In the court documents the RIAA filed with the court, which were heavily redacted, the group claimed that someone launched the site Metapirate.com and started providing users with "several links to download the LimeWire Pirate Edition."

The RIAA has requested that Lime Wire assist with an investigation into the identity of the person calling himself or herself "Meta Pirate."

Researchers at Cern, home of the Large Hadron Collider, have held 38 antihydrogen atoms in place, each for a fraction of a second.

The team, reporting in Nature, says the ability to study such antimatter atoms will allow previously impossible tests of fundamental tenets of physics.

"We have a long way to go yet; these are atoms that don't live long enough to do anything with them. So we need a lot more atoms and a lot longer times before it's really useful - but one has to crawl before you sprint."

A TSA employee gave Mandy the pat down and she started screaming and kicking her legs.

Why was Mandy searched in the first place? She started crying when she was asked to put her teddy bear through the X-ray machine.

If the TSA is going to search kids, maybe they need a little training on how to do it--or at least employees should have a few lollipops or stickers in their pockets.

A Gizmodo investigation has revealed 100 of the photographs saved by the Gen 2 millimeter wave scanner from Brijot Imaging Systems, Inc., obtained by a FOIA request after it was recently revealed that U.S. Marshals operating the machine in the Orlando, Florida, courthouse had improperly - perhaps illegally - saved images of the scans of public servants and private citizens.

That we can see these images today almost guarantees that others will be seeing similar images in the future. If you're lucky, it might even be a picture of you or your family.

Two scientists are suggesting that colonization of the red planet could happen faster and more economically if astronauts behaved like the first settlers to come to North America - not expecting to go home.

Schulze-Makuch and Paul Davies, a physicist at Arizona State University, argue that humans must begin colonizing another planet as a hedge against a catastrophe on Earth. They believe the one-way trips could start in two decades.

Both men contend that Mars has abundant resources to help the colonists become self-sufficient over time. They write that the colony should be next to a large ice cave, to provide shelter from radiation, plus water and oxygen.

The website is also reporting that analysis of events, photos and friends on Facebook can be used to analyse email and sort messages by what it believes is the highest priority, something that doesn't seem creepy at all.

The majority of Facebook users who don't care one bit about their privacy are unlikely to give a passing thought about the ramifications of giving the firm access to their emails.

Could Hollywood's century-long grip on the world's entertainment spending finally be loosening, and why? The answer lies in three very different places: popcorn, the internet, and old-fashioned TV.

All the popcorn sounds like a great bonus to have on top of all the ticket sales they must make - but, in fact, popcorn is where much of their profit comes from.

People are just staying away from cinemas and doing something else, whether that's watching TV, surfing the internet, or playing games.

Movies aren't going away - Disney and Fox are here to stay, and I'm sure Avatar 2 and 3 will add a good few billion to global box-office takings - but they're becoming increasingly bland and mindless, and outgunned by the best TV.

"We have very recently become aware of unauthorized applications on the Internet purporting to use the LimeWire name," says the company. "We demand that all persons using the LimeWire software, name, or trademark in order to upload or download copyrighted works in any manner cease and desist from doing so.

We checked in with "MetaPirate," the hacker behind LimeWire: Pirate Edition. He has no plans to change what he's doing.

"Given the legal pressure that LimeWire is under," he said by e-mail, "it's understandable that they would urge us to stop distributing LimeWire Pirate Edition - but under the terms of the GPL, we have the right to continue doing so. LimeWire Pirate Edition is free software in the most irksome sense of the word."

In October, authorities in the Netherlands took down several servers associated with the Bredolab botnet. The action followed the September closure of spamit.com, a key player in the unlicensed pharmaceuticals spam racket, and arrests in the US, UK and Ukraine of scores of suspected members of a ZeuS phishing Trojan ring.

A similar study by Kaspersky Lab, published on Wednesday, also reports a drop in spam volumes in Q3 2010 to around 82.3 per cent. It credits the disabling of control nodes for the Pushdo / Cutwail botnet (blamed for one in 10 junk mail messages worldwide) and the closure of Spamit.com for the decline in spam volumes.

A small Netherlands based cable operator (CAI Harderwijk) has used DOCSIS3 (DOCSIS 3.0) technology, which is similar to the EuroDOCSIS3 standard employed by Virgin Media in the UK, to demonstrate a symmetric 100Mbps broadband (same speed both ways) service.

It is known that DOCSIS3 is theoretically able to reach a peak download speed of over 300Mbps (400Mbps+ with EuroDOCSIS3) and a little over 108Mbps for upload performance.