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Topic "Boffins" was discussed 2,188 times on 649 sites in last 3 months
Started 1 week ago (2009-11-23 22:31:00)
by News_PB
Tech has important mole-cruiser implications, too MIT boffins are pleased to annouce that they have at last perfected a long-sought-after technology - that of the robot clam. It seems that metal shellfish able to dig themselves into the seabed will make excellent anchors for somewhat larger droid submarines.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud More...
Started 2 weeks ago (2009-11-16 22:28:00)
by News_PB
Beryllium ions used in place of undead cats Federal boffins in America say they have built the first computer processing device able to handle quantum-mechanical numbers expressed as "qubits". Whereas a regular bit is either 1 or 0, a qubit can be 1, 0 or some of both just as a metaphorical cat in a box may be dead, alive or in a mysterious semi-undead waveform zombie condition.… What ...
Started 2 weeks, 3 days ago (2009-11-13 20:40:00)
by News_PB
Don't try sweeping anything important under this Remorseless German boffins have developed a simulator which can show how so-called "invisibility carpets" fashioned of metamaterials (in fact more likely to appear in the form of invisible sheds, according to top boffins) would actually appear to the human eye. According to the simulation, the invisible sheds would produce curious ripples and ...
Started 2 weeks, 4 days ago (2009-11-12 22:39:00)
by News_PB
Lithium trick ideal for hunting alien civilisations Astro boffins have developed a simple method for telling which stars have planets and which don't, potentially a great help in hunting for alien civilisations or uninhabited Earthlike worlds ripe for colonisation by humanity*.… The power of collaboration within unified communications More...
Started 2 weeks, 4 days ago (2009-11-12 22:39:00)
by News_PB
Inability of apes to understand drinks orders probed In a development with potentially immense consequences in the important area of monkey* butlers, boffins have identified the crucial genetic differences which permit humans to employ speech and deny this ability to chimpanzees, our closest genetic cousins.… What is your recession sales strategy? More...
Started 2 weeks, 4 days ago (2009-11-12 17:15:00)
by News_PB
Play games, beat bullys. Virtually Boffins at Warwick University have claimed their virtual reality bullying simulator will help victims cope with the stress of being taunted.… The power of collaboration within unified communications More...
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-11-22 06:01:00)
by Manoj Vijayan
( "When you read some of those files ? including 1079 emails and 72 documents ? you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be ?the greatest in modern science?. These alleged emails ? supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory ? suggest: Conspiracy, collusion in ...
Started 6 days, 21 hours ago (2009-11-24 07:47:57)
by Schmiddster
Since I got my puter back all nice and shiney like, I've not been able to access smiles or images ~ what I have been able to post I've had to do in HTML anyway the lovely yuku boffins just answered my help ticket and all is well ~ I just thought I should share for future reference! It seems Internet Explorer 8 is not compatible with yuku so you have to click a wee thingembob! ...
Started 6 days, 3 hours ago (2009-11-25 01:44:00)
by neillomax
Chipmaker Intel has come up with a cunning plan to get rid of those pesky keyboards and mice and control computers using users' brainwaves. Researchers hope to harness brainwaves by sticking sensors in, guess what, our brains. Intel boffins claim there is no reason to fear an Orwellian future, as consumers will just want the implants and the freedom they offer. If you get sick of it, just ...
Started 5 days, 16 hours ago (2009-11-25 13:04:00)
by wellreadfrank02
we are being conned into world government and new world taxes... When you read some of those files â? including 1079 emails and 72 documents â? you realise just why the boffins at CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be â?the greatest in modern scienceâ?. These alleged emails â? supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent ...
Started 5 days, 22 hours ago (2009-11-25 06:25:00)
by boabywan
following on from the 6 degrees of seperation theory. boffins have come up with your only 3 pumps away from sleeping with a celeb...i knew all along that sleeping with those ****rs technically meant i had pumped beyonce....so do you believe in this theory or the 6 degrees of seperation theory
Started 1 week ago (2009-11-23 09:32:00)
by GroovyGuzi
Dear Joe Can you point out to the TES ICT boffins that the software that identifies obscenities in postings is filtering out Blogger URLs? As you can see from a posting I made in another thread, each occurrence of b l o g s p o t is filltered out and replaced with ***. It puzzled me at first but a Google search revealed that the last five letters of the string are the problem. OK, I ...
Started 2 days, 9 hours ago (2009-11-28 19:13:00)
by Glossary
This is to all you boffins out . This is your chance to put your science to work and explain to us ordinaries why the rain makes such a difference to the garden.I put a water tank in especially so I could make a vegie garden. Its ok I guess but one rainy morning and wow!! the vegies are busting out. So is it aeration? Ions? the pattern of raindrops? I'd love to know
Started 6 days, 21 hours ago (2009-11-24 07:21:00)
by S. Smith
The greatest lie in world history is now being exposed - what with the EnviroSocialist religious nuts do now? Loving it. "When you read some of those files - including 1079 emails and 72 documents - you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be "the greatest in modern science". These ...
Started 1 week ago (2009-11-24 04:52:00)
by zalbard
Source: http://www.fudzilla.com/ Quote: Chipmaker Intel has come up with a cunning plan to get rid of those pesky keyboards and mice and control computers using users' brainwaves. Researchers hope to harness brainwaves by sticking sensors in, guess what, our brains. Intel boffins claim there is no reason to fear an Orwellian future, as consumers will just ...
Started 1 week ago (2009-11-23 11:33:00)
by Just SC
Hi all, I have a particular problem with my Blackberry Curve 8900 and I am struggling to solve it with T-Mobile and 1and1. I was hoping some of the IT boffins on here could help. The problem: When I send an e mail from my blackberry the recipient gets it fine, however when they reply it doesnt get through to my blackberry. It will get through to my mail account (laptop outlook account) ...
