A molecule found in a curry ingredient can kill esophageal cancer cells in the laboratory, suggesting it might be developed as an anti-cancer treatment, scientists said on Wednesday.
California is often considered the most active state in the fight to reverse the effects of climate change, building its global reputation for environmental awareness and clean-tech leadership from its green-hub, Silicon Valley.
Disney.com, part of the Disney Interactive Media Group, said it will offer users of the popular Apple Inc devices items like the new "Click2Life" feature that lets fans take pictures of images from the Disney.com Web site, and eventually in the physical world, and unlock exclusive content.
President Barack Obama made a pitch for renewable energy Tuesday, announcing $3.4 billion in government support for 100 projects aimed at modernizing the nation's power grid.
On Tuesday, Los Angeles agreed to enter the cloud, as it signed a $7.2 million deal to use Google Apps for its 30,000 employees. The competition for the contract was nearly a year in length, with Google facing down rival Microsoft, among others.
On Memorial Day, May 26, 2008, the "Roadrunner" supercomputer exceeded a sustained speed of 1 petaflop/s, or 1 million billion calculations per second.
I was watching TV the other day (admittedly, lowering my IQ while doing so), and saw one of those "Your Child Can Read" commercials, which immediately suckered me in. Not so my wife, however, and that's where Baby Einstein refunds for their DVDs come in.
It's been long suspected that eventually Google will begin offering number portability with its Google Voice service. Today the company announced "baby steps" in that direction, with "voicemail portability."
Solar power is about to get sexy. More at home on the catwalks of Milan and Paris, a young lady has been charged with task making the solar power industry more attractive to the mainstream.
How good is it for you really? Long scorned and blamed for turning a generation into couch potatoes, computer games get a tough rap from Health Authorities.
Rumours that Apple could be on the verge of launching a touch-screen tablet computer have hotted up after a senior executive at the New York Times told staff they would be working on digital material for an 'impending Apple slate'
Oct. 26 - NASA is preparing to launch its Ares1-X rocket, but concerns about bad weather could delay lift-off. SOUNDBITES: Ed Mango, Ares 1-X Mission Manager Mission Manager, Bob Ess Kathy Winters, NASA's weather officer Gemma Haines, Reuters.
Family Guy has been dumped by Microsoft. After deciding the content of the show "Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show," scheduled (and heavily advertised by Fox) to air Nov. 8th, is too raunchy, Microsoft decided to drop its sponsorship of the show.
