US-born Al Qaeda spokesman appears in new video.

American-born al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn appears in a new video purportedly from the organization, calling President Obama "snakelike" and saying he is "running the affairs of a declining and besieged empire."

In the video, posted Sunday on Islamist websites, Gadahn criticizes what he says is the United States' "aggression and interference" in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, and also criticizes moving his "captive brothers" from detention centers worldwide to "Muslim-only concentration camps in Illinois, Bagram [Airfield, Afghanistan] and elsewhere -- all in the name of protecting the American people from the threat of Muslim retaliation for American crimes."

He is apparently referring to a maximum-security prison in Thomson, Illinois, being considered by the government as a possible venue to house terror suspects.

US-born Al Qaeda spokesman appears in new video.

Humans could regrow body parts.

An international team, led by the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, has found that the p21 gene could block the healing power still enjoyed by some creatures like amphibians, but lost through evolution to all other animals. By turning off p21, the process can be miraculously switched back on.

In their research, the scientists found that mice lacking the p21 gene gain the ability to regenerate lost or damaged tissue.

Unlike typical mammals, which heal wounds by forming a scar, these animals begin by forming a blastema, a structure associated with rapid cell growth.

Humans could regrow body parts.

Humans going to be extinct in 100 yrs ?

I don't think so, this soon possible unless we are struck with Natural disaster. This claim was made by an Australian scientist named Frank Fenner.

He was the one who helped in eradicating smallpox around the world.

Professor Frank Fenner, emeritus professor of microbiology at the Australian National University, has claimed that the human race will be unable to survive a population explosion and “unbridled consumption”.

“It’s an irreversible situation. I think it’s too late. I try not to express that because people are trying to do something, but they keep putting it off,” Prof. Fenner said.

Humans going to be extinct in 100 yrs ?

Britain hospitals recruiting robots for their work routines.

A fleet of robots is being trained at the new Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, Stirlingshire, ahead of its opening in August. They will transport clinical waste and dirty linen, deliver food and dispense drugs.

Forth Valley, of the National Health Service, will be the first British hospital to use these robots, whose colleagues are already employed in hospitals in the US, France and Japan.

A dedicated network of corridors has been constructed beneath the hospital for the robots to move about. Their human colleagues can call them when needed using a hand-held personal digital assistant system. The robots will then make their way to a lift, collect or deliver and return to the lift.

Britain hospitals recruiting robots for their work routines.

Saina Nehwal wins Super Series title.

Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal clinched the second Super Series title of her career by winning the Singapore Open with a straight-game triumph over qualifier Tzu Ying Tai in the finals here on Sunday.

Top seed Saina took just 33 minutes to beat Chinese Taipei's Tai 21-18 21-15 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

Saina Nehwal wins Super Series title.

Swedish Crown Princess marries a common man.

Sweden has celebrated a royal wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and her former fitness trainer.

Victoria, 32, tied the knot with 36-year-old commoner Daniel Westling.

More than 1,200 guests, including royals from around the world, attended the lavish ceremony in Stockholm Cathedral.

The newlyweds were transported to the Royal Palace, for an evening banquet with guests from around the world.

Swedish Crown Princess marries a common man.

Tea and coffee can prove good against fighting Heart Diseases.

Enjoy a cup of Coffee or Tea every Morning and Evening ? This might be good for you as it might help to fight against Heart Diseases, a 13-year-long study from the Netherlands has found.

Those who drank more than six cups of tea a day cut their risk of heart disease by a third, the study of 40,000 people found.

Consuming between two to four coffees a day was also linked to a reduced risk.

While the protective effect ceased with more than four cups of coffee a day, even those who drank this much were no more likely to die of any cause, including stroke and cancer, than those who abstained.

Tea and coffee can prove good against fighting Heart Diseases.

Wi-Fi Data Captured By Google Street View Cars Included Passwords.

Is Google going the evil way??

Google told us that its Street View cars accidentally collected some data from our Wi-Fi networks. This saga even face wrath from many European countries and led to investigation. Investigators discovered that Google even recorded unencrypted passwords of the recorded Wi-Fi Region.

What CNIL said?

"It's still too early to say what will happen as a result of this investigation,"

"However, we can already state that [...] Google did indeed record email access passwords [and] extracts of the content of email messages,"

Wi-Fi Data Captured By Google Street View Cars Included Passwords.

Is AT&T Cancelling iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Ramdomly?

