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AUSTRALIAN food prices are set to skyrocket within a few years on the back of global shortages and rising fuel prices, experts predict.

THEY are the measure of star quality that the television stations don’t want you to see.

TRYING to help Africa, George Bush talked up a 2003 aid fund and Bono told Japan that China was better.

AN elephant named “Osama bin Laden” that has killed more than 11 people and injured dozens over the past few months was shot dead in eastern India, officials said today.

Star Trek lovers drooled earlier this week when Telstra, the Australian phone company, used a hologram to beam its chief technology officer from Melbourne to a business meeting about 460 miles away in Adelaide.

Hugh Bradlow, Telstra’s CTO, was filmed in Melbourne by a high-definition video camera. The video …

Good things happen to software publishers that listen to their users.

Fring, an aggressively growing company that builds a chat and cheap calling application for Symbian, iPhone, and Windows Mobile platforms, heeded a swell of feedback from iPod Touch users who had been using the pre-release iPhone version for jailbroken …

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OK, all you coders toiling in obscurity, are you wondering how the other half lives–the programmers who live the glam rich Internet application lifestyle, ditching Win32 and C++ for Web-based APIs and Python?

A few hundred of them …

The U.S. Congress may soon vote on a new “compromise” spy law that would still likely derail pending suits against AT&T and other companies accused of opening their networks to the government in violation of wiretap law.

Democratic leaders, facing intense election year pressure from Republicans and …

Are Twitter’s performance problems due to flimsy engineering or the choice of Ruby on Rails to build the application?

In the Twitter developer blog on Thursday, an engineer said that Ruby on Rails still rocks as a Web development platform. The service’s woes are due more to a …

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Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are using low-cost titanium powders to develop lightweight, corrosion-resistant, bulletproof alloys for military vehicles and what they hope to be other military and commercial applications.

The latest project is a titanium door for the next-generation Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, …