Sugar Within Human Bodies Could Power Future Artificial Organs
The advent of the artificial heart has spurred scientists to pursue synthetic kidneys and pancreases as well. Still, one key obstacle to realizing such devices is powering them after they have been implanted. Instead of having to constantly recharge

Free Software Foundation Talks Potential of Googles On2 Deal (WebProNews)
Last summer, Google announced that it would be acquiring video compression technology developer On2 Technologies . A couple weeks ago, Google announced that the acquisition had closed. Upon the completion of this acquisition, the nonprofit Free Softw

CodePros Job Prospector Offers Help for People Who Are Unemployed or Under Threat of Redundancy (ITNews)
EXETER, England, September 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Searching for a job is not about working harder, its about working. Job Prospector from CodePro is an easy to use computer program that handles the large amounts of information people generate when job sea

Goldman Sachs case; can open-source software be stolen? (ARNnet)
Arrested last month for stealing cutting-edge trading software from his former employer, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., programmer Sergey Aleynikov offered up an interesting defense: he was only trying to download open-source software.

Tesla plane-crash victims identified (San Francisco Chronicle)
Tesla Motors identified three of its employees Thursday as the victims of a plane crash in East Palo Alto, including an electrical engineer who lived just a few blocks from the scene. "Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with their families