Source: Webpro News. Ed McLaughlin, head of emerging payments at MasterCard, has given some weight to rumors that Apple’s next iPhone will finally include near field communication technology. In a recent interview with Fast Company, McLaughlin said that he expected the use of contactless payment systems like MasterCard’s PayPass – […]
Source: Rianovosti. The recent crash of Russia’s Mars probe was caused by a glitch in the onboard computer system under the impact of space radiation, Federal Space Agency head Vladimir Popovkin said on Tuesday. “Two components of the onboard computer system were spontaneously rebooted and it switched […]
Source: Huffington Post. Lauren States Vice President, CTO Cloud Computing, IBM It seems like everywhere we look someone is talking or writing about “the cloud.” The recent Consumer Electronics Show featured everything from 3D televisions to cars connected to the cloud. For someone like me, this is great to […]
Source: The Telegraph India has reported its first cases of “total drug-resistant tuberculosis,” a long-feared and virtually untreatable form the killer lung disease. Since 2003, highly resistant cases have been documented in Italy and Iran, mostly limited to impoverished areas and it has not spread widely. The airborne disease is […]
Source: Huffington Post. Federal prosecutors say data from users of Megaupload could be deleted as soon as Thursday. U.S. prosecutors blocked access to Megaupload and charged seven men, saying the site facilitated millions of illegal downloads of movies, music and other content. The company says its millions of users stored […]
Source: The star.com. Neither Mathew Ho nor Asad Muhammad can vote, or buy beer. They haven’t been accepted to college yet, though that might change after this story. The 17-year-olds have already sent a (Lego) man into space. Two weeks ago, Ho and Muhammad launched a homemade balloon carrying a Legopassenger […]
In his achievements, Dr. Salam saw a certain special Providence of God. Let me quote from the transcript of one of his interviews. The questi0ns asked by Lewis Wolpert or […]
ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2012) — Discoveries made in some underwater caves by Texas &M University at Galveston researchers in the Bahamas could provide clues about how ocean life formed on Earth millions of years ago, and perhaps give hints of what types of marine life could be found on distant planets […]
Source: NY Times. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that the police violated the Constitution when they placed a Global Positioning System tracking device on a suspect’s car and monitored its movements for 28 days. Read more.
Source: Science Daily A neuro-imaging study shows that personal values that people refuse to disavow, even when offered cash to do so, are processed differently in the brain than those values that are willingly sold. “Our experiment found that the realm of the sacred — whether it’s a strong religious […]
ScienceDaily (Mar. 5, 2008) — Most of us experience ‘gut feelings’ we can’t explain, such as instantly loving – or hating – a new property when we’re househunting or the snap judgements we make on meeting new people. Now researchers at Leeds say these feelings – or intuitions – are real […]
ScienceDaily (Jan. 19, 2012) — For students to accept the theory of evolution, an intuitive “gut feeling” may be just as important as understanding the facts, according to a new study. In an analysis of the beliefs of biology teachers, researchers found that a quick intuitive notion of how right an […]
Source: Space.com. This SDO image (AIA 193) shows an M9-class solar flare erupting on the Sun’s northeastern hemisphere at 03:49 UT on Jan. 23, 2012… just 4 days after a previous strong CME that sparked aurora around the world on the 22nd. More geomagnetic activity is expected for the 24th. […]
Source: NY Times. Antipiracy Case Sends Shivers Through Some Legitimate Storage Sites By NICOLE PERLROTH and QUENTIN HARDY SAN FRANCISCO — If Megaupload is guilty, then who among its brethren is innocent?Box.net is one of the many companies that have entered the online storage market recently. On Thursday, federal authorities […]
Source: The Register. A decision to kill leap seconds and permanently change how time is measured has been deferred until 2015 by the International Telecommunication Union. A meeting of ITU Radiocommunication Assembly reps on Thursday was unable to reach a decision on whether to stop adding leap seconds to Coordinated Universal […]
Source: NY Times. A new study has found that among immigrants, younger age at the time of migration predicts a higher incidence of psychotic disorders. The study, published last month in The American Journal of Psychiatry, was conducted from 1997 to 2005 in The Hague, Netherlands, where there are […]
IN an article ‘Neutrinos and Angels’ he wrote for a national daily, Prof Pervez Hoodbhoy, one of Pakistan’s leading scientists, quotes the late Carl Sagan, America’s well-known astronomer, astrophysicist, and science communicator. Sagan told Bible Belt Americans: “Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during […]
Source: Discovery News. Since light cannot escape the gravitational pull of a black hole, taking a picture of it – is not realistic. However, scientists are working towards planning to capture a picture of ‘event horizon’ – the swirl of energy and matter around the black hole. Read more.
Mechanism to Prevent Programmed Cell Death of Nerve Cells Deciphered ScienceDaily — Oxygen and glucose are the food of our brain. If they are absent, such as during a stroke, […]
Source: Sydney Morning Herald. Hackers calling themselves ‘nightmare group’ have attacked and disrupted services in Israel. The web based denial-of-service attack was targeted at Israeli Stock Exchange, national airlines and three banks. Read more