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American Technology News for 31 Mar 2014
Victorinox Announces New Inox Watch
Ubergizmo - 31 Mar 2014 08:53
Media Regulator Demands Porn Site Age Check Law Prior To Access
Ubergizmo - 31 Mar 2014 06:21
7.5 Quake on California Fault Could Be Disastrous
NBC News - 31 Mar 2014 16:51Experts say a bigger earthquake along the lesser-known fault that gave Southern California a moderate shake could do more damage to the region than the long-dreaded "Big One" from the more famous San... Andreas Fault.The Puente Hills thrust fault, which brought Friday night's magnitude-5.
Get a GoGroove Bluetooth speaker/receiver for $27.99 shipped
CNET - 31 Mar 2014 16:35
JSE probes Times Media trades
Tech Central - 31 Mar 2014 09:19Times Media Group (TMG) is under investigation for allegedly trading during a closed period, when directors are not allowed to trade in shares, Business Report reported on Monday. "We are aware of... this matter and are investigating accordingly," JSE head of investigations Eure Saaiman was quoted as saying
Awesome tech you can't buy yet, for the week of March 30, 2014
Digital Trends - 31 Mar 2014 02:15
7 Key Findings From the New UN Climate Science Report
Mashable - 31 Mar 2014 22:29The latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released on Sunday night, is both sweeping in scope and staggering for its unprecedented details on the impacts of... global climate change to date, as well as potential future effects on human and natural systems. The report depicts a planet already adjusting to increasingly apparent manifestations of climate change, from melting polar ice caps and rising seas to more severe and frequent heat waves. While the report summary runs a mere 44 pages, the full chapters are far more dense and data-rich, and they amount to a summation of almost everything that scientists have learned about the impacts of manmade changes of the climate system and how such changes may alter human society and the natural world
New Species of Mysterious 'Dracula' Ants Identified
Live Science - 31 Mar 2014 16:00
T-Systems BEE partners cash in
Tech Central - 31 Mar 2014 14:09Technology services company T-Systems South Africa, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom's T-Systems, has repurchased the 30% stake in the business held by black economic empowerment (BEE) company African... Renaissance Holdings (ARH) and other minority
Apple Offers Parents Refunds For In-App Purchases By Kids
The Huffington Post - 31 Mar 2014 16:57
New UN Climate Report: We're All Doomed
Gizmodo - 31 Mar 2014 11:52A new report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that global temperature rises will likely be "severe, pervasive, and irreversible" in coming years. In other words, we're all... doomed.
Assange not running at new Australian election
The Register - 31 Mar 2014 05:34Senatorial escape route scuttled by eligibility requirements Julian Assange will not, as previously indicated, run for Australia Senate again....
Hands-On: Samsung UD590 Review. A Lean & Mean 4K Monitor
Ubergizmo - 31 Mar 2014 19:42
Olympus' new TG-3 rugged camera may be brawny, but it has a bit of smarts packed in, too
Digital Trends - 31 Mar 2014 18:35
It's T-365 Until Astronaut and Cosmonaut Spend One Year on Space Station
SPACE.com - 31 Mar 2014 17:11
Paul C Buff Announces The New Vagabond Lithium Extreme
The Phoblographer - 31 Mar 2014 15:26Paul C Buff has a brand new battery.
Three leave Mozilla board over choice of new chief executive
The Register - 31 Mar 2014 06:30Report says disagreement over skills, not new CEO's personal views, behind split Three directors have departed the Mozilla Foundation's board in the wake of the appointment of Brendan Eich as CEO....
Google confirms Turkish ISPs 'intercepted' its DNS service
The Register - 31 Mar 2014 06:01Government Twitter ban hit Google's public servers Google confirmed over the weekend that its Domain Name System (DNS) service has been "intercepted" by Turkish ISPs after government orders to block... Twitter....
Samsung ATIV SE to release in April with Windows Phone 8 on US carrier Verizon
Pocket-lint - 31 Mar 2014 23:59
Gmail Shelfies (shareable selfies) continue April Fools' jokes
L.A. Times - 31 Mar 2014 23:58This is how an engineer feels when he's surrounded by idiots
CNET - 31 Mar 2014 23:09
A breakthrough in creating invisibility cloaks, stealth technology
e! Science News - 31 Mar 2014 21:21Controlling and bending light around an object so it appears invisible to the naked eye is the theory behind fictional invisibility cloaks.
First demonstration of harmonic mode-locking in a self-mode-locked VECSEL
Phys.org - 31 Mar 2014 15:50
Seacrest Out: If BlackBerry's Going Down, It's Taking the Typo iPhone Keyboard With It
Time - 31 Mar 2014 15:22
GoPro shows you what kayaking off a waterfall looks like, from 4 gnarly angles
Digital Trends - 31 Mar 2014 06:16