Date: Thu, 12. May 2011 08:04:24

Valve has announced the beta release of a set of authoring tools for Portal 2, allowing users to create their own puzzles and challenges in the name of science. "The Portal 2 Authoring Tools include versions of the same tools we used to make Portal 2. They'll allow you to create your own singleplayer and co-op maps, new character skins, 3D models, sound effects, and music." The tools are available for free to anyone who owns the PC version of the game. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Tue, 10. June 2008 15:04:05

jexrand recommends an interview with John De Goes in which he argues: "The tools market is dead. Open source killed it." The software developer turned president of N-BRAIN explains the effect that open source has had on the developer tools market, and how this forced the company to release the personal edition of UNA free of charge. According to De Goes, selling a source-code editor, even a very good one, is all but impossible in the post-open source era, especially given that, "Some developers would rather quit their job than be forced to use a new editor or IDE." N-BRAIN's decision is but one in a string of similar announcements from tools companies announcing the free release of their previously commercial development tools.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Wed, 21. October 2009 00:56:34

AP - The government should start screening truck and bus drivers, commercial pilots, train engineers and merchant sailors for sleep apnea, a disorder that is cropping up in transportation accidents, federal safety investigators said Tuesday.

Date: Wed, 24. August 2011 22:33:33

AP - A judge agreed Wednesday to suppress statements an ex-Soviet officer dubbed the Merchant of Death made to U.S. investigators before he was transferred from Thailand to New York last year to face charges he sold arms to terrorists.

Date: Sat, 25. February 2012 02:29:33

AP - With only eight days to live, a wealthy, ailing Massachusetts merchant wrote in his will 351 years ago that he was leaving a spectacular 35-acre seafront property for the benefit of public school children, decreeing the land should never be sold or wasted.

Date: Wed, 21. October 2009 00:56:34

AP - The government should start screening truck and bus drivers, commercial pilots, train engineers and merchant sailors for sleep apnea, a disorder that is cropping up in transportation accidents, federal safety investigators said Tuesday.

Date: Tue, 10. June 2008 15:06:40

With organisations in 2007 having fallen victim to major data breaches how does a merchant or retailer make sure that they are not held liable for customer credit card details being lost or stolen and how can they keep up to date with the latest security

Date: Thu, 12. July 2007 23:55:46

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Date: Sun, 17. August 2008 07:28:05

AP - Nine years of sleuthing, advanced DNA science and cutting-edge forensic techniques have finally put a name to a mummified hand and arm found in an Alaska glacier.

Date: Thu, 2. February 2012 02:26:11

AP - A treasure hunter said Wednesday he has located the wreck of a British merchant ship that was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Cod during World War II while carrying what he claims was a load of platinum bars now worth more than $3 billion.