IHT Rendezvous: Sending a Signal, Philippines to Destroy Ivory Stock
Source: Newyork Times
Quezon :: Philippines | updated 2013-06-19 00:32:02 -0700 | technology-news
Romeo Ranoco/Reuters Workers arrange some of five tons of confiscated ivory at the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife center in Quezon city. This Friday officials in the Philippines will destroy five tons of ivory in public, crushing it beneath industrial...
One-in-5 employees age 45-74 must quit work for caregiving
Source: United Press International
Upi :: Philippines | updated 2013-06-19 00:09:54 -0700 | technology-news
The Family and Medical Leave Act doesn't help much for caring for the elderly...Public Policy Institute and author of the report, said in a statement. "Even as workforce participation and caregiving demands are increasing for caregivers, workplace policies protecting or...
Developer agrees to reduce height of Hollywood skyscrapers
Source: Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 00:00:40 -0700 | technology-news
The developer of a skyscraper project in the heart of Hollywood agreed Tuesday to reduce the height of two residential towers that have generated heated opposition, but residents say the roughly 25% reduction still does not address traffic concerns. Millennium...
Agency settles dispute over Sean Parker wedding
Source: Los Angeles Times
Menlo Park :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 00:00:33 -0700 | technology-news
It was bad enough that his multimillion-dollar wedding became a symbol of Silicon Valley excess. But then billionaire tech guru Sean Parker was blasted in the headlines as an environmental menace over party preparations that had allegedly damaged Big Sur's...
Indian firm enters Nigeria's mobile money sector
Source: Times of India
Lagos :: Nigeria | updated 2013-06-18 23:19:54 -0700 | technology-news
An Indian firm has entered into a partnership with a Nigerian company to introduce a platform meant to drive mobile money services in this oil rich African country. Chief executive officer of India-based Estel Technologies , Raj Hajela was quoted...
Outside View: America strikes out
Source: United Press International
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-06-18 22:11:50 -0700 | technology-news
Using a baseball metaphor, in the field of national security, when the United States comes to bat, it often starts with 2 1/2 strikes against it. Strike 1 is the chronic tendency to misinterpret, distort and even invent threats often...
NASA's New Class of Astronauts Gives Parity to Men and Women
Source: The New York Times
Tafuna :: American Samoa | updated 2013-06-18 22:04:50 -0700 | technology-news
June 18, 2013 One flies a fighter jet for the Marines. Another is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School...And the fourth leads the station in American Samoa of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
Want a gun? Just print it out
Source: The Star
Petaling Jaya :: Malaysia | updated 2013-06-18 23:46:02 -0700 | technology-news
00 PM Updated: Wednesday June 19, 2013 MYT 2:22:51 PM Want a gun? Just print it out A screengrab from a YouTube video of Cody Wilson firing the 3D-printed gun. You don't need to visit an arms dealer to buy...
FBI Most Wanted suspect held in Mexico
Source: CNN
Carmen :: Mexico | updated 2013-06-19 01:07:19 -0700 | technology-news
Walter Lee Williams was detained late Tuesday, Mexican state news agency Notimex reported. The FBI placed the former university professor wanted for alleged sexual exploitation of children on the list Monday, according to Notimex. Williams researched in the field of...
Saturn probe to acquire Earth image
Source: BBC
Boulder :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 21:30:46 -0700 | technology-news
Cassini probe to acquire distant Earth portrait Science correspondent, BBC News This favourite 2006 image of Saturn includes Earth as a speck just inside the G-ring at upper-left...Dr Porco hopes it will look even better Nasa's Cassini probe is going...
Video game sales slide as cellphones outgun consoles
Source: Boston Herald
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 21:13:59 -0700 | technology-news
Video game sales across the country plummeted 25 percent last month, as gamers bored by a lack of new software releases ditched their consoles for their cellphones, experts told the Herald. While one segment of the business of games is...
Special Report: Energy: Harnessing the Net to Power a Green Revolution
Source: The New York Times
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 20:41:33 -0700 | technology-news
As its backers define it, cleanweb is any software or Internet application that makes it easier to use resources like textiles or cars or electricity more efficiently. The label is applied to a diverse mix of companies, some of them...
Another Hidden Feature In Apple's New Mobile Operating System Involves LinkedIn (AAPL, LNKD)
Source: BusinessInsider
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 20:33:41 -0700 | technology-news
Apple is working on code that would make LinkedIn easier to use on iPhones and iPads, according to 9to5Mac's Mark Gurman . Software tester Hamza Sood spotted the unfinished code, and other disabled features like nesting folders and multitasking gestures,...
Facebook Outage On Tuesday Causes Frenzy On Twitter (FB)
Source: BusinessInsider
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 20:33:42 -0700 | technology-news
People stampeded Twitter on Tuesday to laugh, joke and shake their fists at Facebook. Facebook suffered a mysterious outage that affected users all over the world for a few hours. People sent Tweets with the hashtags #facebookdown and #facebook to...
Derailment Near Penn Station Snarls Train Travel
Source: The New York Times
Plainview :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 20:02:42 -0700 | technology-news
Occasionally they would say they were about to pull in or back up to a place that was safer, recalled Amy McIntosh, a senior fellow with the New York State Education Department, who was riding an Amtrak train from Albany...
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