A Gizmodo reader forwarded a mail showing his iPhone 4 Pre-order got cancelled.

It Stated:

Your iPhone order has been cancelled.

Your credit card has not been charged.

If you believe you have received this email in error, please return to the AT&T store where you placed your order.

Sincerely,

AT&T

Is AT&T Cancelling iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Ramdomly?

Now Boots Charger that Power Your Mobile Phone While You Walk [VIDEO]

UK-based mobile telecommunications company Orange and renewable energy resource community GotWind introduces a new accessory for mobile, wellies that charge your mobile phone while you walk in them.

The Orange Power Wellies have a “power generating sole” that converts heat generated from your feet into an electrical current that charges your mobile phone, which you can plug in at the top of your boot.

Twelve hours of walking will give your phone an extra hour of battery life.

The power in the sole is collected in a process called the “Seedbeck” effect. “Inside the power generating sole there are thermoelectric modules constructed of pairs of p-type and n-type semiconductor materials forming a thermocouple,” Orange detailed in a statement.

Now Boots Charger that Power Your Mobile Phone While You Walk [VIDEO]

Trivia about Google which might not know to you.

• The First Google Doodle was Burning Man doodle for Burning Man festival in Nevada.

• Initial Google storage made up of a whopping 40 GB (less than a modern iPod) and it’s made from, as fans of the building bricks.
• Google’s first ever Twitter post was as satisfyingly geeky as you could hope for. The message, sent in February 2009, reads “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.”
• Google rents out goats. Yes you read that right. It rents goats from a company called California Grazing to help cut down the amount of weeds and brush at Google HQ.
• “Swedish Fish” became the first ever company snack (not counting beverages) that was ordered into the Google office.
• Google Has a gigantic T-Rex skeleton — nicknamed “Stan” after a “real” dino found nearby.

Trivia about Google which might not know to you.

Facebook Posts to Appear in Real-Time Search Results.

OneRiot, one of the world’s leading real-time search engines, which will provide the search results of Facebook posts.

OneRiot already pulls data from blogs, Twitter, Digg and millions of other sources all over the social web.

Facebook data that will appear in OneRiot search results include publicly shared links on user profiles and publicly “liked” stories from all over the web.

This news comes just a few days after Bing announced it would be serving Facebook and Twitter posts in search results, too. Google also added Facebook Pages to its real-time search offering in February this year.

Facebook Posts to Appear in Real-Time Search Results.

Google Releases Command-Line Tool for YouTube, Docs, and More

Google has launched a simple but very useful app for computer nerds everywhere: GoogleCL, a command-line tool that allows users to do everything from upload folders to Picasa to adding appointments to a Google Calendar.

Google CL is a Python (Python) application that makes Google Data API calls through the command line. A command-line interface (CLI) is an interface where the user can tell the computer to perform specific tasks by typing commands. You’ve probably seen them before, most likely via the MS-DOS command-line interface. The CLI is in contrast to the mouse-based interface that we all use today, known as the graphical user interface (GUI).

Googlers from the Street View team created the application for their own use, but have now turned GoogleCL over to the general public. It accepts commands to Google Calendar, Google Docs , Google Contacts, Picasa, YouTube , and Blogger . Here’s an example command:

             $ google calendar add “Social Media Day SF Party at 7pm”


Google has provide a list of sample scripts to get started, but we bet that page will expand with more commands and more supported Google services over time. It’s a great combination of the command line and the cloud. If you want to get started, you can download GoogleCL and the necessary Python library client here and here.

Src & Text: [mashable]

Google Releases Command-Line Tool for YouTube, Docs, and More

New York Plans to Raise Cigarette Tax

Cigarette taxes in New York would jump by $1.60 a pack under a tentative deal reached between Gov. David A. Paterson and legislative leaders, which would give New York the nation’s highest state cigarette taxes.

The proposal, which officials said Mr. Paterson would include in an emergency budget bill due for a vote on Monday, would also raise wholesale taxes on other tobacco products like chewing tobacco, bringing the tax on those products closer in line with those of cigarettes.

In New York City, which levies steep taxes of its own on tobacco products, a pack of cigarettes would come with a tax of $5.85, making it the nation’s first city to break $5, antismoking advocates said. That would bring the overall cost of a pack of premium cigarettes above $10 in many stores in the city.

New York Plans to Raise Cigarette Tax

Green Tyres, i mean not in color but in nature.

