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Did April Fools’ Day come early for The Pirate Bay? The controversial BitTorrent site posted an odd announcement last night stating that it had decided to “build something extraordinary” with its server infrastructure. “We’re going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air,” wrote “MrSpock” on [...]

Did April Fools’ Day come early for The Pirate Bay? The controversial BitTorrent site posted an odd announcement last night stating that it had decided to “build something extraordinary” with its server infrastructure. “We’re going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air,” wrote “MrSpock” on [...]

A blog posting recently made the rounds regarding a fatal design flaw in the Tesla Roadster. The blogger claims that some Roadsters have become “bricks”, with non-functioning batteries requiring a $40,000 fix. The blog is dead wrong about most of the technical facts it claims to be reporting. Don’t blame the blogger, however: he’s only [...]

V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai: Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian By Emi Kolawole, Published: February 18 Clarification: A number of readers have accurately pointed out that electronic messaging predates V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai’s work in 1978. However, Ayyadurai holds the copyright to the computer program called“email,” establishing him as the creator of the “computer program for [...]

Academic research is behind bars and an online boycott by 8,209 researchers (and counting) is seeking to set it free…well, more free than it has been. The boycott targets Elsevier, the publisher of popular journals like Cell and The Lancet,  for its aggressive business practices, but opposition was electrified by Elsevier’s backing of a Congressional bill titled the Research Works Act [...]

Scott Adams – cartoonist and creator of “Dilbert” – read an interview with him in Prism Magazine   Yasser Arafat – Palestinian leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Graduated as a civil engineer from the University of Cairo.   Neil Alden Armstrong – became the first man to walk on the moon on July 20, [...]

By Katherine Harmon | March 12, 2012 |  23 Share  Email  Print Steak image courtesy of iStockphoto/Kativ Over the years, eating too many burgers, steaks pork chops or other red meat products has been linked to heart disease, diabetes and some cancers. In particular, processed red meat, such as bacon, hot dogs or bologna, has especially strong [...]