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Live from the Macworld 2009 keynote

Don#039;t forget kids, Apple (and our main man Phil Schiller) will be doing its final Macworld thing live and direct come Tuesday morning, and as usual, we#039;ll be there doing what we do: liveblogging the hell out of it. Set your alarms, wake the neighbors, and settle in for the mind-blowingest keynote you done ever seen. Here#039;s where you need to check in on Tuesday, January 6th:

Other relics include coins depicting the late second-century Roman emperor Commodus, depicted in the Oscar-winning Hollywood epic quot;Gladiatorquot; -- a film that opens with a scene of battle against a barbarian horde that scientists say appears to be largely accurate. And Loenne said her team may have only begun to scratch the surface of the forest.

The following software and drivers are compatible with your product and the operating system Microsoft Windows Vista

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, a strong proponent of the plan, has repeatedly stressed that the database would not include the contents of any communication. Still, the sheer quantity of data would provide a highly detailed portrait of the movements and activities of individuals

Hashing algorithms—mathematical functions that produce a short quot;fingerprintquot; from pieces of data—are one of the cornerstones of computer security. These fingerprints, named hashes, are used in password systems, in the public key infrastructure (PKI) that makes online shopping relatively safe, and in many file distribution systems. In each case, the hash is used because of an important property that hash algorithms all have: they are one-way functions.

Updated It would appear that a Microsoft software bug has put the world#039;s 30GB Zune population on the verge of extinction.

Earlier this month, the OpenCL specification was released by the Khronos group. Khronos is a group made up of representatives from companies in the computing industry. The group focuses on creating and managing standards for graphics, multimedia and parallel computing on everything from mobile devices to desktop and workstation computers. Part of Khronos#039; charge is OpenGL and all it#039;s relatives with the Open- prefix, so naming also makes sense.

Terry Pratchett has admitted he#039;s quot;flabbergastedquot; to be awarded a knighthood for services to literature in the New Year Honours list.