XP outperforms Vista--using different Offices
Devil Mountain Software's method of testing Windows XP SP3 against Windows Vista used identical Dell computers, but it admitted it compared Office 2007 performance on Vista to Office 2003 performance on XP.
Read the full story at The BetaNews.
Keeping wary eye on Web comments
While most newspapers let the comments fly, students responsible for this school Web site have taken the unusual step of screening each comment before deciding if it deserves a public posting.
Read the full story at SiliconValley.com.
Moth + machine + math = Modern marvel
Introducing the latest in neural technology: the tobacco hornworm moth. Faint signals from a moth's visual cortex cause a refined six-inch-high robot to change direction, an innovation that come say could be used to help paralyzed persons and even sniff out bombs one day.
Read the full story at The Los Angeles Times.
Space shuttle Discovery back on the ground after an impressive mission
Nail-biting suspense! Heroic courage! Spine-tingling risk! We decided to let this remarkable space story tell itself, with highlights from The Washington Post's coverage:
"Discovery's 15-day journey spanned 238 revolutions of Earth and 6.25 million miles.
"Scott Parazynski floated outside with wire cutters, pliers, and some homemade tools and fixed the torn wing.
"No one had ever ventured so far from the safe confines of the space station before, nor worked right up against a solar wing coursing with more than 100 volts of electricity and swaying back and forth."
Read the full story at The Washington Post .
What's the NSA doing in your e-mail?
A 'Sanford and Son' for the rocket age
Your brain, on glowing-neuron genes
Okay, it's not really your brain, it's the brain of special Harvard and MIT lab mice.
Biology joke: How does a mouse get into MIT?...Good genes! Specifically, those injected with a special set of glowy genes manufactured from bioluminescent sea critters. They make their little brains light up, literally.
The images produced are fascinating and beautiful. You can see the neurons firing and see how many different neural network configurations are going on at any one moment for muscle coordination or information processing. Full story and photos at Wired News.
