7:21 PM
To celebrate Britain's entry to the space age 50 years ago, a UK-NASA project will include a "boat" that will explore the oceans of Saturn's moon Titan. The "boat" would make the first measurements in extraterrestrial oceanography:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/25/uk-boat-oceans-saturn-moon-titan
Study found that women excelling in male-dominated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields may actually *decrease* interest in STEM among young girls--attempts to glamorize STEM women may have a negative effect. The study of middle school girls about how they perceived female STEM role models found that if women are successful in STEM fields then others dislike them and able them less attractive, not competent, or unable to get high salaries...these negative images can turn young girls off of science and math:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20120427-feminine-math-science-role-models-do-not-motivate-girls
Pretty cool photo of a MiG-29 (one of the toughest fighter jets in history) sitting in traffic in Slovakia:
http://jalopnik.com/5904713/yes-thats-a-mig-fighter-jet-driving-down-a-busy-street
Amazon's stock jumped about 15% (adding more than $10 bil to the value of the company and making their CEO's net worth increase $2.5 bil) after Amazon far surpassed expectations--Wall Street expected them to make 7 cents a share and Amazon made 28 cents a share instead. Amazon's big bet on the Kindle Fire seems to have paid off, and Amazon's sales and profit margins received a nice boost:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/26/net-us-amazon-idUSBRE83P1E320120426
Enterprise users are choosing Apple over Android by a 4:1 margin--iOS devices had 79.9% of mobile device activations from Jan-March while Android had the remaining 20%. In the year ago quarter Apple was at 70% and Android was at 30%. The big reason for Apple's dominance in the enterprise is that the iPad had *97.3%* of all tablet activations in the enterprise while Android has just 2.7%. For smartphones, the iPhone had 55% of activations while Android had 45%:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/tablets/study-ios-dominates-android-four-one-in-the-enterprise-191917?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2012-04-27
Apple is building a restaurant next to their Cupertino campus that is for their employees only, with 21,468 square feet for eating, socializing, meeting rooms, etc. One key reason for this is that they want to keep snoopers away from their employees--no more lost iPhone prototypes, etc.:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57422071-71/apple-to-build-private-restaurant-to-keep-out-snoopers/
KFC has been ordered to pay an Australian family $8.3 mil because a girl in Sydney got brain damage after eating one of their chicken wraps. The 7-year-old girl got salmonella poisoning from a KFC chicken wrap, was in a coma for months, and has brain damage:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_AUSTRALIA_KFC_FOOD_POISONING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/25/uk-boat-oceans-saturn-moon-titan
Study found that women excelling in male-dominated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields may actually *decrease* interest in STEM among young girls--attempts to glamorize STEM women may have a negative effect. The study of middle school girls about how they perceived female STEM role models found that if women are successful in STEM fields then others dislike them and able them less attractive, not competent, or unable to get high salaries...these negative images can turn young girls off of science and math:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20120427-feminine-math-science-role-models-do-not-motivate-girls
Pretty cool photo of a MiG-29 (one of the toughest fighter jets in history) sitting in traffic in Slovakia:
http://jalopnik.com/5904713/yes-thats-a-mig-fighter-jet-driving-down-a-busy-street
Amazon's stock jumped about 15% (adding more than $10 bil to the value of the company and making their CEO's net worth increase $2.5 bil) after Amazon far surpassed expectations--Wall Street expected them to make 7 cents a share and Amazon made 28 cents a share instead. Amazon's big bet on the Kindle Fire seems to have paid off, and Amazon's sales and profit margins received a nice boost:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/26/net-us-amazon-idUSBRE83P1E320120426
Enterprise users are choosing Apple over Android by a 4:1 margin--iOS devices had 79.9% of mobile device activations from Jan-March while Android had the remaining 20%. In the year ago quarter Apple was at 70% and Android was at 30%. The big reason for Apple's dominance in the enterprise is that the iPad had *97.3%* of all tablet activations in the enterprise while Android has just 2.7%. For smartphones, the iPhone had 55% of activations while Android had 45%:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/tablets/study-ios-dominates-android-four-one-in-the-enterprise-191917?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2012-04-27
Apple is building a restaurant next to their Cupertino campus that is for their employees only, with 21,468 square feet for eating, socializing, meeting rooms, etc. One key reason for this is that they want to keep snoopers away from their employees--no more lost iPhone prototypes, etc.:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57422071-71/apple-to-build-private-restaurant-to-keep-out-snoopers/
KFC has been ordered to pay an Australian family $8.3 mil because a girl in Sydney got brain damage after eating one of their chicken wraps. The 7-year-old girl got salmonella poisoning from a KFC chicken wrap, was in a coma for months, and has brain damage:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_AUSTRALIA_KFC_FOOD_POISONING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT