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Submission + - Ecuador Grants Asylum to Julian Assange (guardian.co.uk)

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paulmac84

on Thursday August 16, 2012 @08:50AM

paulmac84 writes: "The Guardian are live blogging the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister's announcement that Ecuador is to grant asylum to Julian Assange. In the announcement Minister Patino said, "We can state that there is a risk that he will be persecuted politically... We trust the UK will offer the necessary guarantees so that both governments can act adequately and properly respect international rights and the right of asylum. We also trust the excellent relationship the two countries have will continue.". The Guardian also carries a translated copy of the letter the UK sent to Ecuador regarding the threat to "storm" the Ecuadorian embassy."

Submission + - UK Authorities Threaten to Storm Ecuadorian Embassy to Arrest Julian Assange (bbc.co.uk)

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paulmac84

on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @06:00PM

paulmac84 writes: "According to the BBC, the UK have issued a threat to storm the Ecuadorian Embassy to arrest Julian Assange. Under the terms of the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 the UK has the right to revoke the diplomatic immunity of any embassy on UK soil. Ecuador are due to announce their decision on Assange's asylum request on Thursday morning."

Submission + - OLPC Wins Popular Science Award

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paulmac84

on Saturday November 11, 2006 @01:15AM

paulmac84 writes: "Popular Science have released their "Best of What's New 2006" awards. In the computing section One Laptop Per Child took home the Grand Award. From the article: "The goal of the XO is simple and noble: to give every child a laptop, especially in developing countries, where the machines will be sold in bulk for about $130 apiece. But the One Laptop Per Child nonprofit, formed at MIT, didn't just create a cheap computer. In addition to cutting costs — by designing lower-priced circuitry and using an open-source operating system, among other things — it also improved on the standard laptop by slashing the machine's energy use by 90 percent, ideal for a device that could be charged by hand-cranked power in rural villages."

The Innovation of The Year Award went to "the alpha nail that makes your home twice as tough". Sometimes the simple ideas really are the best."

Submission + - Researchers Discover a Stars Minimum Possible Mass

Submitted by on Thursday August 17, 2006 @06:46PM

paulmac84 writes: Stars that don't have enough mass never shine, dying billions of years before their bigger counterparts. But astronomers have never been able to measure the exact mass limit, because the lightest stars that do shine can be simply too faint to detect. Now, new images show for the first time how big a star must be to avoid impending doom. The long-awaited new images finally lay this question to rest, say the authors. The dimmest stars were measured as being 8.3% of the Sun's mass. All protostars that are smaller than this are headed for life as a brown dwarf.

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