Review: Spotify's Mobile Internet Radio
• http://www.technologyreview.com, Rachel MetzThe addition of Internet radio to the music service's iPhone app could also be a boon to its bottom line.
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A Camera Made from Many Produces Gigapixel Images
• technologyreview.com, Duncan Graham-RoweA research project shows how a revolutionary type of camera could be commercialized.
The Great German Energy Experiment
• http://www.technologyreview.com, David TalbotGermany has decided to pursue ambitious greenhouse-gas reductions—while closing down its nuclear plants. Can a heavily industrialized country power its economy with wind turbines and solar panels?
Mars Might Have a Lot More Water Than We Knew
• http://www.popsci.comResearchers have discovered evidence that there's a lot more water on Mars--at least on parts of Mars--than anyone previously thought. Using new technology, scientists examined the water content in meteorites from the planet, and it points to a lot o
Primitive Eye, Tiny Liver Grown in the Lab
• http://www.livescience.com, Natalie WolchoverJapanese scientists claim to have coaxed stem cells to develop into a rudimentary human liver, replete with working blood vessels and the ability to metabolize. At the same time, another group in Japan reports the growth from stem cells of a precurso
Mysterious Structure May Have Led to Ancient Artificial Island
• http://www.livescience.com, Joseph CastroArchaeologists have unearthed the foundation of what appears to have been a massive, ancient structure, possibly a bridge leading to an artificial island, in what is now southeast Wales.
Americans Muddled on Obama's Religion
• http://www.livescience.com, Stephanie PappasOnly about a third of Americans know what religion Barack Obama practices, a new survey finds.
NASA satellite sees several western US fires blazing
• http://www.bio-medicine.org, Rob GutroFires are raging in the western U.S. and in one overpass from its orbit around the Earth, NASA's Aqua satellite picked up smoke and identified hot spots from fires in Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.
Disappearing grasslands: ASU scientists to study dramatic environmental change
• http://www.bio-medicine.org, Sandra LeanderThe Earth's grasslands and savannas are experiencing a major transformation as woody plants, such as trees and shrubs, have begun to dominate arid lands around the globe.
Mild thyroid dysfunction in early pregnancy linked to serious complications
• http://www.bio-medicine.org, Aaron LohrEven moderate thyroid dysfunction during early pregnancy significantly increases the risk of serious complications, underscoring the need for universal screening in the first trimester, a new study finds.
Scientists remember Turing, father of modern computers
• http://phys.org, by Mariette le RouxScientists will gather from Bangalore to Texas on Saturday to honour British mathematician Alan Turing, a pioneer of the modern computer whose code-cracking is credited with shortening World War II.
First Tesla electric sedans hit the road
• http://phys.org, by HAVEN DALEYElectric car maker Tesla's first mass-market sedans took to the road Friday, but it's not certain whether their debut will make or break the fledgling company.
Select developers can get inside Microsoft's SmartGlass
• http://phys.org, by Nancy OwanoMicrosoft has released a SmartGlass software development kit (SDK) for Xbox developers, giving them tools and the green light to create applications for SmartGlass before the technology makes its debut later this year.
Syrian military says it downed Turkish fighter jet
• BBC NewsThe Syrian military has said that it shot down a Turkish warplane "flying in airspace over Syrian waters". A spokesman said the plane, an F-4 Phantom, was dealt with "according to the laws that govern such situations", the state news agency Sana s
Moroccan man pleads guilty to U.S. Capitol bomb attempt
• ReutersHe intended to shoot bystanders before detonating a bomb inside the building, which is home to Congress, they said. His gun and the explosives, however, had been rendered inoperable by U.S. agents, according to the FBI.
14-year-old boy shoots man breaking into S. Phoenix home
• ABC 15 PhoenixPhoenix police Officer James Holmes said the teen was home with his 8, 10 and 12-year-old siblings when a woman started knocking on the door. The 14-year-old did not recognize her so he didn't answer the door of the home near 55th Avenue and Base
Police Ticketing Informal Rideshare Participants Based On No Law, But To Protect Port Authority Reve
• TechDirtYou see, if you are in a carpool (of at least 3 people) and cross the George Washington Bridge (between the Bronx and New Jersey) you save $6 on the toll. That's a decent-sized savings, so people have set up an informal sort of ride share, in that
President Obama as 'warrior-in-chief': Militaries always need enemies to justify their exist
• News LinkThis war [on terror] was never really just about terrorists, of course. It's largely about keeping the military-industrial complex steaming ahead.
Julian Assange's right to asylum: Given the travesty that is American justice
• Glenn Greenwald, GuardianThe primary fear is being turned over to the US. That is the crucial context for understanding Julian Assange's 16-month fight to avoid extradition to Sweden, a fight that led him to seek asylum, Tuesday, in the London Embassy of Ecuador.
IRS whistleblower tax take plunges, senator frets
• ReutersThe office brought in hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue for the government that would not have been collected without whistleblower tips. But in 2011, the IRS collected only $48 million, down from $464 million in 2010.
Wells Fargo's mushrooming mortgage risk
• ReutersThe new center of U.S. mortgage lending is a nondescript office building in the American heartland, far from the California subprime lenders and the New York investment banks that drove the housing market into a bust. One out of every three home l
How To Gum Up Any Institution - by Gary North
• Lew RockwellBukovsky became an assembly-line producer of official protests. By the end of his career as a "zek," he had taught hundreds of other inmates to follow his lead. By following certain procedures that were specified by the complaint system, Bukovsky's p
PINAC Public Records Request of Emails Reveals Prosecutor Strategy for My Trial
• Photography Is Not a CrimeNormally, conversations between client and attorney are confidential. But not when both are public employees and discussing a pending case via email on the county dime. My case to be exact, discussing how to convict me.
Ex-Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky convicted of 45 counts in sex-abuse trial
• APJerry Sandusky was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years, accusations that had sent shock waves through the college campus known as Happy Valley and led to the firing of Penn State's beloved Hall of Fame coach, Joe Paterno.
Indiana police Tase Alzheimer patient
• .At least one Peru police officer is on administrative leave after a 64-year-old nursing home resident with advanced-stage Alzheimer’s was Tased three times. Police said he wouldn’t obey their commands.
Hands-On Accountability for the Police Murder of Stanley Gibson
• by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)Stanley Gibson, a disabled Gulf War veteran, was murdered in a Las Vegas parking lot last December 12. He was shot seven times in the back of the head, without provocation, by a stranger wielding an AR-15 rifle.
100,000 dashcam videos disappear from SPD database
• Seattle Post IntelligencerMore than 100,000 dashcam videos have disappeared from the Seattle Police Department, prompting city investigators to recommend the department do a better job of tracking and saving those videos.
Arkansas Supreme Court declares execution law unconstitutional, siding with death row inmates
• AP“It is evident to this court that the Legislature has abdicated its responsibility and passed to the executive branch, in this case the (Arkansas Department of Correction), the unfettered discretion to determine all protocol and procedures, most nota
Pa. Catholic official convicted of endangerment
• APA Roman Catholic church official was convicted Friday of child endangerment but acquitted of conspiracy in a groundbreaking clergy-abuse trial, becoming the first U.S. church official convicted of a crime for mishandling abuse claims. Monsignor Wi
Sidewalk Chalk Ban: Emerson Cohen, 3-Year-Old, Prohibited From Drawing In Denver Neighborhood
• Huffington PostThere's a new threat pervading the streets of Colorado, and it is one that needs to be stopped---immediately!
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