Mexico discovers 'huge' oil field

The field is in the Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico says it could be bigger than its largest oil field, Cantarell. Maybe this will stave off peak oil for another year or so...

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Finally, The Windows On Mac Contest Has Been Won. $13,000 Prize!

Contest has been won - updates to follow shortly. All further donations will go into an account to sustain the open source project that will be launched with the initial solution.
Thanks to Journalspace for hosting this contest in our hour of need!

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Scientists Create a New Form of Matter

In this new state of matter, any two of the three atoms--in this case cesium atoms-- repel one another in close proximity. "But when you put three of them together, it turns out that they attract and form a new state," said Cheng Chin, an Assistant Professor in Physics at the University of Chicago.

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Bill Gates mocks MIT's $100 laptop project

Bill Gates on Wednesday mocked a $100 laptop computer for developing countries being developed with the backing of rival Google Inc. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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1 Terabyte of Solid State Hard Drive Space!!

Texas Memory Systems are selling a 1 TB storage solution called the Tera-RamSan. Bandwidth = 24 GB per second, Latency = Less than 14 microseconds. If i could only afford it.

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Man's Life Saved by 'sand' poured into his wounds

The material, called QuikClot, which is issued routinely to police officers in Hillsborough county, Florida, was developed for the US military to cut down the number of soldiers who bleed to death on the battlefield.

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BlackBerry maker RIM runs full page ads to urge patent reform

Days after settling their lawsuit with patent troll NTP, Research In Motion ran full-page ads in the Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post and five other U.S. newspapers urging patent reform and thanking supporters.

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Capsaicin (the stuff in peppers) triggers suicide in cancer cells

Capsaicin, the stuff that turns up the heat in jalapeños, not only causes the tongue to burn, it also drives prostate cancer cells to kill themselves.

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In2TV, the first broadband TV network

In2TV, the first broadband TV network, has launched! Watch hundreds of your favorite classic TV shows, free and on demand; updated with new episodes monthly! Catch the shows you grew up with, now online in amazing full-screen quality

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Woz Raises $150 Million For, Well, Nobody Knows

Looking to capitalize on the Apple halo effect, three former company executives, including co-founder Steve Wozniak, took their new company, Acquicor Technology, public yesterday in an IPO raising $150 million.

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Cable Companies: We'll Kill VoIP

Cable companies in the U.S. and Canada may be moving to squash one of the biggest threats to their future expansion --- VoIP. A Canadian cable company is already charging customers a premium for using competing VoIP products, and users are complaining that Comcast is purposely degrading the quality of Vonage connections.

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Ubuntu voted 'Linux distribution of the year'

This is the latest in a long line of awards that Ubuntu has racked up over the last six months, an impressive achievement considering that the distribution is less than two years old.

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Liquid Water On Saturns Moons!

NASA's Cassini spacecraft may have found evidence of liquid water reservoirs that erupt in Yellowstone-like geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus. The rare occurrence of liquid water so near the surface raises many new questions about the mysterious moon.

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MS vaccine testing to start in US

"A US company is set to begin a trial of a vaccine which it claims halts the progress of multiple sclerosis. PharmaFrontiers is to test its tailor-made vaccine on 100 patients with MS, after a small-scale study showed promise. The degenerative disease attacks the nervous system and affects 2.5m people worldwide, of which 1% die each year."

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Comcast to up speeds to 16Mbit down / 1Mbit up

According to a post on Broadbandreports.com, Comcast has begun to rollout speed increases for its gold package to 16Mbit down / 1Mbit up. Finally!

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IBM Not To Use Vista - But Will Move to Linux Desktops

Andreas Pleschek also told that IBM has canceled their contract with Microsoft as of October this year. That means that IBM will not use Windows Vista for their desktops. Beginning from July, IBM employees will begin using IBM Workplace on their new, Red Hat-based platform.

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Proof: Humans Are Still Evolving!

University of Chicago researchers say they`ve found approximately 700 regions of the human genome where genes appear to have been reshaped by natural selection within the past 5,000 to 15,000 years!

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Open Office 2.02 Released

Although not updated on the official website yet, Filehippo reports that Open Office 2.02 is released and their download link works.

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Microsoft Live.com - Gets a Makeover

Live.com got a pretty nice...site update.

Microsoft is smoothing over the UI which is reflective of Windows Vista and Media Center OS themes.

The new functionality and design looks pretty sweet.

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Canada ISPs just as greedy as USA ISPs....SURPRISE!!!!

Shaw wants its high-speed net customers to pay a $10 "quality of service enhancement" fee if they use a VoIP phone service. Shaw argues that its fee is necessary to maintain the quality of independent VoIP services.

When the CBC tried to find out WTF!?!
Shaw did not immediately return a telephone call to its head office in Calgary.

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