Everyone needs a best friend, even chimpanzees. A decade-long study shows that nearly all adult male chimps form enduring social bonds with other males, exchanging back scratches, sharing meat, and generally chumming around.
Parallels and VMware are the two top contenders in the Mac virtualization game, but there’s another virtualization package that you should know about: VirtualBox. Put out by Sun, VirtualBox is free, and in today’s world that means something. So we took VirtualBox for a spin, to see how it stacks up against the non-free competition.
We’ve still got a long way to go before human beings can be beamed from one place to another Star Trek-style, but on Friday a team of scientists at the University of Maryland achieved, nonetheless, a milestone in teleportation.
The Simpsons is all set to finally make its debut in high definition in February, meaning you can watch Homer et al clearer than ever before.
Top executives at Hewlett-Packard are ringing an alarm bell about what they see as a looming disaster, not just for HP, but for the entire U.S. tech industry. They say that unless we boost government spending on science, technology, engineering and math, we will be unable to keep up with countries such as China and India.
Okay, this is ridiculous: police revealed today that some panhandlers make as much as 0 CDN/day in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. That means an average of 00/ week or ,200/month or…4,400/year! According to today’s market, 4,400 Canadian dollars means 0,000 USD.
Have you ever seen the band of our Milky Way Galaxy? In a clear sky from a dark location at the right time, a faint band of light becomes visible across the sky. Soon after your eyes become dark adapted, you might spot the band for the first time. It may then become obvious. Then spectacular.
Astronauts that spend long months aboard the International Space Station lose bone strength faster than previously thought and have a higher risk of breaking their hips later in life, a new study reports.
It’s easily the worst humanitarian crisis right now: 5 million people (almost half the population) need food aid. More than 2200 people have died in a cholera outbreak. Unemployment at more than 80%. Central bank introduced Z0tr note worth about US dollars. But when was the last time that any major American media seriously cover this story?
Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice shed new light on the Bush administration’s warrantless domestic spying last week when he told MSNBC that the NSA blended credit card transaction records with wiretap data to keep tabs on thousands of Americans.
