Spaceflyers Scott and Kornienko selected to man Yearlong Space Mission in 2015
NASA, and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and their international partners have selected two veteran spacefarers for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station in 2015....
View ArticleTwo new Starbucks Stores a Day for the next four Years (Photos)
The Seattle coffee giant has ambitious growth plans. By 2017, Starbucks plans to open more than 3,000 net new locations in its Americas region. Thousands more will be freshly renovated, executives...
View ArticleFacebook joins Nasdaq 100, Stock boost expected
Facebook stock has seen its share of challenges since the company went public on the Nasdaq in May. But just seven months later, the resurgent stock will get a potentially significant boost, being...
View Article5 Creative super Students place 2nd in VEX Robotics Competition
Mr. Michael Van Dyk's Robotics Team representing Coral Gables High School, in Coral Gables, FL, came in 2nd out of 17 in the first session of the First Annual Miami 305 Consortium VEX...
View ArticleApple to create 3,800 new jobs, bringing back innovation to U.S. (Photos)
Apple's Chief Executive Officer, Tim Cook, pledged to invest in making Mac computers in the U.S. on December 6, and will probably create about 200 jobs. Apple'...
View ArticleSteven Hawking, CERN win $3 million each for scientific endeavor (Video)
Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, who made his fortune in Silicon Valley, has showered millions of dollars on prominent physicists through his brainchild, the Fundamental Physics Prize. Stephen...
View ArticleU.S. Treasury to sell the remainder of its GM stock
The government will sell the rest of its GM stock in the next 15 months. General Motors climbed seven percent to $27.15 a share today. Investors like the...
View ArticleUnited Bank of Switzerland (UBS) settles on LIBOR manipulation charges (Photos)
UBS (United Bank of Switzerland) has agreed to pay one and a half billion dollars for rigging the Libor rate. UBS decided to settle in order to put behind it charges of rigging the rate.  ...
View ArticleReasons to look forward to 2013 and to the future (Photos)
The world knows the United States has a strong collection of innovative and competitive companies. To name a few, we have Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon , Boeing and GE. The Great Recession has...
View ArticleDotcom's new Mega website and getting out of copyright infringement (Photos)
Dotcom, creator of Megaupload, has said that data on his new Mega service will be encrypted on the client-side using the AES algorithm. Mega, a file sharing service, does not know the encryption...
View ArticlePrivate capital comes forth against space threats
Friday's meteor landing in Russia's Ural mountains was not supposed to even hit Earth by all media reports. That meteor caused hundreds of injuries, and couldn’t be detected...
View ArticleFacebook and Google award $3,000,000 prizes for life sciences
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla in partnership with Google's Sergey Brin, his wife, Anne Wojcicki (genomics company 23andme), Art Levinson from Apple Inc., and technology investor Yuri...
View ArticleShape shifting neutrinos discovered
The existence of shape shifting neutrinos was proven this Wednesday. Physicist found that neutrinos go missing on the journey from the Sun to the Earth. They arrive to Earth undetected. The evidence...
View ArticleJudge gives Empire State Building IPO the go ahead (Video)
Malkin Holdings LLC will go ahead their plans to go public in a stock offering that could raise $5.2 billion that would offer the public 19 properties in the New York area, including the...
View ArticleObama's Affordable Care Act benefits IT startups (Video)
Obama's Affordable Care Act has created more opportunities for tech startups that aim to solve healthcare problems, with big financial incentives for health-care providers to modernize their medical...
View ArticleNew York's Lake George Project launched
Two days ago, the Jefferson Project at Lake George (New York) launched. This project will take three years to complete and is structured to understand the lake’s changing water quality and what it...
View ArticleNew Apple smartphone is expected to be released in September
Latest iPhone may use fingerprint sensor to identify its owner, it was designed with a fingerprint sensor. A folder labeled "Biometric Kit" was discovered in the coding for Apple's upcoming iPhone...
View ArticleRecon receives substantial investment from Intel to surpass Google Glass
On Thursday, the Canadian company, Recon received investment capital from Intel Corp (INTC), the amount was undisclosed. The investment will help fund Recon's product development, marketing and global...
View ArticleFDA approves disease detecting devices from Illumina
This past week, the FDA approved marketing of four diagnostic devices from Illumina (a manufacturer of DNA sequencing machines) for “next generation sequencing” (NGS) — meaning the devices can now...
View ArticleGoogle buys a British artificial-intelligence startup
This week Google cemented its lead in the field of artificial intelligence by paying around £400m ($660m) for DeepMind Technologies Ltd, a startup in London whose first commercial applications are in...
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