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Hackers Target Pirate Bay Prosecution Law Firm
Written on 30 Apr, 2009 at 0:55 in Featured, Technology | viewed 359 views times and users have made 1 comment so far
During the Pirate Bay trial Monique Wadsted represented several major movie studios and called for a “very significant” prison sentence for the defendants. This didn’t go down particularly well with some Pirate Bay supporters and now, in a retaliatory move, a few of them have now taken down her law firm’s website. Full Story : Torrentfreak.com…..
First Face Cream to Remove Wrinkles
Written on 29 Apr, 2009 at 22:47 in Featured, Science | viewed 479 views times and users have made 1 comment so far
The scientist who invented the revolutionary skin cream spoke yesterday of the secret, military-style operation which he hopes will up-end the multi-billion-pound global cosmetics industry. Stewart Long, chief scientific adviser to Boots, said the 160-year-old Nottingham company had stockpiled “warehouses full” of the cream ahead of today’s publication of an independent scientific evaluation of the product. Full Story : Independent.co.uk…..
Obama welcomes Australia’s decision to increase troops to Afghanistan
Written on 29 Apr, 2009 at 21:55 in Featured, Politics | viewed 303 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
U.S. President Barack Obama welcomes Australia’s decision to increase troops to Afghanistan, saying Canberra’s contribution is “critical” to prevent the central Asian country from becoming terrorists’ safe heaven, the White House said on Wednesday. President Obama called Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Tuesday evening (U.S. Eastern Time) and thanked him for the decision to “increase military, civilian and financial commitment to Afghanistan,” said the White House in a statement. Full Story : Xinhua.net…..
Osama Bin Laden Believed Dead By Pak Intel
Written on 29 Apr, 2009 at 12:20 in Featured, Product | viewed 761 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Pakistan’s president said Monday his intelligence agencies believe Osama bin Laden may be dead, but he added there is no proof. Other Pakistani officials and a U.S. counterterrorism official said they thought the al-Qaida chief is alive. Full Story : Huffingtonpost…….
Many on Twitter are quick quitters
Written on 29 Apr, 2009 at 12:15 in Featured, Technology | viewed 524 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Data from Nielsen Online, which measures Internet traffic, found that more than 60 percent of Twitter users stopped using the free social networking site a month after joining. President Barack Obama used Twitter during last year’s campaign and other prominent celebrities on Twitter include basketballer Shaquille O’Neal and singers Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus. Full Story : MSNBC…..
More Than Half of Americans Living with Dirty Air
Written on 29 Apr, 2009 at 12:05 in Featured, Nature | viewed 296 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
More than half of America’s population, 186.1 million people to be exact, live and breathe in communities with dangerously high levels of air pollution, new research shows. Eighty million more Americans (175 million) than last year live in areas with unacceptably high smog (ozone) levels too many days of the year, reflecting both a warmer climate as well as new ozone standards. Full Story : AJC……
European Envoys Fail to Win Sri Lankan Ceasefire
Written on 29 Apr, 2009 at 11:55 in Featured, Politics | viewed 258 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The top envoys of two of the United Nations Security Council permanent members are the latest diplomats to apply pressure on Sri Lanka, amid fears of a humanitarian crisis as a 25-year civil war on the island appears near its end. The British and French foreign ministers met Wednesday with Sri Lanka’s leaders and visited displacement camps in the north. The diplomats failed to secure an immediate truce and only partly succeeded in gaining a government pledge to give international humanitarian workers improved access to refugee Tamils. Full Story :VOANews…….
Feds inquire into Google’s book publishing settlement
Written on 29 Apr, 2009 at 11:45 in Featured, Technology | viewed 479 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The Department of Justice is looking into a proposed settlement by Google Inc. with authors of books it wants to put online, according to news reports. Google made the settlement with representatives of book publishers and authors such as the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild. As part of the deal, Google said it would pay $125 million into a book rights fund used to pay authors and publishers. Full Story : BusinessJournal…..
SKorean experts claim to have cloned glowing dogs
Written on 28 Apr, 2009 at 21:35 in Featured, Science | viewed 417 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
South Korean scientists say they have engineered four beagles that glow red using cloning techniques that could help develop cures for human diseases. The four dogs, all named “Ruppy” - a combination of the words “ruby” and “puppy” - look like typical beagles by daylight. But they glow red under ultraviolet light, and the dogs’ nails and abdomens, which have thin skins, look red even to the naked eye. Full Story : Physorg.com……
World’s Largest Solar Tower Now Powers 10,000 Homes
Written on 28 Apr, 2009 at 13:55 in Featured, Technology | viewed 341 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The world’s largest solar power tower just began operating outside Seville, Spain. PS20 consists of a solar field made up of 1,255 mirrored heliostats designed by Abengoa Solar. Each heliostat, with a surface area of 1,291 square feet, reflects the solar radiation it receives onto the receiver, located on the top of a 531 feet-high tower , producing steam which is converted into electricity generation by a turbine. Full Story : TreeHugger.com……
Workers find message hidden in Auschwitz wall
Written on 28 Apr, 2009 at 13:25 in Featured, From the past | viewed 1,772 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Workers demolishing the wall of a building that once belonged to the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp have found a message in a bottle written by prisoners 65 years ago, Auschwitz museum officials said. Nazi Germany established Auschwitz as part of Adolf Hitler’s systematic genocide against European Jews. In total, 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust. Full Story : Abc.net.au…..
