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 -> The 8 megapixels are coming!
"While we can't say anything about any individual manufacturer's plans, it certainly doesn't violate anything that we've signed to observe that 2004 is going to be the year of the 8 megapixel prosumer digicam."
290,303 views | 11 Jan 2004
 -> Saddam Dirt Bath
An amazing photograph of Saddam, moments after his capture, a snap the big media missed.
9,928 views | 06 Jan 2004
 -> Microsoft: Convergence is for real
Microsoft, seeking to push its software beyond the desktop, unveils a new line of wristwatches that collect data via radio waves, and new software that allows TV sets to access video, music and photos from personal computers..
10,636 views | 08 Jan 2004
 -> About time we started wiping
Tokyo subway toilets to get paper after 30 years..
11,256 views | 08 Jan 2004
 -> Study sees mass extinctions via warming
5% of all species of plants and land animals could be driven to extinction by 2050!
297,781 views | 08 Jan 2004
 -> Did Amazon import illegal CDs into UK?
The probe by the BPI, the record industry trade body, is at a preliminary phase and is seeking to ascertain whether amazon.com breaches copyright law when it sells CDs to UK consumers - so-called parallel importing..
10,797 views | 07 Jan 2004
 -> Australia's Qantas May Ban Bathroom Lines
Australia's Transport Minister John Anderson, who is also deputy prime minister, described the ban as "a little bit hard to handle.'' You bet!
416 views | 07 Jan 2004
 -> Internet, version 6.0
The next version of the Internet Protocol, IPv6, will supply the world with addresses by the trillions. Too bad it will also make the Net slower and less secure.
10,674 views | 07 Jan 2004
 -> Getting programming done cheap. Real cheap.
Primate Programming Inc is dedicated to the advancement and gainful employment of non-human great apes within the IT sector.
9,756 views | 07 Jan 2004
 -> Spain -- site of a meteorite?
Hundreds of Spaniards have reported seeing fireballs in the sky which experts say were probably caused by a meteoroid crashing into the Earth.
10,755 views | 06 Jan 2004
 -> New strain of SARS?
The 32-year-old man in China's Guangdong province has a strain of the virus that is "different from the animal or human SARS coronaviruses found last year."
10,775 views | 06 Jan 2004
 -> "Grey" or "Gray"?
From "they both mean the same thing, gray is the US version of grey" to "gray is too close to Yay, which is too sunny to be grey"
116,973 views | 12 Dec 2003
 -> The new weapon in crime fighting....prayer
Policing crackles with buzzwords nowadays, from zero tolerance to on-the-spot fines. The power of prayer is an unlikely addition to that list - but could it be an effective weapon in the battle against crime?
10,790 views | 05 Jan 2004
 -> 10 Advertisements we won't be seeing anytime soon...
...because they don't pass the puritanical censor filters
849 views | 05 Jan 2004
 -> 1 ways to be better in 2004
Whether you want to lose weight by eating more, earn more by working less, or take up life drawing and Bollywood dancing, The Observer has the ideas and the information if you have the motivation..
300,107 views | 05 Jan 2004
 -> Snapshots from Mars
After the Beagle debacle, NASA's new "Spirit" probe landed on Mars successfully and sent back these first pics.
9,869 views | 04 Jan 2004
 -> Osama "Fin" Laden
Threats to national security can be found anywhere!
814 views | 04 Jan 2004
 -> Origami motorcycles
Yamaha's popular models realistically recaptured into the famous Japanese paper craft..
124,625 views | 04 Jan 2004
 -> Remote controlled orgasms?
"Orgasmatron" inventor says he is confident women will fork out $17,000 for having a remote controlled instant orgasm device implanted!
10,445 views | 04 Jan 2004
 -> From Rogue Nuclear Programs, Web of Trails Leads to Pakistan
The Pakistani leaders who denied for years that scientists at the country's secret A. Q. Khan Research Laboratories were peddling advanced nuclear technology must have been averting their eyes from a most conspicuous piece of evidence..
11,023 views | 26 Dec 2003

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