PERHAPS the little fish embryo shown here is dancing a jig because it has just discovered that it has legs instead of fins. Fossils show that limbs evolved from fins, but a new study shows how it may have happened, live in the lab. ...
Youths have similar ideals to govt, says ESM Goh
Label: Technology SINGAPORE: Singapore youths generally have the same ideals as that of the government, observed Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong at the end of a national conversation session at the Marine Parade constituency.Mr Goh said this will make it easier for the government to work together with the generation of the future."Supposing they come up with very different ideals from what we think...
Google's Ray Kurzweil hire could yield some good returns
Label: LifestyleRay Kurzweil signing copies of his book, "The Singularity"(Credit:Dan Farber)Google has brought on futurist and artificial intelligence expert Ray Kurzweil as director of engineering, and there could be some real returns on the company's high-profile hire.In a statement, Kurzweil confirmed that he'd be joining Google. He noted that his interest in reading technology, artificial intelligence, drivingcars...
Space Pictures This Week: Frosty Mars, Mini Nile, More
Label: HealthPhotograph by Mike Theiss, National GeographicThe aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, illuminates the Arctic sky in a recent picture by National Geographic photographer Mike Theiss.A storm chaser by trade, Theiss is in the Arctic Circle on an expedition to photograph auroras, which result from collisions between charged particles released from the sun's atmosphere and gaseous particles...
School Shooting: Officials Seek Details on Gunman
Label: Business The FBI is in at least three states interviewing relatives and friends of the elementary school gunman who killed 20 children, seven adults and himself, trying to put together a better picture of the shooter and uncover any possible explanation for the massacre, ABC News has learned.The authorities have fanned out to New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts to interview relatives...
Dec
14
Satellite upgrade should let planes slash emissions
Label: World A CONSTELLATION of next-generation communications satellites has a surprise in store for the environment. When Iridium Communications begins launching replacement orbiters in 2015, it will do much more than upgrade its satphone services. Piggybacking on the satellites will be a set of transmitters that could revolutionise...
Two dead, 10 missing after South Korea barge capsizes
Label: Technology SEOUL: Two construction workers were confirmed killed late Friday and 10 others missing after a barge carrying a crane capsized off South Korea's southeast coast, the coastguard said.The 2,600-ton barge sank off the city of Ulsan after the 80-metre (264-foot) crane collapsed, Yonhap news agency quoted coastguard officials as saying.Twelve people have so far been rescued with two others...
Get a Sceptre 42-inch HDTV for $299 shipped
Label: LifestyleIt was almost two years ago to the day that I wrote about a 32-inch TV selling for $299 (a Sceptre, in fact), and what a big deal that was.Now you can get a significantly larger screen for exactly the same price: For a limited time, and while supplies last, Walmart has the Sceptre X425BV-FHD 42-inch LCD HDTV for $299, plus sales tax where applicable. Shipping is free, or you can opt for free in-store...
Global Checkup: Most People Living Longer, But Sicker
Label: Health If the world's entire population went in for a collective checkup, would the doctor's prognosis be good or bad? Both, according to new studies published in The Lancet medical journal.The vast collaborative effort, called the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010, includes papers by nearly 500 authors in 50 countries. Spanning four decades of data, it represents...
Critics Faulted Rice's Work on Benghazi, Africa
Label: Business United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice removed herself from possible consideration as secretary of state after becoming yet another player in the divide between the left and right.Rice, who withdrew her name Thursday, has faced months of criticism over how she characterized the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. She also has come under fire for her approach...
Dec
13
Welcome to the personal drone revolution
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US retail sales rebound in November
Label: Technology WASHINGTON: US retail sales rebounded in November, reversing October's decline as auto sales surged, the Commerce Department said on Thursday.Retail sales rose 0.3 percent after a 0.3 percent drop the prior month.Excluding automobile sales, up 1.4 percent after a 1.9 percent tumble in October, retail sales were unchanged from October.The Commerce Department said that Hurricane Sandy, which...
Crazy like a fox? McAfee admits to playing 'the crazy card'
Label: LifestyleSoftware founder John McAfee, pictured yesterday, was released from detention in Guatemala and flew to the U.S.(Credit:CBS News) The antics of security software founder John McAfee may have seemed pretty insane, but he now says that at least some of his actions were a ruse. McAfee, speaking with ABC News after arriving in the U.S., said he faked an illness to avoid being sent back to Belize from...
Hubble Discovers Oldest Known Galaxy
Label: Health The Hubble space telescope has discovered seven primitive galaxies formed in the earliest days of the cosmos, including one believed to be the oldest ever detected.The discovery, announced Wednesday, is part of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field campaign to determine how and when galaxies first assembled following the Big Bang."This 'cosmic dawn' was not a single, dramatic event," said astrophysicist...
