Google Seeks New Trial In Oracle Case

Google Seeks New Trial In Oracle Fight
InformationWeek
By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Google on Tuesday filed a motion asking the judge hearing Oracle's copyright and patent lawsuit against Google to declare a mistrial. Google's legal team on Monday indicated it would seek a new trial when the jury ...

Symantec Leapfrogs McAfee in Mobile Security
PCWorld
By Antone Gonsalves, CSO With mobile security on the radar of corporations, the race is on between Symantec and Intel-owned McAfee to solve the big headache troubling IT: bring-your-own device (BYOD). For now, Symantec has the edge with its latest ...

HP Announces New Ultrabooks, Introduces 'Sleekbooks'
Wired News
By Alexandra Chang The HP Envy Spectre XT has an all-metal body and weight only 3.07 pounds. Photo: HP HP has expanded its ever-slimming laptop line with the introduction of five new devices. The company introduced on Wednesday new Ultrabooks that are ...

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Appeals court grants wax seal to Maker's Mark
BusinessWeek
By BRETT BARROUQUERE A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but an appeals court says a liquor bottle with a red dripping wax seal by any name other than Maker's Mark would be illegal. Noting that "all bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is ...

New Antarctic ice shelf threatened by warming
Reuters
By Chris Wickham | LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists are predicting the disappearance of another vast ice shelf in Antarctica by the end of the century that will accelerate rising sea levels. The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea on the ...

HP VP of Industrial Design: Apple doesn't own silver
CNET
Hewlett-Packard's industrial design chief dismisses a claim that the company's newest notebook looks like Apple's MacBook Air, arguing that form follows function. by Josh Lowensohn May 9, 2012 11:36 AM PDT Follow @Josh Telling the head of industrial ...

Sand dunes on Mars can be surprisingly swift
msnbc.com
Towering sand dunes on Mars, once thought to be ancient and unchanging, are actually dynamic and active today, new satellite observations show. Using advanced optical images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's ...

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Investor wants Yahoo CFO or media boss as temp CEO
Reuters
By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO May 9 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's largest outside shareholder said the Internet company should make its finance chief or head of media the interim chief executive because of the controversy surrounding CEO Scott Thompson's ...

Report: Zuckerberg to appear at Facebook IPO event Friday in Palo Alto
San Jose Mercury News
By Brandon Bailey Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is escorted by security guards as he departs New York City's Sheraton Hotel May 7, 2012. Facebook Inc. kicked off its IPO roadshow in New York on Monday, attracting hundreds of investors to the ...

Take-Two delays 'BioShock Infinite' to February 2013
Washington Post
NEW YORK — Take-Two has delayed the release of “BioShock Infinite,” an eagerly awaited shooter game set in 1912. Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. said Wednesday that the game will launch on Feb. 26, rather than in October as it said previously.

Wolfenstein 3D' turns 20, celebrates by going free to play
msnbc.com
Stay up to speed with news and reviews on video games for the PC, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, Android, iPhone, iPad, Facebook and more. Wednesday is the 20th anniversary of "Wolfenstein 3D," which essentially laid the groundwork for the ...

Review: 'Starhawk' a bumpy ride through space
USA TODAY
By Brett Molina, USA TODAY The ingredients for the PlayStation 3 adventure Starhawk look promising on paper: third-person shooting, dog fights in outer space and a build-and-battle system borrowing loosely from real-time strategy games.

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Google's self-driving car: Is this the next generation of autos?
Washington Post
Remember how adult you felt when you first got your driver's permit? Make sure it's preserved in your mind to tell your children, because now it's Google's self-driving car that's spreading its wings. The company's pie-in-the-sky project was approved ...

News Summary: Orangutans Use iPads to Communicate
ABC News
GOING APES: Several zoos are experimenting with computers. Six orangutans at Miami's Jungle Island use an iPad to communicate and as part of a mental stimulus program. WHAT THEY DO: 8-year-old orangutan twins draw, play games and expand their ...

