In a blockbuster mobile deal, AT&T announced today it had agreed to acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion.
The acquisition will make AT&T the dominant wireless player in the U.S. with the addition of more than 33 million subscribers to its 95.5 million customer user base, giving it a new total of more than 129 million subscribers. Verizon Wireless, the U.S. second largest wireless carrier, has a little more than 102 million subscribers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This is the new Franck Muller Giga Tourbillon, and what a looker it is. The aptly named watch features a whopping 20mm diameter tourbillon which dominates the entire lower half of the watch. Franck Muller claims this it the largest tourbillon ever incorporated into a wristwatch. The highly skeletonized watch is awe inspiring with its sweeping curves and arcs, the focal piece being the elegant “M” (and the somewhat hard to see “F”) that sits directly on top of the tourbillon cage — lest you forget this piece is anything other than a Franck Muller! — via Perpetuelle.com Blog
The Red house [Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Architects MNA] is located in the western suburbs of Oslo.
The site for the house is a former garden on the east bank of a heavily wooded river valley. The building is placed perpendicular to the stream, to heighten the dramatic potential of the setting and to avoid obstructing the view for the house beyond — via ArchDaily
You see quite a few Kawasaki W650 customs around these days. But when photographer Gregor Halenda sent me these shots of Dave Seidman’s bike, I knew we had something special. Dave is a writer by trade, and he has a way with words as well as motorcycles — via Bike EXIF
Is it a garage or an art gallery with a Ferrari parked in it? Brentwood resident Holger Schubert’s 1984 Ferrari 512 BBi Boxer
makes its home in a 1,200-square-foot space that recently won Maserati and Architectural Digest’s Design Driven contest for best garage. Schubert’s garage
— hereafter I use the word with an asterisk of skepticism ? is breathtaking. Beautiful. Exquisite. But where are the tools, the work benches, the girlie calendars? Schubert concedes that it isn’t a typical, oil-on-the-floor garage, and he’s comfortable with that. I wanted to create a backdrop for the car as a piece of art,
he says — via Architecture Blog
Silk worms that produce vibrantly coloured and luminescent silks have been created by scientists in Singapore. The resulting fibre offers a cheap way to circumvent the dying process and may even have medical applications — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Researchers have found pipelines on the floor of Bass Strait are providing attractive habitats for Australian fur seals — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Tired of your glasses fogging up on cold days, or of having to spit in your dive mask before putting it on? Those hassles may become a thing of the past, as researchers from Quebec City’s Université Laval have developed what they claim is the world’s first permanent anti-fog coating. Just one application is said to work indefinitely on eyeglasses, windshields, camera lenses, or any other transparent glass or plastic surface.
The actual anti-fog coating itself is composed of polyvinyl alcohol, which is a hydrophilic compound that causes the individual droplets of condensation to disperse. Before it can go on to a surface, however, a base of four successive layers of silicon molecules are first applied via an atmospheric plasma process. These layers bond to one another, but also allow the alcohol to bond to them, ensuring the durability and hardness of the combined coating — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Rural health providers fear the 3 per cent of Australians living in remote areas who would benefit most from broadband access will be further disadvantaged by the satellite services they will end up with under the National Broadband Network — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Dr Abhay Bang does not look like a pioneer. He sits across the table in a London conference room, his posture slight and upright, his beard neatly trimmed. He is wearing a grey suit and tie, his hair brushed precisely to the right. And yet despite the conventional appearance, this is the man who has revolutionised healthcare for the poorest people in India and who has overseen a programme that has sent infant mortality rates plummeting in one of the most poverty-stricken areas of the world. Medical experts now believe that Dr Bang’s radical beliefs hold the key to tackling the myriad endemic health problems that blight the developing word — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Chandler man convicted of stabbing his roommate with the hopes of sucking his blood as part of a vampire
ritual has been sentenced to three years probation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The LA County Board of Supervisors passed amendments on Tuesday to an existing ordinance requiring pet breeders and pet owners in Los Angeles County to follow new rules designed to better protect the health of animals, reports KPCC — via redwolf.newsvine.com
ICANN has approved the formation of the .XXX domain, the board of the organization said Friday.
The board said it will allow its general counsel to allow execute a registry agreement with ICM, who will oversee the new domain. According to Peter Dengate Thrush, a New Zealand lawyer and chairman of ICANN, nine ICANN board members voted for the resolution, three against, with four abstentions.
I think 9 to 3 is pretty good,
Thrush said, in an interview — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Catholic school in Thunder Bay has disciplined seven students who sported homemade pro-choice stickers during a school-sanctioned pro-life Day of Silence.
The St. Patrick’s Catholic High School students were either sent home or suspended for refusing to remove green pieces of tape with the word choice
during a pro-life event Thursday, organized by a school chaplain and a student group, in which students sported similar labels with the word life
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
The global volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide took a massive nosedive today following what appears to be a coordinated takedown of the Rustock botnet, one of the world’s most active spam-generating machines.
For years, Rustock has been the most prolific purveyor of spam — mainly junk messages touting online pharmacies and male enhancement pills. But late Wednesday morning Eastern Time, dozens of Internet servers used to coordinate these spam campaigns ceased operating, apparently almost simultaneously — via redwolf.newsvine.com
You wouldn’t write your username and passwords on a postcard and mail it for the world to see, so why are you doing it online? Every time you log in to Twitter, Facebook or any other service that uses a plain HTTP connection, that’s essentially what you’re doing.
There is a better way, the secure version of HTTP — HTTPS. That extra “S” in the URL means your connection is secure, and it’s much harder for anyone else to see what you’re doing. But if HTTPS is more secure, why doesn’t the entire web use it? — via redwolf.newsvine.com
They say money can’t buy love – but £1million will get you man’s most expensive best friend.
A red Tibetan mastiff has become the priciest dog in the world after being sold for 10 million Chinese yuan, or £945,000.
Big Splash, or Hong Dong in Chinese, was bought by a coal baron from the north of China — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Knut, the polar bear star of Berlin Zoo, is dead. The zoo announced Saturday that Knut had collapsed and died in his enclosure. The cause of death is currently unclear — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Vickie Howell recently shared an adorable amigurumi pattern for a sweet little bunny. She’s followed up the pattern with a helpful video on how to seam up amigurumi — via CRAFT
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