Internet giant Google introduced some of the fruits of its labor, including 360-degree pictures from the country’s soccer stadiums and maps with information on some of South Africa’s most important sights.
To get shots from inside the buildings, Google used what it calls the Street View Trike — a bulky tricycle with cameras mounted on it. The video of the tricycle in use shows a sometimes-tired looking employee pedaling through the stadiums; he’s not moving quickly, but he makes sure to wear a helmet.
iPhone-Playing YouTube Star Applegirl Gets Record Deal [VIDEO].
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Ms. Kim three months ago joined legions of wannabe singers by putting up a homemade video on YouTube. But hers had a twist: She used iPhones and music-creation apps as accompaniment.
“I have many songwriter friends, who introduced me to various music applications,” she said. “Since I bought my iPhone, I kept playing with it and experimenting with different apps and got totally hooked.”
Facebook Fans Spend More Money.
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A social media marketing company called surveyed surveyed 4,000 people who have “Liked” the top 20 brands that have pages on Facebook and figured out exactly how valuable those “fans” are.
The study (“The Value of a Facebook Fan: An Empirical Review”) estimates that someone who has Liked a brand will spend an average of $71.84 more each year on that brand’s products or services than will someone who has not Liked it on Facebook, for a total average annualized value of $136.38.
This method is very different than the one employed by Vitrue in another fan value study a month ago. Vitrue’s method valued fans by figuring out how much it would cost to buy advertising on a website to reach the same people.
The study (“The Value of a Facebook Fan: An Empirical Review”) estimates that someone who has Liked a brand will spend an average of $71.84 more each year on that brand’s products or services than will someone who has not Liked it on Facebook, for a total average annualized value of $136.38.
This method is very different than the one employed by Vitrue in another fan value study a month ago. Vitrue’s method valued fans by figuring out how much it would cost to buy advertising on a website to reach the same people.
Scientists unlock how 'freezing' to death can be reversed.
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Scientists have tried to unravel how some people who seemingly freeze to death, with no heart rate or respiration for extended periods, can be brought back to life with no long-term negative health consequences.
New findings from the lab of cell biologist Mark B. Roth, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre (FHCRC), may help explain the mechanics behind this widely documented phenomenon. Roth and colleagues show that two widely divergent model organisms, yeast and nematodes, can survive hypothermia, or potentially lethal cold, if they are first put into a state of suspended animation by means of anoxia or extreme oxygen deprivation. They found that under normal conditions, yeast and nematode embryos cannot survive extreme cold. After 24 hours of exposure to temperatures just above freezing, 99 per cent of the creatures die.
Conversely, if the organisms are first deprived of oxygen and thus enter a state of anoxia — induced suspended animation, 66 per cent of the yeast and 97 per cent of the nematode embryos will survive the cold.
New findings from the lab of cell biologist Mark B. Roth, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre (FHCRC), may help explain the mechanics behind this widely documented phenomenon. Roth and colleagues show that two widely divergent model organisms, yeast and nematodes, can survive hypothermia, or potentially lethal cold, if they are first put into a state of suspended animation by means of anoxia or extreme oxygen deprivation. They found that under normal conditions, yeast and nematode embryos cannot survive extreme cold. After 24 hours of exposure to temperatures just above freezing, 99 per cent of the creatures die.
Conversely, if the organisms are first deprived of oxygen and thus enter a state of anoxia — induced suspended animation, 66 per cent of the yeast and 97 per cent of the nematode embryos will survive the cold.
Scientists zoom in on infant solar system.
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A team led by University of Arizona astronomer Joshua Eisner has observed in unprecedented detail the processes giving rise to stars and planets in nascent solar systems.
The discoveries provide a better understanding of the way hydrogen gas from the protoplanetary disk is incorporated into the star.
They are swirling clouds of gas and dust that feed the growing star in its centre and eventually coalesce into planets and asteroids to form a solar system.
By coupling both Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii with a specifically engineered instrument named ASTRA (Astrometric and phase-Referenced Astronomy), Eisner and his colleagues were able to peer deeply into protoplanetary disks. The big challenge facing Eisner's team lies in obtaining the extremely fine resolution necessary to observe the processes that happen at the boundary between the star and its surrounding disk — 500 light years from earth.
The discoveries provide a better understanding of the way hydrogen gas from the protoplanetary disk is incorporated into the star.
They are swirling clouds of gas and dust that feed the growing star in its centre and eventually coalesce into planets and asteroids to form a solar system.
