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Submission + - Active glacier found on Mars (bbc.co.uk) 1

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FireFury03

on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @12:47PM

FireFury03 writes: "The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft has spotted an icy feature which appears to be a young active glacier. Dr Gerhard Neukum (what a cool name :), chief scientist on the spacecraft's High Resolution Stereo Camera said "We have not yet been able to see the spectral signature of water. But we will fly over it in the coming months and take measurements. On the glacial ridges we can see white tips, which can only be freshly exposed ice". Estimates place the glacier at 10,000 — 100,000 years old."

Submission + - Unlimited gall to cost Verizon $1 million (networkworld.com)

Submitted by netbuzz on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @06:30AM

netbuzz writes: Unlimited really means unlimited, even in advertising. So says the New York State Attorney General's Office in squeezing a $1 million settlement out of Verizon Wireless for disconnecting 13,000 of its customers who had the temerity to believe that the unlimited service they were promised came with unlimited service. Verizon's statement explaining the settlement is a gem, too.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/20981

Submission + - Radiohead Made $6-$10 Million on Album (wired.com)

Submitted by

mytrip

on Friday October 19, 2007 @01:14PM

mytrip writes: "Thom Yorke's representative told me that the band have "decided not to give out any figures" for sales of Radiohead's In Rainbows album, but that isn't stopping people from making their best guesses based on what little information is available.

The Seminal estimates that Radiohead sold about $10 million-worth of albums as of 10/12, assuming that their source was correct that approximately 1.2 million people downloaded the album from the site, and that the average price paid per album was $8 (we heard that number too, but also heard that a later, more accurate average was $5, which would result in $6 million in revenue instead)."

Submission + - NYT and LAT talk up 'crowdsourcing'

Submitted by

netbuzz

on Monday March 19, 2007 @01:43PM

netbuzz writes: "Suddenly "crowdsourcing" is a hot mainstream media topic. The NY Times profiles Assignment Zero, an "experimental" journalism site launched by NYU professor Jay Rosen and Wired magazine. Meanwhile, the left-coast Times shines a spotlight on a band of blogger/journalists for which crowdsourcing has long been simply a tool in the belt. TalkingPointsMemo has used the technique to break news in the ongoing scandal over unjustified firings of U.S. Attorneys, as well as to help bring down a Senate leader and stave off ill-conceived Social Security reform. TalkingPointsMemo has shown this works. It will be interesting to see if the technique scales.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1263 0"

Submission + - Mathematicians finally map 57-dimensional shape

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Matthew Sparkes

on Monday March 19, 2007 @01:36PM

Matthew Sparkes writes: "A team has mapped a 57-dimensional structure called E8 and the results take up 60 gigabytes of data. The shape, called E8 (pronounced E-eight), is a Lie group. A Norwegian mathematician invented Lie groups in the 19th century to study symmetry. A Lie group underlies objects like balls, cylinders or cones that are symmetrical when rotated by small amounts. The team solved the problem in a four-year project using a supercomputer at the University of Washington in Seattle."

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