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Main StoriesCurrent BBC Headlines Call for specialist rape squads  A senior police officer calls for a specialist rape inquiry team to be set up in every force to help improve conviction rates. Death cyclist fine angers family The family of a 17-year-old who died after a collision with a cyclist condemn his sentence for dangerous cycling as "laughable". Tories unveil recycling pay plans A Conservative government would encourage schemes under which people would be paid to recycle, the shadow chancellor says. Shareholders to grill M&S bosses Investors will grill Marks and Spencer bosses about the outlook for the firm and the role of Sir Stuart Rose at its AGM. Doctors to debate NHS 'top-ups' Doctors at the British Medical Association are to discuss the issue of co-payments at their Edinburgh conference. The Register Headlines Google penetrates fake sex world with Lively h4>Watch clips of Sadville on virtual YouTube TV/h4>p>It starts with a hug, then some petting on top of colored balls and before you know it you're down at some 3D sex club wielding a dildo.…/p> Brocade and Cisco squabble over future fabric standards h4>Now playing - Acronym Wars: The Convergence Brutality/h4>p>Clashing acronym disarray has hit the networking scene with Brocade's recent claim that vendors won't rally 'round Cisco's version of data center Ethernet.…/p>a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567891?" target="_blank">img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567891?" border="0" alt="">/a> Hawkeye technology turns tennis into a cartoon h4>Reality hardware needed/h4>p>In those archaic days before tennis adopted the Hawkeye ball tracking system, the TV audience could have some fun with close line calls. Following a controversial shot, we'd receive a number of slow-motion replays from various angles and get to make up our own minds as to whether or not the lines person was a dolt. But, in the US at least, NBC has sucked away that precious privilege.…/p> DreamWorks switches to Intel for stereoscopic 3-D high h4>Studio to AMD: Drop dead/h4>p>For computer animation studios, upgrading long-in-the-tooth server farms is a part of a natural cycle to keep things looking sharp. But they're a bit like butterflies flitting amongst hardware specs when it comes down to finding what they want to power "the next big thing."…/p> Microsoft pledges to fight Vista 'myths' h4>OS man's daughter sees truth in OS/h4>p>Microsoft believes Apple is winning the battle on the desktop using "lies" and "myths" against Windows Vista, and has promised to fight back.…/p> space news from spacetoday.net NASA announces schedule for remaining shuttle launches NASA announced on Monday the tentative schedule for the remaining 10 launches of the space... Ariane 5 launches two satellites An Ariane 5 successfully launched two communications satellites for Middle Eastern and American operators on... Spacecraft confirms Mercury is shrinking Data collected by a NASA spacecraft as it flew past the innermost planet, Mercury, in... Instrument concerns accelerate Mars sample analysis plans The possibility of a short circuit in a key instrument on NASA's Mars Phoenix... Proton launches Russian military satellite A Russian Proton rocket launched a military satellite early Friday, the first Proton launch since... news from nova science now NOVA scienceNOW: Saving Hubble Two teams of spacewalkers take on the risky mission of reviving the ailing Space Telescope. NOVA scienceNOW: First Primates Our most distant primate ancestors, which took the stage shortly after the dinosaurs left it, were tree-dwellers the size of mice. NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa He jumped the fence from Mexico to work as a farmhand and ended up a leading brain surgeon. NOVA scienceNOW: Killer Microbe A relatively benign bug becomes a highly lethal pathogen, known to U.S. soldiers as Iraqibacter. NOVA scienceNOW: Dispatch: Personal Genome Project In this video dispatch, learn why George Church of Harvard Medical School hopes to recruit 100,000 people and sequence all of their DNA. |
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