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Father of Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug, Dies at 95 227

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 13, 2009 @03:04PM from the a-billion-here-a-billion-there dept.

countincognito writes "Norman Borlaug, a genuinely remarkable man and the father of the Green Revolution in agriculture, has died of cancer at his Dallas home aged 95. His life's work on developing high-yield, disease-resistant crops has been credited with having saved an estimated one billion people from famine, and one billion hectares of forest and rainforest from being cleared for agricultural production."

IE Losing 10% Market Share Every Two Years 345

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @12:20PM from the slowly-but-surely dept.

mjasay writes "Mozilla's Asa Dotzler points to some interesting long-term trends in browser market share, noting that 'browser releases aren't having any major impact on the macro trends,' which suggests that a better IE will likely have little impact on its sliding market share. The most intriguing conclusion from the data, however, is that Firefox could surpass IE market share as early as January 2013 if Firefox continues to gain 5 percent every year, even as IE drops 5 percent each year. In the past, Microsoft might have fought back by tying IE to other products to block competition, but with the EU keeping a close antitrust eye on Microsoft and the US Obama administration keen to make an example of an antitrust bully, Microsoft may have few good options beyond good old fashioned competition, which doesn't seem to be working very well for the Redmond giant, as the market share data suggests. Microsoft's loss of IE market power, in turn, could have serious consequences for the company's efforts to compete with Google on the Web."

Ubuntu Linux Validates As Genuine Windows 401

Posted by kdawson on Sunday June 17, 2007 @08:20PM from the it-was-the-wine-talking dept.

bobbocanfly writes "Another crack in the Windows Genuine Advantage wall. A user at UbuntuForums.org managed to validate an Ubuntu installation as a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows and get to the download page of Windows Defender, using IE4Linux and Wine. (Here is an OGG video of the process.) Along with the advancement of LiveCD technology, this could spell the end of Microsoft's control over who gets their updates."

Feed Examination Of Radiation Left From Birth Of Universe Could Alter Theories (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @01:33AM

Using relic radiation from the birth of the universe, astrophysicists at the University of Illinois have proposed a new way of measuring the fine-structure constant in the past, and comparing it with today.

Feed Natural Anti-freeze: How Arthropods Survive The Cold (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @01:12AM

Given the choice, many of us would opt for warmer climes during the bleak midwinter. However, most of us cannot afford to move abroad for a few months, so instead we pile on extra layers of clothing to keep warm. Arthropods face much the same dilemma, as they cannot migrate long distances to avoid low winter temperatures -- so why are they not killed off by the cold?

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