A vaccine that can train cancer patients’ own bodies to seek out and destroy tumour cells has been developed by scientists.
‘Universal’ cancer vaccine developed
| April 24, 2012
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Physicist Uses Math to Beat Traffic Ticket
| April 24, 2012
Here’s a practical application for your physics education: using math to successfully beat a traffic ticket in court. Dmitri Krioukov, a physicist based at the University of California San Diego, did just that to avoid paying a fee for (purportedly) running a stop sign.
Krioukov not only proved his innocence, but he also posted a paper detailing his argument online on the arXiv server. The succinct abstract for his paper certainly distinguishes itself from other research papers:
“A way to fight your traffic tickets. The paper was awarded a special prize of $400 that the author did not have to pay to the state of California.”
Five Useful Upgrades for Your Computer’s Unused Bays (and a Few Ridiculous Ones)
| April 23, 2012
You’ve got, what, one DVD drive on the front of your computer? You have so many empty drive bays—how embarrassing! Here are a few awesome (and absurd) things you can put in those bays to add extra features to your computer.
Selling You on Facebook
| April 23, 2012
This appetite for personal data reflects a fundamental truth about Facebook and, by extension, the Internet economy as a whole: Facebook provides a free service that users pay for, in effect, by providing details about their lives, friendships, interests and activities. Facebook, in turn, uses that trove of information to attract advertisers, app makers and other business opportunities.
Up until a few years ago, such vast and easily accessible repositories of personal information were all but nonexistent. Their advent is driving a profound debate over the definition of privacy in an era when most people now carry information-transmitting devices with them all the time.
Capitalizing on personal data is a lucrative enterprise. Facebook is in the midst of planning for an initial public offering of its stock in May that could value the young company at more than $100 billion on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
When email goes wrong: company mistakenly dismisses entire workforce in memo mix-up
| April 22, 2012
There must be a few red faces knocking about the human resources department of UK-based Aviva Investors this week after it emerged it accidentally sent out an email giving all 1300 of its employees their marching orders.
SimCity 5 – Game Trailer
| April 22, 2012
