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The printed version of Wikipedia to hit the markets soon

There is no doubt that Wikipedia has become one of the important web services of today. Currently, Wikipedia enables us to find all the information we need to know almost about anything, only on its online service. According to several reports(as mentiond by Softpedia), Wikipedia will be released in a printed version in Germany as soon as September and will be sold

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Man shot by a killer robot

AN 81-year-old Gold Coast man built, an intricate suicide machine to remotely shoot himself, after downloading the plans from the internet.


The Burleigh Heads man, who lived alone, left notes of his plans and thoughts as he struggled to come to terms with demands by interstate relatives that he move out his home and into care.

He spent hours searching the internet for a way to kill himself, downloaded

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Man Gets Killed in an Attempt at Squeezing Gold from Computer Hardware

‘He got intoxicated with mercury vapors’

A man got killed after an unsuccessful attempt at extracting gold from his own computer hardware devices. Tulsa resident Tony Winnett died after weeks of getting intoxicated with mercury, a metal he used to substitute gold from the computer’s circuitry.

Winnett, aged 55, experimented with mercury for such a long time,
that not only he got lethally poisoned, but his house was

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

The Left Brain And The Right Brain Are Clearly Distinct

Credits: Isaac H. Bianco et al.

Some people really have a problem with telling rapidly which is right and which is left (researches proved that women more than men), but your brain doesn’t. Your left brain and right brain are quite different. The right brain hemisphere is linked mostly to

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Google Debuts gDay: Search Today the Webpages Published Tomorrow!

‘Exclusive Image by Sergey Brin!

Google keeps up the good work and today released another revolutionary technology, codenamed gDay, which may bring a different perspective of searching the web. First of all, gDay* is powered by MATE (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation), which is quite an amazing aspect considering the fact that it now works in collaboration with Google’s search engine. Since I’m sure that the term

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Steve Jobs, Head of Apple Products, In Mosiac Art??

‘A Smart Marketing Strategy’

We’ve seen some awesome photo mosaics, some even functioning as more than art and delivering social commentary.

While this image of Steve Jobs doesn’t hold any moving messages about society, it could serve a function. The entire image is made of up Apple products, so the finished portrait could function as one big Apple ad campaign.

It features everything from computers to

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Prize-Winning Seismologist Embraces Earth’s Little Faults

‘Seismologists say their science can be easily divided into two eras: before and after Hiroo Kanamori.’

Dr. Hiroo Kanamori discusses his innovations in earthquake measurements
and early-warning systems at his Kyoto Prize presentation at
the University of California at San Diego this week.

A California Institute of Technology professor emeritus and newly christened Kyoto Prize honoree, Kanamori led the

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Windows 7 debut in 2009? Another reason to skip Vista

If Windows 7 really is scheduled to make an appearance during the second half of 2009, does this mean that making the move to Vista is now a pointless effort?

TG Daily claim to have uncovered a roadmap for Windows 7 whichWindows 7 debut in 2009? Another reason to skip Vista suggests that Windows 7 is being fast-tracked:

Several industry sources have confirmed to TG Daily that a

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

How Is Time Measured?

‘A technological evolution’

The movements of the Earth and Moon determine the length of the years, seasons, months and days. People have observed the periodicity of the seasons and of the night sky stars patterns since prehistory. Ancient Egyptians knew that the Nile would overflow when the Sirius star raised over the line of the horizon. Some stars were associated with the seeding time in rural

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Molecular Evolution: Mice Given Bat-like Forelimbs Through Gene Switch

‘A research team led by Dr. Richard Behringer at MD Anderson Cancer Center reports that they have successfully switched the mouse Prx1 gene regulatory element with the Prx1 gene regulatory region from a bat — and although these two species are separated by millions of years of evolution — the resulting transgenic mice displayed abnormally long forelimbs.’

Shown above is an example of the

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
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