GONE RENEWABLE Synthetic rubber, produced using biotechnology.

86 percent of the tire’s environmental impact revolves around how it affects fuel consumption. Only 12 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with tires arise from the raw materials and manufacturing.

Tire makers say that fuel economy improvements of 4 to 8 percent over conventional tires are typical for these energy-saving designs. The low-rolling-resistance designs use silica-based mineral fillers, rather than just the standard carbon-black reinforcing fillers, to reduce friction.

the research laboratories at several tire makers are making progress toward reversing the trend of increased petroleum content. One of the first to pursue this path was Sumitomo Rubber Industries, which has a global alliance with Goodyear in the Dunlop brand, for the Enasave tire it introduced in Japan in 2006. Among other changes, Sumitomo engineers substantially reduced the amount of petrochemicals by cutting the amount of synthetic rubber in half, to 11 percent of the tire’s composition from about 22 percent.

Green Tyres, i mean not in color but in nature.

Plans for largest biomedical research facility in Europe unveiled.

Plans for Europe's largest biomedical research facility, which will study everything from stem cells to influenza when it opens in 2015, were announced yesterday by Nobel laureate Sir Paul Nurse.

The UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation (UKCMRI) is being funded to the tune of £600m by a range of government and charitable organisations including the Medical Research Council (MRC), Cancer Research UK, the Wellcome Trust and University College London. Around 1,250 scientists will work at the new complex on a 1.4 hectare (3.5 acre) site behind the iconic St Pancras railway station in central London.

Biologists, clinical scientists, chemists, physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists will work alongside each other at the new facility. "UKCMRI aims to break down the traditional barriers between different research teams and different disciplines," said Nurse, who chairs the scientific planning committee for the new lab. "UKCMRI will provide the critical mass, support and unique environment to tackle difficult research questions."

Plans for largest biomedical research facility in Europe unveiled.

U.S. colleges see highest enrollment jump in 40 years.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's colleges are attracting record numbers of new students as more Hispanics finish high school and young adults opt to pursue a higher education rather than languish in a weak job market.

A study released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center highlights the growing diversity in higher education amid debate over the role of race in college admissions and controversy over Arizona's new ban on ethnic studies in public schools.

Newly released government figures show that freshman enrollment surged 6% in 2008 to a record 2.6 million, mostly due to rising minority enrollment. That is the highest increase since 1968 during the height of the Vietnam War, when young adults who attended college could avoid the military draft.

U.S. colleges see highest enrollment jump in 40 years.

WikiLeaks Preparing to Release Video of Alleged U.S. 'Massacre' in Afghanistan.

As the founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks remains underground in fear that the U.S. will detain him, the site is preparing to release a leaked video of a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan that is said to be more shocking than the Iraqi video that sent its controversial leader into hiding.

Julian Assange, who has been garnering more attention since it was announced that Pentagon investigators are looking for him, told his supporters in an email this week that he has a classified video of a U.S. attack on Afghan civilians.

In an interview airing today on "Brian Ross Investigates," a weekly investigative news magazine show airing on ABC News Now and Hulu.com, a member of the Icelandic Parliament who has worked closely with Assange said the Afghan video is expected to be released shortly.

WikiLeaks Preparing to Release Video of Alleged U.S. 'Massacre' in Afghanistan.

There is no need to pay for the usage of Facebook.

If you go to Facebook.com and search for the terms "Facebook free" or "Facebook charge," you'll find hundreds of groups with names like, "If 1 Million People Join Before 9th July 2010 Facebook Will Stay Free!" or "If Facebook Charges A Fee We Will Discontinue Using It." Some of these groups have dozens of users, others have thousands.

During a recent press conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said while Facebook users do care about privacy, the question of whether or not Facebook will eventually charge for its service is actually a much bigger concern among the site's 500 million users.

But are these fears justified?

There is no need to pay for the usage of Facebook.

World Cup vuvuzelas buzz on internet.

On 19/6/2010 morning, there were roughly 30 vuvuzela-themed smartphone apps for the open-source Android platform. Another dozen or so were in the Apple's App Store, which sells apps for the iPhone and iPad. Most of these apps turn phones into digital vuvuzelas.

During every World Cup match, thousands of fans, seemingly with lungs like bellows, honk the buzzing horns from start to finish, a nod to South African culture but one that has led some players to complain about being distracted.

World Cup vuvuzelas buzz on internet.