Jan
26
2009
Twitter, which just recently turned down a half billion dollar acquisition offer from Facebook (albeit to be paid mostly with Facebook stock), is dipping back into the venture capital market, we’ve heard from a source with of the deal. They’ve signed a term sheet with at least one venture fund to raise a new round at a 0 million valuation. We ar


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Jan
26
2009
California could pay the price for the foreclosure crisis for years to come, thanks to Proposition 13, the 1978 voter initiative that caps property taxes.


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Jan
26
2009
President Barack Obama on Saturday laid out more pieces of an economic plan he says would add 3,000 miles of electrical lines, increase security at 90 ports and double the United States’ renewable energy capacity within three years.


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Jan
25
2009
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Jan
25
2009
stefanparvu14 writes “Physicists in Switzerland and California have developed a new type of camera capable of imaging quantum correlations between pairs of photons. The details are presented in the current issue of the open-access publication New Journal of Physics. Unlike a conventional camera with a CCD imager, this camera is composed of Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) pixels implemented on a high-performance CMOS chip. One of the authors has provided more background for the non-physicist. Apparently, it could be used to verify the existence of Bose-Einstein condensates that are now starting to be produced in new ways.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Jan
25
2009
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Jan
25
2009
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Jan
25
2009
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Jan
25
2009
The polar ice caps are melting – but how much ice is left? Three British explorers will set out on a three-month trip to measure this and will present their findings ahead of global climate change talks in December. Here is a collection of photographs of the preparations for the trek.


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Jan
25
2009
I’ve never won anything on a bottle cap, but I did win the Lebron James Bubblicious Shot Challenge, which is to this day a source of pride in my ability to win random drawings.


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