Intel has launched a new app today called the Intel Boxed CPU Decoder. The app is extremely easy to use, simply select type of processor or socket, select the processors you want to compare and there you have it! It is actually harder to find and download the app than it is to use it (you actually have to search “Intel decoder” on iTunes). No word yet on a version for Android phone users.
The 12-foot-high flood of sludge inundated several towns, sweeping cars off the road as it flowed into the nearby Marcal River. Emergency workers rushed to pour 1,000 tons of plaster into the Marcal River in an attempt to bind the sludge and keep it from flowing on to the Danube some 45 miles away. The red sludge in the reservoir is a byproduct of refining bauxite into alumina, which took place at an alumina plant run by the Hungarian Alumina Production and Trading Company.
When Michael Douglas’s character Gordon Gekko hit the big screen in the 1987 film Wall Street, it caused a sensation. Gekko’s slick bravado and “greed is good” mantra were appallingly entrancing. But something else captivated audiences: the convincing way the movie captured the underbelly of ’80s cash-fueled gluttony. Twenty-three years later, a sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (September 24), and Gekko still fascinates—as do the real-life insider-trading crimes committed by Wall Street titans. Here, eight of the most famous cases to make headlines.
The chart below compares baseball teams’ payroll spending over the last decade with their won-loss record. Several teams with modest payrolls have done well this season, but over the last decade as a whole, the relationship between salaries and wins has been strong.
This week, Mexico commemorated the 200th anniversary of the beginning of its War of Independence. In September of 1810, a Mexican priest named Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla uttered a call to arms against the Spanish, later known as the Grito de Dolores (“Cry of Dolores”). Soon after began a series of battles with the Spanish that would build into a war that lasted over a decade, eventually resulting in independence.
