Tuesday, March 20, 2012

20 MAR 2012, TUE: Sci & Tech

Science


Filipinos all set for Earth Hour 2012

GMA News - 
By CARMELA G. LAPEÑA, GMA News March 19, 2012 11:30am Filipinos are all set to participate in this year's Earth Hour on Saturday, March 31.

Space traveler brain scans bring troubling results to NASA

Gadling - 
by Chris Owen (RSS feed) on Mar 19th 2012 at 5:00PM Space travel appears to have taken its toll on NASA astronauts. Those in space for more than a month have shown unexpected symptoms that could set back plans for longer deep-space missions.

Lego Robot Helps Researchers Build Artificial Bones

PSFK - 
By Emma Hutchings on March 19, 2012 Researchers at Cambridge University used a Lego Mindstorms robotics kit to build artificial bone, which involves repeatedly dipping a base object in various solutions.

Fan power may lead to ban on F1 new 'stepped noses'

MSN Philippines News - 
Fan power may lead to a ban on the ugly new "stepped noses" on this year's Formula One cars, the sport's ruling body has conceded.

Purple haze: Rare display of Northern Lights captured above remote Scottish island

Daily Mail - 
By Ted Thornhill An amateur photographer on a birthday trip to cheer herself up after losing her job was delighted to capture the aurora borealis in its full glory.

WWF, BPI Foundation, ZCCIFI partner to address effects of climate change

Zamboanga Today Online - 
The Zamboanga City Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Foundation Inc. (ZCCIFI) President Pocholo N. Soliven announced that they formally forged a partnership with the World Wide Fund (WWF) Philippines represented by its CEO Jose Maria Lorenzo Tan and ...

Climate change threatens idyllic Seychelles habitat

China Post - 
VICTORIA -- Bursts of torrential rain lash the idyllic white beaches of the Seychelles, where conservationists fear that rare species such as the giant tortoise are at severe risk from climate change.

Artificial Intelligence Pioneer: We Can Build Robots With Morals: Artificial ...

Chicago Tribune - 
Judea Pearl, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, won the Association for Computing Machinery's AM Turing award Thursday, considered the highest honor in the computing world.

Einstein online archive expands

Register - 
By Richard Chirgwin • Get more from this author As a commemoration of the 133rd birthday of Albert Einstein, the online archives of his work are being expanded to contain more than 80000 documents.

Space Travel For All!

Inc.com - 
Elon Musk cofounded PayPal and Tesla Motors. What's next—the moon? Actually, that's not far off. With his business, SpaceX, Musk hopes to be the first private US company to put together and launch a manned spacecraft, 60 Minutes reports.

Viking invasions brought mice everywhere, except Canada

Vancouver Sun - 
An international team of scientists has determined that the Viking invasions throughout the North Atlantic world more than 1000 years ago were accompanied in almost every case by the introduction of common house mice to the newly established Norse ...

Spring Comes Early This Year

Patch.com - 
Tuesday, March 19 is the first day of spring in California, according to the arrival of the vernal equinox at 10:14 pm This is the earliest arrival of spring since 1896.

Angry Birds Soar to Nickelodeon and Nicktoons In an Exclusive Short Film ...

The Futon Critic - 
The encore short will air during "Angry Angry Saturday" morning on Saturday, March 24, at 10:30 am (ET/PT). An all-new exclusive Angry Birds short film, "Angry Birds Space" lands on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons on Wednesday, March 21, at 7:00 pm (ET/PT) ...

Neutrino Team Refutes Faster-Than-Light Find

Sci-Tech Today - 
By Frank Jordans Neutrinos behaved as expected in CERN's speed retest, refuting an experiment that appeared to show neutrinos speeding faster than light, a feat that goes against Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity which underlies much of ...

Technology


Apple to share its $US45 billion cash pile

NEWS.com.au - 
APPLE is finally acknowledging that it has more money than it needs. But don't expect it to cut prices on iPhones and iPads. Instead, the company announced that it will reward its shareholders with a dividend and a share buyback program.

