Egyptens justitieminister Ahmed Mekki har avgått, uppger tjänstemän på justitiedepartementet.

hessian writes with a story at Wired (excerpt below) about a project from Drew Endy of the International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology, or BIOFAB, to standardize a programming language connecting genetic information from DNA to the cell components that DNA can create. "The BIOFAB project is still in the early stages. Endy and the team are creating the most basic of building blocks — the 'grammar' for the language. Their latest achievement, recently reported in the journal Science, has been to create a way of controlling and amplifying the signals sent from the genome to the cell. Endy compares this process to an old fashioned telegraph. 'If you want to send a telegraph from San Francisco to Los Angeles, the signals would get degraded along the wire,' he says. "At some point, you have to have a relay system that would detect the signals before they completely went to noise and then amplify them back up to keep sending them along their way.""

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A new rocket launches from the US eastern seaboard to prove its readiness to help service the International Space Station (ISS).

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Syriska styrkor lojala med president Bashar al-Assad dödade minst 85 personer, när de stormade en förort till huvudstaden Damaskus efter fem dagars strider, uppgav oppositionella aktivister på söndagen.

Kina uppdaterar antalet smittade i den nya fågelinfluensan H7N9.

An anonymous reader writes "What do you get mugged in Central London and the local police are too incompetent to find a mugger even with his address and photograph? You may not be able to get to the laptop, but you still own the photos and data on it, so you set up the NSFW Plumpergeddon blog which gives details of the subsequent 'owner's' 'Brick House Butts' fetishes. Now of course later the IT media might get interested and offer an interview with a promise to let him review the article and keep his name secret. luckily our hero is not so innocent and demonstrates the value of using a false name on the internet as well as planting your own monitoring software on your laptop."

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Police chief says amount of "firepower" found at scene gives reason to believe Tsarnaev brothers plotted more attacks.

Över hälften av de 166 fångar som fortfarande är inspärrade på den amerikanska militärbasen Guantanamo har anslutit sig till en pågående hungerstrejk för att protestera mot att de sitter där på obestämd tid.

kkleiner writes "Willow Garage spinoff IPI has developed a visual system for its line of robotic arms that enable the machines to perceive a specific object in the midst of random ones. On-site videos show the 'sensing' robots analyzing stacks of random boxes, selecting certain ones, and tossing them to a human handler. The software is also used in an automated box unloader that requires no human supervision."

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