2003.05.19 - 2003.05.25   |   A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every Sunday.

RELATED STORIES: DARPA's "LifeLog" big brother ambition. US price cuts for all major game-consoles. 130 online swindlers arrested. Nintendo posts lower profit. SGI cuts 400 jobs. All major credit card firms sued. Sony & IBM team up on SetTop boxes. Samsung shows breakthrough LCD screen. Hitachi Maxell claim storage breakthrough. RELATED STORIES: Unusual solar eclipse coming up (May 31:st). Close by Red Dwarf star detected. 2 supermassive black holes orbit each other. Soldiers of Future get nanotechnology boost. NASA researchers control the speed of light.

RELATED STORIES: Intel launches new CPU's & chip-sets. Chip biz to grow 8% according to Gartner. VIA prepares the KT600 Athlon chip-set. VIA's new line of Pentium chip-sets. nVidia preparing new nForce Southbridge? Opteron dissected. AMD warns of Flash-mem shortage. Playstation 2's work fine in Linux cluster. RELATED STORIES: KaZaA sets world record in downloads. M$ firewall doesn't block IP v6 traffic. Napster back from the dead? nVidia accused of cheating with drivers. New virus poses as Microsoft support mail. PayPal targeted by scammers again.