Archive for March, 2005

CNN
(CNN) — A Korean company has created a car engine that runs on air.
The engine, which powers a pneumatic-hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), works alongside an electric motor to create the power source.
The system eliminates the need for fuel, making the PHEV pollution-free.
Cheol-Seung Cho, of Energine Corporation, told CNN the system is controlled by a computer [...]

Claus Wahlers Blog
The FormFaces project team announced their open source ECMAScript XForms solution today. The engine processes XForms entirely on the client side and runs on any ECMAScript and DOM Level 2 powered Webbrowser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, Konquerer, Safari and others). All the author has to do is add one JavaScript include to her [...]

CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) - High-tech reached the nation’s high court Tuesday as Supreme Court justices questioned whether online file-sharing networks could be held accountable for copyright infringement.
At issue is whether the entertainment industry can continue aggressively pursuing not only those who illegally download copyrighted songs, movies and photos, but also those who sell file-sharing software and [...]

CNN
Officials in Thailand and Sri Lanka report that residents are evacuating coastal regions in the Indian Ocean after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of at least 8.2 struck off the coast of Indonesia Monday.
In Thailand, thousands of people in the six provinces affected by the December 26 tsunami were moving to higher ground or [...]

NPR
In a reverse-theft of sorts, a British artist has been sneaking his works into some of New York’s top museums.

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MSNBC
A 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil dug out of a hunk of sandstone has yielded soft tissue, including blood vessels and perhaps even whole cells, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
Paleontologists forced to break the creature’s massive thighbone to get it on a helicopter found not a solid piece of fossilized bone, but instead something looking a [...]

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