Linkedin goes personal with launch of iPad app - Telegraph

The professional social network Linkedin has released an iPad app in an effort to encourage more users to engage with the service.  

Amazon Kindle Fire is top Android tablet - Telegraph

Amazon's Kindle Fire makes up more than half of the Android tablet market, less than six months after its release, a study has found.  

The Top 9 Spam-Sending Countries: See Where All That Junk Is Coming From

Receiving spam is never fun. Not only does it clog email inboxes, but it's also an easy way for cybercriminals to plant malware on your computer or trick you into handing over some of your private data. A recent report released by Internet security firm Sophos reveals  …

'Hi Daddy, I love you' - Engineer 'talks' to his dead teenage daughter after developing paranormal detection devices | Mail Online

A grief-stricken electrical engineer believes he has found a way to communicate with his dead daughter eight years after her death. Using his expertise to design and build a series of electromagnetic detection devices, Gary Galka claims to have even recorded his eldest daughter  …

One in the Eye: Architecture firm creates haunting video of London years in the future - with landmarks such as London Eye | Mail Online

The London Eye stands empty - and instead of happy tourists, the landmark is covered with makeshift dwellings like sheds hanging from its struts.  The animation was created by London-based studio FactoryFifteen, and shows familiar landmarks including Battersea Power Station …

The life of Whitney in Pictures

Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died on Saturday. She was aged 48.

Engineers weld nanowires with light

 At the nano level, researchers at Stanford have discovered a new way to weld together meshes of tiny wires. Their work could lead to innovative electronics and solar applications. To succeed, they called upon plasmonics.

Bill Gates backs climate scientists lobbying for large-scale geoengineering | Environment | The Guardian

A small group of leading climate scientists, financially supported by billionaires including Bill Gates, are lobbying governments and international bodies to back experiments into manipulating the climate on a global scale to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Spinning through the skies: The cosmic ballet of the stars captured by an amateur photographer with a warm coat | Mail Online

Since time immemorial, mankind has gazed at the static-like tapestry of the stars hovering above the horizon. However using a keen eye and a long exposure, one photographer has managed to capture the startling speed and motion of the stars as they blaze their trails across the s …

Troubled by overheating processor, man devises laptop health pad - The Times of India

It is rightly said there is no set formula for evolving an innovative technology or an out-of-the-box idea and in some cases it happens out of a sheer failure! And the case of 29-year-old Puneet Bhalla, who is an entrepreneur, is also the same.

Mumbai 13/7 blasts case cracked, 3 arrested - The Times of India

The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Mumbai Police on Monday arrested three people in connection with last year's July 13 serial blasts in which 27 people were killed and over 100 injured, sources said. Claiming to have cracked the serial blasts that rocked Zaveri Bazar, Op …

Cooling semiconductors by laser light

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have combined two fields -- quantum physics and nano physics -- and this has led to the discovery of a new method for laser cooling semiconductor membranes.

Muted reception for new CEO Thorsten Heins at BlackBerry-maker RIM - Telegraph

Gartner vice-president Carolina Milanesi tweeted that “RIM's CEO change reminds me of the Nokia Spring reshuffle before [current CEO Stephen] Elop was appointed in September. The reshuffle was not enough for Nokia”.

How to make it big in women's sumo... eat 5,000 calories a day | Mail Online

There aren’t too many women who reach their sporting peak by eating takeaways and fried chicken – and tipping the scales at a mighty 32 stone. But then there aren’t too many women who take up sumo wrestling. In fact, the British female ‘team’ curre …

How US lost out on iPhone work - The Times of India

When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley's top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.But as Steven P Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his ow …

SOPA bill protest: 4.5m people sign Google's anti-censorship petition | Mail Online

Wikipedia's 'blackout' protest against the U.S.

Girl, 8, becomes internet sensation after six million people watch her music video.

'My First Hardcore Song' featuring a long-haired wild child has captured six million views on YouTube while the girl known only as Juliet expands her marketing to t-shirts and defies Facebook age-limits to collect nearly 2,000 'likes.' To the counting of drums and an accelerating …

Fingerprint recognition coffee machine makes the perfect brew every time

If James Bond ever asked Q for a coffee, he’d probably be pointed in the direction of this. The Philips Saeco Xelsis Digital ID is the first coffee machine to use fingerprint recognition to identify how you like your coffee. When the appliance is fresh out the box, the us …

Torquay's Tutankhamun revealed: Terminally ill cabbie chose to have his body mummified for a Channel 4 documentary

One ruled over a vast kingdom from his royal palace by the Nile.

World's cheapest tablet launched - The Times of India

India's finally got its much hyped ultra-low-cost tablet, Aakash. The government is buying the first units of the device for Rs 2250 each from a British company which is assembling the devices in India.

Denmark imposes world's first 'fat tax'

Denmark on Saturday became the first country in the world to impose a fat tax after a week in which consumers hoarded butter, pizza, meat and milk to avoid the immediate effects.

Dystonia: 'Flamingo lady' forced to stand on 1 leg for 4 YEARS has op to straighten limb

A woman dubbed 'the flamingo lady' because a rare neurological condition meant she could only stand on one leg is enjoying a new lease of life after she underwent a pioneering operation to straighten her crooked limb. 

First pictures of China's experimental 'Heavenly Palace' Tiangong 1 craft

These are the first images of the experimental craft that China hopes will pave the way for its own space station when it is launched this week. The Tiangong 1, or 'Heavenly Palace', will blast off from a site in the Gobi Desert later this week, the Xinhua news agency reported.  …

Testimony to focus on scene in Jackson's bedroom - Yahoo! News

Prosecutors are calling a key witness Thursday in an attempt to show jurors that Michael Jackson's doctor delayed calling authorities on the day the King of Pop was found lifeless and was intent on concealing indications that he had been giving the singer doses of a surgical …

Ban Bollywood: Pakistan bigwigs

Several bigwigs in the Pakistani film industry have decided to take legal action to stop Indian films from being shown in the country. 

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