Scientists say they have found an answer to why the penguin is unable to fly. Researchers believe that the bird’s underwater prowess may have cost it its ability to fly. By looking at seabirds closely related to the penguin, scientists confirmed that a wing that is good for flying cannot also be good for diving [...]
Apple has been accused by US Senate of being “among America’s largest tax avoiders”. A Senate committee said Apple had used “a complex web of offshore entities” to avoid paying billions of dollars in US income taxes. But it said there was no indication the firm acted illegally. Apple chief Tim Cook will go before [...]
Yahoo’s board has approved a deal to buy New York-based blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion, US media reports say. The acquisition is expected to be announced as early as Monday. The deal was a “foregone conclusion” and was a unanimous vote by the board, tech blog AllThingsD reported, citing sources close to the matter. [...]
Google has been ordered by a German federal court to clean up the auto-complete results its search engine suggests. The court said Google must ensure terms generated by auto-complete are not offensive or defamatory. The court case was started by an unnamed German businessman who found that Google.de linked him with “scientology” and “fraud”. Google [...]
Google has revealed for the first time what view users will get through its “Project Glass” wearable computer. 1. Google Glass responds to voice commands Google Glass will perform many of the same tasks as smartphones, except the spectacles respond to voice commands instead of fingers touching a display screen. 2. Run on Google’s Android [...]
Samsung announces it has developed technology that could sit “at the core of 5G” – the successor to the 4G mobile-communications standard. The Korean company says its equipment is capable of transmitting data at more than 1 Gbps across a distance of up to 2 km (1.2 miles). It suggests the tech would eventually allow [...]
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have broken through a symbolic mark reaching its highest throughout human history, recent figures from a US monitoring station show. Daily measurements of CO2 at a US government agency lab on Hawaii have topped 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time. The station, which sits on the [...]
US astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn are carrying out an emergency spacewalk to fix a leak of ammonia from the International Space Station’s cooling system. Live video shows Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn examining the outside of the craft to search for the escape. The crew had spotted particles of ammonia drifting away from [...]
Scientists have built and tested a form of invisibility cloak that can hide objects from heat. Similar cloaking efforts are underway to make objects invisible to light and even sound waves, but this is the first device to work with heat. The prototype, to be outlined in Physical Review Letters, contained a 5 cm-wide flat [...]
The US government has demanded designs for a 3D-printed gun be taken offline. The order to remove the blueprints for the plastic gun comes after they were downloaded more than 100,000 times. The US State Department wrote to the gun’s designer, Defense Distributed, suggesting publishing them online may breach arms-control regulations. Although the files have [...]
YouTube, the video site owned by Google, is set to launch a paid-for subscription service later this week that will charge users to access content on some of its specialist channels. A single-channel subscription is expected to cost $1.99 a month and will apply to as many as 50 YouTube channels, the Financial Times reported. [...]
Solar Impulse plane, which is powered only by the Sun, has completed the first leg of a journey that aims to cross the US after landing in Arizona. Solar Impulse took off at dawn from San Francisco, California, on Friday and landed in Phoenix, Arizona, some 18 hours later. The craft will stop over in [...]
Google has changed the tagline on the homepage of its Palestinian edition from “Palestinian Territories” to “Palestine”. The change, introduced on May 1st, means google.ps now displays “Palestine” in Arabic and English under Google’s logo. Using the word Palestine is controversial for some. Israeli policy is that the borders of a Palestinian state are yet [...]
LG Electronics has announced it will begin deliveries of curved OLED television sets in May, making it the first to offer such a product to the public. The use of organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) allows screens to be made thinner and more flexible than before. The 55 in (140 cm) model will cost 15 million [...]
A blog dedicated to technology news in North Korea have reported that almost two million North Koreans now use the country’s only 3G network. The figure has been confirmed by 3G provider Koryolink, a partnership between Egyptian telecoms firm Orascom and the North Korean government. The service can only be used to make voice calls, [...]
