Wednesday, April 29, 2009

29-Apr-2009 AM clippings

Enjoy:

The Pirate Bay owners discover that the judge that passed sentence on them is in several industry copyright bodies and ask for retrial:
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-lawyer-is-biased-calls-for-a-retrial-090423/

Surprise, surprise Microsoft's revenue falls like everyone else's. Falls from US$14.5 billion to $13.7 billion:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/technology/companies/24microsoft.html?_r=1&ref=technology

Mercedes-Benz send a future/retro fuel-cell powered car down the same route as the first long-distance trip by Benz's wife to the chemist:
http://www.gizmag.com/f-cell-roadster/11562/

And finally. Scientists in Tokyo develop a gel that crawls under its own power and own control. No circuitry, no nucleus, just pure crawl:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16910-chemical-caterpillar-points-to-electronicsfree-robots.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

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