Category > Technology

Google unveils 'Solve for X,' a secret project to solve the world's biggest problems
Google unveiled a new project dedicated to tackling some of the world's biggest problems early Monday morning.
Source: FOX

Top 6 Facebook annoyances and how to fix them
Just when users get comfortable with the latest iteration of ?New Facebook,? Zuckerberg and company go and change something else, drawing the ire of its millions of users. Here are six Facebook annoyances that are currently grinding our gears and ways to deal with each.
Source: FOX

Watch: TechBytes (02.07.12)
Amazon may open a store in Seattle as a prelude to becoming a chain.
Source: ABC

Family Billed $11K for Streaming Movies
When the Gibsons of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, in Canada, returned home from a family vacation in Arizona, they found a $10,600 bill from their Internet provider ? all because they had let their children stream movies on Netflix without realizing there would be roaming charges. ?The kids were getting...
Source: ABC

'Atlantis' in Google Earth Eliminated by New Data
When Google Ocean was added to the vast image database of Google Earth in 2009, the Internet lit up. Here was a real treasure trove ? the floor of the world?s seas in remarkable detail, free for use by scientists, teachers, shipping companies, and anyone...
Source: ABC

Vacation Nightmare: Family Billed $11,000 For Streaming Movies
When the Gibsons of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, in Canada, returned home from a family vacation in Arizona, they found a $10,600 bill from their Internet provider ? all because they had let their children stream movies on Netflix without realizing there would be roaming charges. ?The kids were getting...
Source: ABC

Define this! Google exposes dirty words
Experts are warning parents about their kids doing a defineGoogle search, given a quirk in the search engine giant?s algorithm that has been exploited to return dirty words -- a problem Google says it?s working to correct.
Source: FOX

Google unveils ?Solve for X,? a secret project to solve the world's biggest problems
Google unveiled a new project dedicated to tackling some of the world's biggest problems early Monday morning.
Source: FOX

Scientists hunt for meteor crash clues in 200M-year-old murder mystery
Mass extinctions are a relatively common theme in the history and evolution of life on Earth, and the most famous one is the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. A plethora of research has been conducted to determine how the dinosaur era ended, generating theories of massive volcanic eruptions, catastrophic climate change and giant impactors from space.
Source: FOX

The Best Science &Engineering Visualizations of the Year
Science and engineering's most powerful statements are not made from words alone: the National Science Foundation(NSF) along with the journal Sciencelast week announced the winners of the ninth annual International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge
Source: FOX