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'Fat fingers' can become dainty for touch screens
Seeded on Wed Nov 25, 2009 3:24 PM EST (newscientist.com)
Why are the latest touch-screen devices often larger than the push-button gadgets they replace? It has long been assumed the culprit is the so-called "fat finger" problem – when touch targets are packed too close together, a fingertip may be too wide to hit the right one.
Safenet told us to forget our husbands, say wives of Baghdad 4
Seeded on Wed Nov 25, 2009 12:11 PM EST (eyewitnessnews.co.za)
The wives of the so-called Baghdad Four have accused their husband's former employers of deserting them.
Ripples in space divide classical and quantum worlds
Seeded on Wed Nov 25, 2009 12:03 PM EST (newscientist.com)
WHY can't we be in two places at the same time? The simple answer is that it's because large objects appear not to be subject to the same wacky laws of quantum mechanics that rule subatomic particles.
The Secrets Within Cosmic Dust - the particles returned from comet Wild-2
Seeded on Wed Nov 25, 2009 6:44 AM EST (smithsonianmag.com)
At the threshold of a sterile lab at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, I pull on a white clean-room suit, a surgical cap and mask, booties and latex gloves.
Hacked archive provides fodder for climate sceptics
Seeded on Wed Nov 25, 2009 6:37 AM EST (newscientist.com)
Climate scientists are reeling this week from the discovery that someone has hacked into the email archive of one of their most prestigious research centres, the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, UK, custodian of the most respected global temperature r …
South Africa Tries Counting Illegal Activities To GDP
Seeded on Wed Nov 25, 2009 5:51 AM EST (npr.org)
When the U.S. reports its gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and services the economy produces for a particular period, it doesn't count illegal activities like prostitution and drug dealing since how would you ever get a handle on that?
Opera web browser 'censors' Chinese content
Seeded on Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:17 PM EST (BBC News)
Web browser Opera has closed a loophole which allowed Chinese users to access sites banned by the government. At the weekend mobile users of the Opera Mini browser were asked to upgrade to a Chinese version.
UK intelligence faces torture collusion claims
Seeded on Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:13 PM EST (BBC News)
UK intelligence officials "colluded" in the torture of terror suspects, a Human Rights Watch report says. It said its five-year study had found "credible" evidence, corroborated by Pakistani officials, that UK officials were aware of the abuse.
Bing Tries To Buy The News
Seeded on Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:35 PM EST (TechCrunch)
Rupert Murdoch is pointing a gun to Google's head, and Microsoft is helping him pull back the trigger. For the past few weeks, Murdoch and his officers at News Corp.
Ring of Stars in Centaurus A Uncovered
Seeded on Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:19 PM EST (universetoday.com)
Centaurus A (NGC 5128) is one of the most studied objects in the Southern sky, because it is the giant elliptical galaxy with the closest proximity to our own Milky Way.
Nasa Cassini spacecraft sends pictures of Saturn's moon Enceladus
Seeded on Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:52 PM EST (BBC News)
Nasa has released the latest raw images of Saturn's moon Enceladus, from the Cassini spacecraft's extended mission to the planet and its satellites. The images show the moon's rippling terrain in remarkable clarity.
Are Israeli Security Agents Working Undercover as Security Guards for Israeli Airline El Al?
Seeded on Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:43 PM EST (themedialine.org)
A disgruntled former employee of the Israeli airline El Al has created a diplomatic crises between Israel and South Africa. It all began with a soft-spoken South African aggrieved over the alleged non-payment of a bonus by his former employer, the Israeli airliner El Al.
Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.
Seeded on Sun Nov 22, 2009 5:11 AM EST (Boing Boing)
The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible.
Ketamine drug use 'harms memory'
Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:09 PM EST (BBC News)
Frequent use of ketamine - a drug popular with clubbers - is being linked with memory problems, researchers say. The University College London team carried out a range of memory and psychological tests on 120 people.
