Everybody has an MP3 store now. Google, always late to the party is said to be negotiating with record companies to create its own music store that’ll offer MP3s for download, not just for streaming.
After all sorts of hullaballoo over who was going to buy the for-sale Hulu, it looks like the answer is nobody. Hulu is no longer for sale.
So long Buzz, you won’t be missed! Joining the likes of Wave, Google’s first whack at creating a unified online sharing service will be replaced by the 40 million strong Google+. Better get +1-ing, because all those old Buzz buttons have to go.
Toyota announced Friday that not only would it participate in the brand new FIA World Endurance Championship’s inaugural season next year, but that it would be bringing a prototype hybrid to the races.
One of the biggest downsides to organ transplants is that once someone receives a transplant, they’ve gotta stay on immunosuppressant drugs for life. Those powerful drugs prevent the recipient’s body from rejecting the new organs, but they have some pr…
AP Photo/Andrew Burton In the staring contest between the Occupy Wall Street protesters and New York City, Mayor Bloomberg blinked first , deciding that the occupiers didn’t represent the kind of safety crisis Brookfield Office Properties, the…
Plants mastered chemistry a long time before humans, billions of years actually . In fact, we humans and most of the rest of the life on Earth can thank tiny cyanobacteria for mastering/evolving the molecule known as chlorophyll. Chlorophyll–a pigm…
Today has been proclaimed Black Turtleneck Friday as an homage to Steve Jobs, timed to coincide with today’s launch of the iPhone 4S. I’ve washed my black turtleneck and am wearing it as I test the 4S.
Silly, perhaps, but it’s my way, our way, a way, …
If you haven’t made the switch to a smartphone yet, your days are numbered, because the future won’t have any cellphones in it. Sony Ericsson is the first major cellphone company to stop making “dumbphones.” From here on out, its Xperia brand of smartp…
These three guys decided that they wanted to jump off the top of the Gran Hotel Bali in Benidorm, Spain. The easiest way up? On top of the exterior elevator, naturally.
The wind tosses Gaby Nava’s hair as the small fishing boat skims across the glassy water just off the port of Veracruz, Mexico. She smiles at the shallow bay and the Gulf of Mexico sprawling across the horizon."We are very lucky today. Hardly any …
The iPhone 4S is officially out today in stores and naturally, everybody who’s picked one up is putting it through tests. Here’s a video showing just how much better the iPhone 4S’s video recording is than the already great iPhone 4′s HD video recording.
Editor’s Note: The following is an edited and expanded excerpt from Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris. Copyright © 2011 Emma Marris. Jessica Hellmann, an ecologist at Notre Dame University in Indiana…
We’re not even at the point where we’re allowed to get all up in people’s stem cells to help cure diseases, but researchers are already thinking ahead to how we can use stem cells to treat genetic diseases, which should be impossible. Or, it was imposs…
The Witching Season is upon us, when things go bump in the night and every shadow hides unspeakable terror. You know what helps me get into the spirit of the season? Reading some classic horror stories by the masters, back when horror meant true terror…
Wrik Sen: Even while sleeping, the
kids don’t seem to like anything out of the ordinary. Their beds and rooms need
to be done up in the style they like, and looking at the requests, the demand
for hi-tech stuff seem to be on the rise. Poshtots, one of the known b
Tesla’s Roadster is one of the sexiest electric cars on the road, and their new sedan looks pretty sweet, too. Not only does it seat up to 7, there’s also a performance model available (0-60 in 4.5 seconds!). Helping keep costs down so more of us can ride in this sweet silent sedan is Panasonic, providing the lithium-ion battery cells.
Happy Friday! Sorry about no news roundup yesterday morning…I had a uh, long night, shall we say. But that is behind me, and in front of me are a whole bunch of news items for your enjoyment! Some of today’s highlights include Honda’s Chinese EV, German trains going green, and the electric Edison2 gets 245 MPGe.
Wrik Sen: Most of the times, we have noticed in the past that carbon
fiber has generally been used to create high-end racing cars, luxury yachts,
and even watches. But now we see a sophisticated yet sporty writing instrument
in the Kaweco AC Sport fountain pen, w
Tulip is feeling much better since she was found straying, emaciated and with hardly any fur due to a severe flea allergy. She’s a special girl who has lots of licks and cuddles to give, but it’s not known whether she could live with other animals or …
Are we looking at Asia’s first pheasant extinction? The endangered Edwards’s pheasant ( Lophura edwardsi ) has not been observed in the wild since 2000, and now surveys conducted by the World Pheasant Association (WPA) in the bird̵…
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