Facebook Fails Us, The Revolution Will Not Be Monetized

Source: Forbes

But there is another fundamental way that Facebook fails us, and it is baked into its very design. The Facebook revolution, such that it is, has been about making internet users comfortable with the fact of their online identity. ...
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This week in science: Catch a Dragon by the tail

Source: Daily Kos

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully berthed with the International Space Station this morning after a long overnight approach including several unplanned maneuvers. The crew at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, c ...
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Scientists capture rainbow using 25,000 miniscule 'invisibility cloaks

Source: Daily Mail - UK

While the idea of an invisibility cloak may seem more science fiction than actual science, a group of American researchers are well on their way. Researchers from Towson University and the University of Maryl ...
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Sound increases the efficiency of boiling

Source: Hacker News

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology achieved a 17-percent increase in boiling efficiency by using an acoustic field to enhance heat transfer. The acoustic field does this by efficiently removing vapo ...
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Cloaking the rainbow

Source: Smart Planet Blog

The first question you might be asking is: why? Why does it take 25,000 invisibility cloaks to trap a rainbow? Or maybe, why trap a rainbow in the first place? Well, turns out trapped rainbows can be pretty useful. “The trapped rainbow could be utilise ...
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EU withholding taxes worth over half a billion

Source: Swissinfo

Image Caption: Switzerland has come under increased EU pressure to hand over names of alleged tax cheats (Keystone) Twenty per cent tax was retained until July last year, when the rate was increased to 35 per cent. Howev ...
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Dining Guide: Ethnic restaurants

Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com

Each week Neon spotlights a different cuisine in the Dining Guide, with ethnic restaurants this week. Restaurants are rated on a letter-grade scale, from A to F. Opinions by R-J critic Heidi Knapp Rinella (H.K.R ...
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The Sentinel published Pageant's got a licence to thrill

Source: This is Staffordshire

J AMES Bond fans visiting the Cholmondeley Pageant of Power will be shaken and stirred as organisers have confirmed that a thrilling line-up of genuine 007 cars will be on display. In association with the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu whic ...
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'Cloaking' idea traps a rainbow

Source: BBC News

25 May 2012 Last updated at 04:02 ET The work has been described as "encouraging and exciting" Researchers have trapped a rainbow - slowing light to a near-stop - in an array of 25,000 "invisibility cloaks", ...
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