The man who wrote the original anti-virus program tells Paul Rodgers he wants to make data safer
Sunday, 18 October 2009
Where Sergey Brin and Mark Zuckerberg have made geekdom funky, Peter Tippett is a bit of a throwback. He has on a grey suit with a conservative blue tie when we meet; his hair would [...]
Daily Archives: 11 November, 2010
The world’s first computer doc has a security prescription
Alcohol substitute that avoids drunkenness in development
26 Dec 2009
An alcohol substitute that mimics its pleasant buzz without leading to drunkenness is being developed by scientists.
The new substance could have the added bonus of being “switched off” instantaneously with a pill, to allow drinkers to drive home or return to work.
The synthetic alcohol, being developed from chemicals related to [...]
Forget the Large Hadron Collider. All hail Cern’s new, straight-line atom smasher
hysicists are demanding a £4.4bn, 31-kilometre tunnel if they are to explain the mysteries of the universe
Sunday, 18 July 2010
After decades of bending atoms around giant rings and smashing them apart in search of the secrets of the universe, scientists at Cern, the European particle physics laboratory outside Geneva, are reviving a 1960s technology and [...]