The Taiwanese Cabinet is reporting in the Taipei Times that its nation’s computer networks are under attack by an army of hackers based in China. The nature of the attacks has thus far been trojan-horse attacks against Windows systems. “National intelligence has indicated that an army of hackers based in China’s Hubei and Fujian provinces […]
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Giving new meaning to clean energy, a New Jersey company is developing micro fuel cells for mobile phones and laptops using a major ingredient in soap.
Millennium Cell of Eatontown, New Jersey, is working on hydrogen fuel cells based on sodium borohydride, a high-energy form of borate, or borax, a natural mineral mined to make laundry […]
Amphibious Car Makes Its Water Debut
A sports car which can travel on water at the touch of a button has been given a test drive on the Thames.
The convertible Aquada Sports Amphibian, which can reach up to 100mph on land, uses a jet to propel it through water at speeds of over 30mph.
It takes about 10 seconds for the car’s […]
The European Truck Tracking System
Irish company Mapflow has entered the second phase of a project for the European Space Agency that could ultimately see satellites track trucks on European roads.
The company, which develops software used to process and manipulate cartographic data, is moving into the next phase of a project led by the European Space Agency (ESA) which […]
