Something tells me this is not a gesture of kindness!
Quote of the Day: “Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
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Researchers clone human embryonic stem cells
Creating stem cells from skin.
Researchers have converted human skin cells into embryonic stem cells using the same process involved in cloning, which have the capability to turn into any type of cell in the body. Stem cell researchers have reached a long-sought milestone in “regenerative” medicine that seeks to provide rejection-free replacement transplant tissues to patients.
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Udacity introduces $7,000 Master Degree Program
Georgia Tech teams up with Udacity.
Sebastian Thrun and Udacity’s resolve to re-imagine higher education in a more affordable, accessible virtual classroom. Udacity continues to push forward with its plans to bring higher education online — and not just in bits, pieces and homework assignments.
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U.S. government student loan policy reaping $51 billion profit
At $1.1 trillion, student debt eclipses all other forms of household debt, except for home mortgages.
The U.S. government is forecast to turn a record $51 billion profit this year from student loan borrowers, a sum greater than the earnings of the nation’s most profitable companies and roughly equal to the combined net income of the four largest U.S. banks by assets.
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Kirk McDonald: ‘Sorry, college grads, I probably won’t hire you’
Please learn a little computer programming.
Kirk McDonald: Dear college graduates: The next month is going to be thrilling as you cross this major milestone in your education. Enjoy the pomp and circumstance, the congratulations, and the parties. But when it’s all over and you’re ready to go out into the world, you’d probably like to meet me, or others like me—I’m your next potential dream boss. I run a cool, rapidly growing company in the digital field, where the work is interesting and rewarding. But I’ve got to be honest about some unfortunate news: I’m probably not going to hire you.
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Tesla Model S outsells Mercedes, BMW and Audi
Tesla Model S
More people bought a Tesla Model S, the $70,000 (and up) electric car, in the first quarter of 2013 than bought any of the similarly priced gasoline-powered cars from the top three German luxury brands, according to data from LMC Automotive. About 4,750 buyers bought a Model S while just over 3,000 people bought Mercedes’ top-level sedan. (Video)
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YouTube is responsible for 17% of home Internet traffic
YouTube’s share of residential downstream traffic has been growing, and is up from 13.8 percent a year ago.
According to Sandvine’s latest global internet phenomena report, YouTube is now responsible for 17.1 percent of all residential fixed-line downstream traffic in North America.
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SheerWind wind turbine can generate 600% more energy than conventional turbines
An innovator in high-performance, cost-efficient wind energy technology is SheerWind. Initial field-testing results have been announced which compares INVELOX commercial-grade wind energy generation with the same turbine on a traditional tower-mounted system.
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Texting while driving kills more U.S. teens than drunk driving
Texting behind the wheel is much more dangerous than driving drunk because of the frequency in which teenagers send texts verses how often they drink.
A new study has found that texting while driving has now replaced drunk driving as the number one cause of teenage deaths on the road in the U.S.
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3D printers will change the future of manufacturing
How do we prepare for this manufacturing revolution in the making?
You can now print your own gun. And there are plenty of ways to do so, legal and otherwise. A group called Defense Distributed offered you a new one last week: It published instructions for creating a plastic firearm using a 3-D printer. One guy even fired a real bullet with it.
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When will your doctor start wearing Google Glass?
Google Glass holds a lot of promise in the medical field.
Google Glass uses augmented reality and voice activation to project data into our field of vision. The technology Google Glass is using is still in its early stages, but it holds a lot of promise in the medical field.
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New wave of cyberattacks against U.S. corporations
The new attacks seek to destroy data or to manipulate industrial machinery and take over or shut down the networks that deliver energy or run industrial processes.
Warnings from federal officials, including a vague one issued last week by the Department of Homeland Security, are being prompted by a new wave of cyberattacks that are striking American corporations. Officials say this time the attackers’ aim is not espionage but sabotage, and the source seems to be somewhere in the Middle East.
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