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Top news on 19 September 2009 |
The Innovation Tax
How Max Baucus knifed the medical devices industry.
Shani Shingnapur: Indian village where houses have no doors.
Shani Shingnapur is a small village in Maharashtra, India that has been depending on their deity for crime prevention measures and thus, has so far avoided.
Microsoft attacks malware pimps with lawsuits
We all know Microsoft is working on the successor to OneCare -- Security Essentials is currently in beta testing and should be ready for public consumption any time now. It's a decent protection package, and should help protect users from things like nefarious fake antivirus apps and other "scareware."
49 Amazing Resources for Free Vector Graphics
Your search for free Vector graphics is over. Below we have compiled a list of the best free web sites to freely download Vectors, most of the sites don?t qualify into a category, we?ll call them general, but in the second half of the post you will find specialized resources dedicated to vector logos, brands, cartoons and icons.
Rembrandt masterpiece to sell for up to £25m at Christie's
A Rembrandt masterpiece unseen in public for more than 40 years is expected to fetch up to £25 million(41 million USD) when it goes under the hammer at Christie's in December.
After losing children, Florida DCF turns to GPS tracking
DCF re-evaluated its entire system following the case of 2-year-old Courtney Clark, who was taken from a foster home in the Sarasota area in 2007. She was missing for months and eventually found unharmed, but living in horrible conditions in Wisconsin. That case prompted DCF to hire several regional coordinators, all former law enforcement offices
Apple iPhone Abuse Detection Sensors: Who Is Abusing Whom?
Most cell phones have water detection sensors on the inside that change color from white to red in the presence of water. So why does Apple place two additional sensors on the outside of the iPhone?
Hockey Player Charged with Assault After Cross-Check
A Quebec junior hockey player has been found guilty of assault with a weapon after cross-checking an opponent in the face last fall.
WTF! Only 2.8% Of Oklahoma HS Students Pass Citizenship Test
The Oklahoma Council of Public Affair, a conservative public policy research organization commissioned a study aimed at determining the level of basic civics knowledge of Oklahoma High School students. To their dismay the study revealed that only 23% of students knew that our first President was George Washington and only 2.8% of the students score
Effort to Shush Loud TV Commercials
Every year television networks receive thousands of complaints from viewers bothered by commercials that seem to be getting louder and louder. All of this may soon change. A technical organization that sets standards for digital TV broadcasters moved forward with new recommendations that may finally dial down the volume of these obnoxious ads.
Apple, other retailers target of patent infringement suit
A newly filed lawsuit accuses Apple and numerous other online retailers for violating a 14-year-old patent claiming ownership of randomly generated encryption keys for security.
Engineer invents tandem cycling robot (w/VID)
Many a cyclist has wished for a bit of extra help when tackling strenuous hills, now one inventor has hit on the answer... a tandem cycling robot.
Moon Craters Could Be Coldest Place in Solar System
New temperature data from NASA's LRO spacecraft suggest lunar craters at south pole are coldest known place in solar system.
Pirate Bay Buyer Faces Bankruptcy
Just as the payment deadline for the Pirate Bay deal is set to expire, its intended buyer Global Gaming Factory (GGF) faces yet another setback. Former director and board member Johan Sellstrom is owed hundreds of thousands of dollars by the company and has now requested bankruptcy for his former employer.
Granny Got a Gun: 75-yo Mom Shoots Son's Attacker Near Groin
When Jesse Williams, 28, broke into David Brandenburg's home, he probably didn't expect David to be home. The two started fighting and soon ended up outside, where David's mom heard the commotion. Not being one to stand idly by, she opened fire, hitting Jesse in the leg and nearly taking him out of the gene pool.
Hands off our food: Malaysia claims copyrights on recipes
Malaysia is starting a food fight with other countries to win bragging rights for producing some of Southeast Asia's most beloved recipes, including chili crabs and coconut cream rice...
Paperless tickets for major events clip scalpers out of deal
Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. has developed a new way to resell tickets that shuts out the brokers and scalpers it has long scorned, and instead keeps the profits for itself, musicians and venue owners. ... Bruce Springsteen, Trent Reznor and Joe Pa approve.
Hate Calculus? Try Counting Cow Carbon
Manufacturers and retailers across the globe are working to measure their products' carbon footprints for a variety of reasons, and all of the efforts have one thing in common: The results have the appearance of precision. But all the decimal points in the world can't hide the fact that measuring carbon footprints is inexact.
Songwriters want to get paid for 30-second song previews
Songwriters, composers, and music publishers are lobbying Congress to legislate the payment of performance fees into downloaded music. If music publishers get their way, they'll be able to extract additional licensing fees from music downloads, movies, and TV shows containing their music, and even 30-second previews.
Behind Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs' 3D Food FX (Video)
To create the computer-generated food in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, animators at Sony Imageworks combined real-life burger tossing and spaghetti-flinging with tried-and-true CG. The result is photo-real food?in 3D?that will make your mouth water.
