CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 6, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Cutting edge research on the formation of stars and a striking advance in mathematical game theory earned top honors tonight for Benjamin Clark and the team of James Pinkerton and Rafael Setra in the Regio…
Whether they’re switching channels to grown-up content, stuffing food in the Blu-ray player or using the TV cabinet as a jungle gym, your kids should be protected from your home theater gear — and the gear should be protected from your kids. Here’s how.
Section: Communications, Smartphones, MobileRIM is about to lose a few thousand BlackBerry users, as Dell is in the process of switching all of it’s employees over to the company’s latest smartphone offering. The announcement comes just …
Thanks to modern technology, I don’t have to remember a bunch of things such as web addresses (Xmarks), meetings (Outlook), and people’s faces (Facebook). That frees brain cycles for much more important activities, like video games. Howeve…
One hundred and sixty thousand citizens of Sydney, Australia had their faces photographed in order to make one set of composite faces for the city. See the faces of the city’s neighborhoods below.More »
conel writes “The Economist has a knowledgeable mainstream take on the restrictions publishers are forcing on e-books. From the article: ‘They wish you to engage in two separate hallucinations. First, that their limited license to read a work on a d…
A rocket carrying an Earth-observation satellite for civilian and military use has launched from California’s Central Coast.
If enough people complete them, tiny tasks can accomplish great things. Companies like Yelp, for instance, have used the input of millions to create review databases. iStockPhoto pools images from a huge group of photographers to make a cohesive col…
Calling Google’s collection of personal data over unsecured WiFi networks “very troubling,” a US congressman says CEO Eric Schmidt may be called to answer questions when the new Congress convenes next year. Representative Joe Barto…
Experts say governments treat ‘big name’ ailments like Aids and malaria when many which kill far more people in the developing world could be eradicated cheaplyMore than a billion victims of some of the world’s most pernicious ailments could be treated with drugs that have annual costs of less than 30p a person.However, the plight [...]
With a device you can buy in any high street, Professor Harald Haas is perfecting a revolutionary method of controlling digital information at the flick of a switch”Light can be gentle, dangerous, dream-like, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, spring-like, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft,” said the great Swedish cinematographer [...]
A Columbia professor’s study of what business can learn from beehives makes for an entertaining readWe should take seriously works that would have us learn from bees. These have an impressive lineage. For example, Sherlock Holmes retired to live the life of an apiarist in the Sussex Downs, where he wrote his great work, The [...]
This brilliantly coloured sea slug is a fierce predator of other marine lifeChromodoris socorroensis is a beautiful, translucent white to pinkish-coloured sea slug with large, salmon-red markings outlined by opaque white. Discovered under rocks in the Revillagigedo Islands off Mexico’s Pacific coast, these molluscs are no longer than 10mm. Like the more than 3,000 known [...]
Amazon will soon announce that it has acquired Quidsi, the owners of e-commerce websites Diapers.com and Soap.com, for a whopping $540 million in cash.According to Fortune, Quidsi’s co-founders, Marc Lore and Vinnie Bharara, have agreed to sti…
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