Iranian media reported Sunday that a new air-to-ground missile has been tested. The missile, which has been under development for a long time, had a range of 110 km, and was designed to target ships. Defence analysts are theorising that “the missile test was a signal by Iran that ‘we can severely disrupt traffic’ in the Gulf if attacked.”

In January last year, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) announced the test release of one of their most popular shows through BitTorrent. The show was made available in high quality (MPEG4, 1024×576, 25fps, no DRM) through the Amazon S3 tracker. The release was an experiment, but with roughly 8000 downloads the first day (Norway has a population of 4.6 million), it was considered a success. This week, NRK announced that they are setting up their own BitTorrent tracker, based on the same software the the Pirate Bay uses.

Stem cell research in the U.S. gets its restrictions lifted, stem cell research in Canada shows why this is a good idea.

Going from the physical printed medium to the web is going from rigid to fluid. It lets us manage and process information in entirely different ways, and the data takes on a very different form. Instead of the restrictions that come with the physical medium, we have an immense flexibility that the rapid growth of technology has made possible.

This feature will examine how the work of John Carmack has contributed to the design of contemporary 3D computer games.