Space fanatics and NASA obsessives: Clear your afternoon calendar.At approximately 2:28 p.m. Monday, NASA will send its twin...
Why We Need to Protect Some APIs — Like Flickr's — As National Landmarks
Label: Technology APIs are real, and very important. So when a corporate vendor “deprecates” an API we’ve built on, it’s really hard to shrug it off — especially since these changes usually modify the contract between developers and the platform. It’s very rare that the benefit accrues to the developers. Very often when the API changes our apps are broken and gone … for good.Recently new life has been...
Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan-Tatum expecting baby
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — The Sexiest Man Alive will soon be a sexy dad.Actor Channing Tatum and his wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum are expecting their first child in 2013, their reps confirm.The news was first reported by People.com, which named Tatum the Sexiest Man Alive in November.The couple, who recently co-starred in the film “10 Years,” met on the 2006 dance film “Step Up,” and wed in 2009.Besides a baby, the...
Mislabeled Foods Find Their Way to Diners’ Tables
Label: HealthATLANTA — The menu offered fried catfish. But Freddie Washington, a pastor in Tuscaloosa, Ala., who sometimes eats out five nights a week and was raised on Gulf Coast seafood, was served tilapia. Dustin Chambers for The New York TimesConsumers are misled most frequently when they buy fish, investigators say, because diners have such limited knowledge about seafood. ...
Sasol Betting Big on Gas-to-Liquid Plant in U.S.
Label: BusinessOryxThe Oryx natural gas processing plant in Qatar, where Sasol is converting natural gas to diesel fuel. RAS LAFFAN INDUSTRIAL CITY, Qatar — The compact assembly of towers, tubes and tanks that make up the Oryx natural gas processing plant is almost lost in a vast petrochemical complex that rises here like a hazy mirage from a vast ocean of sand. But what is occurring at Oryx is a particular...
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Connecticut school gunman shot mother multiple times, autopsy finds
Label: World NEWTOWN, Conn. -- School shooter Adam Lanza killed his mother with "multiple" shots to her head and killed himself with a single...
Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Painted Swan Nebula
Label: Technology Astronomers using data from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, have made an impressive composite of the nebula Messier 17, also known as the Omega Nebula or the Swan Nebula. The painting-like image shows vast clouds of gas and dust illuminated by the intense radiation from young stars.The image shows a central region about 15 light-years...
Actor Depardieu puts Paris house up for sale
Label: LifestylePARIS (Reuters) – French actor Gerard Depardieu, accused of trying to escape the taxman by buying a house just over the border in Belgium, has put his sumptuous Parisian home up for sale.Depardieu, the latest wealthy Frenchman to seek shelter from government tax hikes, is selling a vast early 19th-century manor house in the Saint Germain district of the capital, playground of writers, jazz musicians...
Dr. William F. House, Inventor of Cochlear Implant, Dies
Label: HealthDr. William F. House, a medical researcher who braved skepticism to invent the cochlear implant, an electronic device considered to be the first to restore a human sense, died on Dec. 7 at his home in Aurora, Ore. He was 89. The cause was metastatic melanoma, his daughter, Karen House, said. Dr. House pushed against conventional thinking throughout his career. Over the objections of...
Looking Ahead: Economic Reports for the Week of Dec. 17
Label: BusinessECONOMIC REPORTS Data to be released this week includes the current account deficit for the third quarter (Tuesday); housing starts for November (Wednesday); weekly jobless claims, final third-quarter G.D.P., existing home sales for November, the Philadelphia Fed index, and leading economic indicators for November (Thursday); and personal income and spending for November and the Thomson Reuters/University...
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