Apple sells three million iPads during first weekend on sale

Herald Sun - 
APPLE announced that it sold three million of its new iPad tablet computers over the course of its first weekend on the market. "The new iPad is a blockbuster with three million sold - the strongest iPad launch yet," said Apple senior vice president of ...

One fine day in the Araw ng Dabaw

Davao Today - 
ON THE SIDELINES. An old beggar asks for alms while others were busy catching a view of the parade during the 75th Araw ng Dabaw celebration.
Uncovering Davao's rich history
Smart launches LTE site in Davao

'I will not go silent' _ performer Mike Daisey hits back at critics of his ...

Washington Post - 
NEW YORK - Mike Daisey, the performer forced to admit that he made up parts of his one-man show that purported to expose horrific working conditions in Chinese factories where iPads and iPhones are assembled, isn't exactly slinking away.

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, plays Segway polo

San Francisco Chronicle (blog) - 
Steve Wozniak, Bay Area local and one of the Steves behind the tech explosion that is Apple, discusses starting the company with Steve Jobs in their garage.

Is your TV watching you? Latest models raise concerns

msnbc.com - 
The new Samsung HDTV has hard-wired camera and microphone, plus face recognition and other unprecedented features. Samsung's 2012 top-of-the-line plasmas and LED HDTVs offer new features never before available within a television including a built-in, ...

Report: 27% get news on smartphones, tablets

Salt Lake Tribune - 
By DAVID BAUDER | AP New York • Mobile technology appears to be increasing the public appetite for news but it's far from clear whether the news industry will profit from that, a study issued Monday concluded.

Globe network to completely shift to 3G, 4G technology

Inquirer.net - 
MANILA, Philippines—Ayala-led Globe Telecom Inc. has launched a pilot program to replace all old mobile network equipment in Davao City with new third and fourth generation (3G and 4G) technology.

Lawsuit slams apps for mining smartphone contacts

Sydney Morning Herald - 
A small group of US smartphone owners has filed a lawsuit demanding that Facebook, Twitter and other makers of smartphone "apps" pay dearly for mining people's contact lists.

'Heroes of Ruin' trailer proposes pocket adventuring

Yahoo! Philippines News - 
Lush backgrounds and a spread of character options belie Heroes or Ruin's portability, as the Nintendo 3DS game prepares for launch in the coming months.

Fan power may lead to ban on F1 new 'stepped noses'

MSN Philippines News - 
Fan power may lead to a ban on the ugly new "stepped noses" on this year's Formula One cars, the sport's ruling body has conceded.

Apple OSX Mountain Lion developer preview 2 out, with known issues

GMA News - 
Apple Inc. has released OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2 for developers of Mac applications, a tech site reported over the weekend.

Apple iPad's connector cable gets 'upgraded' too

GMA News - 
Not many people may notice it, but the display is definitely not the only feature that got an upgrade in Apple's new iPad tablet.

Customers paid to queue for new iPad

Independent Online - 
By CHARLIE COOPER In among the fanatic Apple fans and the techno-geeks desperate to be among the first in the world to get their hands on the third generation of iPads, there were were people being paid to queue on behalf of traders bent on ...

PLDT mobile service targets SMEs

Business Mirror - 
TELECOM heavyweight Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) has made access to technologies easier for small-medium enterprises (SMEs) through the recent launching of SME TechMobile.

EA readies iPad 3-optimized games; ME: Infiltrator, 2 others out now

GMA News - 
Three popular games for Apple's iOS platform have now been optimized for the new iPad 3 tablet's high-resolution Retina display, according to game publisher Electronic Arts (EA).

First 'F1 2012' trailer features young stars

Times LIVE - 
There might not be any gameplay footage in F1 2012's first trailer, but it's chock full of driver endorsements. One new feature in F1 2012 will be the Young Driver Test mode, in which players will learn how to handle the power of an F1 car and prove ...

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