Google spends $125 million for e-commerce firm Channel Intelligence

Google has signed a deal to acquire e-commerce-solutions company Channel Intelligence for $125 million in cash.Channel's parent company, ICG, announced the deal today.Channel's technologies are designed to boost the sale of products online. The company offers a Facebook platform, product search engines, and other services created for companies looking to improve product sales. Channel, based near...

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The Real Richard III

It's a question that actors from Laurence Olivier to Kevin Spacey have grappled with: What did Richard III, the villainous protagonist of Shakespeare's famous historical drama, really look and sound like?In the wake of this week's announcement by the University of Leicester that archaeologists have discovered the 15th-century British king's lost skeleton beneath a parking lot, news continues...

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Hostage Taker Waged Firefight With SWAT Agents

Jimmy Lee Dykes, the man who held a 5-year-old boy hostage for nearly a week in an underground bunker in Alabama, had two homemade explosive devices on his property and engaged in a firefight with SWAT agents before they stormed the bunker and killed him, according to the FBI.One explosive device was found inside the bunker and another was located in the PVC pipe negotiators...

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China gets the blame for hacking spree

So, whodunnit? Last week, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal reported that their networks had been hacked. All three were quick to blame China. The New York Times cited the type of malware and techniques...

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New SAFRA Toa Payoh officially opens

SINGAPORE: President Tony Tan officially opened the new SAFRA Toa Payoh on Tuesday.The facility will provide better facilities to NSmen and their families.The new club features a fencing academy which is a first for all SAFRA clubs.Members can also look forward to a new gym, which will be the biggest among the clubs.There is also an indoor playground for children.The club at Toa Payoh...

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It's official: Dell being taken private for $24.4B

The Dell XPS 13 ultrabook(Credit:Dell)It's official: Dell is being taken private for $24.4 billion, or $13.65 a share in cash, a transaction that will allow the company to turn itself around away from shareholder scrutiny. Michael Dell, who owns about 14 percent of Dell's common shares, teamed up with Silver Lake Partners to acquire the company. Microsoft also kicked in a $2 billion loan. Following...

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Space Pictures This Week: A Space Monkey, Printing a Moon Base

Illustration courtesy Foster and Partners/ESAThe European Space Agency (ESA) announced January 31 that it is looking into building a moon base (pictured in an artist's conception) using a technique called 3-D printing.It probably won't be as easy as whipping out a printer, hooking it to a computer, and pressing "print," but using lunar soils as the basis for actual building blocks could be a possibility."Terrestrial...

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Ballerina bird video reveals novel shape-shifting view

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/. -->When it comes to wooing, humans might want to take inspiration from birds of paradise. Instead of using vocal tactics, males of one species perform an elaborate dance, which has now been captured for the first...

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Football: Europol uncovers vast match-fixing ring

THE HAGUE: European police warned on Monday that the integrity of football was at stake, as they revealed they had smashed a criminal network fixing hundreds of matches, including in the Champions League and World Cup qualifiers.Europol said a five-country probe had identified 380 suspicious matches targeted by a Singapore-based betting cartel, whose illegal activities stretched to players,...

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Samsung, LG call off lawsuits in patent dispute -- report

Samsung Display and LG Display have decided to settle their patent disputes through dialogue and not court proceedings, a new report out of Korea claims.Yonhap News reported today that Samsung and LG executives met at a hotel and Seoul to discuss their lawsuits. After leaving that meeting, Samsung Display CEO Kim Ki-nam told Yonhap that the companies will "resolve the issue one by one." LG Display...

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