The Hubble space telescope has discovered seven primitive galaxies formed in the earliest days of the cosmos, including one believed to be the oldest ever detected.The discovery, announced Wednesday, is part of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field campaign to determine how and when galaxies first assembled following the Big Bang."This 'cosmic dawn' was not a single, dramatic event," said astrophysicist...
McAfee Lands in Miami: I'm Free
Label: Business Software mogul John McAfee has been released from detention in Guatemala City and has landed in Miami.Immediately upon landing, according to passengers on the plane, McAfee's name was called and he was whisked off the aircraft. Federal officials escorted the 67-year-old Internet antivirus pioneer through customs spirit him out a side door, out of the view of reporters, according...
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Today on New Scientist: 11 December 2012
Label: World Out-of-season's greetings from the Arctic frost flowers Season's regards from an icy meadow in the Arctic, but it's no winter wonderland and please don't dash out into itHow hacking a mosquito's heart could eradicate malaria Watch how a double-pronged trick helps mosquitoes remain healthy while carrying disease, a process that could be exploited to eliminate malariaNew drug lifts hard-to-treat...
Equipment failure could have caused incident that left serviceman critically injured
Label: Technology SINGAPORE: Preliminary findings indicate equipment malfunction could have led to the incident that left a navy serviceman critically injured.The Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) in an update late Tuesday night said Weapon Systems Supervisor Jason Chee Weng Fai remains in critical condition.He's warded at the Changi General Hospital.Channel NewsAsia understands that Mr Chee is expected to be...
Microsoft unveils more than 40 new apps for Xbox Live
Label: LifestyleThe SkyDrive app for Xbox Live.(Credit:Microsoft)In its continuing effort to prove that theXbox 360 is more than just a game console, Microsoft announced more than 40 new apps for Xbox Live that it expects to launch between now and next spring.In all, the company announced 43 new apps for various regions around the world. The goal is to keep Xbox 360 owners entertained and engaged. Xbox marketing...
Best Space Pictures of 2012: Editor's Picks
Label: HealthPhotograph courtesy Tunç Tezel, APOY/Royal ObservatoryThis image of the Milky Way's vast star fields hanging over a valley of human-made light was recognized in the 2012 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition run by the U.K.’s Royal Observatory Greenwich.To get the shot, photographer Tunç Tezel trekked to Uludag National Park near his hometown of Bursa, Turkey. He intended to watch the moon...
Shooter Kills Self After Oregon Mall Rampage
Label: Business A masked gunman opened fire today at Clackamas Town Center, a mall in suburban Portland, Ore., killing two people, injuring one, and then killing himself."I can confirm the shooter is dead of an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound," Lt. James Rhodes of the Clackamas County, Ore., Sheriff's Department said today. "By all accounts there were no rounds fired by law enforcement...
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Doha summit launches climate damage aid
Label: World The latest summit to stop climate change, held in Doha, Qatar, over the past two weeks has been roundly slammed. Little was agreed to curb greenhouse gas emissions and the latest modelling, carried out by the Climate Action Tracker consortium shows global averages temperatures are still set to rise by at least...
KTPH tops service levels, SGH shows largest improvement: survey
Label: Technology SINGAPORE: Service satisfaction levels at the majority of public hospitals and polyclinics have gone up compared to two years ago.The Ministry of Health (MOH) said among the hospitals, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital achieved the best results at 83 per cent, followed by Alexandra Hospital at 79 per cent and Tan Tock Seng Hospital at 77 per cent.Singapore General Hospital made the largest improvement...
Is Time Machine really backing up your drives?
Label: LifestyleA new report is out that suggests a fault may exist in Apple's Time Machine service, causing internal drives to be automatically and silently added to Time Machine's exclusion list, resulting in the service not backing up the data on these drives and not notifying the user of the change.As outlined on Diglloyd's Mac Performance Guide blog, this problem appears to be situational to setups where many...
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