Pogoplug service turns your computers into private cloud
Computerworld
By Lucas Mearian Computerworld - Cloud service provider Pogoplug today unveiled Pogoplug Team, which allows home offices and small businesses to turn file servers or spare PCs into pools of storage accessible from the Web.

Peru says 5000 birds, nearly 900 dolphins dead
AFP
LIMA — The Peruvian government said Wednesday that 5000 birds, mostly pelicans, and nearly 900 dolphins have died off the country's northern coast, possibly due to rising temperatures in Pacific waters. The country's northern beaches were earlier this ...

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One photo captures 100000 swarming stars in cluster
msnbc.com
A ball of some of the oldest stars in the universe looks like a swarm of bees in a new view from an observatory in Chile. The photo, released Wednesday, was taken by a European Southern Observatory telescope and shows 100000 stars crowded together in ...

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Facebook offers suicide-prevention lifeline for military families
Los Angeles Times
By Michelle Maltais Facebook is connecting with military-support and service organizations to offer customized suicide-prevention services for veterans, active service members and their families. For many members of military families, social media ...

Do non-iPad tablets stand a chance?
CNET
At CTIA 2012, Walt Mossberg, Samsung, and Barnes & Noble weigh in on the state of slates. by Jessica Dolcourt May 9, 2012 10:17 AM PDT Follow @jdolcourt It's big, it's heavy, and it's hardly portable. Is Toshiba's 13-inch tablet already dead in the ...

How a humongous garbage patch in the Pacific breeds new bugs (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
The great Pacific garbage patch has created a new breeding ground for a marine insect, which in turn is changing Pacific ecosystems. By Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer / May 9, 2012 This March 2011 photo shows a Japanese home adrift in the ...

Christian Science Monitor

Data overload threatens mobile networks
Financial Times
By Paul Taylor in New York Back in the early 2000s mobile network operators were clamouring to sign up new subscribers to “unlimited” data plans to offset what they correctly perceived to be a steady decline in mobile voice revenues.

Huawei Launches CloudEngine Series – New Data Center Switches
Daily Disruption
By Bill Klump | @TheKlumper | May 9th, 2012 Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider today launched its innovative CloudEngine series switches at Interop 2012. The CloudEngine series switches provide ...

T-Mobile goes back to lampooning AT&T iPhone
KBOI-TV
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Six months after AT&T's deal to buy T-Mobile USA collapsed, T-Mobile's TV ads are going back on the attack against a favorite target: AT&T Inc. Philipp Humm, the CEO of T-Mobile, showed off a new ad Tuesday featuring a hapless man on ...

Amazon Continues to Set The Customer Satisfaction Bar High
Daily Disruption
By Duane Barnhart | @dailydisrupt | May 9th, 2012 A record 36 of the top 100 online retailers achieve the “threshold for excellence” on the annual Top 100 E-Retail Satisfaction Index from customer experience analytics firm ForeSee.

Sprint: A Better Network is Coming
PC Magazine
By Sascha Segan NEW ORLEANS—Sprint executives today laid out their plans for a better 3G network, wider push-to-talk capabilities, and a solid LTE 4G experience during a breakfast at the CTIA Wireless trade show. We've already heard how Sprint is ...

Twitter Downplays Breach That Exposed Passwords
InformationWeek
Nearly 60000 Twitter usernames and passwords released via Pastebin, but social networking service says half are for blocked spam accounts or duplicates. By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek Tens of thousands of Twitter users' email addresses and ...

AT&T Sales: Nokia Lumia 900 Demand Exceeding Supply
Vision 2 Mobile
AT&T must be struggling to keep pace with the demand for the Nokia Lumia 900, a smartphone powered by Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. "Demand has been outstripping supply for the first couple of weeks, and we've been working hard to rectify ...

