Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Physicist builds Lego Large Hadron Collider (Yahoo! News)

Physicist builds Lego Large Hadron Collider (Yahoo! News)

Physicist builds Lego Large Hadron Collider (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 07:30 PM PST

Yahoo! News - As scientists at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland continue their search for the elusive Higgs boson "God particle," one physicist has built a tribute to their work entirely out of Lego bricks. Sascha Mehlhase, a researcher at the Niels Bohr …

Dump GoDaddy Day Dec. 29 Declared by Reddit User [VIDEO] (Mashable)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 02:56 PM PST

Mashable - [brightcove video="1347944471001 " /] Reddit user SelfProdigy has declared Dec. 29 Dump GoDaddy Day, following the domain registrar's short-lived public support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Although GoDaddy has announced that it no longer supports SOPA, the site is still facing the backlash from its initial position.

Online holiday spending rises 15 percent: comScore (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 03:33 PM PST

Reuters - U.S. consumers spent more than $35 billion online this holiday season, up 15 percent from the same period last year, comScore Inc estimated on Tuesday.

Go Daddy Becomes Example in SOPA Backlash (NewsFactor)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 02:22 PM PST

NewsFactor - Go Daddy is backpedaling over its support of the "Stop Online Piracy Act," or SOPA, that's working its way through Congress. It may be too little, too late. But is Go Daddy being unfairly boycotted for its involvement in the bill just because it's perhaps the most visible and largest domain registrar?

Woman and baby being held hostage saved after Facebook status update (Digital Trends)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 08:24 PM PST

Digital Trends - According to a story in the Associated Press, a woman in Utah and her 17-month old baby were removed from a home where they were being held captive for the past five days after the woman posted a Facebook status update pleading for help. According to an account from the hostage, she ducked into a nearby closet with her laptop and wrote ”Hello…is anyone out there? I am having a serious problem and me and (my son) will be dead by morning,” on her Facebook page on December 24. Friends of the woman were able to determine where she was being held and alerted the authorities of her dire situation.

Infographic: The shrinking price of mobile (Digital Trends)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 07:53 PM PST

Digital Trends - Those old enough will recall the days when a mobile phone really wasn’t that mobile at all, requiring a trolley to push the giant block around and a winch to lift it to your face. Thank goodness those days are long gone, and with every new mobile device comes a slew of new features, with each model better value for money than the last.

Google+ passes 60 million users with help from the Muppets (Digital Trends)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 08:58 PM PST

Digital Trends - According to unofficial tracking conducted by Google+ watcher and Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen, the upstart social network is rapidly gaining new users and recently passed 62 million users as of December 25. He also estimates that approximately 625,000 people are signing up for Google+ each day and the network will likely break through 100 million users by late February 2012. Assuming that the current rate of growth continues over the next year, Google will have nearly 300 million users by the end of 2012. However, Allen predicts that the rate of growth on Google+ will accelerate and the search company will have over 400 million Google+ users by the end of next year.

App downloads at Christmas for iOS and Android devices break record (Digital Trends)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 06:23 PM PST

Digital Trends - If the latest data from mobile analytics firm Flurry is anything to go by, it appears a great deal of us spent Christmas Day shopping â€" shopping for apps, that is.

iPhone apps to properly prepare for New Year’s Eve (Appolicious)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 01:27 PM PST

Appolicious - Break out the fine bubbly and start prepping for the party of the year because New Year's Eve is almost here. Whether you plan on hibernating in your holiday pajamas on the couch or partying in your sexiest threads at the bar, here are some iPhone apps to start preparing for New Year's Eve now.

GSM phones vulnerable to hijack scams -researcher (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:44 PM PST

Customers look at Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S II LTE smartphones on display at a shop at the company's headquarters in Seoul October 28, 2011. Samsung Electronics Co overtook Apple Inc as the world's top smartphone maker in the July-September period with a 44 percent jump in shipments, and forecast strong sales in the current quarter in a clear warning to its rivals. REUTERS/Jo Yong-HakReuters - Flaws in a widely used wireless technology could allow hackers to gain remote control of phones and instruct them to send text messages or make calls, according to an expert on mobile phone security.

Google launches YouTube Slam to encourage video discovery (Digital Trends)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 06:53 PM PST

Digital Trends - Announced within an official blog post earlier today, Google rolled out a method of comparing two videos called YouTube Slam. Designed by a team of developers within Google Research, the video discovery tool places videos into five different categories including dance, music, bizarre, cuteness and comedy. The user clicks a category and launches a new page with two competing YouTube videos. After the user watches both videos, they click the blue voting button underneath one of the videos. If the user chooses the video that’s the most popular among other YouTube users, they receive two points as well as increases the multiplier between votes. If the user chooses the most popular video several times, the multiplier continues to double and the amount of points could earn the user a spot on the Slam leaderboard.  

Foxconn to double its iPhone plant’s size, output (Appolicious)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 07:24 AM PST

Appolicious - Taiwanese tech manufacturer Foxconn, one of the companies that assembles Apple's iOS mobile devices, intends to double the size of one of its biggest plant. This could allow it to produce twice as many iPhones.

UC Berkeley Moving from CalMail to Google Apps (NewsFactor)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:18 AM PST

NewsFactor - A major university has decided to migrate to Google Apps for Education as its cloud-based email and calendar provider. The decision by the University of California at Berkeley represents a substantial victory for Google's cloud-based platform in its ongoing effort to catch Microsoft Office 365.
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