Day: August 8, 2006

Microsoft has decid­ed not to move for­ward with a ver­sion of Vir­tu­al PC for the Intel-based Mac­in­tosh, and will also be dis­con­tin­u­ing sup­port of Visu­al Basic script­ing in the next ver­sion of Office for Mac, the com­pa­ny said.

It’s not just Apple that’s failed to invade the liv­ing room. Com­put­er mak­ers have been try­ing to find space next to the couch for years, but so far all of these attacks have been repulsed.

The bac­te­ria that cause a com­mon food-borne ill­ness show low drug resis­tance in Aus­tralia, unlike sim­i­lar strains from the Unit­ed States and Europe, a study has found.

Dust storms on Mars appear to be cre­at­ing a snow of bleach­like chem­i­cals that make their way into the plan­et’s soil—rendering life as we know it impos­si­ble on the red plan­et’s sur­face, sci­en­tists report.

The robot that parks cars at the Gar­den Street Garage in Hobo­ken, New Jer­sey, trapped hun­dreds of its wards last week for sev­er­al days. But it was­n’t the tech­nol­o­gy car own­ers had to curse, it was the terms of a soft­ware license.

NASA’s solar-pow­ered rovers reached the dark­est part of the Mar­t­ian year on Tues­day, with the arrival of the win­ter sol­stice in the plan­et’s south­ern hemi­sphere. The rovers are suf­fer­ing from age­ing hard­ware, but con­tin­ue to reveal new things about Mars.