To Casket Or Not To Casket?
Bernd Heinrich, one of America's great field biologists talks with NPR's Robert Krulwich about what to do with our bodies after we're dead. Is it better to be buried, "beetlized" or frozen solid and shattered into a million pieces?
DRM's tentacles snare British HDTV
The BBC wants a green light to issue DRM requirements for new HD receivers, saying that rightsholders demand "protection" for their HD content. Critics are calling it the British equivalent of the "broadcast flag."
U of Minnesota Researchers Identify Genes Producing THC
In a first step toward engineering a drug-free Cannabis plant for hemp fiber and oil, University of Minnesota researchers have identified genes producing tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive substance in marijuana.
Intelligence Analyst Says Hacking Charge Doesn't Compute
A Defense Department intelligence analyst hit with a federal computer hacking charge last week says he?s being made a scapegoat for a security slip-up that sent a password in a nationwide terrorism investigation to ?tens of thousands? of analysts without the need-to-know.
The 5 Most Ridiculously Awful Computers Ever Made
In order to get you the machine that functions at the level it does, the PC industry went through many, many horrible designs and ill-conceived products. So you can bitch about the cheap Gateway laptop you've been using for five years, but at least it's not any of these.
Top Nine Inappropriate Outbursts in September
The top nine outbursts in the month of September from the likes of Joe Wilson, Kanye West, how a newscaster should teach a chicken, and more....
Author Dan Brown's 20 Worst Sentences
f Dan Brown?s new novel The Lost Symbol is anything like his previous works, it will not go down well with the critics. Famously, comedian Stewart Lee mocked him for using the sentence ?The famous man looked at the red cup? in his bestselling The Da Vinci Code.
NBA to lock out its officials, use replacements
The NBA has officially notified the National Basketball Referees Association that it has declared a lockout of the referees, National Basketball Referees? Association Executive Director Lamell McMorris told SportsBusiness Journal Friday afternoon.
Phil Schiller rejected Google Voice from the App Store?
Google says Phil Schiller himself rejected Google Voice from the App Store
Wendy's Plastic Removed From Man's Lung
John Manley complained of fatigue, coughing fits and pneumonia spells and now, after two years of agony, doctors at Duke University Hospital believe a small piece of plastic is to blame. Manley, 50, apparently inhaled the 1-inch plastic fragment while eating at a Wendy's restaurant. The Wendy's logo can still be seen on the side of the plastic.
The Importance Of Enthusiasm In Any Product
A video took the web by storm today entitled Incredible, amazing, awesome Apple. Basically, it boils down Apple's latest event into a series ...
Hole-in-one nets Utah amateur golfer $1 million
Utah's newest millionaire got rich with his brother's nine iron and a little luck.
Big Content to FCC: don't kill our ISP filtering dream!
Content industry lobbyists told the FCC today that they still can't "compete with free," then later in the proceeding listed all the innovative ways in which they were doing just that. Turns out that "we can't compete" is really just code for "please allow ISP content filtering and more DRM."
Chronic Pain Makes 50-year-olds Feel 80
People who suffer chronic pain tend to have general physical capabilities similar to those decades older. While pain is poorly understood, many experts now recommend physical exercise to combat many types of chronic pain, in addition to medication in some cases .... When you are in pain, how do you handle your problem?
Why Google brand value 'on the rise' ???
In these uncertain economic times, people want answers - one reason perhaps why Google's brand value is soaring and bank brands are plunging.Google's brand value rose 25% to $31.9bn (£19.5bn) from the year before according to Interbrand's survey of global brands, the year's biggest rise.
Disloyal employees are not hackers, says court
An appeals court has ruled that a former employee who took company data with him for his own business did not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, despite his unethical actions. This outcome pits the court against itself as to whether disloyal computer use counts as unauthorized access.
The Science of Hunger: What 1 Billion People Feel
Despite a record level of people suffering from hunger, food aid is at a 20-year low due to the poor global economy, United Nations officials said today. The result: More than 1 billion people across the world will face hunger this year.
What Not to Wear When Worrying about Swine Flu
I was halfway through my experiment in the outer limits of swine flu paranoia, testing the tolerance of New Yorkers and of my own ability to keep a straight face. So far so good, and the chopped salad was delicious, thank you. (Yes, I removed the mask first.)
Retailers Ready For Fight On Credit Card Fees
Restaurants and retailers in the U.S. pay a steep fee each time they swipe your credit card. Armed with new data showing such fees to be unusually high, retailers are preparing to fight back.
Google Launches New Ad Marketplace; Ads Will Never Be same
You're probably familiar with Google AdSense and AdWords, Google'sGoogle flagship advertising products. It's how Google makes its billion of dollars. Google has just launched the DoubleClick Ad Exchange, and it is just like AdWords and AdSense, except that it is a marketplace for display ads.
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