When was the computer invented

	Biofuel Vehicles to Put Our Health at Risk
...un on biofuels as agreed by the EU. The researchers invented a special computer model to determine air quality in 2020. The model showed that ozone level in some regions would grow if bioethanol was used for all cars. It would cause more ailments and asthma attacks. There naturally appears the question – why to use biofuels if it is not beneficial for the environment and human health in particular? As showed by th...
	read more »

	Surgeons Who Play Video Games are More Skilled
...tor. Surgeons manipulate with instruments through a small body opening. Every movement is thus viewed on the TV screen. The study regarding the abilities of surgeons who played or play video games was made in Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. 33 surgeons participated in the test, which later showed interesting results: those who played video games with a frequency of not less than three hours per week made 37% le...
	read more »

	Storm virus attacks blogs
...Storm virus is back again to infect blogs, webmails and bulletin boards. British and Korean computer security scientists claim it's a new variant of malware that is extremely difficult to detect. The Storm worm looks like a message that features news about Europe's storms. In fact, this virus can evaluate network traffic on the computer and later insert a link to malicious website into user's post, webmail or bulleti...
	read more »

	Microsoft to Connect Xbox 360 and PC Gamers
...On Wednesday, the software giant Microsoft Corp. announced the opening of its Live on-line service that will connect users of both Xbox 360 console and PCs. The company stated that the service will open in May. It is to be reminded that Live has attracted about six million Xbox 360 console gamers and now Microsoft looks forward to launch it on new Windows Vista system. The software giant decided to make this step after i...
	read more »

	Search Information Will Go Private
...ity, other search engines could adopt this policy too and produce the same effect as Google will. On the other hand, Ari Schwartz, deputy director at the Group Center for Democracy and Technology, was more optimistic. He said he was glad that Google finally tried to find a compromise between being the world's major information collector and, at the same time, an Internet privacy defender. ...
	read more »

	To live or die - computer will decide
...of the seriously ill patients based on the mathematical formula. The decisions made by computer calculations are claimed to be even more accurate than those of the patient's close people. Usually, when a doctor deals with an incapacitated patient and the chances for treatment are not evident, the decision is handed in to surrogate. But NIH scientists revealed, the surrogate decision may not be precise. A thorough analy...
	read more »

	Japanese Scientists Work on a Flexible Battery
...A new type of battery invented in Japan, in the University of Waseda. This is a flexible rechargeable battery, based on polymers. The development of this type of battery was conditioned by the permanently developing industry of portable devices, which become smaller and smaller each year. Researches on this device have been conducted for several years, but the scientists, working on this battery are Drs. Hiroyuki Nishide...
	read more »

	Nearly one third of Americans think Internet is useless
...About one third of U.S. households do not have any access to the Internet. But what is even more surprising they do not intend to get one. The reason is that households do not consider Internet to be useful for their every day lives. A technology market research firm located in Dallas, called Park Associates, outlined that 29% of households from the United States (which is about 31 million homes) do not even intend to g...
	read more »

	20 Million Copies of Windows Vista Sold
...Microsoft has published a report on the Microsoft's new generation operating system sales. The report stated that in the period between January 30 and February 28, 2007, 20 million copies of Microsoft Vista were sold; compared to 17 million copies of Microsoft's Windows XP sold in the same period of time in 2001, two months after its release, Vista's index could be considered as rather impressive. However, these 20 milli...
	read more »

	Football fans have bitten off the ears of a tavern keeper
...ibibakis, a Greek tavern keeper, working at a health resort, lost both of his ears while trying to part football fans. The fight began in his tavern during a football match between Greece and Turkey. When he tried to part the fighting fans they have bitten off significant parts of his ears. According to an official source, a group of Bulgarian immigrants, who entered the tavern, starting screaming and supporting the Tu...
	read more »

	Animated Cursors is now Windows' Vulnerability
...attacker might be able to take advantage of Windows' vulnerability by using a Web page or e-mail message that comprises a certain computer code. In its advisory the company's officials stated that when viewing a Web page, previewing or reading an encoded message, or opening an e-mail attachment that includes a malware, the hacker can make the affected system to execute the code. Often such kind of holes in the syste...
	read more »

	Microsoft Comes up with New Visitor Attracting Strategies
...- in Microsoft. And then came February, which showed a slight growth of visitors for Microsoft - to 9.6%; yet Google had a bigger boost-up of visitors - to 56% (data provided by Nielsen/NetRatings). When the executives from Microsoft saw these gigantic steps Google made towards the world dominance, they thought they could try something else... a reward program for example. Last month a confession took place. The directo...
	read more »

	The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
...An American Science Community has concluded after one of its researches that Mendeleev's periodic table of elements was the most important discovery the humanity made... even more important than the discovery of iron. The Community has published a list of 10 most important discoveries the humanity ever made. The results of this research were based on answers of a survey conducted by the community. According to that...
	read more »

	Secret US military data was disclosed thanks to porn images
...files with another officer at work. The naval officer intended to copy adult images that came along with the data on Aegis military system taken by accident from another officer's computer. Thus when he swapped the files with the petty officer of the lower rank, the latter was carelessly given the access to top secret information. As it was reported by Defence Ministry the petty officer, whose name is undisclose...
	read more »

	Robot to Help Neurosurgery
...obotic systems that people ever developed and it was created with the help of MDA, which is known for developing Canadarm and Canadarm2. The whole project of creating the NeuroArm started in 2001 when Doc, B.J. and Don Seaman invested $2 million to start the project. The two oilpatch pioneers and brothers are the namesakes of the Seaman Family MR Research Centre. They started supporting the research centre when it beg...
	read more »