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While being in the Top 5 is still something that most brands would give an arm and a leg for, it nevertheless marks one of the sharpest declines from the top in the history of the survey. There were signs that all was not well, even though Nokia scored its hat-trick in 2010 and seemed [...]
With a box full of carrots and a hankering for something vaguely exotic, Mary-Claire van Leunen turned to her computer for a recipe. “I looked for `Turkish carrots’ and I found it easily, in fact I found half a dozen,” said the retired Seattle software researcher. Everyone’s done it, fired up a search engine to [...]
As most of the world knows by now, Facebook began rolling out new “features” on their social networking service this week. Besides the ability to go back to 1950 and note the first time you drove an Edsel, the other big change is that now you will be able to share what you are doing [...]
The science world has been left in shock after it was announced that CERN scientists had recorded subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light in a finding that could overturn fundamental law of physics. Here are a selection of other major scientific discoveries. Gravity Galileo Galilei overturns nearly 2,000 years of Aristotelian belief [...]
Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity, proposed in 1905, states that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. But researchers at the CERN lab near Geneva have announced that they had recorded subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light, the Telegraph reported. If the findings [...]
A new machine lets first responders find people trapped at disaster sites by detecting individual molecules of breath, sweat, and urine that float up through the concrete. Firefighters and other first responders rushing to collapsing buildings and disaster situations will soon have a new weapon in their arsenal, replacing dogs, cameras, and robots: a series [...]
Nintendo’s add-on button device for its 3DS video game machine is facing criticism as a possible design flaw and a detraction for the already struggling portable. Some critics say Nintendo Co. is embarrassed about the 1,500 yen ($20) “slide pad,” noting President Satoru Iwata didn’t mention a word about the gadget at his presentation earlier [...]