Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain. message and pop-up ad on their PC.
A bizarre case was reported in the Times last week of a woman who used a website - www.hitman.us.com - to hire a contract killer to "rub out" her multi-millionaire partner.
"Experimental Philosophy" (Oxford University Press), edited by Knobe and Nichols, brings together seven "greatest hits," considered the most influential papers in experimental philosophy. It also includes several provocative new papers, including an introductory chapter by Knobe and Nichols, "An Experimental Philosophy Manifesto."
The removal of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" Uranium - the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment - was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy.
The F-22 is arguably the world's most sophisticated fighter jet, a so-called fifth generation jet, hailed by US pilots in a promotional video showed by Lockheed Martin as excellent at "taking care of the air threat, paving the way for the bombers to get through".
Last week's dramatic rescue of 15 hostages held by the guerrilla organization FARC was the result of months of intricate deception on the part of the Colombian government. At the center was a classic man-in-the-middle attack.
Most of the 36 volunteer subjects given psilocybin, under controlled conditions in a Hopkins study published in 2006, continued to say 14 months later that the experience increased their sense of well-being or life satisfaction.
William Trubridge freedivesThe Arch, 58 meters down, at Blue Hole, Dahab - Fantastic!
Upcoming Aubrey de Grey Q&A at Slashdot. In case you don't know who he is: A Biogerontologist who has spent much of the last 20 years investigating the science of aging by considering the aging process as a multifaceted disease whose manifestations can be mitigated.
Now comes word that it isn't just wildlife that can go extinct. The element gallium is in very short supply and the world may well run out of it in just a few years. Indium is threatened too, says Armin Reller, a materials chemist at Germany's University of Augsburg. He estimates that our planet's stock of indium will last no more than another decade. All the hafnium will be gone by 2017 also, and another twenty years will see the extinction of zinc. Even copper is an endangered item, since worldwide demand for it is likely to exceed available supplies by the end of the present century.
Jupiter's third red spot (far left) took a beating when it tried to pass between the Great Red Spot (right) and Red Spot Junior (lower left) (Image: NASA/ESA/M Wong/I de Pater/University of California, Berkeley)
NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the first time the energized particles in the region where the hot solar wind slams into the cold interstellar medium.
NASA's first mission capable of finding earth-sized and smaller planets - Kepler.
The UK's largest ever space rocket was unveiled to the public on Tuesday 1 July by a Salford University academic who has ambitious plans to send tourists into space by 2013.
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