Saturday, March 24, 2012

24 MAR 2012, SAT: Sci & Tech

Science


Earth Hour Search for Urban Climate Champion

MarketWatch (press release) - 
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Mar 23, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- WWF is inviting cities in Canada, India, Italy, Sweden and the United States to participate in the Earth Hour City Challenge this year, showcasing their leadership role in the global transition ...

Surge in successful patent applications

Financial Times - 
By Jonathan Moules The number of patent applications granted in the UK increased by 29 per cent last year to almost 3000, the largest increase for a decade, suggesting that companies are becoming more shrewd about protecting their intellectual property ...

The settlement of Madagascar

The Economist - 
MADAGASCAR is renowned for its unusual animals, particularly its lemurs, a group of primates extinct elsewhere on the planet. Its human population, though, is equally unusual.

Angry Birds Space billed as an educational tool. Really?

Christian Science Monitor - 
Launched Thursday, Angry Birds Space, the latest installment to the wildly popular Angry Birds video game franchise, is being billed as a tool for educating people about physics.

Reuters Science News Summary

Chicago Tribune - 
Following is a summary of current science news briefs. Paul Allen gives $300 million to expand brain research 2012-03-21T235315Z_2_BRE82K1KE_RTROPTC_0_US-ALLEN-DONATION.

Runaway planets ejected from galaxy at insane speeds

Christian Science Monitor - 
New evidence suggests that planets are being tossed out of the Milky Way at speeds comparable to the speed of light. By Denise Chow, SPACE.

SKA debate still raging

News24 - 
This special episode features some of the most dangerous adventures and incredible crocodile... Was R67.95 Now R64.55 Johannesburg - An international consortium planning to build the world's most powerful radio telescope is still debating whether South ...

Clubs, Not Climate Change, Killed Australia's Megafauna

Sci-Tech Today - 
Rhino-sized wombats, birds twice as big as emus, claw-footed kangaroos and massive marsupial lions are among the 50-plus species that disappeared from Australia 41000 years ago.

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Capcom Announces First Street Fighter X Tekken DLC for Xbox 360

Gadget Helpline (blog) - 
Capcom will be dishing out a fistful of downloadables for its new combat crossover title Street Fighter X Tekken over the coming year, and it all kicks off on Xbox 360 from April 3rd in the company's homeland Japan.

Microsoft Tailors Windows Server Core For Private Clouds

CRN - 
By Rick Whiting, CRN Microsoft is taking a second shot at debuting a Windows Server Core product, despite very limited adoption of an earlier release based on Windows Server 2008.

Employers 'can request Facebook passwords'

Ninemsn - 
By ninemsn staff Asking a jobseeker for their Facebook password is stepping over an ethical line, but doesn't constitute a legal breach of privacy, according to a researcher at the University of New South Wales Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre.

Can voice software tell when a scam is afoot?

msnbc.com - 
Wouldn't it be great if a little voice piped into your ear when you were in danger, even if you didn't know it? Maybe it could talk you out of climbing that wobbly tree, or steer you away from that fifth slice of pizza.

Microsoft Demonstrates Mind-Blowing 3D Desktop

Mashable - 
Take on look at the world of mobile devices - from multitouch smartphones and tablets to virtual assistants ready listen to your questions and give you answers - and you get the idea that the world of interfaces is changing fast.

Life-like battles can be played out in 'Mass Effect 3'

Eagle News - 
By Jacob Steiner The reapers in this telling of “Mass Effect” were ruthless. On March 6, “Mass Effect 3” was released for Xbox 360 and PS3.

The New iPad Is Out. What Now, Everybody Else?

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TIME - 
By Harry McCracken | @harrymccracken | March 22, 2012 | + In 2010 Apple released its first iPad. It was far from the industry's first tablet computer, but it was the one that defined the category.

Nigeria: Defense Minister urges ICT stakeholders to develop software solution

Bikya Masr - 
LAGOS: The Defense Minister, Bello Mohammed has called on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) experts to develop software solution that will urgently tackle insecurity in Nigeria.

Important Diablo III release news for the eager fan.

Examiner.com - 
One of the most highly anticipated games of the year is about to be released and fans of the series are eager for its arrival. Diablo III, an extremely popular action role-playing game, will be available for purchase May, 15th.

LulzSec aims to strike again

FederalNewsRadio.com - 
The hacker group LulzSec is promising more activity, despite the arrests of six active members earlier this month. In a message posted to YouTube, the group said it would start to take hacking action against governments, corporations and agencies ...

'Sour Patch Kids' game sweet on April release, story trailer

Yahoo! Philippines News - 
What happens to a sweet on its way to the stomach? World Gone Sour, featuring the Sour Patch Kids confectionary, proposes to find out courtesy of a video game which may or may not be entirely factually accurate.

100 million TVs will be Internet-connected by 2016, report predicts

PhysOrg.com - 
Soon, the living room TV will become as hyper-connected as the people watching it. A new report from researcher NPD In-Stat predicts that 100 million homes in North America and Western Europe will own television sets that blend traditional programs ...

FaceBook data study shows patterns in relationship patterns

TweakTown - 
The FaceBook Data Team has published an interesting new study based upon US Facebook data from 2010 and 2011. The data concerns the changes in relationship status and the trends associated with them.

EMC Expands Cloud Services to Accelerate the Transformation of IT Environments

MarketWatch (press release) - 
EMC® today announced an expanded portfolio of cloud services to accelerate the adoption, consumption, optimization, and management of cloud computing.

China now the biggest victim of cyber attacks: Official

Straits Times - 
BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A computer security official said China has become the world's biggest victim of cyber attacks, with a report from a national computer monitoring centre revealing that many domestic computers were controlled ...

Apple proves this is not your father's Silicon Valley

Financial Times - 
By Richard Waters Can a company still be lovable when it has $100bn in the bank? For Apple, this is starting to become a serious question.

BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha to be given to BlackBerry 10 Jam attendees

Ubergizmo - 
By George Wong on 03/23/2012 16:28 PDT According to an official announcement, at the upcoming BlackBerry 10 Jam, RIM will be giving its developer attendees a limited edition prototype device - the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha.

Huffington Post to release weekly iPad magazine

AFP - 
TORONTO, Canada - The Huffington Post will soon be available in a weekly magazine version for the iPad, president and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington confirmed at a media summit in Toronto.

Facebook buys IBM patents

AFP - 
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook confirmed Friday that it has added a trove of IBM patents to its arsenal on an increasingly lawsuit-strewn technology battlefield.

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