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
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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...
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