Microsoft, Facebook may be working on smartphone together
TechFlash
Connect with TechFlash on our Facebook page for all the latest technology news headlines and commentary, plus information and access to special events, photos from events, promotions and more. by Emily Parkhurst on Wednesday, May 9, 2012,...

AT&T HTC One X gets rooted with one simple click
androidandme.com
While HTC claims restrictions prevent them from unlocking the bootloader of the AT&T HTC One X, that has not stopped the development community from banding together to unlock root access on the phone. A new post by kennethpenn on XDA-Developers ...

Cornell Chronicle: Architect chosen for CornellNYC Tech
"The CornellNYC Tech project is about accelerating innovation in the technology sector, particularly in New York City, by connecting leading-edge academic ...
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Rockmelt CEO Talks Tech, Social Media - Yahoo! News
Rockmelt CEO Talks Tech, Social Media. 13 mins ago. CNBC 5:59 | 0 views. Eric Vishria, Rockmelt co-founder & CEO, discusses Rockmelt, which he says looks ...
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Oracle tries to get a Java "do-over"

Oracle tries to rewrite history for Sun and alter Java's future
CNET
The Oracle v. Google case is about copyright, patents and the intricacies of the open source world. But it's also about Oracle trying to get a do-over for decisions made by Sun's executive management. by Dan Farber May 2, 2012 12:45 PM PDT Follow ...

Technology Live: News and gadgets from our network of reporters
USA TODAY
Technology Live covers computers, electronics, and the Internet, with a focus on cutting-edge technology that has a real impact on your life. Our reporters and editors -- based in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, and Washington – offer ...

Harvard, MIT to partner in $60 million initiative to offer free online classes ...
Boston.com
By Mary Carmichael, Globe Staff CAMBRIDGE -- Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said today they will team up to launch a $60 million initiative to offer free, online, college-level courses under a joint superbrand known as ...

Harvard, MIT partner on major $60M online learning venture
Boston Herald
By Ira Kantor Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a new transformational partnership in online education today called EdX, which the two institutions will collaborate on to enhance campus-based teaching and ...

Q&A: Explorer and Robotics Engineer on Historic SpaceX Flight
Wired News
By Adam Mann This is the second in a series of Wired Q&As with spaceflight experts leading up to SpaceX's launch. Read the first installment. We may be at the dawn of a new, private era in space. In the near future, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will ...

Wired News

At BlackBerry Maker, Chief Sharpens Focus
Wall Street Journal
By WILL CONNORS ORLANDO, Fla.—Research In Motion Ltd.'s new chief executive sought to further put his stamp on the BlackBerry maker Wednesday, saying he has refined the focus of the company and is close to hiring a new top marketing officer.

Physicist says Moore's Law is 'collapsing'
Computerworld
By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - A well-known theoretical physicist has taken direct aim at a key theory in the computer industry, saying Moore's Law is collapsing. Physicist Michio Kaku, a professor of theoretical physics at City University of New ...

Leaked specs confirm dual-core CPU for Verizon's Galaxy S III
CNET
As expected, the US versions of the Galaxy S III will have a dual-core chipset. by Scott Webster May 2, 2012 12:52 PM PDT Follow @swebster77 Samsung is expected to unveil the Galaxy S III in London on May 3. A leaked user agent profile has seemingly ...

Gree acquires mobile game maker Funzio for $210M
Washington Post
Japanese mobile social network Gree has acquired Funzio, a fast-growing maker of hardcore mobile and social games, for $210 million. Funzio has the rare distinction of having three games that have all garnered big audiences.

VMware gussies up View and Horizon post-PC virty tools
Register
By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author Server virtualization juggernaut VMware pretty much owns the hypervisor and management tools market for enterprise data centers on x86 iron, but if it wants to keep parent EMC and therefore Wall ...

Facebook calls on members to flag organ donor status
Reuters
By Julie Steenhuysen | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tired of the long wait for a new kidney, Michael Shelling, a 50-year-old video game marketing consultant based in San Diego, decided to take a more active role in the search. About three months ago, ...

