StarForce is developing a copy-protection scheme which operates on driver-level, and can prevent debugging tools and other hacking tools. – Now read, and then go buy a game!!

StarForce Interview and Piracy Discussion

Lucasfilm has announced the details of releasing the Star Wars episodes IV through VI on DVD as well as a bonus DVD with commentary.

Some of the slashdot comments reveal some of the changes done to the movies this time around. Like: “They updated the Jabba scene from ANH SE, now Jabba doesn’t look like he was rendered on a Nintendo64″

Slashdot | Star Wars on DVD

Mixel of slashdot writes “NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting saturn since the 30th of June has uncovered two previously unknown bodies.
‘The moons are approximately 3 kilometers (2 miles) and 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) across — smaller than the city of Boulder, Colorado.’ The Huygens probe will be deployed to the large (bigger than Mercury!) yet mysterious moon, Titan, in December.”

Slashdot | Two New Saturnian Moons

rmach of slashdot writes “Based on many years of work performed at ARL:UT, we have release GPSTk under the GNU LGPL. GPSTk is a cross platform library and set of applications that provides both fundamental and advanced GPS processing algorithms to the GPS and open source community. (more…)

Everyones favourite type of event has just been held in Kawasaki, Japan on 8th of August.

Humanoid combat robots are pitted against each other, this makes some hefty techno battles using weapons, kicks and punches – and ofcourse the most important; Technique!! – Gee, I wish I had been there..

Combat robots wow crowds?@ New Scientist

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