Foxconn, Apple, and the Fair Labor Association Respond to ABC News’ Exclusive Report
On Monday, ABC News’ Bill Weir exclusively reported on the conditions inside Apple’s main Chinese manufacturer — Foxconn. For the first time ever, Apple allowed a journalist onto its production line and to witness the labor conditions inside Foxconn, which have sometimes been reported to… Read More »
EmailGoogle Glasses Coming to an Eyewear Stand Near You?
Glasses that function like a smartphone? If you’ve been following Google news recently, you know it’s not out of the realm of possibility. Google plans to introduce what appear to be the glasses of the future by year’s end, The New York Times’ Nick Bilton… Read More »
Solar Eclipse, Seen Only By U.S. Satellite
There was a solar eclipse on Tuesday, and we earthlings missed it. It wasn’t our fault, really. As happens most months of the year, the moon, passing between Earth and sun, just missed casting its shadow on us. Its orbit is slightly canted so that… Read More »
Quitting Cable TV: Truth or Lie?
Daisy Whitney’s New Media Minute: More consumers are relying on broadband-only connections in their homes, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re cutting the cord on cable TV. Nielsen’s latest report reveals that there are now 5.1 million homes in the United States with broadband Internet… Read More »
Microsoft Attacks Google With Viral Video
In an amusing viral marketing video, Microsoft has gone on the offensive, attacking Google Docs, the search giant’s collaborative, online word processing tools. The video offensive is an effort to promote its own Office 365 service. In the video, Googen Apperson, a Google Docs salesman, tries to convince… Read More »
Dinosaur Bones Brought Back to Life With 3-D Printing
For all the digging of dinosaur fossils, all the magnificent reconstructions in museums and all the research that has been devoted to them, the great beasts remain mostly a mystery to us, and paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara of Drexel University in Philadelphia says our ways of… Read More »
Nice or Nasty? New Research Answers Human Nature Question
New research is proving that humans are naturally pretty nice with “pro-social tendencies” and not as “nasty” as previously thought, according to a top primate-behavior expert. Frans de Waal, a biologist at Emory University in Atlanta, told a meeting of the American Association for the… Read More »
Watch a Live Beating Heart on Twitter
Doctors tweeting throughout surgery and providing pictures and video is not new (hey, they’ve even done that on ABC’s ”Grey’s Anatomy”!), but tweeting during open-heart surgery? That’s new, and it’s happening for the first time today. Surgeons at Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital in Houston are live tweeting a coronary… Read More »
Google Latitude Leaderboards Takes Direct Aim at Foursquare
Google’s spicing up the competition in its location-based check-in service, and taking Foursquare head on. Google has quietly added a points system and Leaderboard feature to Latitude, which ties in to Google Maps and Google +. Those familiar with Foursquare will find that Leaderboard offers a very similar… Read More »
Flowering Plant Revived After 30,000 Years in Russian Permafrost
The plant in this picture dates from the Pleistocene Age, 30,000 years ago, before agriculture, before writing, before the end of the last Ice Age. And while it’s not accurate to say the plant itself is that old, scientists in Russia say they regenerated it… Read More »
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