Osama bin Laden on Facebook

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Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is on facebook, which shows his address as "mountains of the world". He is using the social networking site to show videos and speeches to militants, a media report said on Friday.

With a multi-million dollar reward for his capture, the elusive Al Qaeda chief is believed to be hiding in the mountains lying on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Osama bin Laden on Facebook

Digital eye to help drivers avoid mishaps

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With just half a second's notice, a driver can swerve to avoid a fatal accident or slam on the brakes to avoid hitting a child running after a ball. But first, the driver must perceive the danger.

Research shows that a rapid alert system can help mitigate the risks, fatalities and severe injuries from road accidents, says Shai Avidan, professor at Tel Aviv University's (TAU) faculty of engineering and an expert in image processing.

Digital eye to help drivers avoid mishaps

Why is Facebook so popular?

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The popularity of social networking websites like Facebook is based on the phenomenon of social searching where people are keen to get information about a person, group or event.

Facebook.com boasts of more than 350 million users worldwide. With so many people interacting with one another online daily, a Missouri University researcher was interested in the cognitive and emotional implications of social browsing versus social searching.

Why is Facebook so popular?

IBM Research creates world's smallest 3D map

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WASHINGTON: Scientists claim to have created the world's smallest three dimensional map -- a map of the Earth so small that 1,000 of them could fit on one grain of salt.

A team at computer giant IBM accomplished this through a new, breakthrough technique which uses a tiny, silicon tip with a sharp apex -- 100,000 times smaller than a sharpened pencil -- to create patterns and structures as small as 15 nanometers at greatly reduced cost and complexity.

IBM Research creates world's smallest 3D map

Researchers show how to use mobiles to spy on people

Article appeared in physorg.com

Independent researcher Nick DePetrillo and security consultant Don Bailey demonstrated their system at the SOURCE Boston security conference earlier this week. Using information from the GSM network they could identify a mobile phone user’s location, and they showed how they could easily create dossiers on people’s lives and their behavior and business dealings. They also demonstrated how they were able to identify a government contractor for the US Department of Homeland Security through analyzing phone numbers and caller IDs.

Researchers show how to use mobiles to spy on people

Lufthansa invites iPhone 'loser' to Germany

In a letter to Gray Powell published on the Internet, the German airline said it had "noted with great interest your passion for German beer and culture."

"We thought you could use a break soon -- and therefore would like to offer you complimentary business class transportation to Munich, where you can literally pick up where you last left off," the letter added.

Lufthansa invites iPhone 'loser' to Germany

iPad helps 99-year-old read and write

Thats make iPad helpfull. Here is the video covering the whole story

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iPad helps 99-year-old read and write

Green tea 'could help stave off eye disease'

Article appeared in telegraph.co.uk

The tea has always been known for its antioxidant effects and disease fighting properties, but now researchers say the benefits could help the eyes.

The report, the first to study how the lens, retina, and other eye tissues absorb these substances, suggests that the drink may protect against glaucoma and other common eye diseases.

Green tea 'could help stave off eye disease'

World's smallest telemedicine microscope developed

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World's smallest and lightest telemedicine microscope, of the size of a large egg, has been developed, which may help improve healthcare in developing countries.

"This is a very capable and yet cost-effective microscope, shrunk into a very small package and weighing only 46 grams," said the inventor of the Aydogan Ozcan from the University of California, Los Angeles.

World's smallest telemedicine microscope developed

Mind-reading machine soon

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Scientists in Japan claim to be developing a new generation machine which could read a user's mind and respond to their wishes automatically.

The device would use advanced versions of existing brain-machine interface technology and would allow a person to change a television channel by thinking or send a text message composed through thought, say the scientists.

Mind-reading machine soon

‘Twilight’ patriarch Cullen leaps to top of Forbes list of rich and imaginary

 From forbes.com

Carlisle Cullen, age 370, has accumulated a fortune of $34.1 billion — much of it from long-term investments made with the aid of his adopted daughter Alice, who picks stocks based on her ability to see into the future.

Topping the list this year is newcomer Carlisle Cullen, patriarch of the Cullen coven of vampires in the "Twilight" series of novels. Cullen, age 370, has accumulated a fortune of $34.1 billion — much of it from long-term investments made with the aid of his adopted daughter Alice, who picks stocks based on her ability to see into the future. Low-key and undead, Cullen has spent recent years posing as a mortal doctor in a small town in Washington State.

