Saudi Arabia has just given the OK to start construction on the Kingdom Tower, the world’s first mile-high skyscraper. The tower will be built in the coastal city of Jeddah and is set to cost a whopping cost $30 billion. More
If you’ve wondered what all the talk about Near Field Communications (NFC) is all about, you can get started experimenting with it today if you have an Android device that supports it. More
The American Academy of Pediatrics is making it official: you should keep your child rear-facing until age 2.
As you may remember from 2009, the AAP issued a report advising the 2 year old rule:
Recent data shows why toddlers between ages 12 and 23 months who ride rear-facing in a car safety seat are more than five times safer than those riding forward-facing in a seat.
Previously, the AAP only said babies should be rear-facing to age 1.
Apple has added a new Wi-Fi Diagnostics utility to monitor the performance of wireless networks, record events, capture raw network frames, and log diagnostic data that can be sent to Apple by users for troubleshooting.
Originally posted here:
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: New Wi-Fi Diagnostics tool
Google is explicitly blaming the Chinese government for the unreliability of its Gmail service over the past month for users in China. The company on Sunday issued a statement to multiple outlets: “Relating to Google there is no issue on our side. We have checked extensively. This is a government blockage carefully designed to look like the problem is with Gmail.” The alleged meddling is thought to be related to online activism in China inspired by the recent spate of pro-democracy protests in the Middle East. Last year Google started redirecting Chinese users to its Hong Kong search engine, citing Chinese censorship and hacking.
See the original post:
China Is Messing With Gmail, Says Google [NetworkEffect]
From Les Christie at CNNMoney: Nearly 20% of Florida homes are vacant
On Thursday, the Census Bureau revealed that 18% — or 1.6 million — of the Sunshine State’s homes are sitting vacant. That’s a rise of more than 63% over the past 10 years.
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The vacancy problem is more dire in Florida than in any other bubble market: In California, only 8% of units were vacant, while Nevada, the state with the nation’s highest foreclosure rate, had about 14% sitting empty. Arizona had a vacancy rate of about 16%.
Here is the data from the 2010 Census:
Tour the Large Hadron ColliderAlright, this is cool. Take a virtual tour of the interior of the LHC. Hey, look over there, it’s a higgs boson! Just kidding! CERN CMS 4 in Europe Clicking on one of the internal arrows will take you to new page with a larger view (and some google ads). If you open to full screen (top left button) it will have the option of a map on the left side. h/t to Dangerous Minds. See the original post: How the ancient Romans made MSG [Food Science] Monosodium glutamate is a food additive that enhances flavor. Although it’s frowned upon today, the ancient Romans loved it and ate it with almost every meal. More In great-grandma’s time, little kids went around un-genderedA hundred years ago, little boys wore pink and little girls wore blue—if their clothing was gendered at all. It wasn't always. In fact, a heavy emphasis on gendered clothing for children under the age of 6 is a relatively recent phenomenon. Smithsonian has really interesting story about the socio-cultural history of small children, gender, and clothing.
Visit link: Server Porn: Inside Facebook’s Gleaming Green Data Center [Data Centers] Facebook recently took the wraps off its shiny new data center in Prineville, Oregon and—courtesy the Open Compute Project—we've learned the whole massive thing sounds lean, mean and relatively green. More |
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