By coupling both Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii with a specifically engineered instrument named ASTRA (Astrometric and phase-Referenced Astronomy), Eisner and his colleagues were able to peer deeply into protoplanetary disks. The big challenge facing Eisner's team lies in obtaining the extremely fine resolution necessary to observe the processes that happen at the boundary between the star and its surrounding disk — 500 light years from earth.
World Cup related traffic can crash twitter.
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Twitter, which has suffered a series of outages this week, has warned that there could be more problems amid heavy World Cup traffic.
Mr Jean-Paul Cozzatti, a Twitter engineer, said on the Twitter blog that the micro-blogging service's problems this week were due to an internal network being over-capacity.
Mr Cozzatti said Twitter was doubling capacity and re balancing traffic on the network to redistribute the load.
When Twitter goes down, a picture of a whale — known as the "fail whale" — appears on Twitter.com and Mr Cozzatti said his engineering team was hoping for fewer appearances by the creature.
"You may still see the whale when there are unprecedented spikes in traffic," he said on Friday.
Mr Jean-Paul Cozzatti, a Twitter engineer, said on the Twitter blog that the micro-blogging service's problems this week were due to an internal network being over-capacity.
Mr Cozzatti said Twitter was doubling capacity and re balancing traffic on the network to redistribute the load.
When Twitter goes down, a picture of a whale — known as the "fail whale" — appears on Twitter.com and Mr Cozzatti said his engineering team was hoping for fewer appearances by the creature.
"You may still see the whale when there are unprecedented spikes in traffic," he said on Friday.
Chinese students use high-tech devices to cheat in exam.
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Seven students were caught using wireless earphones and wristwatch-like receiving devices for cheating during a national college entrance examination in northwest China.
The students took the exam Monday and Tuesday in China's Gansu province, Xinhua reported quoting local authorities Wednesday. They scored zero marks in the exams.
Meanwhile, police have detained three people who allegedly sold the devices, a spokesman for the education bureau in Jingyuan county said.
The annual two-day exam, or "gaokao" in Chinese, is the only opportunity for the high school students to secure a place in the universities.
The students took the exam Monday and Tuesday in China's Gansu province, Xinhua reported quoting local authorities Wednesday. They scored zero marks in the exams.
Meanwhile, police have detained three people who allegedly sold the devices, a spokesman for the education bureau in Jingyuan county said.
The annual two-day exam, or "gaokao" in Chinese, is the only opportunity for the high school students to secure a place in the universities.
For men it just take milliseconds to fall for attractive women.
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Blame it on their genes, but men take just a fraction of a second to judge a woman on her looks and whether she will be a potential partner or not.
They weigh up potential partners based on their appearance because their "ancient" genetic preference for attractive mates leads them to, experts claim.
According to research, men take a woman with an attractive face to be fertile and able to continue the family line, which appeals to the man's survival instinct.
On the other hand, women take longer to decide their feelings for a man because they need to weigh up whether he will be a committed partner who will provide for them well - part of their survival programming.
Professor Mark van Vugt and Dr Johanna van Hooff, from the University of Amsterdam, and postgraduate student Helen Crawford, from the University of Kent, were behind the study.
They weigh up potential partners based on their appearance because their "ancient" genetic preference for attractive mates leads them to, experts claim.
According to research, men take a woman with an attractive face to be fertile and able to continue the family line, which appeals to the man's survival instinct.
On the other hand, women take longer to decide their feelings for a man because they need to weigh up whether he will be a committed partner who will provide for them well - part of their survival programming.
Professor Mark van Vugt and Dr Johanna van Hooff, from the University of Amsterdam, and postgraduate student Helen Crawford, from the University of Kent, were behind the study.
Transformer 3 revealed,
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- Transformers 3 is the working title for the third movie in the series, scheduled for release on July 1, 2011. The possibility has been evaluated that the third film will be made in 3-D.
- As we know that there wont been Megan fox in Transformers 3, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is confirmed as female lead role.
- "Dorky comedy" gone. Twins are "basically" gone.
- Transformers 3 will be the end of a trilogy. Bay says “As a trilogy, it really ends. It could be rebooted again, but I think it has a really killer ending.”
- The main villain in Transformers 3 will be Shockwave.
Src: [tfw2005.com]
Private data from Austria, Denmark, Ireland deleted: Google
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Google has deleted private wireless data mistakenly collected by its "Street View" cars in Austria, Denmark and Ireland, the Internet giant said in a letter to US lawmakers.
Google, in the letter posted online Friday on the website of the Energy and Commerce Committee of the US House of Representatives, also reiterated that the data was never used in any Google product or service.
