Shares of Yahoo fell nearly 10 percent Wednesday before finishing trading at 17.20, down 7.3 percent, after the company revealed that the Chinese Internet conglomerate in which it owns a 40 percent stake might lose its online payment unit — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 10-year-old boy charged with murdering his father at their home in California was being exposed to his father’s extreme neo-Nazi ideology of racism and violence at the time he allegedly turned a gun against him.
Evidence is mounting that Jeff Hall, 32, a white supremacist who led the National Socialist Movement in the south-west of the US, was involving his son in neo-Nazi activities before his death on 1 May.
A possible link between the group’s violent messages and the shooting – an act exceptionally rare for a child as young as 10 – could be an important factor in the boy’s trial — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new vaccine can protect macaques against the monkey equivalent of HIV and could provide a fresh approach to an HIV vaccine, a study suggests.
US researchers say the vaccine offered protection to 13 of 24 rhesus macaques treated in the experiment.
In 12 of the monkeys, the vaccine was still effective 12 months later — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A team of scientists in China has found a way to restore damaged livers using adult skin stem cells — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The largest ever initiative to remove breeding American mink from the north of Scotland is under way.
The Scottish Mink Initiative aims to create a 20,000 sq km safe haven for native wildlife in rural Tayside, Aberdeenshire, Moray, the Cairngorms and the Highlands.
The £920,000 project is being undertaken by a range of conservation and other organisations — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Just when you thought that Google Tasks was abandoned, Google releases an API for Google Tasks. The Google Tasks API provides developers with a powerful set of API endpoints for searching, reading, and updating Google Tasks content and metadata.
Developers will be able to create applications for mobile devices, software that integrates Google Tasks with Outlook and other apps using an official API and a proper authentication mechanism — via Google Operating System
I wish I had baby octopies on my desk — via deviantART
Automatically inserts HTML signatures into your Gmail messages based on which address you are sending from. Maintain up to four signatures per address — via Add-ons for Firefox
Surprise! After months in the oven, the soon-to-be-released new version of a major US Internet censorship bill didn’t shrink in scope — it got much broader. Under the new proposal, search engines, Internet providers, credit card companies, and ad networks would all have cut off access to foreign rogue sites
— and such court orders would not be limited to the government. Private rightsholders could go to court and target foreign domains, too.
As for sites which simply change their domain name slightly after being targeted, the new bill will let the government and private parties bring quick action against each new variation.
Get ready for the PROTECT IP Act
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two deaf men were stabbed in a Hallandale Beach bar Saturday night when another patron mistook their sign language for gang signs.
31-year-old Alfred Stewart, who is deaf and mute, and three others including a bouncer are recovering in hospital from non-fatal wounds suffered at the Ocean’s Eleven Sports Lounge and Grill on Federal Highway, where Stewart and his friends were celebrating a birthday.
Police say Barbara Lee became angry when she thought Stewart’s party, all of whom are deaf, were throwing gang signs at her — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In this tutorial, our goal is to create an FTP class with PHP that is well written, useful, and expandable — via Nettuts+
Australian coffee mega-franchise Gloria Jeans, a company chaired by the millionaire elder of a popular corporate Christian church in the country, Nabi Saleh, has eyes on Vilnius, searching for prospective franchisees to open stores and begin servicing Lithuanian customers. Representatives for Gloria Jeans were in Vilnius for the Brand 4 Baltic
conference at the end of April, which brought together a selection of foreign companies looking to the future to invest in the Baltic region — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More and more, people who until only recently had somewhere to live are out on the streets of Portland with their pets, said Amy Sacks, who runs the Pixie Project, a nonprofit pet store and shelter for animals.
She tracks down homeless people in alleys and under bridges and makes her pitch as to why they should make sure their pets get proper care — via redwolf.newsvine.com
New research published by the University of California, Berkeley, shows that graphene — an incredibly thin and flexible form of carbon — can be used to boost the transmission and switching speed of optical modulators, the building blocks of routers that form the backbone of the internet.
Scientists at UC Berkeley, led by professor Xiang Zhang, have found that one-atom-thick layers of graphene can switch light on and off incredibly quickly. With just the right amount of positive voltage, graphene turns opaque, stopping any light from passing through — and with a negative voltage, graphene can be turned transparent again. The team then successfully shrunk a graphene optical modulator down to 25 square microns in size — small enough to include in silicon circuitry — and modulated it at a speed of 1GHz. The researchers say that modulation speeds of up to 500GHz are theoretically possible, though — and for comparison, the modulators found in 40Gbit switches are measured in centimeters and operate at just 40GHz — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Our friends at Lion Brand Yarn point us to this awesome pattern, designed by Andrea Rangel, to create the sweater worn by The Dude in The Big Lebowski. The original sweater, made by Oregon’s Pendleton Woolen Mills, is being auctioned off this weekend in Beverly Hills. Just be careful not to spill your white Russian on the yarn while you work, okay? — via CRAFT
This 6 (ish) legged turquoise squid features itty bitty pink tentacles and spots. It’s naturally curvy legs bring her to life making her more of a pet then a piece of jewellery. Carefully hand sculpted from a quality polymer clay then glazed for shine — via Etsy
WikiLeaks‘ Australian founder Julian Assange, who enraged Washington by publishing thousands of secret US diplomatic cables, has been given a peace award for exceptional courage in pursuit of human rights
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Assange was awarded the Sydney Peace Foundation’s gold medal on Tuesday at the Frontline Club in London, only the fourth such award to be handed out in its 14-year history. The not-for-profit organisation is associated with the University of Sydney and supported by the City of Sydney — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A gentleman’s squidscot. Or would you call it a hen-tie?
It’s a smaller, lighter version of my tentacle scarf, crocheted with ultra soft baby yarn. It’s around 54 inches long and 2.5 inches wide, with a total of 29 suckercups – 15 on one side, 14 on the other — via Etsy
So, here we have Dirk Benedict, who played Lt Starbuck in the classic Battlestar Galactica, with Katee Sackhoff, who played Kara Starbuck
Thrace in the modern Battlestar Galactica, in a Starbucks coffee shop. The mind reels — via Neatorama
Mac users are being warned to study search engine results carefully for the first significant fake antivirus scareware
program to target the platform and its loyal following.
The threat has been named OSX/MacDefender.A by Mac security specialists Intego, which on its own offers a clue to its unusual nature. This is not simply a cross-platform threat looking to widen its net to catch a few extra victims but a specially written program Mac application that just happens to be bogus — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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