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Official SCIENCE*: HIGH HEELS make you SEXY (Ladies)

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Awe-inspiring research in phwoar-inspiring breakthrough
However uncomfortable, overly expensive and impractical killer heels may be, think again before ditching them for your next night out: new science has proved high-heeled shoes definitely make women look sexy. In the same year CERN boffins found the Higgs Boson in a gigantic underground particle accelerator, an academic study …
01 Jan 06:24

Apple supremo Tim Cook's pay packet SLASHED 99% in 2012

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Man, those shoes look a little big on you
Apple boss Tim Cook took a 99 per cent pay cut in 2012 - the year his firm's maps crapp confused iPhone fanbois and rival Android dominated the mobile market. The chief executive took home a paltry $4.17m in salary and a non-equity bonus, according to paperwork just filed with US financial regulator the SEC, down from the $378m …
28 Dec 11:26

ARM knees semi groins with 2 billion chip feat

UK design biz trousers better-than-expected profit in Q2
Two billion processors designed by ARM shipped in the first quarter of 2012, banking the UK chip biz forecast-busting profits for Q2. While the rest of the semiconductor industry apparently suffered a 4 per cent slump year-on-year in shipments, the Cambridge-based company said it enjoyed a 9 per cent rise - marking the highest …
25 Jul 11:22

ARM's ultra-low-power fridge-puter chips: Just what the CIA ordered

Broken CD with wrench
'He's just had a Scotch egg, sir' 'Ha! I knew it!'
Prototypes of a new tiny, ultra low-power ARM-licensed processor will be demonstrated at an engineering conference in California next week. The chips are so small and energy efficient that they're aimed at wirelessly hooking up kitchen appliances, light bulbs and 'leccy meters to your network. And to the CIA. Will this lead to …
19 Mar 13:02

How a tiny leap-day miscalculation trashed Microsoft Azure

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Redmond drills into cause of eight-hour outage
As soon as Microsoft's cloudy platform Azure crashed to Earth, and stayed there for eight hours, on 29 February, every developer who has ever had to handle dates immediately figured it was a leap-day bug. Now the software biz behemoth has put its hands up and admitted in a detailed dissection of the blunder how a calendar glitch …
12 Mar 18:01

World's Raspberry Pi supply jammed in factory blunder

Unprotected network jacks spark delay fears
Shipments of the long-awaited and heavily fought over Raspberry Pi boards could be delayed thanks to a manufacturing cock-up. The assembly lines churning out the first 10,000 units used the wrong kind of RJ45 networking jack, according to the team behind the $35 Linux computer, and the parts will need to be replaced before they …
08 Mar 15:24

Powerful, wallet-sized Raspberry Pi computer sells out in SECONDS

Tiny Brit wonder hardly even touched the shelves
The first batch of 10,000 ARM-powered Raspberry Pi computers went on sale at 6am GMT on Wednesday - and sold out within minutes. According to distributor Premier Farnell, there were at least 600 orders, visits or pre-orders every SECOND, producing a 300 per cent hike in web traffic. The electronic component sales site was …
29 Feb 17:28

Boffins dig up prehistoric popcorn in Peru

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Bit soggy now: Man wolfed down treat 6,700 years ago
Mankind was scoffing prehistoric popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, reckons a top archaeologist. Before anyone along the arid north coast of Peru bothered crafting ceramic art or making cooking pots, let alone building cinemas and other attractions in which the crunchy snack is often wolfed down by modern Man, …
19 Jan 09:42

Pollution-gobbling molecules in global warming SMACKDOWN

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Boffins: Newly observed particles scrub our filthy air
Elusive pollution-busting molecules are scrubbing our planet's atmosphere at a much faster rate than first imagined, according to gas-bothering boffins. Reactions by the cleaning agents, known as Criegee intermediates, are also emitting a by-product that forms solar radiation-reflecting clouds that could help cool Earth and …
16 Jan 10:17

That Brit-built £22 computer: Yours for just £1,900 or more

RaspberryPi beta boards sell like hot cakes at auction
The British-designed credit card-sized RaspberryPi computer, eagerly awaited due to its £22 price tag, can be yours this week for a mere £1,900 or more. The tiny GNU/Linux ARM-powered machine, which is priced less than a textbook, is due to go on general sale by the first half of February, several weeks later than expected …
03 Jan 10:40

Explicit pics of glorious rounded globes snapped in festive Saturnalia

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Curvy beauties moon for the camera
While most of us were hanging up gaudy decorations on Christmas trees, or knocking over festive ornaments in festive befuddlement, space boffins were busy processing photos of our solar system's own gigantic baubles. NASA's Cassini probe has been busy snapping images of Saturn and its moons, highlighting the scale and beauty of …
31 Dec 10:00

Stephen Hawking seeks geek to maintain his unique wheelchair

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£25k for gadgeteer to keep custom robovoice ride rolling
Could you repair and tweak superstar physicist Stephen Hawking's robot voice box and gadget-laden wheelchair? If you reckon yes, then the celebrated author and cosmologist wants to hear from you. He has a technical assistant job going, with a modest graduate salary, and it involves maintaining the electronic systems that allow …
30 Dec 10:57

Psst, kid... Wanna learn how to hack?

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Analysis The £25 computer to teach youngsters real computing skills
Despite all the excitement and expectation encompassing the RaspberryPi, the most remarkable thing about this low-power credit card-sized computer is its price tag: little more than £20 for a fully functional system capable of, among many things, 1080p video playback and hardware-accelerated graphics. The British-designed Pi is …
28 Nov 11:00