The time is 22:00 (UTC) on January 4, 2007, and this is Audio Wikinews News Briefs. Contents 1 Headlines 1.1 Australian Police net $540 million in “liquid ecstacy” 1.2 Record number of bicycles sold in Australia in 2006 1.3 Saddam’s co-defendants to be executed Thursday 1.4 Britain makes final World War II debt payments 2 […]
Keep your eyes peeled for cosmic debris: Andrew Westphal about Stardust@home
Sunday, May 28, 2006 Stardust is a NASA space capsule that collected samples from comet 81P/Wild (also known as “Wild 2) in deep space and landed back on Earth on January 15, 2006. It was decided that a collaborative online review process would be used to “discover” the microscopically small samples the capsule collected. The […]
Getting even with the law: Wikinews interviews New York City’s ‘Jimmy Justice’
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 “What bothers me is watching an officer write someone a summons and then commit the exact same violation with their official vehicle. A civilian known as ‘Jimmy Justice’ who resides in New York City (NYC), New York, the largest city in the United States, has been videotaping NYC police officers and […]
Spelbound declared winner of Britain’s Got Talent 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010 An acrobatic group known by the name of Spelbound has been declared as the winner of Britain’s Got Talent 2010, a televised variety talent show competition broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom. As the winning act of the show, Spelbound have won £100,000 (US$144,580, €120,313, A$175,079) and a place at […]
Oil prices at new high on fears of Turkish attack in Iraq
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Crude oil rose to an all-time high during trading in Asia to close at US$86.13 a barrel, up $2.44. The price of Brent Crude futures was at $84.40 at 6:39 a.m.. Crude stock futures at 6:08 a.m. (eastern time in the United States were trading at $87.52, nearing $90.00 a barrel. […]
Toyota Venza Suv}
Toyota Venza SUV by Richard Lauren Whenever the name of SUV comes into the ears of the youngsters, they all want to get that vehicle. Basically, SUV means sports utility vehicle. These are vehicles with extra utilities that are capable of taking the vehicle to the sports criteria. In Toyota Venza the sports utilities that […]
Wikinews interviews 0 A.D. game development team
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 0 A.D. is a historical, open source, strategy game, published by Wildfire Games. It focuses on the period between 500BC and 500AD. The game will be released in two parts: the first covering the pre-AD period, and the second running to 500AD. With development well underway, Wikinews interviewed the development team. […]
GNU Hurd operating system: first user program run using L4 microkernel
Saturday, February 5, 2005 A collaboratively-developed operating system kernel known as GNU Hurd has been made bootable using the L4 microkernel, which provides room for significant speed improvements over an existing implementation using the Mach microkernel. The newer architecture also has a more lively developer community. Developer Marcus Brinkmann made the historic step and finished […]
Category:Science and technology
This is the category for science and technology. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 25 November 2017: Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands 24 November 2017: Singapore announces driverless buses on public roads from 2022 6 November 2017: U.S. government report says climate change is human-made 3 November […]
Las Vegas ‘chili finger’ woman has history of lawsuits
Monday, April 11, 2005 Anna Ayala, the Las Vegas woman who claims to have found the notorious “chili finger” at a Wendy’s outlet in San Jose, California, has filed lawsuits against other businesses, according to researchers at the Associated Press. Her previous court battles included the national El Pollo Loco chicken-chain, a previous employer, and […]