Don't pack your parachute: Landing a wingsuit
Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:59 PM EST (newscientist.com)
ON A bright day in 1912, an Austrian tailor named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. This was no suicide attempt. Reichelt was wearing a special overcoat of his own design that was supposed to let him glide gently to the ground. Sadly, it didn't work.
Sahara cocaine plane crash probed
Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:13 PM EST (BBC News)
The UN is investigating the crash in the Sahara desert of a cargo plane, which is thought to have been carrying cocaine from Venezuela.
Is it time to privatise rugby in South Africa?
Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:07 PM EST (sarugby.com)
It's time to privatise rugby in South Africa. Nothing has been more frustrating in the so-called "professional era" of rugby union since 1995 than to watch the sport turn into the epitome of crony corporatism.
Tim Berners-Lee launches "WWW Foundation" at IGF 2009
Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:01 PM EST (Ars Technica)
Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Web, showed up at the first day of the UN-backed Internet Governance Forum meeting in Egypt to announce the creation of the "World Wide Web Foundation."
Innovation: The dizzying ambition of Wolfram Alpha
Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:52 PM EST (newscientist.com)
When the search engine Wolfram Alpha launched earlier this year, the interest was huge. Enticed by a well-oiled publicity machine, web users swamped the site and its servers were overwhelmed.
Apple's New Patent Is Patently Crazy - forced to watch ads on Apple devices?
Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:11 PM EST (PC World)
First made public back in October, the notion is getting more attention thanks to an essay in Saturday's New York Times by Randall Stross, who has picked a few bones with Apple in the past.
A faraway planet intrigues - which way does it go round it's star?
Seeded on Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:17 PM EST (MIT)
Two teams of astronomers have found a planet outside the solar system that might be orbiting backwards compared to its star's rotation, a discovery that could shed light on how unique the relatively perfect alignment of our solar system is compared to that of other planetary sy …
Lithium clue for planet-hunters - stars with planets have less lithium
Seeded on Mon Nov 16, 2009 7:00 AM EST (BBC News)
Astronomers may have found a way to identify those Sun-like stars most likely to harbour orbiting planets. A survey of stars known to possess planets shows the vast majority to be severely depleted in lithium.
Mining the Giant Molecular Cloud at Milky Way Core for Origins of Life
Seeded on Sun Nov 15, 2009 2:15 PM EST (dailygalaxy.com)
Scientists are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to prospect in Sagittarius B2(N), a giant molecular cloud near the center of our Galaxy, some 25,000 light-years from Earth for new, complex molecules in interstellar space that may be precursors to life.
Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu have a problem - white people like them
Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:01 PM EST (IOL)
Former president Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu have a problem - white people like them. This "invalidates" them, in the same way that, for every white person who supports Free State University rector Jonathan Jansen, "he loses 100 blacks".
1491 - Is the Amazon the world's largest man-made garden?
Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:36 PM EST (theatlantic.com)
Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought—an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe.
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'Fat fingers' can become dainty for touch screensWhy are the latest touch-screen devices often larger than the push-button gadgets they replace? It has long been assumed the culprit is the so-called "fat finger" problem – when touch targets are packed too close together, a fingertip may be too wide to hit the right one.
- TV Presenter On Death Row For Witchcraft
Ali Sibat is not even a Saudi national. The Lebanese citizen was only visiting Saudi Arabia on pilgrimage when he was arrested in Medina last year. A court in the city condemned him as a witch on November 9.
- Safenet told us to forget our husbands, say wives of Baghdad 4
The wives of the so-called Baghdad Four have accused their husband's former employers of deserting them.
- Ripples in space divide classical and quantum worlds
WHY can't we be in two places at the same time? The simple answer is that it's because large objects appear not to be subject to the same wacky laws of quantum mechanics that rule subatomic particles.
- Man Gets 120 Days for Shooting Cyclist in the Head
This is downright infuriating. Perhaps you recall this story: while driving down the road one day, Charles Diaz grew upset at seeing a man riding his bike on a busy street with his 3 year-old son. So he shot him in the head.
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