Five sharp shooters for budding Baileys

Group Test If we at Reg Hardware made DSLRs, we’d be looking nervously over our shoulders, as compact cameras have never been so good. The rise of APS-C EVIL (Electronic Viewfinder, Interchangeable Lens) cameras, such as the Sony NEX models, promises DSLR-quality without the bulk to carry around. Size matters and Canon now appears to be considering a compact DSLR – whether we’re headed for a new take on Pentax’s Auto 110 SLR film camera remains to be seen.…

A new worm spreading through e-mail looks like a harmless message, but instead downloads malware that searches for and tries to delete your security software, then spreads via your address book.



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Massively-multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games offer an experience single-player titles just can't match. Many of us here at Tom's have been sucked into several of these picks. We take a look at 20 virtual worlds that pulled us in and wouldn't let go.



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Put flying fish in a wind tunnel, and you'll find their gliding performance is just about as good as a hawk.

A Pentagon-funded scientist has come up with a comprehensive program to turn today’s robots into tomorrow’s A.I. overlords. Step one: Imbue them with toddler-level intelligence.

New analysis tools may eventually help doctors predict autism and other developmental disorders.

Using a new way of analyzing brain-imaging data, scientists have mapped out how the complex networks of connections in the brain evolve as children age. The researchers are now using the technology to examine how brain development in children with specific disorders, such as autism, veers off the norm. Ultimately, researchers aim to use the technology to predict, for example, whether a child at risk for autism will actually develop the disorder, or what treatments might work best for that individual.

Modified yeast could help make ethanol from hard-to-digest materials.

Genes copied from a common fungus could simplify the production of ethanol from abundant materials such as grass and wood chips, a development that could one day help ethanol compete with gasoline.

A battery will capture power from braking trains.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), which runs the transit system in Philadelphia, is piloting a smart electrical grid technology that could cut its electricity bills by up to 40 percent and generate millions of dollars a year.

Apple releases guidelines to make app development easier and to curtail "useless" or adult content, but there's still no DIY tool for building apps.



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The Kindle's increasingly strong presence in physical stores should boost e-reader sales.



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Think the iPad's too cool for school? Think again. At least it isn't being viciously beat up and dissected by those iFixit bullies like its iPod cousins. And...



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A Delaware court has ruled in favor of eBay in its 2008 lawsuit against Jim Buckmaster and Craig Newmark, majority shareholders of Craigslist.



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'Here you go'

A fast-moving email worm that began spreading on Thursday has been able to affect hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide, anti-virus provider Symantec warned.…

With Prezi Meeting comes a Web-based presentation service with features that place it in a category apart from PowerPoint and others.



Microsoft PowerPoint - Prezi - Presentation - Web Applications - Presentation Sharing

A new TSA terror warning targets photographers in hoodies as a national security threat.

Pre-OpenWorld goodies

Rather than wait two weeks for its own OpenWorld extravaganza, Oracle has snuck out the long-awaited update to the Solaris 10 operating system. The related Solaris Cluster clustering software and Solaris Studio development tools were also tweaked.…

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