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The Pentagon is still grappling with how to write the rules of cyberwarfare, such as when and how to fire back against a computer-based attack, senior military leaders told Congress on Wednesday.

Four months ago the military’s top cyberwarrior predicted the rules would be ironed out in a “month or two” and sent to other federal agencies for discussion. But the complex world of cyberspace, which has no real boundaries and operates at the speed of light, has proven to be a difficult battlefield for the military to map out.

» via Army Times

Security devices that invade our privacy are about to take a giant leap forward with a scanner that can tell what you had for breakfast from 50 metres away

As striking as it is, the illusion of depth now routinely offered by 3-D movies is a paltry facsimile of a true three-dimensional visual experience. In the real world, as you move around an object, your perspective on it changes. But in a movie theater showing a 3-D movie, everyone in the audience has the same, fixed perspective — and has to wear cumbersome glasses, to boot.

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Scientists at the University of South Carolina have found a way to use a cheap T-shirt to store electrical power.

A paper version of an Olympic torch has started a round-the-country relay, after being sold on an online auction site by a five-year-old boy. Logan McKerrow had the idea after seeing real Olympic torches for sale on the internet for thousands of pounds. His torch has been bought and re-sold a number of times, by people hoping to help him raise money for the Hearing Dogs for Deaf People charity.

A live television programme in Jordan descended into chaos, with a politician threatening an opponent with a gun. The debate between MP Mohammad Shawabka and political activist Mansour Murad became heated after the two men traded insults with each other. The politician then hurled his shoe at Mr Murad and brandished a pistol at him. No shots were fired and no-one was too seriously hurt.