Google Street View May Face Fresh European Sanctions
InformationWeek
European investigators consider reopening previous Google Street View investigations in the wake of an FCC report detailing Google's wardriving practices. By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek Google may face fresh police investigations in Europe into ...

Amazon 'Mother's Day' Deal Knocks $30 Off Kindle Fire
PC Magazine
By Mark Hachman Perhaps in response to discounts on the Nook the day before, Amazon today launched a one-day Mother's Day deal of sorts on its Kindle Fire. The e-tailer's Gold Box Deal for Wednesday is a refurbished Kindle Fire Android tablet, ...

CrowdStar raises $11.5M for mobile games but will lay off Facebook developers
VentureBeat
CrowdStar, which is shifting from social to mobile games, has raised $11.5 million in a recent round of funding. At the same time, the company will lay off a couple dozen of its Facebook game developers. These changes are a sign of the times in the ...

VentureBeat

Humongous fleas gorged on dinosaurs, report scientists
Christian Science Monitor
Five to 10 times larger than today's bloodusuckers, the flea-like Mesozoic bugs whose fossils were unearthed in China are thought to have dined on feathered dinosaurs and mammals. By Eoin O'Carroll, Staff / May 2, 2012 This ancient 'flea-like' insect, ...

Christian Science Monitor

Google finally wins DoI cloud apps contract
Register
Google has snatched victory from the jaws of defeat by winning the US Department of the Interior (DoI) contract for its Apps for Government platform, after Microsoft had snaffled the original deal. "We're honored that the Department of the Interior has ...

Report: $99 Xbox console with Kinect to launch next week, but there's a catch
Washington Post
Microsoft is planning to launch a $99 Xbox console package with a monthly subscription as early as next week, according to our sources. The software giant will offer the 4GB console with a Kinect sensor at its range of Microsoft Stores in the US, ...

Spotify for iPad Review
SlashGear
The folks at Spotify have brought forth the next big iteration of their mobile app, this time make specifically for the iPad (of all shapes and sizes.) Here we've got not just a giant version of the original iPhone app (as they so cleverly alude to in...

Windows 'Live' Is Dead (MSFT)
San Francisco Chronicle
Microsoft is killing the Windows Live brand it introduced six years ago. In a new post on the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft reveals that all its online services will simply have their own names: instead of Windows Live Messenger, it'll just be...

Nokia Fires Volley of Patent Lawsuits at Competitors
TechNewsWorld
By Peter Suciu It may be folly to engage in lawsuits that tie up resources and create a climate of confusion when a company has a solid footing in the market, but for a company that's slipping -- like Nokia -- it could be a sensible strategic move.

Google Play carrier billing hits Multimedia
SlashGear
Those of you looking for an easier and much more addictive way to purchase software and media from Google, that time has come, and it's come with carrier billing. While several carriers have allowed Google Play App Store purchases to be added to phone ...

Amazon moving into sitcoms
Washington Post
You can get just about anything on Amazon these days. Pretty soon that may include original sitcoms, with the rollout of Amazon Studios. “We're now developing original programming for Amazon Instant Video. Submit your children's series or comedy series ...

Activision Shoots For $20 As Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Trailer Released
Forbes
Video gaming developer Activision Blizzard has ignited buzz in gaming circles with the launch of first official trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, which is slated for release on November 13. [1] With the release of the trailer, the company has put ...

Facebook, China merge server rack specs
EE Times
SAN JOSE – Facebook struck an alliance with China's Tencent and Baidu to merge separate designs for data center racks. The move is one small step toward the social networking giant's goal of a broad data center specification.

EE Times

Verizon launching HomeFusion residential 4G LTE this week
SlashGear
Verizon's 4G LTE wireless connectivity will soon be an option for residential broadband. The company will be launching a new HomeFusion service that will leverage its 4G LTE wireless network to bring high-speed connectivity to residential customers, ...