Mall Shooter Quit Job, Was Hawaii Bound
Label: Business In the days before he stole a semiautomatic weapon and stormed into an Oregon shopping mall, killing two people in a shooting spree, Jacob Roberts quit his job, sold his belongings and began to seem "numb" to those closest to him.Roberts' ex-girlfriend, Hannah Patricia Sansburn, 20, told ABC News today that the man who donned a hockey mask and opened fire on Christmas shoppers...
Dec
12
Slaloming robot minicopter learns from its mistakes
Label: World Sandrine Ceurstemont, editor, New Scientist TV!--By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and Cfound at https://accounts.brightcove.com/en/terms-and-conditions/. -->A pro skier is likely to have practised for years, and endured a few falls, before winning a slalom race. Now a minicopter is taking inspiration from this approach by learning from its mistakes to perfect a...
Fed likely to expand QE with economy still slow
Label: Technology WASHINGTON: Economists expect the Federal Reserve (Fed) to add to its stimulus efforts with an expanded bond-buying program Wednesday when it concludes its last policy board meeting of 2012 amid still-slow growth.With the US economy still sluggish despite two years and hundreds of billions of US dollars of quantitative easing (QE) operations, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is...
Get an iPod Shuffle bundle for $39
Label: LifestyleMP3 players don't get much smaller than the iPod Shuffle.(Credit:Apple)iPhones, iPads, andiPod Touches get all the attention, but let us not forget the humble iPod Shuffle, the tiny clip-on MP3 player that's hard to beat for hiking, biking, running, and the gym.Apple sells the Shuffle for $49, but for a limited time, Walmart has the 4th-generation iPod Shuffle 2GB and accessory kit for $39, plus sales...
Best Space Pictures of 2012: Editor's Picks
Label: HealthPhotograph courtesy Tunç Tezel, APOY/Royal ObservatoryThis image of the Milky Way's vast star fields hanging over a valley of human-made light was recognized in the 2012 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition run by the U.K.’s Royal Observatory Greenwich.To get the shot, photographer Tunç Tezel trekked to Uludag National Park near his hometown of Bursa, Turkey. He intended to watch the moon...
Mall Gunman Wanted to Kill 'Total Strangers'
Label: Business The masked gunman who opened fire in the crowded Clackamas Town Center mall in suburban Portland, Ore., killing two and seriously injuring a third before killing himself, was trying to "kill as many people as possible."The shooter, wearing a white hockey mask, black clothing and a bullet proof vest, tore through the mall just before 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, entering through a Macy's...
Dec
11
War of words: The language paradox explained
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US trade gap widens in October as exports fall
Label: Technology WASHINGTON - The US trade deficit widened in October as exports fell sharply from the prior month amid a slowing global economy, government data released Tuesday showed.The trade gap increased to US$42.2 billion from a revised US$40.3 billion in September, the Commerce Department said.Exports fell by 3.6 percent, while imports fell by 2.1 percent.The decline in exports was the sharpest...
WiLAN sues RIM over BlackBerry Bluetooth technology
Label: LifestyleResearch In Motion has been hit with a new lawsuit from WiLAN.WiLAN, which derives its revenue from licensing patents to vendors, says that it filed the patent infringement claim against RIM in the Southern District of Florida. The company says that RIM is violating Patent No. 6,260,168 related to Bluetooth technologies.WiLAN has a long history of initiating litigation to get companies to license...
U.K. Dash for Shale Gas a Test for Global Fracking
Label: HealthThomas K. Grose in London The starting gun has sounded for the United Kingdom's "dash for gas," as the media here have dubbed it.As early as this week, a moratorium on shale gas production is expected to be lifted. And plans to streamline and speed the regulatory process through a new Office for Unconventional Gas and Oil were unveiled last week in the annual autumn budget statement by...
Closing Tax Loopholes Not Enough to Avert 'Cliff'?
Label: Business Closing "corporate tax loopholes" sure sounds good to the average, non-corporate American -- so good, in fact, that politicians talk about it all the time.House Speaker John Boehner's fiscal-cliff proposal purports to raise $1.6 trillion in revenue by "clos[ing] special-interest loopholes and deductions while lowering rates."The White House, meanwhile, has complained that Boehner...
Dec
10
Doha summit launches climate damage aid
Label: World The latest summit to stop climate change, held in Doha, Qatar, over the past two weeks has been roundly slammed. Little was agreed to curb greenhouse gas emissions and the latest modelling, carried out by the Climate Action Tracker consortium shows global averages temperatures are still set to rise by at least...
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