April 30th, 2008 at 04:03pm Under Business
Facing high gasoline and food prices, many motorists are holding off on expensive jobs. They may pay the price later.
L.A. social worker Cathie Capp knew her teenage son’s 1992 Toyota pickup needed work. Whether she could afford the $1,500 repair bill was another matter.
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April 30th, 2008 at 04:03pm Under Business
Preliminary Commerce Department data confirms predictions of an economic slowdown for 2008. A drop in personal consumption is a big reason for the slump.
The economy slowed to a crawl in the first three months of this year, with gross domestic product growing just 0.6% for the second quarter in a row, according to advance data released today by the Commerce Department.
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April 30th, 2008 at 04:03pm Under Celebrity News
Paula Abdul must be hearing double.
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April 30th, 2008 at 04:03pm Under Technology
Time Warner is splitting off its cable services division, the company said Wednesday.
Time Warner currently owns around 84 percent of Time Warner Cable. The media giant, which has been struggling of late, has been rumored to be discussing an AOL partnership with Yahoo.
“A complete structural separation of Time …
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April 30th, 2008 at 04:03pm Under Technology
I’ve got a question for you: How are you doing? Sure, of course you’re fine. Here’s a follow up: How do you know you’re doing fine? Tougher question, huh?
What’s that, you have a question for me? Why am I asking these inane questions?
Because, when people ask us how we’re doing, we respond automatically. I’m fine, we’re fine, everything’s fine. After all, if we engaged everyone in a rant about the gory truth, nothing would ever get done.
But it doesn’t stop there. We don’t even engage ourselves in a dialogue about the gory truth, and for much the same reason. We’re too busy “living.”
The truth is that seemingly simple questions can actually be pretty loaded, so loaded that we’d sometimes rather not know the answer. We have all these sayings about leaving well enough alone. Why upset the apple cart? Why open a can of worms? Don’t fix it if it isn’t broken.
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April 30th, 2008 at 04:03pm Under Technology
Swarm Systems will enter autonomous quadrotor micro air vehicles weighing less than 2 pounds.(Credit: Swarm Systems)
A village in England will host a robot hide-and-seek exercise next month, when 11 teams drawn from private companies and universities compete to sniff out snipers, roadside bombs, and other hidden dangers while relaying real-time images to a command post.
The MOD Grand Challenge, as it’s called, is billed as the U.K. Ministry of Defense’s counterpart to the U.S. DARPA Challenges, except it’s military robots that compete against one another instead of robotic cars.
The purpose is to boost development of small robot teams capable of scouting out and alerting troops to potentially dangerous surprises on the urban battlefield.
The robots must autonomously negotiate complex, unfamiliar terrain and urban clutter to locate the threats. Points are earned based on the number of threats uncovered in one hour. Points are lost if a team resorts to remote control to maneuver its bots at any stage.
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April 30th, 2008 at 04:03pm Under Technology
SAP announced that its on demand enterprise suite Business ByDesign roll out is moving slower than previously expected. The company said that it would take 12 to 18 months longer than the original target of 2010 to reach $1 billion in revenue and touch 10,000 customers in the mid-market. …
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April 30th, 2008 at 04:03pm Under Technology
Federal researchers say they’ve developed a human identification test that’s faster and possibly cheaper than DNA testing. It would be a handy new weapon in the arsenal for detectives, forensic experts and the military, though no one expects it to replace DNA analysis — and its promoters say it is not intended to. The new method analyzes antibodies.
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April 30th, 2008 at 04:02pm Under Internet
PARIS (Reuters) - Hackers attacked the website of a French magazine this month, attempting to sway an opinion poll on the Beijing Olympics and change the site’s content, its publisher said on Wednesday.
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April 30th, 2008 at 04:02pm Under Internet
ROME (Reuters) - Italians were surprised, and in some cases outraged, on Wednesday to discover that their income levels were available for public viewing on an Internet site.
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