Shimmering nebula revealed near Orion's Belt
msnbc.com
Bright beads of cosmic dust highlight a shimmering nebula in a new photo of a region just north of the famous Orion's Belt in the constellation Orion. The Messier 78 nebula, which is also known as NGC 2068, is often called the reflection nebula, ...

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Plant study flags dangers of warming world
Reuters
* Plants flowering 8.5 times faster than predicted * Changes have knock-on effect for food chain, ecosystems By Nina Chestney LONDON, May 2 (Reuters) - Plants are flowering faster than scientists predicted in response to climate change, research in the ...

Samsung Galaxy S III vs iPhone 5: pre-release battle
SlashGear
The next-generation iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S III will be the two biggest and baddest smartphones on the market this summer. There's no denying that. Unless you're HTC and you've got the HTC One series with the HTC One X on AT&T and the HTC One ...

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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory sees Remarkable Outburst from Old Black Hole
Clarksville Online
Huntsville, AL – An extraordinary outburst produced by a black hole in a nearby galaxy has provided direct evidence for a population of old, volatile stellar black holes. The discovery, made by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...

RIM Admits Orchestrating Anti-Apple Stunt
MyFox Chicago
(MarketWatch) - Research In Motion Ltd. said Wednesday that its Australian operation was responsible for an anti-Apple Inc. flash-mob in Sydney last week that triggered a raft of speculation over who was behind the stunt. Local media and blog reports ...

MyFox Chicago

Oetzi the Iceman's blood is world's oldest
BBC News
Researchers studying Oetzi, a 5300-year-old body found frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991, have found red blood cells around his wounds. Blood cells tend to degrade quickly, and earlier scans for blood within Oetzi's body turned up nothing.

BBC News

Barnes & Noble CEO: NFC coming to the Nook
Fortune
By JP Mangalindan, Writer May 1, 2012: 2:47 PM ET William Lynch talks about the future of the Nook business -- including how the company's software could be used in Windows and the potential of NFC chips showing up soon. FORTUNE -- The battle for ...
 
Fortune

T-Mobile Prism does budget Android for $20
CNET
T-Mobile's $20 Prism runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread and will be available at Wal-Mart and Best Buy, in addition to T-Mobile stores. by Jessica Dolcourt May 2, 2012 9:18 AM PDT Follow @jdolcourt You can always count on T-Mobile for wallet-friendly options ...

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Android, Java, and the tech behind Oracle v. Google

Android, Java, and the tech behind Oracle v. Google (FAQ)
CNET
Scrapping over copyrights, patents, and licensing deals is an ignominious outcome for atechnology that a decade and a half ago spooked Microsoft and seemed poised to inject dynamism into a largely static Web. Back when it debuted, Java was a brand ...

Google vs. Oracle: Round one
MarketWatch
By John C. Dvorak BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) — There seems to be a lot of concern for the future of Android, as the Oracle Corp. vs. Google Inc. lawsuit appears to threaten the phone and tablet OS. Google has too much riding on the Android OS to ...

China's Hot New Tech Stock Offering: The People's Daily
BusinessWeek
China's boisterous Internet now has some 485 million Internet users and 300 million microbloggers, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and is increasingly characterized by free-wheeling, sometimes rumor-driven content.

The top 25 technology books of all time
VentureBeat
Technology teaches us to forget the past. Last year's tech news seems like it has no use whatsoever. Thankfully, historians beg to differ, and they have begun to preserve the history of the tech industry as it becomes more and more important to the ...

Apple in talks with iPad trademark challenger to try and settle dispute
Computerworld
By Michael Kan IDG News Service - Apple and a Chinese company have started talks to try and resolve an ongoing legal dispute over the iPad trademark, according to a lawyer involved in the case. Ma Dongxiao, a lawyer representing the Chinese company ...