‘Twilight’ patriarch Cullen leaps to top of Forbes list of rich and imaginary

Iceland is the cleanest country in the world.

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Iceland is the cleanest country in the world. This may be hard to believe right now, what with the clouds of volcanic ash grounding flights across northern Europe, but according to researchers at Yale and Columbia universities, the Nordic island ranks first out of 163 countries on their Environmental Performance Index.

Iceland is the cleanest country in the world.

The iPhone May Have Made Gizmodo Richer by $150,000

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Gizmodo, the popular gadget blog that everyone is now talking about for their iPhone 4G scoop, may have paid a hefty price to buy a non-working prototype of a phone but the site owners may still be having their biggest paydays ever.

The iPhone May Have Made Gizmodo Richer by $150,000

World's Biggest Bike Balloon is Full of Hot Air!

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We keep running into motorcycle riders with tall claims all the time, but this one really takes the cake.

Being touted as the "world's biggest flying bike", this hot air balloon has been made for the promotion of the George White Superbikes racing team from the Land of the Queen, which races in the British Superbike Series.

World's Biggest Bike Balloon is Full of Hot Air!

Indian American tops Forbes' '10 greenest billionaires'

Hurray thats great news :) .

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WASHINGTON: Indian American Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla tops the list of 10 greenest billionaires chosen by Forbes "who are most active in green, sustainable causes and who are working to have the greatest impact."

The leading US business magazine said it found the top ten "are altruistic, yes, but most of them are also very much aiming to turn a profit" and they hail not just from the US but also from Israel, Germany and Canada.

Indian American tops Forbes' '10 greenest billionaires'

Adobe abandons iPhone code tools

Adobe is to stop making software tools that allow Apple's iPhone and iPad to use its popular Flash technology.

Article appeared on news.bbc.co.uk

The decision reverses an earlier pledge in which it said it would help get Flash working on the gadgets.

Flash is very widely used on the web and many sites use it to power animations, media players and other multimedia elements.

Despite this, Apple's products do not support Flash and it has made public statements criticising the technology.

Adobe abandons iPhone code tools

Dell’s Thunder and Lightning phones revealed

Now its the Laptop leader in the race of mobile phone bussiness.

Article appeared on telegraph.co.uk

New top of the range handsets from computer giant Dell have been leaked online to blog Engadget. The Lightning, a phone running the forthcoming Windows 7 mobile operating system, and the Google Android-based Thunder are both due out in America later this year, although no UK dates have yet been announced.

Dell’s Thunder and Lightning phones revealed

Doctors in Spain claim to have performed world's first full face transplant

A team of 30 Spanish doctors claim to have successfully performed the world’s first full face transplant.

Article appeared on www.telegraph.co.uk

The ground-breaking operation was carried out last month on a young man whose face had been disfigured in an accident.While face transplants have been carried out in the past they have only been partial.

Doctors in Barcelona who performed the latest surgery said that it was the first full face transplant to be carried out anywhere in the world.

Doctors in Spain claim to have performed world's first full face transplant

Can’t Stand to Sit Too Long? There’s a Desk for That

Wow!!!!!!!!! That's great news :)

Article appeared on nytimes.com

It takes courage to stand up at work. I’m not talking about sticking your neck out, speaking truth to power or anything else so dramatic. I mean it literally; it is hard to find a way to work standing up at your desk instead of sitting down.

Can’t Stand to Sit Too Long? There’s a Desk for That

Is Marriage Good for Your Health?

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In 1858, a British epidemiologist named William Farr set out to study what he called the “conjugal condition” of the people of France. He divided the adult population into three distinct categories: the “married,” consisting of husbands and wives; the “celibate,” defined as the bachelors and spinsters who had never married; and finally the “widowed,” those who had experienced the death of a spouse. Using birth, death and marriage records, Farr analyzed the relative mortality rates of the three groups at various ages. The work, a groundbreaking study that helped establish the field of medical statistics, showed that the unmarried died from disease “in undue proportion” to their married counterparts. And the widowed, Farr found, fared worst of all.

Farr’s was among the first scholarly works to suggest that there is a health advantage to marriage and to identify marital loss as a significant risk factor for poor health. Married people, the data seemed to show, lived longer, healthier lives. “Marriage is a healthy estate,” Farr concluded. “The single individual is more likely to be wrecked on his voyage than the lives joined together in matrimony.”

Is Marriage Good for Your Health?