Microsoft Vine To Connect Family, Friends When Crisis Hits
Written on 28 Apr, 2009 at 12:59 in Featured, Technology | viewed 375 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Microsoft is launching a new product into private beta on Tuesday morning with the aim of keeping friends and family in touch during emergencies. Vine is designed to keep family and friends in touch when other communication methods are either broken or not particularly efficient. Full Story : Techcrunch.com……
EU slams Sri Lanka snub to Sweden as ‘grave mistake’
Written on 28 Apr, 2009 at 12:51 in Featured, Politics | viewed 289 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Sri Lanka barred Sweden’s foreign minister Tuesday from entering the island on a humanitarian mission, as diplomatic tensions mounted over the conduct of the war on the Tamil Tigers. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt had been due to travel to the war-torn country this week to press demands for aid workers to be given full access to civilians trapped by heavy fighting between government troops and the rebels. Full Story : AFP….
People with higher IQs make wiser economic choices, study finds
Written on 27 Apr, 2009 at 23:15 in Featured, Science | viewed 323 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
According to a new study with researchers from the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities and Morris campuses, people with better cognitive skills, in particular higher IQ, were more willing to take calculated risks and to save their money and made more consistent choices. They were also more likely to be cooperative in a strategic situation, and exhibited higher “social awareness” in that they more accurately forecasted others’ behavior. Full Story : Physorg.com…..
US Army enlists Facebook, Twitter
Written on 27 Apr, 2009 at 21:17 in Featured, Technology | viewed 347 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The US Army said on Monday it had launched a fan page on Facebook and established an office for online “social media,” despite security rules that limit soldiers’ access to networking sites. Mindful of a changing media landscape, the Army said it wanted to make sure it reached a younger audience that relies heavily on “tweets” and social networking sites, spokeswoman Lindy Kyzer said. Full Story : France24.com……
Swine flu’s next move impossible to predict : Scientists
Written on 27 Apr, 2009 at 20:59 in Featured, Health | viewed 271 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Scientists have yet to figure out how this strain of the influenza virus spreads, or what makes it lethal. It could continue spreading or fizzle out, they say. It mixed with two kinds of flu that are endemic in swine and a fourth that originally came from people. Scientists said Sunday that they were unable to predict what this new swine flu would do next. Full Story : LAtimes.com……
Samsung announces its first Android phone
Written on 27 Apr, 2009 at 14:39 in Featured, Technology | viewed 412 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Samsung has launched its first handset to use Google’s Android operating system. The hardware developer said the i7500 will be released in major European markets in June. Samsung claims to be the first of the three major handset manufacturers to launch an Android-based phone, and has beaten other firms including Sony Ericsson and Motorola. Full Story : Vnunet.com….
Obama to Get Back BlackBerry at Last, Toughened by NSA
Written on 27 Apr, 2009 at 13:29 in Featured, Technology | viewed 546 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The presidential BlackBerry is undergoing final testing before being handed back. The NSA is hammering on the SecurVoice software which has been loaded onto the Obama-phone and is in the last stages of testing just how secure it might be. The BlackBerry is an 8830, the standard business handset, but the added software encrypts both calls and messages. Full Story : Wired.com…..
First Android-Powered Netbook Due in Three Months
Written on 27 Apr, 2009 at 12:55 in Featured, Technology | viewed 308 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Skytone Transmission Technologies, based in Guangzhou, China, says it is just three months away from producing the world’s first Android-powered netbook, the Alpha 680. The new device is powered by the ARM11 533 Mhz processor, 7-inch LCD monitor with 800-by-480 resolution, Wi-Fi, optional 3G antenna, an unspecified keyboard size, and a two-cell battery with approximately two to four hours of battery life. Full Story : PCWorld.com…..
One Third of World’s Oceans Need a 20-Year Fishing Ban
Written on 27 Apr, 2009 at 12:45 in Featured, Nature | viewed 303 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Experts are saying that if depleted fish stocks in the world’s oceans are to recover, there needs to be a 20-year fishing ban covering 20-40% of the oceans. Not only would that require cooperation of the fishing industry, but it would also mean lots of additional marine protected areas (MPAs). Full Story : Treehugger.com…..