Items tagged with bug

   Page: 1 2

A Better Bug for Biofuels Friday, September 25th, 2009 - 18:20:33 - Anuradha Menon While most attempts to engineer biofuel-producing microbes have focused on well-known organisms such as yeasts and E. coli, scientists also hope to... read more

Resurrection Bug Revived After 120,000 Years Monday, June 15th, 2009 - 14:12:05 - Ehud Rattner A tiny bacterium has been coaxed back to life after spending 120,000 years buried three kilometres deep in the Greenland ice sheet. Researchers who... read more

Cyborg Moth Gets a New Radio Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 - 14:51:29 - Anuradha Menon Attempts by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create cybernetic insects (hybrids of biological and electronic bugs) have... read more

Zune 'Bug' Fixed, Says Microsoft Monday, January 5th, 2009 - 09:53:04 - Ehud Rattner The glitch that froze many older Zune music players should now have been cleared, says Microsoft. Many owners of 30GB Zune players found that the... read more

Zune Chokes on Leap- Year Bug Thursday, January 1st, 2009 - 14:09:15 - Anuradha Menon Microsoft's Zune 30GB music player just wasn't ready for a leap year. That's what owners of the devices discovered Wednesday morning when they awoke... read more

US to Develop Bug-Sized, Flying Spies Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 - 16:52:20 - Iddo Genuth If only we could be a fly on the wall when our enemies are plotting to attack us. Better yet, what if that fly could record voices, transmit video... read more

Amazon Ants are of the Oldest Lineage Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 - 12:07:54 - Anuradha Menon A new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant discovered in the Amazon rainforest by University of Texas at Austin evolutionary biologist... read more

Apple Fixes DNS Bug Monday, August 4th, 2008 - 21:32:03 - Ehud Rattner Mixed in with 16 other vulnerabilities, Apple has finally issued a patch to fix the infamous Kaminsky DNS bug in their version of BIND in OS X... read more

Mozilla: Firefox 3.0 Bug Not Critical Saturday, June 21st, 2008 - 16:18:40 - Iddo Genuth Mozilla has downplayed a threat posed by the first vulnerability reported for Firefox 3.0, telling users that the risk is "minimal."... read more

Microsoft Try to Patch Windows Home Server Saturday, June 14th, 2008 - 10:57:18 - Iddo Genuth Microsoft said this week that it has begun sending out a patched release candidate of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1, which fixes the file... read more

   Page: 1 2