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At half-price, Facebook still faces doubts
Facebook shares have lost nearly half their value since a highly-touted public offering in May, but it's still not a bargain for some.
Facebook admits to 83 million fake users
MENLO PARK, Calif., Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Social networking site Facebook has confirmed some 83 million of its users are fake, represented by duplicate profiles, spam or pet pages.
Making mobile better: Mobile computing devices may overtake personal computer for internet use in 2013
Mobile computing devices will probably overtake the personal computer as the most common means for accessing the Internet worldwide sometime in 2013 and it may not be a seamless transition,...
Can Facebook Show How to Reduce the Growing Energy Use of the Internet?
More than 750 million users, 532 million kilowatt-hours of energy consumption and the attendant 285,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide: those are Facebook's numbers for 2011. [More]
Take a virtual visit to Kennedy Space Center via Google maps
From experience, I can attest to what an amazing experience it is to be at Kennedy Space Center, home of where NASA launches many of its spacecraft. But if you...
Expense scandal 'inappropriate,' says Alberta premier
Premer Alison Redford says if Alberta Health Services hadn't dealt quickly with the bureaucrat spending scandal, her government would have.
Smartphone maker HTC posts 58 percent profit drop
(AP) Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp. reported Friday a 58 percent drop in second quarter profit year-on-year, its third consecutive quarterly decline as intensifying competition from Apple Inc. and...
Team studies the innermost circle of the financial crisis
(Phys.org) -- Too central to fail instead of too big to fail: whether banks pose a risk to the financial system when they get into distress has more to do...
Raspberry Pi will roll with Android 4.0
(Phys.org) -- Broadcom developer Naren Sankar is porting Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) over to the little $35 computer from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and so far the two coexist...
Canadian-Australian Marine Tracking Collaboration
OTN and IMOS deploy a third and final telemetry array off the coast of Tasmania during an international science collaboration launch at the High Commission of Canada in Canberra on...
Google Glasses Gets an Evil Twin in 'Sight'
Tomorrow's world of dating gets a lot creepier with the more sinister version of Google Glasses.
JHU Genetics and Public Policy Center To Study Genomic Healthcare Challenges
The Genetics and Public Policy Center at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics has launched a new study on the policy challenges of incorporating whole genome sequencing (WGS) technology...
Recipe for 16-foot-tall sandcastles revealed
Just in time for the dog days of summer, scientists have revealed the winning formula for sturdy, sky-piercing sandcastles. The secret ingredient is a dash of water.
The Polio Emergency
Can a tough new taskmaster and ramped-up program finally push the global eradication initiative over the finish line?
Tech review: Waze app brings crowd-sourced road conditions
If you've been paying attention the past few years, you've seen an entire category of gadgets become almost extinct.
'Do not track' browser push at odds with online advertisers
When Microsoft unveils a new version of its Web browser, users will be able to traverse the Web like always but with one significant difference: The company plans to make...
Argentina court case highlights use of herbicides
Court case puts spotlight on Argentina's herbicide use
Within reach: Drexel engineers to add arms and hands to unmanned aerial vehicles
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), such as those used by the military for surveillance and reconnaissance, could be getting a hand and an arm from engineers at Drexel University...
China's micrblogging craze an instrument of change and control
China's Twitter-like website Sina Weibo has given a digital megaphone to more than 300 million Chinese, but some say the exploding phenomenon of microblogging is not the driver of political...
RIM closes Boston retail store
Canadian company Research in Motion has closed one of the company's retail locations, a BlackBerry store in Boston, but says a decisions has not yet been made on the other...
French retailer tries to trademark Anonymous logo
In what many are calling a very unwise idea, a French T-shirt company is trying to trademark the logo and slogan of a notoriously vengeful hacking collective known as Anonymous.
Struggling RIM launches mobile version of tablet
Research in Motion unveiled a mobile version of its PlayBook tablet in Canada as the struggling BlackBerry maker looked to gain footing in the fast-growing market.
Coheed and Cambria's Alternate Universe Re-visited | Cinematic Trailer
The band known for its epic concept albums are launching back into the sci-fi world of the 'The Amory Wars' with 'The Afterman' double album. Split into two releases with...
Two Events At FestivaLetteratura 2012
I am very happy to have been invited, by Matteo Polettini, to two events that will take place at Festivaletteratura (literature festival), an important cultural event that takes place in...
Global Life Expectancy (Infographic)
A study by the United Nations shows that U.S. life expectancy is years shorter than in many other countries.
Apple extends gains in surging tablet market: survey
Apple extended its dominance in the sizzling tablet computer market in the second quarter of 2012, with the iPad grabbing 68 percent of global sales, a survey showed Thursday.
History of science: Putting the 'H' in The H Word | Rebekah Higgitt
What is a historian doing on the Guardian science blogs?It seems polite, in my first post in this brand new blog, to introduce myself, at least briefly, as one half of The...
Finnish app maker says 'Angry Birds' IPO in late 2013
Rovio, the Finnish makers of the world's most-downloaded mobile app "Angry Birds", will seek a stock market listing by the end of 2013, chief financial officer Mikko Setala said in...