Google has launched a service designed to search TV content from US broadcasters including PBS, NBA, Fox News and C-SPAN.

http://video.google.com

Google switches on TV search beta

Scientists have reversed the damage caused to the brain by Alzheimer's disease during tests on mice.

Alzheimer brain damage 'reversed'

] What does it say about the Central Intelligence Agency
] that its agents can crack the secret codes of enemy
] nations but can't unravel a coded sculpture sitting
] outside their cafeteria window?

] This is good news to Elonka Dunin, an executive producer
] and manager at Missouri gaming company Simutronics, who
] is obsessed with cracking Kryptos and thinks that the
] more people who work on the puzzle the quicker they'll
] solve it.
]
] "We have lots of different theories that we're chasing
] down," Dunin said of her band of sleuths, which includes
] some CIA employees. "But there's no way we'll know
] whether we're on the right track until something comes
] loose."

Elonka and Kryptos is currently featured in a front page story in Wired.

Wired News: Solving the Enigma of Kryptos

The proposal would bar residents from keeping handguns in their homes or businesses and prohibit the sale, manufacture and distribution of any firearms or ammunition in San Francisco.

San Francisco considers handgun ban

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) -- High school students heard about "intelligent design" for the first time Tuesday in the Pennsylvania school district that attracted national attention by requiring students to be made aware of it as an alternative to the theory of evolution.

'Intelligent design' taught in Pennsylvania

Great collection of images

Enthusiast compositions of the Huygens images

Once Huygens' mother ship, Cassini, had beamed information from the probe back to radio receivers on Earth on Friday 14 January, the raw images were posted on the descent-imaging team's website, based at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Computer enthusiasts pounced on the images immediately, and improved them using a range of free or commercially available software before swapping their pictures in Internet chatrooms.

"When we started looking at the raw images, there were marvellous things there that we wanted to share," says Anthony Liekens, a chatroom enthusiast from Borsbeek, Belgium.

When Liekens tuned into the ESA press conference on the morning of Saturday 15 January, he was disappointed by the quality of their images. So he decided to host amateur compositions on his website. The site has quickly turned into a virtual gallery.

The referenced page: http://anthony.liekens.net/huygens_static.html

Amateurs beat space agencies to Titan pictures

The problem relates to the way Microsoft implements the 128-bit RC4 encryption algorithm when re-saving documents after their initial creation. In this situation it appears that the programs use the same password key and initialization vectors to encrypt different versions of the same document. Normally where the same password key is being used, different vectors should be used.

MS Office encryption flaw uncovered

GM wants to defy conventional wisdom by building inexpensive cars in small quantities. Its secret: hydropressure.

[forbes] water wagons

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- CBS "Late Show" host David Letterman has a secret joke writer -- and it's none other than the retired king of all late-night television, Johnny Carson.

Letterman's secret writer: Johnny Carson