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On time, on cost, on spec: Choose two er, none

The firm behind the world's most plausible near-future flying car has pushed back delivery dates again, and suggested that vehicles may wind up costing substantially more than had been planned.…

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'WPF and Silverlight at risk in faction war'

Microsoft watchers are poring over a series of Twitter posts from former Silverlight Product Manager Scott Barnes, now a user experience specialist at Australian development consultants Readify.…

Superspeed storage

LaCie has introduced two more USB 3.0 external hard drives, one for desktops, the other for portable computers.…

Someone's got to be Brahms and Lizt

Updated Google is warning surfers visiting BBC Radio 3's website that the classical music domain is a security risk.…

Why do they do it?

Hot on the heels of Apple's poorly-received iTunes update, the BBC has released a new version of iPlayer, and it's met a chorus of criticism. In each case the culprit appears to be the same.…

Agency: 'We didn't tell you? You didn't ask'

The USA's famed ray-cannon jumbo jet, the Airborne Laser Testbed (ALTB), failed to shoot down a ballistic missile in a long-delayed live test last week.…

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Kicks sand in Intel's face

ARM's next-but-one processor will improve performance by five times, and the company aims to spread the architecture into the server side of the cloud too.…

Burn, baby, burn

A British firm has claimed the world's hottest chilli pepper crown, a fearsome beast clocking 1,176,182 on the Scoville scale.…

Now that China licence is renewed, let the games commence (again)

Google's top legal man wants to see pressure applied to governments - such as China's and Turkey's - that have strict internet censorship rules in place.…

For two years now, Islamic extremist websites mysteriously have gone down as Sept. 11 approached. Many suspect the U.S. government. Will it happen again?

The National Broadcasting Company is established. The network would dominate radio during that medium's Golden Age and become the foundation of a massive media empire that to this day just keeps growing.

In his new book The Perfection Point, Sport Science host John Brenkus explains how we can push and predict the limits in athletic feats.

If you follow emerging automotive technology like electric cars and hybrids, you're no doubt excited about the Automotive X-Prize. The contest, which started three years ago, promises $10 million to the best production-capable car that can achieve 100 mpg or the energy equivalent. The winner will be announced Sept. 16 in Washington, D.C.

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But future unclear for Summary Care Records

The ailing National Programme for IT has been cancelled, although most of its multi-billion pound spending will go ahead.…

Sussex s.19 seizure showdown seems certain

The seizure of a film claimed as potential evidence of a violent crime may turn out to have serious implications for police, photographers and the public – though it is still too early to tell whether the eventual outcome will be good, bad or indifferent.…

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Doomsday Weekend 4: inertia, apathy and how to beat it

Sysadmin blog Pott's First Law: user inertia is the most powerful force in the universe. This is due to habits and habituation. Habits are patterns of behavior repeated with such frequency that they become subconsciously embedded. Habituation is the slow, steady acceptance of that regular stimulus input.…

Compatibility comes at a price

Microsoft will release its Office for Mac 2011 next month, so it has unsurprisingly been prepping would-be customers for the big day by dishing up more details about what the suite will contain.…

We know the game and we're gonna play it

Symantec's hapless HackIsWack cybercrime rap competition site can still be rickrolled, despite assurances to the contrary from the security giant.…

EDS HP SNAFU

The Child Support Agency's (CSA) much-criticised computer system is again struggling this week, with staff unable to access case files because it is running so slowly.…