Hacked! Microsoft, Pinterest, Tumblr and Twitter join Apple

Microsoft Hacked: Intrusion Was 'Similar' To Apple And ...
Microsoft Corp said on Friday a small number of its computers, including some in its Mac software business unit, were infected with ...

Hacked! Microsoft, Pinterest, Tumblr and Twitter join Apple, Facebook, NBC.com as the latest victims of cyber attacks Another day, another hacking.



Evolution Gave Humans Unique Brain Structure: Other Primates Out of Luck

New Study Shows That Unique Brain Structures Found In Humans Differ From Other Primates...
Latinos Post
A plaster phrenological model of a head, showing different parts of the brain, is seen at an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London March 27, 2012. We've pickled it, dessicated it, drilled it, mummified it, chopped it ...

Evolution Gave Humans Unique Brain Structure: Other Primates Out of Luck
Science World Report



Preview: Google's New Built-from-Scratch Googleplex

Google expansion is latest employee perk designed to spark innovation
PCWorld
Google is already known for great employee perks like free gourmet meals and haircuts, but the Internet search leader is looking to give its workers even more incentive to be innovative in the technology game.

In Depth:Exclusive Preview: Google's New Built-from-Scratch Googleplex



Meet One of Mars Rover Curiosity's Earthbound Twins

National Geographic


Can 'Abenomics' fix Japan's ailing economy?

BBC News
Shinzo Abe makes for an unlikely hero. The Japanese prime minister's office recently published a video of him speaking in English that had some Japanese friends of mine, without exception, either cringing with embarrassment or falling about laughing.



Zheng Cao: Beloved Shanghai-born singer dies

- SFGate
Mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao, a vivid and dramatically resourceful artist who appeared regularly with the San Francisco Opera and on stages worldwide, died Thursday night ...

Zheng Cao dies at Latest News ...
Zheng Cao dies , who was battling cancer, was honored Tuesday by the San Francisco Opera's Merola Opera Program with the creation of a fund to help either Asian ...



Bees use the 'force' to choose the best flowers, study finds

Christian Science Monitor
If you're a bee having a hard time finding that flower trying to tell you it's loaded with nectar and pollen, use the force, bee, use the force.

Highly Cited:Bumblebees sense flowers' electric fields



Even Anonymous Gets Hacked

Anonymous Is Hacked By Rustle League
Fast Company Magazine
Take a whirlwind tour through this week of much hackery! This was the sight that greeted the 160,000 followers of one of Anonymous 's myriad Twitter accounts earlier today. The hackers' official ...

Even Anonymous Gets Hacked
redOrbit
Your Universe Online It may be too early to tell, but so far 2013 looks to become the year of the Twitter hack. Celebrities like Alicia Keys have claimed to have been ...



Apple Patent For Solar Watch Could Fire Up Stock Again

Forbes
Apple application 20130044215, filed with the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), is the best evidence so far as to how iWatch may look and work.



Former Oakland man, aspiring rapper, killed in shooting on Vegas Strip

San Jose Mercury News
LAS VEGAS -- A man killed in a shooting and fiery crash on the Las Vegas Strip early Thursday morning was a rapper who previously lived in Oakland, a family member said.

Rapper Kenny Clutch Dead After Las Vegas Shooting
ABC News
Rapper Kenny Clutch has been identified by Las Vegas police as the man killed in a drive-by shooting on the Vegas strip, which set off a multi-state manhunt for the black Range Rover from which the shots were fired. Clutch, whose real name is Kenneth ...

Highly Cited:3 killed in gunfight, crash on Las Vegas strip



San Jose's 'Chili Finger Lady' accused of cooking up new yarn ...

San Jose Mercury News



Google adds new touch to line of Chrome laptops

Kansas City Star



Bird-friendly Farms Catching On in California

National Geographic



Billionaire U: Why Harvard Mints Mega-Rich Alums

CNBC
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has its hedge-fund quants, the University of Southern California has its movie moguls. But if you really want your child to be a billionaire, you might want to send them to Harvard.

Harvard has graduated some 52 billionaires, with a collective fortune of $205 billion, to lead Wealth-X's global list of universities ranked by alumni worth $1 billion or more. That's nearly twice as many as the No. 2 school, the University of Pennsylvania, which has 28 billionaire alumni worth a collective $112 billion.