Mexico volcano spews glowing rock and tower of ash
USA TODAY
XALITZINTLA, Mexico (AP) – A 17886-foot volcano outside Mexico City exhaled dozens of towering plumes of ash and shot fragments of glowing rock down its slopes Friday morning, frightening the residents of surrounding villages with hours of low-pitched ...

The question is: If not dark matter, then what?
msnbc.com
Astronomers mapped the motions of hundreds of stars in the Milky Way in order to deduce the amount of dark matter that must be tugging on them from the vicinity of our sun. Their surprising conclusion? There's no dark matter around here.

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German court rules against YouTube in rights case
BusinessWeek
By JUERGEN BAETZ A German court ruled Friday that YouTube must install filters to prevent users uploading some music videos whose rights are held by a music-royalties collecting body. Hamburg's state court sided with Germany's GEMA, which had sued ...

LightSquared wins two-year reprieve for spectrum payments to Inmarsat
Computerworld
By Peter Sayer IDG News Service - LightSquared has another two years in which to seek regulatory approval for its LTE mobile network in the US before it must begin making payments to its radio spectrum supplier Inmarsat, the companies announced Friday.

What Apple could gain from an iPad mini
Washington Post
Rumors persist about a smaller iPad, which would diversify the company's product line but create potential headaches for Apple developers who like producing for the iPad's one-and-only form factor. A move to a smaller device may also draw scrutiny from ...

Play 'Diablo III' for Free, This Weekend Only
ABC News
Diablo III has entered an open beta period as of 12:01 pm PDT, according to a post on Blizzard Entertainment's website. Anyone with a valid Battle.net account can take the highly anticipated game for a spin all weekend long.

Apple claims Aussie 3G is so good it's 4G
Register
Apple has hit back at claims it misled Australian buyers of "the new iPad" with the unusual defense that Australia's 3G networks are so fast they are in fact 4G in all but name. Cupertino has been taken to court by the Australian Competition and ...

Fifth Avenue Frogger brings everyone's favorite roadkill to New York City (video)
Engadget
By Brian Heater posted Apr 20th 2012 12:49PM For all their charm, the arcade games of the 80s didn't really offer much in the way of gritty realism -- not like today's titles, certainly. Tyler DeAngelo's new take on video game hall-of-famer Frogger ...

Microsoft Posts Record Revenue — but Xbox Is Slipping
ABC News
Microsoft reported record revenues of $17.41 billion for the past quarter, but profits slipped 2.4% from the same period a year earlier, down from $5.23 billion to $5.11 billion. PC sales were sluggish due to the twin pressures of a hard-disk shortage ...

NVIDIA teases dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690
SlashGear
NVIDIA has posted a cryptic image on its Facebook page recently to tease what is likely the upcoming GeForce GTX 690 dual-chip GPU. The dark image doesn't reveal much except the company's logo on what appears to be a graphics card and the words “It's ...

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NYC-Bound Space Shuttle Prototype Enterprise Reunited with Carrier Aircraft
Space.com
by Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor NASA's original prototype space shuttle was reunited Friday (April 20) with the jumbo jet that first ferried it for a series of important test flights

Samsung's May 3 Round-up: Galaxy S III and more
SlashGear
There's a London event coming up and Samsung is bringing the heat with several mobile products presented to impress. This new line of hero products will include not just the Samsung Galaxy S III like we assumed from the beginning, it's got a few ...

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Creepers rejoice! X-ray vision may soon come to your smartphone
Digitaltrends.com
Scientists have figured out a way to shrink x-ray technlogy, allowing devices like smartphones to have x-ray sensors in them. We explore how this new technology works. In a scientific breakthrough that should excite teenage boys around the globe, ...

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Earth Day: Five ways we affect the planet
Christian Science Monitor
The late Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D) of Wisconsin organized the first Earth Day in 1970 after the devastating oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif. The event started as an environmental teach-in, with some 20 million Americans taking part on ...

