Amazon.com ‘Appstore’
Amazon.com begins selling applications for the Google Android smart phone in its digital storefront just days after Apple files a lawsuit claiming that ‘Appstore’ infringes its ‘App Store’ trademark.
World’s First Bicycle Created by Printing it Out on a Computer
The fully-working cycle, which is made of nylon, is the result of an extraordinary project and is as strong as steel and aluminium but weighs 65 per cent less.
This bicycle is the first in the world to be created simply by printing it out on a computer, using groundbreaking new technology.
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Take a Vitamin Supplement to Mitigate Effects of Radiation
Along with the anti-radiation drug potassium iodide, scientists recommend a vitamin pill.
Astronauts are exposed to more radiation than nuclear power plant workers. As a result, NASA has recommended taking vitamin supplements to mitigate any potential side effects.
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Potential Losers in the AT&T and T-Mobile Merger: Consumers
The merger would leave just three major cellular carriers in the United States.
The proposed $39 billion merger of AT&T and T-Mobile could save the companies a lot of money. For everyone else, it could cost a lot of money. No sooner did the two companies announce a $39 billion merger on Sunday than industry analysts began assessing the impact on the biggest potential losers in the deal: consumers.
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Nine Jobs People May Lose to Robots
By 2013 there will be 1.2 million industrial robots working worldwide.
Are humans becoming obsolete in the workforce? All signs point to “yes.”
As IBM’s Watson proved on Jeopardy, robots are becoming smarter than people. They also make fewer mistakes and they don’t get bored.
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If the Shoe Fits… Chinese Footwear Company Makes Giant Electric Shoe Car
Kang Shoe Company electric shoe car.
A footwear manufacturer in China has made an electric car out of a giant shoe. A shoe shaped electric car is the newest promotional tool of the Kang Shoe Company, headquartered in Wenzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province.
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Being on a Diet Makes People Irritable and Angry: Study
Being on a diet makes people more likely to feel irritable and angry, a new study has shown.
The effort involved in exerting self-control over eating can lead to an aggressive frame of my mind – and even a preference for violent films, it claimed.
How NASA Recovers Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters
After they’re done getting a space shuttle into the upper atmosphere, the solid rocket boosters drop off and fall into the ocean. They’re recovered by the NASA vesselsLiberty Star and Freedom Star and refurbished for additional use. This video shows how it’s done. It’s rather long, so let me point out some highlights…
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U.S. Authorities Approve Adult Entertainment Domain .xxx
The new domain is designed to shut out child porn and make it harder for children to find sexual content online.
A new internet domain especially for pornography is set to go ahead after the official name .xxx was approved by US authorities as an alternative to suffixes such as .com or .co.uk.
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Tragedy in Japan May Be Most Globally Disruptive Natural Disaster in Modern Times
An elderly woman cries in the devastated town of Rikuzentakata in Iwate prefecture.
There are events in history that sear themselves into the world’s collective imagination, and enter the realm where myth meets heartbreaking reality.
Heart Rate Monitor Integrated Into Under Armour Sport Shirt
Under Armour
Heart rate and sports monitors appear just about everywhere–in standalone devices, in watches, in bras, in shoes, in GPS devices–so why not just build them right into shirts. Many heart rate monitors need to be strapped to the chest anyway, so a heart-rate shirt seems like a logical conclusion. (video)
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World’s Largest Source of Spam Email Shut Down By Microsoft and U.S. Marshals
The scale of the shut down is unprecedented.
The world’s most prolific source of spam emails has been shut down in a series of coordinated raids by Microsoft and US federal authorities. The Rustock botnet, an international network of virus-infected computers, had for years generated billions of emails per day, promoting unlicensed online pharmacies and cut-price impotence pills.
