A colour e-reader that supports video and potentially web browsing has been shown off by Dutch researchers. The prototype uses screen technology – based on century-old science – that its makers say is up to four times more energy efficient than LCD screens. Once established in the e-reader market, Dutch firm Liquavista hope to see [...]

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Pope Benedict XVI is willing to hold new meetings with victims of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests, the Vatican spokesman has said. Speaking on Vatican radio, Fr Federico Lombardi said many abuse victims were seeking moral and not financial help. In the past, the Pope has met victims of abuse at the Vatican [...]

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Justice John Paul Stevens, the oldest member of the US Supreme Court, has announced he is to retire. Justice Stevens leads the court’s liberal bloc. His replacement will be nominated by President Barack Obama. The judge, who turns 90 in 11 days time, says he will step down when the court finishes its work for [...]

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Thousands of Thai protesters seized control of a satellite transmission station, forcing officials to allow an opposition TV channel back on air. Security forces retreated after their efforts to disperse the crowd with tear gas and water cannon failed. The government had shut down the People Channel on Thursday under state of emergency laws, and [...]

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Parallels is indeed coming out with a product that uses virtualization to help ease the transition to Windows 7. The software, the existence of which was first reported by CNET on Wednesday, takes one’s files and programs from a Windows XP or Vista PC and packages them up to be used on either a new [...]

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It’s been a little while since the Hubble Space telescope bestowed a mind-blowing space photo on us, but this one was worth the wait. This swirly, spooky, sparkly shot is of Messier 66, the largest of three spiral galaxies that make up the Leo triplet, 35 million light-years away. The galaxy measures around 100,000 light-years [...]

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A beta of the Firefox “Lorentz” project is now available for download and public testing. Firefox “Lorentz” takes the out of process plugins work from Mozilla Developer Previews and builds it on top of Firefox 3.6.3. This beta offers uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when a problem causes a crash in any Adobe [...]

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IBM shot back at Oracle’s Exadata platform this week with new server products that combine IBM hardware and software in preconfigured systems for companies doing large-scale data analytics and transaction processing. The products mark a new push by IBM toward selling complete systems based on its own hardware and software that are optimized for particular [...]

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Flash is blocked from Apple’s iPad and iPhones, but Adobe rival Microsoft is getting a foot in the door of sorts, with a media server used to stream content for its Silverlight player. Microsoft said Thursday that this year, it will update its Internet Information Services (IIS) Media Services so you can stream on-demand media [...]

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