Christian Science Monitor

Next iPhone to Be Made of 'LiquidMetal', Arrive in October [REPORT]
ABC News
Apple's next iPhone will be available in October, according to Gene Munster, analyst for Piper Jaffray. Munster also says the phone will have a redesigned body, and will run on 4G data networks such as LTE. The analyst predicts the phone will be ...

FCC tracks carriers' alerts to avoid mobile 'bill shock'
msnbc.com
You'd likely never get a cellphone bill for more than $200000 like one Florida woman did last fall. But too many times, mobile users are surprised by the amounts of their phone bills when they arrive; the Federal Communications Commission says one out ...

New law mandates black boxes in all cars by 2015
CBS News
(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) (CBS News) A recently passed bill will require all cars to come equipped with "black boxes" that record vehicle data. These Event Data Recorders (EDR), similar to their airplane counterparts, will record data such as speed, ...

CBS News

Windows Phone gets MapMyFitness apps
Los Angeles Times
By Michelle Maltais If you've perused the selection of apps available for Windows Phone, you might have noticed that some of the greatest hits for iPhone and Android users aren't there -- yet. But that appears to be shifting somewhat.

Skywatcher Photos: 2012 Quadrantid Meteor Shower
LiveScience.com
The annual Lyrid meteor shower will hit its peak this weekend and promises to put on an eye-catching display. So much so, NASA is pulling out all the stops. NASA scientists plan to track the Lyrid meteor shower using a network of all-sky cameras on ...

Scientists Create “Alien” Genetic Material Capable of Evolution
Medgadget.com
by Brian Klein on Apr 20, 2012 • 1:36 pm RNA and DNA may no longer be the only candidates capable of evolving and building life forms around themselves. It is also likely, from the evolutionary standpoint, that RNA, and its likely successor DNA, ...

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Meat eating behind humans' spreading over the globe
Eureka! Science News
Carnivory is behind the evolutionary success of humankind. When early humans started to eat meat and eventually hunt, their new, higher-quality diet meant that women could wean their children earlier. Women could then give birth to more children during ...

Report: Samsung Launching Cloud Service on May 3
PC Magazine
By Mark Hachman Samsung is reportedly prepping its own cloud service to stream movies, photos, music, and other content, according to a report. Maeil Business reported (via Google Translate) that the so-called S-Cloud could be launched on May 3 at an ...

Dish Streams Pandora Offerings Via DVR
MediaPost Communications
by David Goetzl, 5 minutes ago Dish Network said it will make the Pandora radio service available via its Hopper whole-home DVR offering. The link will allow Hopper users to search for artists and songs and build “personalized radio stations” streaming ...

Apple, Google, Intel fail to dismiss staff-poaching lawsuit
Reuters
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Apple Inc, Google Inc, Intel Corp and four other technology companies were ordered by a judge to face an antitrust lawsuit claiming they illegally conspired not to poach each other's employees. District Judge Lucy Koh in ...

Polar Bears Not Descendents Of Brown Bears, Study Says
NTDTV
A mother polar bear plays with two of her three cubs. (ANDREY SMIRNOV/AFP/Getty Images) Polar bears are not descended from brown bears, contrary to popular belief, a new study reports. A study released in this week's issue of Science finds that the ...

Would you pay for a shared data plan?
CNET
Verizon Wireless has again announced its intention to offer shared data plans this summer, but will they prove a hit with consumers? by Lance Whitney April 20, 2012 8:47 AM PDT Follow @lancewhit Verizon is looking to appeal to data-hungry users by ...

Google's Brin: 'I have much admiration' for Apple, Facebook
CNET
The Google co-founder says his thoughts on Internet freedom were "distorted" and that the ensuing media reports regarding Facebook and Apple don't reflect his core beliefs. by Don Reisinger April 18, 2012 5:18 AM PDT Google co-founder Sergey Brin has ...

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