And these numbers don't include either Microsoft (MSFT)'s Bill Gates or Facebook (FB)'s Mark Zuckerberg, both of whom attended Harvard but didn't stay to get their degree. Together they are worth some $45 billion.



Marguerite Joseph, 104, lies about age to get on Facebook

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GROSSE POINTE SHORES, MICH. — Facebook is apologizing for a problem that makes a 104-year-old Michigan woman lie about her age on the social media ...

Woman, 104, forced to lie about age on Facebook - Peoria, IL ...
The 104-year-old Michigan woman's granddaughter says Joseph is unable to list her real age on the social media site. Gail Marlow says when she tries inputting her ...



Hotmail replaced by Outlook.com


The pioneer of online email has met it’s end. Hotmail, launched in 1996 and acquired by Microsoft two years later for 400 million dollars, was the first web-based ...

Microsoft to Replace Hotmail with Metro-Style Outlook.com
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it will replace its aging webmail service Hotmail with a new service called Outlook.com that provides a more modern take on ...



Couple Finds, Returns $11,000 in Bag at Golden Gate Bridge

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A Bay Area couple turned in an unattended black camera bag they found by the Golden Gate Bridge — along with the more than $11,000 it contained. Carlos and Barbara ...

Couple Finds $11,000 in Bag at Golden Gate Bridge - Local ...
Carlos and Barbara Landeros only wanted a little Valentine's Day romance. So last Thursday, the Vallejo couple decided to drive to San Francisco for a swanky romantic ...



Higgs boson find may spell doom for universe

| Fox News
The mass of the Higgs boson particle, possibly uncovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, may mean doom for our universe. Here, proton-proton ...

Higgs boson may spell doom for the universe - CBS News
BOSTON A subatomic particle discovered last year that may be the long-sought Higgs boson might doom our universe to an unfortunate end, researchers say ...

"This calculation tells you that many tens of billions of years from now there'll be a catastrophe," Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., said Monday (Feb. 18) here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.



Future of airline seating?

The Future of Airline Seating - AOL Travel News
You never know where inspiration is going to strike. For designer Emil Jacob, it was on a 2004 flight to Paris from his homeland of Romania when he gave up ...

Future of airline seating?
AirGo Could Change Coach Seating, Is this the future of airline seats? Coach passengers could soon be getting first class seats ...



If You Have A Great Idea (And $1500) You Can Be A Google Glass Explorer

Google Glass contest gives non-devs a chance to grab $1500 specs
ZDNet
Summary: Google has revealed that non-developers will be able to get their hands on a prototype of the upcoming Google Glass device if they can sell their vision of what they'd use it for in 50 words or less.

In Depth:If You Have A Great Idea (And $1500) You Can Be A Google Glass Explorer



What to Expect from Sony's PlayStation Event Tonight

Wall Street Journal
Sony's big “mystery” PlayStation event is tonight in New York - where the company is widely expected to unveil the successor to its last home console, the PlayStation 3. It will be a significant - and risky - step for the company.



Stanford University is 1st college to raise $1B

San Francisco Chronicle
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Stanford University has set a new record for college fundraising, becoming the first school to collect more than $1 billion in a single year, according to a report released Wednesday.



Sex-with-boys mom back in trouble: porn

San Francisco Chronicle
A woman who was sent to prison for having sex with two underage boys in Livermore, including one who was dating her teenage daughter, was caught with pornography five days after her release and jailed for allegedly violating her parole, authorities ...



Rare Star Explosion Creates Galaxy's Youngest Black Hole

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The warped leftovers from a rare star explosion may be hiding the youngest black hole in our galaxy, a new study reveals. The supernova remnant, called W49B, is about ...

Rare star explosion creates galaxy's youngest black hole ...
Supernovas tend to leave behind an extremely dense spinning core called a neutron star, which often can be detected through X-ray or radio pulses.



Dell Profit Slides 31% on Falling PC, Lack of Mobility Sales

Wall Street Journal
Dell Inc.'s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings fell 31% as the company recorded double-digit revenue declines from its personal-computer and mobility segments.

