U.S. regulators have approved a test that reportedly can predict who are at high risk for a return of cancer after surgical removal of the prostate gland.

The test, known as Prostate PX, uses advanced computer technology and digital imaging to determine an individual’s risk for a recurrence of cancer, reports The Washington Times.

Source: ScienceDaily

Future releases of the most popular BitTorrent client, Azureus, will come bundled with a ‘platform’ for media companies to promote their product to Azureus’ multi-million users, reports Slyck.com. Azureus Inc., who are the newly formed company behind the Azureus software, plan to generate a profit from the platform in the future, but in the short-term are hoping to help independent film companies find their audience.

Source: Slashdot

Prof. Yuval Ne’eman, 80, a world-acclaimed physicist, multi-talented academic, one of Israel’s most prominent scientists and a right-wing ideologue, died on Wednesday at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center after suffering a stroke.

Born in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1925, he was not only the initiator of the Science and Technology Ministry and twice minister but also the founder and chairman of the Israel Space Agency.

Source: jpost.com

Mozilla announced the winners of its Firefox Flicks video contest at the San Francisco International Film Festival. The winning videos were selected from nearly 300 submissions created by Firefox enthusiasts from around the world, who responded to the opportunity to help promote Firefox through short film.

The grand prize winner, “Daredevil,” will be short-listed for the NY Festival of Advertising’s 2006 International Advertising Awards in May, and the finalists’ Firefox videos will be incorporated into Mozilla’s 2006 marketing activities. The contest and the announcement of the winners wrap up the initial launch of the Firefox Flicks campaign, which will continue throughout 2006.

Google Inc. has seeped into many aspects of online life across the globe, but the Internet search engine has failed so far to make any notable inroads in one of the world’s most-wired countries: South Korea.

Google referred only about 17 percent of unique visitors to other sites in March, according to the Web analytics company WebSideStory. Another research company, KoreanClick, found that Google’s Korean site referred only about 10.8 percent of unique visitors in February.

The search-engine field here is ruled by local NHN Corp.’s Naver Web site, whose links accounted for nearly 58.4 percent of search referrals, according to WebSideStory.

Source: AP