In Tokyo, Apple fans pay respect with digital candles–on iPads and iPhones, of course.
Steve Jobs, the visionary who co-founded and built Apple into the world’s leading tech company, died Wednesday. He was 56. The terribly sad news that he has died is taking the world by storm. (Pics)
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Precise memories tied to brain crease.
There are two types of people in the world: those who remember everything exactly as it happened and those who have a tendency to muddle what’s happened with what’s imagined.
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For one spacecraft to grab onto another spacecraft in space is a very challenging task. Although the robotic arms on the space shuttles and International Space Station (ISS) have made it look easy over the years, the process requires complex manipulator arms and special fixtures on the objects the arms are grasping, limiting the technology’s use. A small startup company is testing a new approach, though, that could greatly expand the applications of robotic arm technology to include, for example, cleaning up orbital debris and servicing the ISS.
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The lightweight touch-screen device, called Aakash, or “sky” in Hindi.
India launched what it dubbed the world’s cheapest tablet computer Wednesday, to be sold to students at the subsidized price of $35 and later in shops for about $60.
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Taurus G4
A Pennsylvania company has landed a $1.35 million prize from NASA for developing an ultra-efficient electric airplane.
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Stress has become number one cause of long-term illness.
The pressure of the recession is taking it’s toll as stress becomes the number one cause of long-term absence from work for first time, figures show. Research in almost 600 organizations also showed a link between job security and mental health issues, with employers planning redundancies ”significantly” more likely to report problems among their staff.
Kindle Fire
According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, the iPad is on top of the world now, accounting for 75% of all tablet sales in the U.S.
But not for long.
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Could Alzheimer’s be transmissible?
The brain damage that characterizes Alzheimer’s disease may originate in a form similar to that of infectious prion diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob, according to newly published research by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).
ALMA
The windswept, sunburned Chajnantor plateau in Chile rises 16,500 feet above sea level and has some of the driest air on Earth. That makes it the perfect location for the world’s biggest, most sensitive, and most complex ground-based telescope…
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Sun-powered, sand-fed 3D printer.
Design student Markus Kayser wanted to test his sun-powered, sand-fed 3-D printer, but he knew the gray skies in London wouldn’t do. He decided to ship the 200-plus-pound contraption to Cairo, Egypt, flew there himself, and haggled with officials for two days to get it out of customs. A few small “tips” and 11 hours of driving later, he finally made it to the Sahara. But soon the mercury hit 104 degrees, his components nearly overheated, and he was forced to improvise.
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Even though humans are still evolving, don’t expect any winged mutants.
On TV shows like “Heroes” and movies like “X-Men, ordinary people seem to evolve to have extraordinary capabilities. But people in real life don’t have genetic mutations that give rise to extraordinary capabilities such as telepathy or wings. But human evolution is still happing according to scientists. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science has published a new study that offers some if the best evidence so far.
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The biggest shortage is with injected drugs, which present unique manufacturing problems.
The lives of patients across the United States are being threatened by a massive shortage of drugs. This year, 213 drugs are in short supply and doctors are forced to ration them.
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