Smart interactive pajamas which, when scanned with a camera phone or tablet, can tell bedtime stories, have been invented by Juan Murdoch, a father-of-six from Idaho Falls, Idaho. The pajamas are adorned with 47 clusters of dots that act like barcodes. When a child scans each cluster with a tablet or smartphone camera, a different [...]
Samsung Electronics has reported a record quarterly profit in the first three months of 2013, boosted mainly by growing sales of its smartphones. The South Korean company made a net profit of 7.15 trillion won ($6.4 billion) during the period, up from 5.05 trillion won a year ago. Profits also rose from the previous quarter. [...]
Sarin, one of a group of nerve gas agents invented by German scientists as part of Hitler’s preparations for World War II, is an extremely toxic substance that disrupts the nervous system, overstimulating muscles and vital organs. It can be inhaled as a gas or absorbed through the skin. In high doses, Sarin suffocates its [...]
Apple has reported its first quarterly drop in profits in a decade, but said it will raise dividends for shareholders. Apple made a net profit of $9.5 billion in the first quarter of 2013, down from $11.6 billion last year. However, the results were better than many had expected, as strong iPhone and iPad sales [...]
Reddit has issued a public apology for its coverage of the Boston bombings. Reddit’s Find Boston Bombers thread – known as a subreddit – named specific people standing near the scene as suspects. The social news site included innocent people such as 17-year-old Salah Barhoun and missing 22-year-old Sunil Tripathi. Reddit has admitted that it [...]
Herschel space telescope in Europe has imaged one of the most popular subjects in the sky – the Horsehead Nebula – and its environs. Horsehead Nebula is a distinctively shaped molecular gas cloud sited some 1,300 light-years from Earth in the Constellation Orion. It is in a region of space undergoing active star formation – something [...]
The controversial CISPA (Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act) has been passed by the US House of Representatives. CISPA is designed to help combat cyberthreats by making it easier for law enforcers to get at web data. This is the second time CISPA has been passed by the House. Senators threw out the first draft, [...]
Google and Microsoft have both reported rising profits for the first quarter of 2013. Google’s net profit climbed to $3.35 billion in Q1 2013, up 16% from a year ago, boosted by online advertising revenue. Microsoft said it made $6 billion in profit during the same period, a jump of more than 17% from a [...]
The White House has threatened to veto the controversial Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) due to go before the House of Representatives this week. The US government wants more privacy protections in the CISPA. After failing to pass through the Senate last year, the bill has already had several amendments. Intended to protect [...]
South Florida is battling a growing infestation of the giant African land snail, which is considered one of the most destructive invasive species, feeding voraciously on more than 500 types of plant. African land snail is one of the world’s largest species of snail. They can also eat through plaster walls, which provides the calcium [...]
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John Lennon guitar sells for $408,000 at Julien's AuctionsA guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles has sold for $408,000 at auction. The custom-made instrument, built in 1966 by the VOX company, was bought…
Arne Svenson: TriBeCa residents threaten to sue artist for secretly photographed them in their own apartmentsResidents at a luxury TriBeCa apartment block in Lower Manhattan are very furious after discovering that artist Arne Svenson, who is their neighbor at a nearby building, has…
Monika Pon-su-san: The Chinese Girl in Vladimir Tretchikoff's paintingEarlier this year Vladimir Tretchikoff's portrait Chinese Girl, often referred to as The Green Lady, was sold for almost £1 million ($1.5 million) at auction in…
Bob Brozman suicide: Guitarist and ethnomusicologist found dead aged 59 at his Santa Cruz homeGuitarist and ethnomusicologist Bob Brozman was found dead aged 59 at his home in Ben Lomond, Santa Cruz County, CA, on April 23. Bob Brozman’s death was ruled a suicide,…
Harper Lee sues literary agent Samuel Pinkus over To Kill A Mockingbird copyrightHarper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird, has sued literary agent Samuel Pinkus, who she says tricked her into assigning him the copyright on the Pulitzer Prize-winning…
1913 Liberty Head nickel sells for $3.17 million at Heritage auction in ChicagoA century-old US five-cent coin, once branded a fake, has been sold for $3.17 million at a Heritage auction in Chicago. The 1913 Liberty Head nickel, one of only five such…