Google also repeated an apology for the gathering of personal information sent over unsecured wireless networks by the Street View cars used to create the panoramic pictures featured in Google Maps
The letter from Pablo Chavez, Google's director of public policy, was in response to questions posed by US Congressmen Henry Waxman, Joe Barton and Edward Markey to Google chief executive Eric Schmidt.
New strain of bacteria discovered that could aid in oil spill, other environmental cleanup.
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Researchers have discovered a new strain of bacteria that can produce non-toxic, comparatively inexpensive "rhamnolipids," and effectively help degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs - environmental pollutants that are one of the most harmful aspects of oil spills.
Because of its unique characteristics, this new bacterial strain could be of considerable value in the long-term cleanup of the massive Gulf Coast oil spill, scientists say.
More research to further reduce costs and scale up production would be needed before its commercial use, they added.
The findings on this new bacterial strain that degrades the PAHs in oil and other hydrocarbons were just published in a professional journal, Biotechnology Advances, by researchers from Oregon State University and two collaborating universities in China. OSU is filing for a patent on the discovery.
"PAHs are a widespread group of toxic, carcinogenic and mutagenic compounds, but also one of the biggest concerns about oil spills," said Xihou Yin, a research assistant professor in the OSU College of Pharmacy.
"Some of the most toxic aspects of oil to fish, wildlife and humans are from PAHs," Yin said. "They can cause cancer, suppress immune system function, cause reproductive problems, nervous system effects and other health issues. This particular strain of bacteria appears to break up and degrade PAHs better than other approaches we have available."
Because of its unique characteristics, this new bacterial strain could be of considerable value in the long-term cleanup of the massive Gulf Coast oil spill, scientists say.
More research to further reduce costs and scale up production would be needed before its commercial use, they added.
The findings on this new bacterial strain that degrades the PAHs in oil and other hydrocarbons were just published in a professional journal, Biotechnology Advances, by researchers from Oregon State University and two collaborating universities in China. OSU is filing for a patent on the discovery.
"PAHs are a widespread group of toxic, carcinogenic and mutagenic compounds, but also one of the biggest concerns about oil spills," said Xihou Yin, a research assistant professor in the OSU College of Pharmacy.
"Some of the most toxic aspects of oil to fish, wildlife and humans are from PAHs," Yin said. "They can cause cancer, suppress immune system function, cause reproductive problems, nervous system effects and other health issues. This particular strain of bacteria appears to break up and degrade PAHs better than other approaches we have available."
Artefact puts Flash and sliverlight on iPad 'In A Pinch' [VIDEO]
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As Steve jobs rejects Flash adobe propriety software on iphone and ipad but a Artefact Group have been working on a service called Flash In A Pinch.
Recently we saw Smokescreen, a browser plug-in that pulls apart SWF binaries and reassembles them into something Apple-friendly.
It’s not jail-broken and it doesn’t require an app or a plug-in: Just the default Safari browser.
And for the proof they had posted some videos
Recently we saw Smokescreen, a browser plug-in that pulls apart SWF binaries and reassembles them into something Apple-friendly.
It’s not jail-broken and it doesn’t require an app or a plug-in: Just the default Safari browser.
And for the proof they had posted some videos
Google ends background image experiment.
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It looked horrible, and users hated it. Even so, Google persisted with it for hours - and only stopped it because of a 'bug'
Google ended its experiment to put a picture on its front page – whether you wanted on or not – only 14 hours into its 24-hour experiment, blaming the decision on a bug which meant that an explanatory link wasn't included.
The problem was caused when it added a World Cup doodle - which of course would look like a mess of pottage if you had chosen a picture for your background.
Apple faces antitrust scrutiny: report
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The regulators have already started scanning Apple's actions, the paper said, citing people familiar with the move.
But it is not yet clear whether the Federal Trade Commission or the Department of Justice would take up an investigation, the Times said.
Apple could not immediately be reached for comment by Reuters outside regular U.S. business hours.
On Wednesday, Google said recent changes to Apple's developers agreement would effectively cripple Google's advertising tools for the iPhone, creating "artificial" barriers to competition.
Apple changed the language of the agreement on Monday, which now appears to prohibit certain third-party ad agencies from collecting critical usage data from iPhone applications.
But it is not yet clear whether the Federal Trade Commission or the Department of Justice would take up an investigation, the Times said.
Apple could not immediately be reached for comment by Reuters outside regular U.S. business hours.
On Wednesday, Google said recent changes to Apple's developers agreement would effectively cripple Google's advertising tools for the iPhone, creating "artificial" barriers to competition.
