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22 Sep 2010
The final European Tour event before the Ryder Cup takes place in France.
22 Sep 2010
Andy Murray says he needs to get physically stronger and improve his game if he is to challenge world number one Rafael Nadal.
21 Sep 2010
chicksdaddy writes “Twitter closed an ugly cross site scripting hole in its Web page Tuesday morning, but not until a fast moving attack, including at least two Twitter worms, compromised hundreds of thousands of user accounts. At its height, the attacks were hitting 100 Twitter users each second, putting estimates of the total number of victims at around 500,000 according to researchers at Kaspersky Lab.”
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21 Sep 2010
Bruce Perens writes “Codec2 is an Open Source digital voice codec for low-bandwidth applications, in its first Alpha release. Currently it can encode 3.75 seconds of clear speech in 1050 bytes, and there are opportunities to code in additional compression that will further reduce its bandwidth. The main developer is David Rowe, who also worked on Speex. Originally designed for Amateur Radio, both via sound-card software modems on HF radio and as an Read the rest of this entry »
20 Sep 2010
Ronnie O’Sullivan hits a remarkable maximum 147 break in beating Mark King 3-0 in the third round of the World Open in Glasgow.
19 Sep 2010
Sir Alex Ferguson believes anything but a win would have been a travesty after seeing his Manchester United side beat Liverpool 3-2, thanks to a Dimitar Berbatov hat-trick.
19 Sep 2010
An anonymous reader writes “AFP reports that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is free to leave Sweden, after prosecutors said there was no arrest warrant against him for an alleged case of rape. Assange said the charges against him were part of ‘a clear set-up,’ and that he had ‘two reliable intelligence sources that state that Swedish intelligence was approached last month by the United States and told that Sweden must not be a safe haven for WikiLeaks.’ Read the rest of this entry »
19 Sep 2010
Manchester United target Real Madrid’s Lassana Diarra, plus other rumours
18 Sep 2010
coondoggie writes “One of the more unique unmanned aircraft concepts took a giant step toward reality this week when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency inked an agreement with Boeing to build the SolarEagle, a plane capable of remaining at heights above 60,000ft for over five years. Boeing says the first SolarEagle under the $89 million contract could fly as early as 2014.”
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18 Sep 2010
dwightk writes “According to a lawsuit brought by Skyhook Wireless, Google allegedly forced Motorola, among other Android handset makers, to use Google’s own location services instead of alternatives like Skyhook’s. Quoting the lawsuit: ‘In complete disregard of its common-law and statutory obligations, and in direct opposition to its public messaging encouraging open innovation, Google wielded its control over the Android operating system … to Read the rest of this entry »