The device was discovered by authorities near the cockpit of Southwest Airlines Flight 157 after arriving from Kansas City shortly before 4PM on Sunday.

The TSA evacuated gates 3 through 15 as a precautionary measurement against the “deadly” science project. In all, 11 people were detained in connection with the device. The incident caused ongoing flight delays at the Dallas airport, including three that had to be diverted.

They have become the first organisms to be observed alive in a scanning electron microscope and survive the experience.

The researchers speculate that the ticks stop breathing whilst exposed to the vacuum. By exposing ticks to vacuum alone and vacuum plus electron beam, Tomosugi's team found that the beam does damage the ticks, but doesn't kill them outright.

Lawyers for the trade group told the court that they had been informed MegaUpload's lawyers had already obtained the data they needed to make their case, according to court documents. Regardless, the MPAA said that handing over the servers to the company risked enabling the resurrection of MegaUpload.

"There may unfortunately be users whose legitimate files are now caught up in the illegal activity of MegaUpload," MPAA lawyers wrote in their motion. "We are sympathetic to those users, although we do not know how many there actually are as the Goodwin brief only identifies one."

Paramount Pictures’ vice president for worldwide content protection identified Fileserve, MediaFire, Wupload, Putlocker and Depositfiles as prime targets that should be shuttered next.

Whether the Department of Justice will act on new referrals from the movie studios has yet to be seen. For now they have their hands full on Megaupload, whose founder told TorrentFreak that his defense teams is working on a killer motion in response to the “nonsense” US indictment.

To promote the feeling that Timeline is a true chronology of a person's (or company's) lifetime, the dates of photos and events can be adjusted to appear in line with when the moment actually occurred. Users are prompted to add photos of major life events starting with their date of birth. Visitors to a user’s Timeline page can quickly navigate to a year to see those embarrassing prom photos from high school.

With today’s mandatory Pages migration and user profile migration already underway, it’s better to learn about the new service and get the most out of it since Facebook shows no sign of rolling back to whatever version you thought best.

As expected, Eurocrats are anxious to probe the mega-merger of Universal EMI, fearing the effect on digital music markets.

Unnamed sources at Universal have briefed journalists that the competitive threat of digital piracy means consolidation should be permitted. Critics have pointed out that the merged entity's 40+ per cent market share would make it the king-maker for digital music services – and that no service would then survive without Universal's catalogue.

'This is some of the best driving I've ever done,' Steve Mahan said the other day. Mahan was behind the wheel of a Toyota Prius tooling the small California town of Morgan Hill in late January, a routine trip to pick up the dry cleaning and drop by the Taco Bell drive-in for a snack. He also happens to be 95 percent blind.

Google announced the self-driving car project in 2010. It relies upon laser range finders, radar sensors, and video cameras to navigate the road ahead, in order to make driving safer, more enjoyable and more efficient — and clearly more accessible.

Sentencing Stacey at Swansea Magistrates' Court, District Judge John Charles told him: "In my view, there is no alternative to an immediate prison sentence.

"It was not the football world who was praying for [Muamba].... everybody was praying for his life."

Writing on Twitter, Lord Sugar - former Spurs chairman - saying "Be warned idiots!," while Gary Lineker posted "Let it be a warning to all you immature souls. #thinkbeforeyoutweet".

"On Friday, at the request of the TSA, I was removed from the witness list," Schneier wrote on his blog. "The excuse was that I am involved in a lawsuit against the TSA, trying to get them to suspend their full-body scanner program. But it's pretty clear that the TSA is afraid of public testimony on the topic, and especially of being challenged in front of Congress. They want to control the story, and it's easier for them to do that if I'm not sitting next to them pointing out all the holes in their position. Unfortunately, the committee went along with them."

When users try to send an instant message to a friend with a link from The Pirate Bay, Windows Live Messenger displays a warning, saying that the link is "blocked because it was reported as unsafe."

Microsoft's apparent decision to block The Pirate Bay might conjure up privacy fears among those who don't necessarily want the software giant limiting what they can and cannot do on the service.

According to TorrentFreak, however, The Pirate Bay appears to be the only major downloading site affected. Other prominent sites, according to the blog, can still be accessed via links in Windows Live Messenger.