5:47 AM
More than 640 million people (13% of the world's adults) want to permanently leave their country, with 150 million of them wanting to move to the U.S. The U.S. was the chosen destination of 23% of potential migrants, with the UK second at 7% and Canada third with 6%:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/153992/150-Million-Adults-Worldwide-Migrate.aspx
Proposed wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) system can achieve 10^-9 BER with 500 Mbps operation for each wavelength utilized--this is being proposed as an optical alternative to WiFi:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/05/optical-alternative-to-wifi.html
IMEC developed a prototype 60 GHz radio transceiver that can reach 7 Gbps data rates with very low power consumption:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/05/imec-60-ghz-transceiver-offers-7-gbps.html
Best Buy apparently leaked the solar-powered iPad case that Logitech will soon sell, with a listing on their web site confirming (and providing the price) for a product that Logitech hasn't said a word about yet:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=055&ACCT=0000100&ISSUE=1205&RELTYPE=IN&PRODCODE=000000&PRODLETT=I&et_cid=2624726&et_rid=60838639
Arkansas woman regularly gathered a handful of discarded lottery tickets from the trash can of a store and was shocked to discover than one of the tickets won $1 mil! Unfortunately for her, a judge ruled that the woman who threw the ticket away (the ticket scanner told her that the ticket was not a winner) should get the $1 mil. The woman who found the ticket said that the ticket buyer gave up her rights to the ticket when she threw it away, but the judge said that the ticket buyer has the right to the money:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hXamQM8hNj6SKYNNi_hj7ZYSXECQ?docId=97caf2efd2e24314a424e24f8dafe424
75-year-old man in Florida went to the edge of the water to retrieve a golf ball in one of the course's ponds and was attacked by an alligator! The 9-foot, 190-pound gator lift lifted him up 3 feet, slammed him to the ground and the man was lucky to survive...he had to have 35-40 stiches to close a 10-inch lance wound and 2 other 5-inch wounds:
http://www.theledger.com/article/20120430/NEWS/120439951/1134?p=all&tc=pgall
http://www.gallup.com/poll/153992/150-Million-Adults-Worldwide-Migrate.aspx
Proposed wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) system can achieve 10^-9 BER with 500 Mbps operation for each wavelength utilized--this is being proposed as an optical alternative to WiFi:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/05/optical-alternative-to-wifi.html
IMEC developed a prototype 60 GHz radio transceiver that can reach 7 Gbps data rates with very low power consumption:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/05/imec-60-ghz-transceiver-offers-7-gbps.html
Best Buy apparently leaked the solar-powered iPad case that Logitech will soon sell, with a listing on their web site confirming (and providing the price) for a product that Logitech hasn't said a word about yet:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=055&ACCT=0000100&ISSUE=1205&RELTYPE=IN&PRODCODE=000000&PRODLETT=I&et_cid=2624726&et_rid=60838639
Arkansas woman regularly gathered a handful of discarded lottery tickets from the trash can of a store and was shocked to discover than one of the tickets won $1 mil! Unfortunately for her, a judge ruled that the woman who threw the ticket away (the ticket scanner told her that the ticket was not a winner) should get the $1 mil. The woman who found the ticket said that the ticket buyer gave up her rights to the ticket when she threw it away, but the judge said that the ticket buyer has the right to the money:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hXamQM8hNj6SKYNNi_hj7ZYSXECQ?docId=97caf2efd2e24314a424e24f8dafe424
75-year-old man in Florida went to the edge of the water to retrieve a golf ball in one of the course's ponds and was attacked by an alligator! The 9-foot, 190-pound gator lift lifted him up 3 feet, slammed him to the ground and the man was lucky to survive...he had to have 35-40 stiches to close a 10-inch lance wound and 2 other 5-inch wounds:
http://www.theledger.com/article/20120430/NEWS/120439951/1134?p=all&tc=pgall