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February 2010
Caltech Makes Flexible, 86% Efficient Solar Arrays
By Technology News from CNet and Slashdot on February 28, 2010
strredwolf writes “Caltech has released a flexible solar array that converts 95% of single-wavelength incandescent light and 86% of all sunlight into electricity. Instead of being flat-panel, they stand thin silicon wires in a plastic substrate that scatters the light onto them. The total composition is 98% plastic, 2% wire — the amount of silicon used is 1/50th that of ordinary panels. So as soon as they can get these to market, solar could be very viable and cheap to produce.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
8-Year Fan-Made Game Project Shut Down By Activision
By Technology News from CNet and Slashdot on February 28, 2010
An anonymous reader writes “Activision, after acquiring Vivendi, became the new copyright holder of the classic King’s Quest series of adventure game. They have now issued a cease and desist order to a team which has worked for eight years on a fan-made project initially dubbed a sequel to the last official installment, King’s Quest 8. This stands against the fact that Vivendi granted a non-commercial license to the team, subject to Vivendi’s approval of the game after submission. After the acquisition, key team members had indicated on the game’s forums (now stripped of their original content by order of Activision) that Activision had given the indication that it intended to keep its current fan-game licenses, but was not interested in issuing new ones.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Rupert Murdoch ready to sue Google?
By Technology News from CNet and Slashdot on February 28, 2010
A new profile of the News Corp. baron quotes a source who says he’s willing to press legal action against Google in the event that talks about indexing content fall through.
HP updates ultraportable with Core i5, i7 chips
By Technology News from CNet and Slashdot on February 28, 2010
Hewlett-Packard is updating its line of business ultraportable laptops with Intel’s latest chips.
eBay buyer pays $41,300 for Nintendo game
By Technology News from CNet and Slashdot on February 28, 2010
A man hears that a copy of Stadium Events sold for $13,000. So he rummages in his basement and finds an unopened copy of the same game.
Banks Accept Dubai Assassins’ Stolen IDs
By Technology News from CNet and Slashdot on February 28, 2010
schliz writes “Public scrutiny did more harm than good last week, after Australian police and the media released details of three stolen passports allegedly used in the assasination of a senior Hamas member in Dubai. As if having their identities stolen for an assassination wasn’t enough, it turns out the victims’ passports had not been cancelled by the government, so the details that were published by the media in fact could be used to open fraudulent bank accounts.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
The Risk of BPA in Pregnant Moms: UPDATE - eFitnessNow
By Health News on February 28, 2010
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The Risk of BPA in Pregnant Moms: UPDATE
eFitnessNow Studies done at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston show that Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical often found in baby bottles and the lining of aluminum cans, may lead to allergy related asthma. Production of the chemical started about 40 … BPA May Raise Risk of Asthma in Kids BusinessWeek Plastic chemical triggers allergic asthma Food Consumer BPA Documents Offer a Different Picture of the Controversial Ban TopNews United States The News Record - Tech Jackal - IndyPosted (blog) all 17 news articles » |
The LHC Is Back Online
By Technology News from CNet and Slashdot on February 28, 2010
medea and several other readers noted that the LHC came back online early this morning. Here is the tweet from CERN announcing the milestone. As we discussed a few weeks ago, CERN plans to run the LHC at half power or less through 2011.
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Google Enhances Street View With User Photos
By Technology News from CNet and Slashdot on February 28, 2010
Google has launched a competitor or counterpart to Microsoft’s Photosynth, which employs user-contributed photos of much-photographed sites to supplement the street-level view in an immersive way. Google’s offering is called simply Navigate through User Photos, and unlike Photosynth — which requires Sliverlight and therefore is not available on Linux — is implemented in Flash. This YouTube video (also embedded at the link above) offers a quick tour of the new feature, which can use photos uploaded to Panoramico, Flickr, and Picasa.
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About hypersexual disorder - Los Angeles Times
By Health News on February 28, 2010
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About hypersexual disorder
Los Angeles Times The proposed addition to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders involves several key symptoms. Psychiatrists have proposed adding hypersexual disorder to the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. … New DSM changes categories for autism, eating disorders American Medical News Why Psychiatry Needs Therapy Wall Street Journal New manual = More ‘disorders,’ more pills The Free Lance-Star Behavioral Health Central (blog) - Washington Post - TopNews United States all 83 news articles » |
Finance »
What Does This Real Estate Insider Know About …
March 15, 2010
SAN DIEGO, CA – by David Horwitz -No one has ever been able to explain this logic to me as soon as you fall behind on your payments, the bank charges you MORE money and often times, if possible, raises your interest rates! It seems that when we are financially in trouble, today’s [...]
Real Estate »
Unemployment Now Becoming A Principal Reason for Rising Foreclosures
September 9, 2009
Research by Moody’s Economy.com predicts that in 2009 1.8 million borrowers will lose their home to foreclosure. This figure rises from 1.4 million homeowners in 2008. Moody is a leading independent provider of economic, financial, country, and industry research. Moody attributes the increase in foreclosure rate to the rise in unemployment. At the start of [...]
Business »
Flaw in Free Markets: Humans
September 12, 2009
THERE is broad agreement that Alan Greenspan, the former Fed chairman, was wrong to have believed that market forces alone would insulate society from excessive financial risk. But Mr. Greenspan was wrong for reasons very different from those offered by his most vocal critics.
Those critics fault Mr. Greenspan for having overestimated the strength of competitive forces, a [...]
Technology »
Microsoft Announces Windows 7 SP1
March 18, 2010
CWmike writes “Microsoft has announced service packs for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but declined to set a release date or a schedule for getting a beta in users’ hands. A company spokesman said Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will primarily contain ‘minor updates,’ including patches and hotfixes that will have been delivered earlier via the Windows Update service, rather than new features. One of the latter: an updated Remote Desktop client designed to work with RemoteFX, the new remote-access platform set to debut in SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2008 R2 will also be upgraded to SP1, Microsoft said, presumably at the same time as Windows 7 since the two operating systems share a single code base. Besides RmoteFX — which Microsoft explained Wednesday in an entry on the Windows virtualization team’s blog — Server 2008 R2 will also include a feature dubbed ‘Dynamic Memory,’ which lets IT staff adjust guest virtual machines’ memory on the fly. Microsoft did not spell out a timetable for the service packs, saying only that it would provide more information as release milestones approach.”
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Health, Technology »
AP Enterprise: NASA, cruise line got flu shots (AP)
March 18, 2010
AP - Last fall, as swine flu cases mounted and parents desperately sought to protect their kids, the hard-to-get vaccine was handed out in some surprising places: the Royal Caribbean cruise line, the headquarters of drug giant Merck, the Johnson Space Center and a Department of Energy office in Idaho.
SPORTS »
Federer Beats Djokovic to Reach Final
September 13, 2009
Roger Federer swept past Novak Djokovic, 7-6 (3), 7-5, 7-5, on Sunday at Arthur Ashe Stadium to reach the finals of the United States Open, a tournament he has won five straight times.
The fourth-seeded Djokovic, 22, who had defeated Federer in two of their three past meetings this year, was competitive throughout the match, but [...]