details of transistors that are only one atom thick and less than 50 atoms wide, in the March issue of Nature Materials. They believe this innovation will allow the rapid miniaturisation of electronics to continue […]