Sony is recalling 3.5m faulty power adapters which were sold with the black PlayStation 2 slimline version between August and December 2004.
It said the power adapter could overheat, causing damage or injury.
The free-standing adapters were sold for the special slimline version of the successful games console. Sony had 40 complaints in the US about them.
Sony said it would replace returned adapters for free. Two-thirds of the affected consoles were sold in Europe.
About 960,000 of the units were sold in the US, 210,000 in Asia and 60,000 in Japan, according to Sony.
More than 50,000 slimline PlayStation 2s were sold in the UK during its first week on sale in November.
Matt
(Source: BBC News)
Microsoft plans to make its next generation games console, the Xbox 360, as difficult as possible to hack.
The 360 will have security built directly into the hardware, said Xbox engineer Chris Satchell.
Fans have modified the first Xbox to turn it into a media centre, upgrade the hard drive or allow it to play imported games.
Modifying a console is illegal in the UK as it can be used to get around anti-piracy measures on the Xbox.
While I don’t condone piracy in any form, I think its a really bad idea for Microsoft to shout about the 360 and it being hack proof. That’s basically asking inviting any would-be hacker to give it a try!
Matt
(Source: BBC News)
In a recent Memo Nasa warns that there may not be any more shuttle missions for at least a year. This is because of the fuel tank problems and hurricane Katrina. Nasa’s Michoud facility is in New Orleans so has been affected by the recent hurricane as well as the on-going affects.
Matt
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I was watching a program on TV this morning about astro physics. In one part they were talking about the size of our galaxy and went on to say ‘Here is a photograph of our galaxy’. Surely it cant be a photograph, it must be a digital impression of what we think it looks like?
How do scientist know what it looks like? Voyager 1 is the farthest man made object but she hasn’t left our galaxy has she?
Matt
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Nasa has turned the Hubble Space Telescope to point at the moon to begin lookig for a suitable site to build a ‘Moon Base’.
What Nasa is looking for are sites with a good supply of ilmenite, a mineral from which to extract oxygen, hydrogen and helium. As well as producing air and water, the flammable gases could be burned to generate electricity. Nasa scientists know to look for ilmenite, as it was found in soil samples brought back by the Apollo missions.
Nasa is looking to build a colony on the Moon as soon as 2018. I wonder if they will decide to build on my Lunar Plot? I wonder what rent I could charge!
Matt
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Two men, one in Morocco and one in Turkey, have been arrested over the unleashing of a computer worm that affected US firms earlier this month.
Moroccan authorities detained Farid Essebar, 18, while Atilla Ekici, 21, was arrested by Turkish authorities on Thursday, the FBI said.
They are believed to be responsible for the Zotob worm that targeted computers using Microsoft operating systems.
More than 100 firms were affected including CNN and The New York Times.
He said the two men would face prosecution in their native countries with FBI officials providing evidence.
See earlier post about Patching Windows
Matt
(Sources: BBC News/Yahoo News)
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Discovery has been successfully de-mated from Nasa’s specially modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and has now been towed into the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3 where the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Raffaello, still inside, will be removed from the payload bay and transferred to the Space Station Processing Facility.
What is interesting is that Nasa are now calling this latest mission a ‘Test Mission’. Previously it was called their ‘Return To Flight’ mission. Is this a damage limitation exercise?
Matt
(Image credit: NASA/KSC)
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Discovery was demated from the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft early Monday morning at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Discovery was towed late Monday afternoon to the nearby Orbiter Processing Facility, where it will be readied for mission STS-121.
Matt
(Image credit: NASA/KSC)
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Within the last few minutes the Space Shuttle Discovery touched down safely at Kenedy Space Center in Florida.
Matt
(Image credit: NASA/KSC)
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The shuttle Discovery has been delayed as it heads home to Florida’s Kennedy Space Center from Edwards Air Force Base in California.
The orbiter is riding piggyback on a modified jumbo jet, more than a week after it landed in the Mojave desert.
The pair arrived in Louisana on Friday for an overnight stop, but bad weather has delayed departure until Sunday.
The 3,591km (2,232 mile) trip is expected to cost the US space agency a hefty $1m (£560,000).
Matt
(NASA photo by Carla Thomas)
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