Humans Found to be Generally Unproductive

July 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Researchers from the University of Missouri have found evidence of a grand scale party by ancient humans 4,000 years ago, in the form of remnants that still remain in the gourds and squashes that served as dishware at a Buena Vista site. The researchers studied the residues from gourds and squash artifacts that date back to 2200 B.C.

July 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Two engineers have proposed an alternative set of laws to Isaac Asimov's famous "Three Laws of Responsible Robotics", in order to rewrite mankind's future with robots. "We wanted to write three new laws to get people thinking about the human-robot relationship in more realistic, grounded ways," said d David Woods, professor of integrated systems engineering at Ohio State University.

July 15th, 2009 JAKARTA - An archeological research team from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and the Purwokerto-based Jendral Sudirman University has discovered at least 50 new sites rich in prehistoric rings from the Stone Age along the Kliwang River in Purbalingga, Central Java. "We found stone relics made from green jaspers in the form of rings," team leader Sudjatmiko told The Jakarta Post.

August 25th, 2009 MELBOURNE - An American study suggests that media multi-taskers who like watching YouTube, following Twitter, writing e-mail, and talking on the phone are generally not very good at any of their tasks. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the study was led by researchers at Stanford University.

June 8th, 2009 Stanford computer prof. Rajeev Motwani found deadATHERTON, Calif.

June 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Electrical engineers at UC San Diego have designed novel music discovery games on Facebook in order to improve their experimental music search engine that is capable of listening to new songs and accurately labelling them with words-with no help from humans. The engineers launched the music discovery games on Facebook as an application called Herd It.

September 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of palaeontologists and archaeologists, who studied fossil evidence from Australia, Timor, Flores, Java and India, has shown that Komodo Dragons most likely evolved in Australia around 3-4 million years ago and dispersed westward to Indonesia. According to study author Scott Hocknull, Senior Curator of Geosciences at the Queensland Museum, Australia is a hub for lizard evolution.

July 9th, 2009 JAKARTA - Archaeologists have found up to 15 new prehistoric sites in Purbalingga regency, Central Java. According to Prayitno, the head of Purbalingga administration's Media Information Division, the sites were spread across the upper stream sections of the Klawing and Tungtung Gunung Rivers and the up and downstream areas of the Laban and Kuning Rivers.

April 13th, 2007 I talked about xmemo as possible ipmsg alternative for Linux. Unfortunately I found it very much inferior to ipmsg.

January 8th, 2009 What if you lose your USB drive? It has slipped off your pocket or you have left it somewhere and forgot. All your work is gone.

April 3rd, 2005 The study, by 1,360 experts in 95 nations, said a rising human population had polluted or over-exploited two thirds of the ecological systems on which life depends, ranging from clean air to fresh water, in the past 50 years. Ten to 30 percent of mammal, bird and amphibian species were already threatened with extinction, according to the assessment, the biggest review of the planet's life support systems.

September 13th, 2009 Poll: News media's credibility plunges to new lowSAN FRANCISCO — The news media's credibility is sagging along with its revenue. Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the news stories they read, hear and watch are frequently inaccurate, according to a poll released Sunday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

August 11th, 2005 A voice synthesiser powered by thought alone could one day enable severely disabled patients to converse more instinctively. At least, so thinks Philip Kennedy of Georgia, US, who is developing a brain-activated speech system with backing from the US government's National Institute of Health.

January 17th, 2007 After being thoroughly fed-up with the state of WordPress comment spam protection, I have decided to solve the comment spam problem in WordPress blogs once and for all. I have installed an experimental commenting system which is designed to completely stop (read 100%) robotic spam (spam generated by bots and not humans) in all my blogs and with no (read 0%) false positives.

September 15th, 2007 UK Ministry of Defence is using secure Blackberry's to allow their staff to communicate on the move. It uses The Blackberry Enterprise Server system which allows lost or stolen smartphones to be remote controlled, shut down, or even wiped clean by IT administrators.