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Friday, 15 February 2013

World's Largest Crocodile to Be Preserved

Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Susan Li reports on the world's largest crocodile. She speaks on Bloomberg Television's "First Up." (Source: Bloomberg)

Thursday, 29 November 2012

Tweets in court land French lawyers in hot water

The pair are being investigated over a Twitter exchange which suggests they were frustrated with the pace of proceedings in an attempted murder case in a court in the Landes area of southwestern France.

Monday, 26 November 2012

Lonesome George, the Galapagos giant tortoise, could be back

Blood tests prove that Lonesome George, the Pinta Island giant tortoise who died last year, was not the last of his kind. . Report by Katie Lamborn.

Thursday, 22 November 2012

Bizarre Video Explores Slit Scanning

Whooooooooaa wait what? Welcome to the bizarre world of slit scan photography, a special effect created mechanically or digitally that results in warped and wobbly images. How does it work? Here’s my armchair filmmaker explanation: while regular photos and film give you a full frame image of a single moment in time, slit-scan photos and films capture the world just one line at a time. This results in a two dimensional image where one dimension is continuously (but still chronologically) displaced. Or something. This is by no means a new invention, slit scanning has been experimented with for decades and was even used extensively by Douglas Trumbull in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey back in 1968.

Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Tom Wolfe: "Back to Blood", Authors at Google

Legend of American literature Tom Wolfe stops by the Googleplex for a conversation with Rick Kleffel of NPR.

Mosasaur Shark Attack - Reign of the Dinosaurs

Sharks were still prowling the seas during the reign of the dinosaurs and here a mosasaur is on the attack when a group of sharks starts feeding on its young.

Monday, 16 April 2012

Facebook Timeline Tyranny

If you haven't been timelined yet, you eventually will be! Why can't Facebook let its users choose their page layout? Why is Timeline enforced on hundreds of millions of users? What is Timeline -- a perfect way to present one's biography or a way to get to know the dirty laundry of someone who hasn't cleaned his/her page yet? Does Facebook violate people's privacy, and should anyone who chooses to register on the website put up with any Facebook's initiative? CT-ing with Roman Karachinsky, Anita Ramasastry and Terry Carney.

Sunday, 15 April 2012

Sinking of the Titanic: A look back at the great ship

As the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking nears, the world prepares to remember one of the most devastating maritime disasters in history.

Thursday, 12 April 2012

New dinosaur 'proves' evolution into birds

A dinosaur discovered in Patagonia has been called the 'missing link' between the ancient creatures and modern birds. Report by Sam Datta-Paulin.

Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS

Time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011. All credit goes to them.

Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Megaupload Data Could Be Erased This Week

All the data on Megaupload – legal or illegal – could be erased as soon as Thursday, Feb. 2, the Associated Press reports. The file storage website hires outside companies – Carpathia Hosting Inc. and Cogent Communications Group Inc – to store its users’ data.

Friday, 27 January 2012

Idealab CEO anticipates power crunch as gadget boom goes global

As iPhones and tablets go global, where will the world plug in? Idealab CEO Bill Gross is hard at work on finding the best solutions for renewable energy to fuel this worldwide technology boom.

Apple Overtakes Samsung As World’s Largest Smartphone Vendor In Q4

According to the latest report from Strategy Analytics, Apple has now overtaken Samsung to become the world’s largest smartphone vendor by volume. Apple achieved 23.9% market share during Q4 2011, narrowly beating out Samsung’s 23.5% share.

In addition, Apple shipped 37 million units in Q4, again going neck-and-neck with Samsung and its 36.5 million units shipped during the same time.

Thursday, 26 January 2012

Putting a human cost on the iPad

Foxconn employees run for safety after a fatal explosion last May.

(Credit: YouTube)

A day after Apple announced record profits, a new report provides a detailed look at the conditions that workers at its suppliers in China have had to endure.

The company, which reported $13 billion in profits yesterday, has been plagued by reports of long hours, unsafe working conditions, and physical punishment of employees in factories that make parts for its popular devices. Dozens have been injured and a handful killed in explosions and other accidents at the plants.

A rocket star is born

The family of European rockets is growing. The next one is the youngest, called Vega and will be launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Google Privacy no more?

Google announced changes to its privacy policies that will allow the web giant to merge user data collected across multiple services, an update that promises to renew scrutiny over Google's privacy practices.

The new privacy policies go into effect on March 1.Users have no choice but to accept the changes, except, of course, to stop using Google's services.

Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Windows 8: Why the coming beta is likely to be labeled the 'consumer preview'

Summary: The coming Windows 8 beta is looking more and more like it will be called the “consumer preview.” Why the change in nomenclature?

Is Microsoft going to position the coming Windows 8 beta as a “consumer preview”? And if so, why?

Anonymous's Operation Global Blackout: ' Facebook will be next , January 28'

"While it is true that Facebook has at least 60,000 servers, it is still possible to bring it down." These are the words of the anonymous voice that purports to represent Anonymous in a video posted to YouTube today. "An online war has begun between Anonymous, the people, and the government of the United States," the narrator begins.

Thursday, 19 January 2012

Kodak goes bankrupt amid digital world of film

Eastman Kodak, the US-based company which brought photography to the masses over a century ago, has filed for bankruptcy protection after years of failing to become a profitable seller of modern consumer products.

Thursday, 20 October 2011

New vaccine fights malaria better, study shows

A mother and her baby sleep under a mosquito net. First results from a large-scale Phase III trial of RTS,S, published online in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), show the malaria vaccine can provide young African children with significant protection against clinical and severe malaria with an acceptable safety and tolerability. Photo | File

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