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Microsoft bans modified Xbox users from playing

Microsoft has taken a new tack in the war against piracy by banning users who try to connect to the Xbox Live server using a modified Xbox 360.

Sim Lim raids net 10 modified Wii consoles

A RAID on two Sim Lim Square shops yesterday afternoon turned up 10 Nintendo Wii gaming consoles illegally modified to play pirated games.

New Strategy for Quantifying Biological Zinc by a Modified Zinpyr Fluorescence Sensor

Substitution of one pyridine by pyrazine in each DPA appendage of ZP1 leads to a new zinc sensor, ZPP1, with a modified background fluorescence and zinc affinity. ZPP1 exhibits a two-step zinc response during fluorescence titrations, which leads to a new method for zinc quantification. The ability of ZPP1 to image and quantify zinc was demonstrated in pancreatic Min6 cells.

GM crops found to affect reproduction in mice: Austrian study (AFP)

AFP/DDP/File – Greenpeace activists fly a kite to protest against the cultivation of genetically modified maize. Genetically-modified …

iPhone Modified With Qwerty Keyboard

Mobile Phones Monitors Notebooks Digital Cameras Headphones MP3 Players Speakers Portable Storage CPUs Memory Printers

DNA Strands Modified Into Tiny Fiber-Optic Cables

holy_calamity writes "New Scientist reports on the latest idea from researchers trying to make microcomputers use photons in place of electrons — to make optical interconnects from strands of DNA. Mixing DNA strands with the right dye molecule upgrades them into wires for light, like microscopic optical fibers, able to absorb photons at one end and transmit them to the other. One of the neat things about using DNA is it is the right scale to play nicely with existing and future chip lithography. Quoting: 'The result is similar to natural photonic wires found inside organisms like algae, where they are used to transport photons to parts of a cell where their energy can be tapped. In these wires, chromophores are lined up in chains to channel photons.

Boeing 747 Modified To Act As Earth-Observing Telescope

Does make sense to observe the earth THRU as much water as possible to if water amount matters.. Not.

EPOXI spacecraft tests modified TCP/IP in outer space

This month, NASA began testing a new protocol for communications in outer space that could extend the reliability and versatility of the Internet out of the Earth's atmosphere. The new protocol, called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, has been in the works for ten years, passed a month of testing with a just-launched spacecraft and nine ground stations, but is still scheduled to undergo further tests.

Insecticides Or Genetically Modified Crops? Non-Target Insects Affected More By Insecticides Than By Crops Engineered To Make Insect-specific Toxins

Non-target insects are probably affected more by conventional insecticides than by crops that contain genes from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), according to the findings of a study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators.

Bair: 3,500 Mortgages Modified at IndyMac Under FDIC Program

In testimony Thursday on Capitol Hill, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chairman Sheila Bair provided the first public update on the FDIC’s loan modification program put into place at IndyMac Federal Bank since it was introduced roughly two months ago. The agency took over IndyMac in July, and announced the loan modification program on Aug. 20; Bair has said that FDIC analysts estimated that 40,000 or so of the 60,000 mortgages more than 60 days in arrears at IndyMac would qualify for a loan modification under the program.

Alnylam and Collaborators Publish Research on a new Class of Chemically Modified RNAi Therapeutics

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has announced the publication of a new study in Nature Medicine by scientists from the University of Bonn in collaboration with Alnylam.

How Parked Cars Could Power the Future

Caption: A modified VW Beetle supplies power to the grid in this 2002 demonstration. Credit: AC Propulsion

Google Adds Protection From Robots, Zombies

For this Halloween, Google modified its robots.txt file to prevent zombies from accessing the company’s brains. The protection is the same used against internet robots, or bots, for years.

FDIC Expands Bidder List for Troubled Institutions

The FDIC is establishing a modified bidder qualification process to expand the pool of qualified bidders for the deposits and assets of failing depository institutions. The process will allow interested parties that do not currently have a bank charter to participate in the bid process through which failing depository institutions are resolved.

Science bends banana genome

Queensland scientists have developed a genetically-modified banana plant capable of resisting a devastating disease.

Modification of a Limbed Robot to Favor Climbing

The figure shows the LEMUR IIb, which is a modified version of the LEMUR II — the second generation of the Limbed Excursion Mechanical Utility Robot (LEMUR). Except as described below, the LEMUR IIb hardware is mostly the same as that of the LEMUR II. The IIb and II versions differ in their kinematic configurations and characteristics associated with their kinematic configurations. The differences are such that relative to the LEMUR II, the LEMUR IIb is simpler and is better suited to climbing on inclined surfaces.

Hacks Allowing Disabled Gamers To Play Guitar Hero

angrymilkman writes "Here are two interesting new approaches where researchers modified the popular Guitar Hero game so it can be played by gamers with disabilities. Air Guitar Hero modifies the Guitar Hero controller so someone without limbs can play it by using electrodes attached to the user's residual arm. Blind Hero is a mod for Frets on Fire that uses a haptic glove that can turn visual feedback into haptic feedback, allowing blind gamers to play Guitar Hero songs." There have been a variety of Guitar Hero hacks in the past, including a custom drum pad for playing the guitar part, using the plastic guitar as a real instrument, and rocking out with your bike, but it's nice to see some more serious modifications showing up.

Researchers Hijack Storm Worm to Track Profits (Washington Post)

which involved taking over parts of the Storm Worm botnet to send out specially modified spam. It looks like a sort of white-hat phishing expedition. "

Snakebites Kill 20,000 People a Year

Freek Vonk with an Indonesian spitting cobra (Naja sputatrix), which can spit their venoms through modified fangs right into the eyes of potential attackers. Credit: © Freek Vonk.

Mobile firms must help stop bullying, Dáil told

Fine Gael TD Noel Coonan told Communications Minister Eamon Ryan that sim cards can be modified to stop indecent or offensive images being sent to handsets.

Five Common Myths About Linux and Android

"While Android’s operating system is powered by Linux, all applications run on a modified form of Java, called Dalvik.

Scientists endorse gene altered foods

Scientists at the University of Nairobi on Saturday said it is safe to accept the introduction of genetically modified organisms into the country.

Microsoft Unleashes Banhammer on Xbox 360 Modders

Reports have begun rolling in from numerous sources that Microsoft has once again unleashed the banhammer on Xbox Live subscribers with modified Xbox 360 consoles.

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