Live Updating:Dell 4Q Earnings Live Blog



Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain

New York Times



Apple accounts for 20% of all 2012 US consumer technology sales revenue

Apple grabs huge slice of 2012 consumer technology sales
CNET
Consumer tech sales fell 2 percent in the U.S. last year, yet Apple had a good year with almost 20 percent of all sales, says NPD.

Highly Cited:Apple accounts for 20% of all 2012 US consumer technology sales revenue



Google sets new high above $800

MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Shares of Google Inc. rallied Tuesday, setting a high as they rose above $800 for the first time in the Internet giant's history.

In Depth:Google's Stock Price Jumps Over $800 For The First Time



#RIP For Lou Spadia, Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame was life-long dream

San Francisco Examiner
Lou Spadia, second from left, created 'the Hall without a hall' with the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame. For Lou Spadia, who died over the weekend shortly after his 92nd birthday, 1977 was what he called “the worst year of my life.” The love of his life, his wife, ...



San Jose: Man in stolen SUV leads police on wild pursuit, dies in crash

San Jose Mercury News
SAN JOSE -- A 20-year-old driver in a stolen SUV, attempted to run down or collide with police officers four separate times during a single, reckless, high-speed chase late Sunday night.



Apple releases new iPad TV ads focusing on app catalog

SlashGear
One thing that Apple has going for them is their massive collection of hundreds of thousands of apps specifically catered toward the iPad, and to show off some of the more notable ones, as well as boast about the variety of apps available, the company has ...

Apple's new iPad TV ads put apps at the heart of the tablet wars
Computerworld
Apple [AAPL] published two new iPad ads ('Alive' and 'Together') last night. In both ads, the company focuses on what the product can do -- the company hasn't yet stooped to respond to its competitors with ads campaigns that mock them.



Samsung GALAXY Altius Smartwatch leaked

SlashGear
Today a collection of screenshots have been revealed of what appears very much to be a Samsung “smartwatch” with the name GALAXY ALtius attached to it.



#UP $8Million Maserati yacht sets another sailing record

French yacht sets around-the-world record - Story - 3 Sport ...
French yacht Banque Populaire V set a new around-the-world record sailing in the Jules Verne Trophy.

$8Million Maserati yacht sets another sailing record
The Italian luxury car manufacturer, Maserati along with Generali and BSl has recently teamed up with Giovanni Soldini, a world renowned sailor with 18 years ...

Yacht sets record sailing from New York to San Francisco



Oxford University tests out their new self-driving car system

SlashGear
A team of scientists at Oxford University, led by Professor Paul Newman, has developed a new self-driving car system that that is supposedly much more advanced than the one being developed by Google.
Highly Cited:Self-driving car given UK test run at Oxford UniversityBBC New



'Halo' creator unveils gaming epic Bungie's 'Destiny'

Bungie's 'Destiny' Is A Shared-World Shooter, With Journey-Style Multiplayer For ...
Forbes
Bungie has unveiled its new 'shared-world' shooter game 'Destiny' but there's still very little to go on. The age of massively-multiplayer first-person shooters is upon us.

Opinion:'Halo' creator unveils gaming epic 'Destiny'



Drones over U.S. get OK by Congress

- Washington Times ...

FAA Accepts 20 New Applications to Fly Drones over U.S. Soil

U.S. TO FLY DRONES OVER AMERICAN CITIES | Weekly World News
Congress passed a bill this week allowing the government to fly unmanned spy planes in the U.S. The FAA Reauthorization Act, which President Obama reportedly ...



Keiko Fukuda, Judo Master Dies At Age 99 In San Francisco

Judo Master Dies At Age 99 In San Francisco
A judo master died at the age of 99 in San Francisco. The woman, Keiko Fukuda, was the Japanese-born granddaughter of a samurai. Fukuda learned judo from ...

Highest-ranked female judo master dies at age 99 in San ...
Fukuda passed away of natural causes at her home on February 9, said Shelley Fernandez, 82, who lived with Fukuda, helped her run the Soko Joshi Judo Club ...



This Is What Apple's Curved Glass iWatch Might Look Like

San Francisco Chronicle



Egypt telecoms authority disagrees: Can't block YouTube

- WBTV 3 ...

Egyptian Authorities Can’t Block YouTube
Egypt’s telecommunications ministry says that it can’t block YouTube, going against an order handed down by a Cairo court. Offensive religious content ...



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