Tokyo, Japan – An ant colony rivalling the scale of human civilisation is right under our noses, according to Japanese and Spanish researchers.
Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) were originally native to South America, but have spread all over the globe.
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San Jose (CA) – The Mozilla team is rushing to create the first minor update for its just-released browser Firefox 3.5 for a mid- to late July release.
- The update will fix at least three of 55 published bugs in the new browser.
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By the end of August 100,000 people a day will succumb to the swine flu virus in the UK, the government said today.
The government has said that there’s no longer any need to test people for swine flu because it’s still relatively mild.
A city called Birmingham in England is the hotspot for swine flu, as well as a town in Scotland and the capital city of Great Britain – that’s London.
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Apple is working to fix a critical vulnerability in the iPhone’s text messaging function, says security researcher Charlie Miller. Presenting at the SyScan conference in Singapore, Miller explains that while he has agreed with Apple to avoid details — at least until the next Black Hat USA meeting — he can say that the vulnerability might allow a hacker to run exploits on a remote phone, using code sent through SMS. In theory an affected phone could be used to track a person’s location, or listen in on ambient conversations; alternately, it could be made to participate in a botnet or a denial-of-service attack.
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Apple and NVIDIA may be engaged in a fierce dispute that could exclude NVIDIA graphics chips from future Macs, according to sources reportedly aware of the talks. They claim to SemiAccurate that Apple views NVIDIA’s proposals for renewed deals as “arrogance” and that much of the argument centers on the overheating material that triggered widespread failures in all GeForce 8400M and 8600M mobile graphics chips. The Mac firm has had to extend MacBook Pro warranties for up to three years and may be skeptical of NVIDIA’s insistence that newer models aren’t at risk of the same problem.
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A new version of Facebook for iPhone OS 3.0 is coming very soon with 15 major improvements including Events, according to developer Joe Hewitt.
The update is about 98% done and upon completion will be submitted to Apple for approval.
So Whats New in This Update?
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Hotmail customers in the US, Canada, and Brazil can now add other e-mail accounts to Hotmail.
you can see any POP-enabled e-mail account (including Yahoo! Mail (Plus), AOL Mail, and Gmail) right from your Hotmail account. You can put all of your messages together in your inbox or each e-mail account in its own folder, your choice.
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A list of some of the new features found in the developer seed of iPhone OS 3.1 has been compiled by the iPhone Blog.
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