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Meshach writes:
Those of us who used the Internet in the mid 90s probably remember AltaVista as a popular early search engine. Yahoo has now shut down the site and is redirecting users to Bing. Yet another piece of history lost or good riddance?
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Meshach writes:
Some fans of The Simpsons have built a real life version of Homer Simpsons dream car. In the Simpson's world Homer finds out that he has a long lost cousin named Herb Powell, (voiced by Danny DeVito) who owns a car company in Detroit. Herb is so delighted to meet Homer that he lets Homer design a car that eventually ruins the company. This real vehicle is a working replica of the infamous car from the series.
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Meshach writes:
Recent study in the Washington Post verifies that using hands free or voice activated texting is no safer then texting with your hands while you are driving a car. Using a hand-held device to tap out a text message while driving has been banned in many states and provinces with the expectation that using hands free is safer.
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Meshach writes:
Interesting article in the Digital Journal saying that the current complexity of life on Earth and Moore's Law imply that life had to begin before the Earth was formed. Based on the premise that genetic complexity of living systems double every 376 million years the initiation of life is pushed back to almost 10 billion years ago. Geologists believe the age of the Earth is about 4.5 billion years. This means that life is older than the Earth by 5.5 billion years.
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Meshach writes:
Story out of Canada about some telephone customers in Canada are receiving bills of up to $100000 due to a coding errors in the billing system. The company is trying to contact all customers impacted by the error.
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Meshach writes:
Google has been found guilty for refusing to take down a libelous search result in an Australian court. Music promoter Milorad Trkulja sued Google for refusing to take down links to website articles promoting libelous claims Trkulja was connected to organized crime in Melbourne. Google has told Trkulja to contact the sites on which the offensive materials were posted, as those webmasters controlled the content but the supreme court found Google was responsible for removing the damaging links the moment Trkulja asked it to remove the content. As a result of the jury's decision in the case, Google will have to pay $200,000 in damages to Trkulja.
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Meshach writes:
Report out of New York claiming that as people use electronic devices more and more persons with nickel allergies are reacting to their phones. Apparently about one-third of BlackBerry devices and 90 percent of flip phones contained nickel, and more than half of flip phones containing cobalt (the most common irritants). Conversely none of the iPhones or Androids studied tested positive for either metal. For those allergic to metals, symptoms range from dry-itchy patches on the face or ears to redness, blistering, lesions, and sometimes oozing.
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Meshach writes:
Interesting article from Toronto about how although they have been virtually abandoned for music cassette tapes are being actively used an an inexpensive storage medium. Companies looking to archive large amounts of data are always looking for a cheaper solution and cassette tapes are the newest fad. Apparently when access time is not a priority they are perfect and they require zero energy use when not in use.
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Meshach writes:
Article in the Wall Street Journal about how Microsoft is entering the retail market for computers. With Windows 8 being released Microsoft is dictating more and more to big-box retailers how their systems should be marketed to consumers. Also The number of Microsoft stores selling directly to consumers is doubling.
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Meshach writes:
Research has suggested that human activity triggered an earthquake in Span that killed nine and injured over three hundred. Drilling deeper and deeper wells to water crops over the past 50 years were identified as the culprit by scientist who examined satellite images of the area. It was noted that even without the strain caused by water extraction, a quake would likely have occurred at some point in the area but the extra stress of pumping vast amounts of water from a nearby aquifer may have been enough to trigger a quake at that particular time and place.
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Meshach writes:
There is an article in the Globe and Mail that says that ase for Blackberry has stopped growing the first time in the companies history and speculates that this is the beginning of the end of RIM. The main problem seems to be that RIM's new Blackberry models like Bold and Torch are selling poorly and their production costs are so much higher then other products manufactured in China. A recent research report says that after BB10 the company will need to sell or drastically change its business model.
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Meshach writes:
Twitter is in the process of updating the API used by third party clients. The changes are making it more difficult for third-party clients to interface with the service by (among other things) requiring them to be inspected and approved by Twitter.
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Meshach writes:
A report out of The Atlantic asks astronomers what odor space has. The reports vary from seared steak to hot metal and welding fumes. But the consensus is clear: space stinks.
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Meshach writes:
A team in Canada has discovered several new species of dinosaurs that may help fill in evolutionary gaps. The new species linked large and small boned dinosaurs and may help fill evolutionary gaps.
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Meshach writes:
Google has been pressuring applications and mobile game developers to use its costlier in-house payment service, Google Wallet for quite some time. Now Google warned several developers in recent months that if they continued to use other payment methods — such as PayPal, Zong and Boku — their apps would be removed from Google Play, The move is seen as a way to cut costs for Google by using their own system.
