Yahoo! open to sale, partnership for search business February 25th, 2009 in Technology / Internet Enlarge A visitor sitting near a Yahoo! logo at a trade fair. Internet pioneer Yahoo! is open to selling its Web search business or entering into a partnership with another company, but doing a deal would be hard, a...
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50 Cent’s Before I Self Destruct Gets Pushed Back Again ‘They should expect Em’s album to come out first,’ rapper says of his labelmate. By Shaheem Reid 50 Cent Photo: Jordan Strauss/WireImage Apparently Interscope Records’ three-headed monster has changed the order of its lineup again. While promoting his video game ‘Blood in the Sand,’...
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Joshua Silver, a lifelong tinkerer, was fiddling around one day with a cheap, water-filled lens he’d built as an optics experiment when he noticed something interesting. By adding or removing water he could not only change the power of the lens, he found, but he also could use it to very accurately correct his...
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More power from bumps in the road: Energy-harvesting shock absorbers (PhysOrg.com) — A team of MIT undergraduate students has invented a shock absorber that harnesses energy from small bumps in the road, generating electricity while it smoothes the ride more effectively than conventional shocks. The students hope to initially find customers among companies that...
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Ice in east Antarctica a bigger threat long term (AP) AP – Antarctica’s western ice sheet is pushing ever faster into the sea, but scientists know an even greater long-term threat lies here in the vast, little-explored whiteness of east Antarctica.
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12-year-old Builds Homeless Shelter Yurt from Trash 12-year-old Max Wallack submitted this amazing ‘Home Dome‘—a homeless shelter made from plastic, wire, and packing peanuts—to a recent ‘Trash to Treasure‘ design contest. Based on a Mongolian yurt, it’s warm and includes a bed. The project both helps divert materials from landfills and gives...
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Cheaper Blu-ray? Sony, Panasonic, and Philips say it’s coming, honestly Look, we don’t really ‘get’ people who aren’t willing to buy the latest and greatest thing regardless of the price and / or current economic state, but evidently there’s a rather large sector still clinging to their antiquated DVD format. Blu-ray proponents Panasonic, Philips,...
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Leaked Snow Leopard screenshots and video show new Stacks, install options We haven’t seen too many Snow Leopard screenshots leak out, but it looks like a few more have finally surfaced, and they seem to show some interesting — if minor — interface enhancements. Most notably, Stacks now allows nested browsing, so if you...
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Windows 7 shipping this Fall… according to Compal, anyway While Steve Ballmer himself declared that Windows Mobile 7 would be coming out next year, we’ve got a somewhat less reliable source suggesting that the desktop version of Win7 will be landing this fall. Ray Chen, president of Taipei-based Compal Electronics, was quoted as saying...
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The research team has tested the vaccine on mice implanted with human genes, confirming that it works even if flu viruses mutate, according to Tetsuya Uchida, researcher at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Currently flu vaccines use a protein covering the surface of viruses but the protein frequently mutates to make the vaccines...
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