Google holding Android Honeycomb event this week
Jan 31, 2011 Technology
If the video and the SDK preview aren’t enough to satiate your hunger for all things Android 3.0 Honeycomb related, you’re in luck, Google will be holding an event at their Mountain View campus next week – on deck is the tablet-optimized version of their mobile operating system, Honeycomb.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg meets the actor who plays him during Saturday Night Live opener
Jan 31, 2011 Technology
The man who played Mark Zuckerberg in ‘The Social Network’ is confronted by the man who plays Mark Zuckerberg on SNL…and Mark Zuckerberg.
PS3 3.56 already cracked, not yet ready for bootleg firmware
Jan 31, 2011 Technology
Sony’s 3.56 update for the PS3 has already been jailbroken on a basic level. In an update, Youness Alaoui said he had successfully unpacked the new firmware, making it possible to modify the code and get at its signing keys
The Tweets Must Flow!
Jan 31, 2011 Technology
In the midst of another ‘revolution’ it finds itself associated with, Twitter is reminding the world that it’s a medium, not a messenger. Egypt has cut off the internet in an attempt to complicate demonstrations sweeping the nation in an attempt to bring down the 30-year-rule of President Hosni Mubarak. This time, individual internet services weren’t targeted — just the entire internet itself. Still, the #jan25 movement is a fact, and enough of one apparently for co-founder Biz Stone and General Counsel Alexander Macgillivray to praise Twitter’s commitment to free expression and to reinforce its fundamental neutrality. The post does not mention Egypt specifically, which is not surprising since Twitter, for a change, hasn’t been singled out by a repressive regime.
Toshiba Qosimo T750 – the world’s first color-changing notebook
Jan 31, 2011 Technology
If you’re concerned about how stylish your devices look, you may like the latest product announcement to come out of Toshiba’s labs: the Qosimo T750, the world’s first color-changing notebook.
What Does Google’s Subtle Censorship Say About Us?
Jan 31, 2011 Technology
Even if we pretend that all torrent downloads are illegal, Google’s blocking has raised some interesting questions
BlackBerry, Phones back up in Egypt, Briefly Down in West
Jan 31, 2011 Technology
RIM faced mixed blessings on Saturday as service came back in Egypt but suffered a temporary North American outage. NBC’s Richard
APOD: 2011 January 30 – Gibbous Europa
Jan 31, 2011 Science
Although the phase of this moon might appear familiar, the moon itself might not. In fact, this gibbous phase shows part of Jupiter’s moon Europa. The robot spacecraft Galileo captured this image mosaic during its mission orbiting Jupiter from 1995 – 2003. Visible are plains of bright ice, cracks that run to the horizon, and dark patches that likely contain both ice and dirt. Raised terrain is particularly apparent near the terminator, where it casts shadows. Europa is nearly the same size as Earth’s Moon, but much smoother, showing few highlands or large impact craters. Evidence and images from the Galileo spacecraft, indicated that liquid oceans might exist below the icy surface. To test speculation that these seas hold life, NASA and ESA have started preliminary development of the Europa Jupiter System Mission, a spacecraft proposed for launch around 2020 that would further explore Jupiter and in particular Europa. If the surface ice is thin enough, a future mission might drop hydrobots to burrow into the oceans and search for life.
Model predicts ‘religiosity gene’ will dominate society
Jan 31, 2011 Science
(PhysOrg.com) — In the past 20 years, the Amish population in the US has doubled, increasing from 123,000 in 1991 to 249,000 in 2010. The huge growth stems almost entirely from the religious cultures high fertility rate, which is about 6 children per woman, on average. At this rate, the Amish population will reach 7 million by 2100 and 44 million by 2150. On the other hand, the growth may not continue if future generations of Amish choose to defect from the religion and if secular influences reduce the birth rate. In a new study, Robert Rowthorn, emeritus professor of economics at Cambr
New Discovery: Prehistoric Body Clock in Humans Same as That in Algae
Jan 31, 2011 Science
The mechanism that controls the internal 24-hour clock of all forms of life from human cells to algae has been identified by scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh. The circadian clock arose early in the evolution of life….