Apple changed the language of the agreement on Monday, which now appears to prohibit certain third-party ad agencies from collecting critical usage data from iPhone applications.
Google helps build trade case over Web censorship.
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Google Inc is working with U.S. and European officials to build a case that would argue Internet censorship acts as a trade barrier, a top company executive said on Friday.
Robert Boorstin, Google's director of corporate and policy communications, said the company is working with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the State Department, Commerce Department and European officials to build a case to take to the World Trade Organization.
Such a case could help U.S. tech companies seeking greater access to Chinese consumers while furthering the U.S. government's human rights agenda.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her technology advisers have promoted Internet freedom as a basic human right.
Robert Boorstin, Google's director of corporate and policy communications, said the company is working with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the State Department, Commerce Department and European officials to build a case to take to the World Trade Organization.
Such a case could help U.S. tech companies seeking greater access to Chinese consumers while furthering the U.S. government's human rights agenda.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her technology advisers have promoted Internet freedom as a basic human right.
Twitter Launches Official World Cup Tracking Page.
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The FIFA World Cup 2010 is officially opened and football fever is touching its new height. In order to make it easier to follow news and updates about specific teams and matches, Twitter has launched a brand new World Cup portal page.
The new page is smartly designed, displaying upcoming matches, the most interesting tweets (as determined by Twitter’s algorithm) and Twitter staff picks for relevant users to follow.
Yahoo World Cup Shootout Game to Raise $100k to Fight AIDS in Africa.
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Yahoo’s Penalty Shootout online game launched in May. The game tasks users to try their hand at winning a penalty shootout against friends or strangers. You can choose your country and challenge one of your Yahoo or Facebook friends to a shootout duel. For each shootout, you’ll play the part of both the striker and the goalie, selecting a portion of the goal to either attack or defend.
New facebook design being tested.
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Facebook confirmed they are testing this new look in an email to us this afternoon, writing, “we’re currently testing different variations and designs of our Publisher. As with many of our features and products, we’re constantly making tweaks to test performance and usability.”
Twitter crashes explained by their engineers.
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Twitter explaines the causes of — and remedies for — its multiple and massive failures over the past week.
The high number of errors and generally poor performance , this summer’s problem has been one of scale: Twitter is growing so much and so quickly that the engineering team has been challenged when trying to keep up with the sheer volume of data going through the service’s internal network.
What happened that caused this week’s Twitter issues, wrote engineer Jean-Paul Cozzatti, is that the engineering team made three critical mistakes:
To ensure the same mistakes aren’t repeated, Cozzatti continued to outline what Twitter will be doing to fix the problem. He wrote that the company has doubled the capacity of its internal network, improved how it’s monitored and rebalanced its traffic.
The high number of errors and generally poor performance , this summer’s problem has been one of scale: Twitter is growing so much and so quickly that the engineering team has been challenged when trying to keep up with the sheer volume of data going through the service’s internal network.
What happened that caused this week’s Twitter issues, wrote engineer Jean-Paul Cozzatti, is that the engineering team made three critical mistakes:
- The team put two important, fast-growing, high-bandwith components on the same segment of Twitter’s internal network.
- The network wasn’t being monitored the way it should have been.
- The internal network was also temporarily misconfigured.
To ensure the same mistakes aren’t repeated, Cozzatti continued to outline what Twitter will be doing to fix the problem. He wrote that the company has doubled the capacity of its internal network, improved how it’s monitored and rebalanced its traffic.
Son kills father over mobile recharge.
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This incident took place in West Bengal.
A 16-year-old boy allegedly killed his father when he refused to give him money to recharge his mobile phone, police said on Friday.
Monsoor Sheikh repeatedly beat his father, Khijmat Sheikh, 40, on his head by a lathi on not getting money to recharge his mobile phone in the presence of other family members in their house at Nandai village in the district, they said.
Sheikh, a daily wager, died on the spot, they added.
Monsoor's mother lodged an FIR against his son with Kalna Police station, claiming that she and her three other children were eyewitness to the incident.
Monsoor is absconding.
A 16-year-old boy allegedly killed his father when he refused to give him money to recharge his mobile phone, police said on Friday.
Monsoor Sheikh repeatedly beat his father, Khijmat Sheikh, 40, on his head by a lathi on not getting money to recharge his mobile phone in the presence of other family members in their house at Nandai village in the district, they said.
Sheikh, a daily wager, died on the spot, they added.
Monsoor's mother lodged an FIR against his son with Kalna Police station, claiming that she and her three other children were eyewitness to the incident.
Monsoor is absconding.
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