Groovy is cool. Also note that Java8 comes with Nashorn (JavaScript) and Shell Scripting. And Nashorn allows you to call Java code.

A real hydrogen bomb is much more difficult to produce than an A-bomb. Experts are saying that what NK might have done is mixed a hydrogen isotope with a normal A-bomb. That would technically make it a hydrogen bomb, but not a true fusion bomb that starts a massive fusion reaction.

And new buses in Stockholm have USB sockets for charging mobiles, as well as some Swebus buses between Stockholm and Oslo and between other cities. I expect that USB ports with free electricity will become more common on public transport.

You have a good point. There are a number of countries in the Eurozone with lower GNI (Gross national income) per capita than Greece: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Malta, Portugal and Slovenia. However Poland, though a part of EU and poorer than Greece, is not a part of the Eurozone.

And searching Wikipedia reveals that Switzerland plans to close down FM radio by 2024.

A (much discussed) study for Swedish parliament recommended that FM radio be closed down 2022.

On the Beach is considered sf by The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

"Shute's two Australian sf novels remain his best known works of genre interest."
...
"Much closer to the bone is the famous On the Beach (1957), adapted for BBC Radio as On the Beach (1957) and filmed as On the Beach (1959), a Near Future tale (see Holocaust, Post-Holocaust) in which nuclear World War Three eliminates all life in the northern hemisphere, as confirmed by an Australian submarine sent north to trace a mysterious radio message, but finding the Pacific Rim, including San Francisco (see California), entirely desolated."

It's a story concerning the future and the end of the world, clearly sf.

See the whole entry at: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com...

There is also an interesting entry on Speculative Fiction.

Adobe won't update the Flash player beyond version 11.2, but continues to put out security patches. It works well enough for me.

Wind turbines produce about 10 percent of Germany’s electricity.

"To this end, the 5G solution will not consist of a single technology but rather an integrated combination of radio-access technologies. This includes existing mobile-broadband technologies such as HSPA and LTE that will continue to evolve and will provide the backbone of the overall radio-access solution beyond 2020. But it also includes new complementary radio-access technologies for specific use cases. Smart antennas, expanded spectrum – including higher frequencies – and improved coordination between base stations will all be crucial to fulfilling the requirements of the future" See http://www.ericsson.com/news/1...

Yes, and while most prizes are for discoveries, like the Higgs boson, Alfred Nobel stated that the prize could also be given for an important invention in physics.

Normal replacable batteries in a watch? I was under the impression that automatic quartz watches ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... ) had taken over the market. Of cause they do have rechable batteries or a capacitor, you just don't replace it.

Tom's Hardware did a performance comparison of Chrome 25, Firefox 19, IE10 & 9 and some version of Opera. Firefox and Chrome were neck and neck, clearly ahead of the others.

Please read this Scientific America article, titled "Has Global Warming Paused?": http://www.scientificamerican....
Here is an extract:

'So as a measure of global warming, surface temperatures are not a good yardstick, because the atmosphere can only hold a small percentage of the heat that is trapped, he said.
Rather, the oceans should be the primary barometer of global climate change.
And they are certainly changing. Sea levels are going up "like gangbusters," Willis said'