The Raw Story | Extinct Tasmanian tiger gene brought back to life: scientists

The Raw Story | Extinct Tasmanian tiger gene brought back to life: scientists: "Scientists said Tuesday they had achieved a world first by bringing back to life a gene from the extinct Tasmanian tiger after implanting it in a mouse.

Researchers from universities in Australia and the United States extracted the gene from a 100-year-old preserved specimen of the doglike marsupial -- correctly known as a thylacine -- and revived it in a mouse embryo.

'This is the first time that DNA from an extinct species has been used to induce a functional response in another living organism,' said research leader Andrew Pask of the University of Melbourne."

I Spy Your PC: Researchers Find New Ways to Steal Data - Yahoo! News

I Spy Your PC: Researchers Find New Ways to Steal Data - Yahoo! News: "In two separate pieces of research, teams at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Saarland University in Saarbrucken, Germany, describe attacks that seem ripped from the pages of spy novels. In Saarbrucken, the researchers have read computer screens from their tiny reflections on everyday objects such as glasses, teapots, and even the human eye. The UC team has worked out a way to analyze a video of hands typing on a keyboard in order to guess what was being written."

‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails - Times Online

‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails - Times Online: "A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies would hand over the records to the Home Office under plans put forward by officials.

The information would be held for at least 12 months and the police and security services would be able to access it if given permission from the courts."

Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments in Or Yehuda - Haaretz - Israel News

Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments in Or Yehuda - Haaretz - Israel News: "Orthodox Jews set fire to hundreds of copies of the New Testament in the latest act of violence against Christian missionaries in the Holy Land."

China's All-Seeing Eye : Rolling Stone

China's All-Seeing Eye : Rolling Stone: "Now, as China prepares to showcase its economic advances during the upcoming Olympics in Beijing, Shenzhen is once again serving as a laboratory, a testing ground for the next phase of this vast social experiment. Over the past two years, some 200,000 surveillance cameras have been installed throughout the city. Many are in public spaces, disguised as lampposts. The closed-circuit TV cameras will soon be connected to a single, nationwide network, an all-seeing system that will be capable of tracking and identifying anyone who comes within its range — a project driven in part by U.S. technology and investment. Over the next three years, Chinese security executives predict they will install as many as 2 million CCTVs in Shenzhen, which would make it the most watched city in the world. (Security-crazy London boasts only half a million surveillance cameras.)"

BBC NEWS | UK | Phone calls database considered

BBC NEWS | UK | Phone calls database considered: "Ministers are to consider plans for a database of electronic information holding details of every phone call and e-mail sent in the UK, it has emerged."

10-year-old takes college by storm - Education- msnbc.com

10-year-old takes college by storm - Education- msnbc.com: "DOWNEY, Calif. - With the end of another school year approaching, college sophomore Moshe Kai Cavalin is cramming for final exams in classes such as advanced mathematics, foreign languages and music.

But Cavalin is only 10 years old. And at 4-foot-7, his shoes don't quite touch the floor as he puts down a schoolbook and swivels around in his chair to greet a visitor."