The Missing link?: Scientists unveil lemur-like fossil at New York’s American Museum of Natural History
Say hello to "Aunt Ida"- you’ll find her 47million years back on your family tree.
The lemur-like fossil, thought to be a missing link between today’s primates and distant relatives, is on show at New York’s American Museum of Natural History after being launched amid great fanfare by the city’s mayor.
The skeleton is so good that it still has an outline of fur and there are traces of its last meal.
The female animal lived during the Eocene Period, when early primates developed.
In space, Europe gets ahead of U.S.
The world’s astronomers are about to get a trio of powerful new eyes on the sky that can see better and farther than existing space telescopes.
As a result, Europe will hold a scientific and technological lead over the United States in some key areas of cosmology, at least for a while.
A Cheaper iPhone, Why Not?
Apple is preparing to launch not one, but two new devices with Verizon, according to yet another new rumor. The leaked product details about an alleged "iPhone lite". The rumor sprung up after Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam confirmed that the company has spoken with Apple executives. "In the last six months.
Although McAdam would not say what the two companies discussed, two people familiar with the subject said talks covered the new smaller iPhone-like device under development. Representatives of Verizon Wireless and Apple declined to comment. AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel says: "We are delighted with the iPhone and our partnership with Apple." The company declined to make an executive available.
The end for GeoCities?
Yahoo Inc. announced recently that it will be shutting down it’s GeoCities Free Web Hosting services this year. Yahoo acquired GeoCities for $3 billion in 1999.
GeoCities no longer accept new accounts, and recommended it’s users to Yahoo Paid hosting services. This is a meesage from GeoCities Website.
Pirate Bay demands retrial
irate Bay owners were found guilty on being accessories to violating the copyright law by a Swedish Court. They were sentenced to one year in jail and a fine of $3.6 million dollars.
But recent findings reveals that the judge who ruled against The Pirate Bay defendants on Friday is a member of two copyright organizations, an alleged conflict of interest that could require the case to be tried again.
Thirteen year-old wins Apple’s billion app contest
Apple on Friday revealed the name of the winner of its billion app countdown contest. It’s Connor Mulcahey, a 13 year-old who hails from Weston, Conn.
Mulcahey downloaded the one billionth app: Bump, a contact information swapping application developed by Bump Technologies.
The Pirate Bay Verdict
The men behind Pirate Bay were found guilty on being accessories to violating the copyright law by a Swedish Court. They were sentenced to one year in jail and a fine of $3.6 million dollars.
Unlike the case of Napster, The Pirate bay doesn’t actually host the copyrighted files, it simply allows users to posts links to copyrighted files on third party servers. That’s why the they were charged of "assisting making available copyrighted material" instead of “assisting copyright infringement”
Digital networks help to bridge staffing gaps at Canadian hospitals
The northeastern corner of Ontario — a vast area extending from just northeast of Wawa to Hudson Bay — has 51 hospitals and one permanent radiologist.
That’s why Northern Radiology (NORrad) was created seven years ago to allow nine of those hospitals to share digital diagnostic images such as X-rays and ultrasounds. Before NORrad, emergency-room physicians in remote communities with only limited diagnostic capabilities often had to ship patients out to larger centres.
Tesla debuts electric car for the masses
Tesla Motors unveiled its newest and cheapest electric car Thursday, cutting the price tag to $57,000 US from over $100,000, in a move that could transform the boutique California firm into a mainstream automaker.
The Model S prototype debuted amid much hubbub at a rocket factory in Southern California, the main market for its electric cars. Automobile Magazine has described the vehicle as a cross between an Aston Martin and a Maserati.
The Model S is powered by a massive lithium-ion battery pack composed of 8,000 individual cells. The pack, which uses the same technology found in laptop computers and cell phones, weighs about 454 kilograms and generates enough heat that it needs to be liquid-cooled. It’s floor-mounted and takes up most of the car’s rear half.
Computer Worm to attack on April Fool’s Day
Rumors has it, the dreaded fast-moving computer that infected at least 3 million computers, is set to attack again on April 1, 2009.
The army of Conficker-infected machines, known as a "botnet," could be one of the greatest cybercrime tools ever assembled. Conficker’s authors just need to figure out a way to reliably communicate with it.
Infected Machines need commands to come alive. So far, Conficker-infected PC’s have been trying to connect each day to 250 Internet domains. The hackers needs to get just one of those sites under their control to send their commands to the botnet. (The name Conficker comes from rearranging letters in the name of one of the original sites the worm was connecting to.)