6:32 PM
Israeli planes destroyed a large Syrian military convoy carrying advanced weapons to Hezbollah. They destroyed the convoy inside Syria before they crossed the border into Lebanon:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/bull20130130-israeli-planes-destroy-large-syrian-military-convoy-on-its-way-to-hezbollah
Study found that the networks of narrow ridges found in impact craters on Mars appears to suggest water used to flow on Mars. Many of the ridges are hundreds of meters in length and a few meters wide:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/01/ridges-mars-suggest-ancient-flowing-water
Scientists found that a gene variant explains why the flu hit China so much harder than elsewhere. For people who went to the hospital due to the swine flu in 2009-2010, 69% of those with the genetic alteration had serious complications such as kidney failure or pneumonia, while only 25% of those with the mild illness had the genetic variation. 25% of Chinese people have the gene variant that makes them vulnerable to severe flu complications, the gene variant is also common in Japanese and Korean people, but less than 1% of Caucasians have the gene variant:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/01/genetics-may-explain-severe-flu-chinese-people-0
Google is giving 15,000 Raspberry Pi computers to schooks in the UK to boost the education of the next generation of computer programmers and hardware designers:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=49943&id=24918e49-f85e-4515-a3ae-5f0b6506f9f5
RIM unveiled is (at least twice delayed) BlackBerry 10 OS, a complete redesign of their OS, but the U.S. release of devices with BlackBerry 10 is delayed until at least mid-March. It will be available in the UK tomorrow and in Canada on Feb 5, but another delay in the U.S. market just pushes them further behind Android/Apple:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/rim-unveils-blackberry-z10-and-q10-pushes-us-launch-march/2013-01-30
Zynga's chief game designer resigned:
http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/29/zyngas-chief-game-designer-brian-reynolds-resigns/
U.S. Cellular is paying people $300 to switch to them:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/U.S.-Cellular-will-pay-you-300-to-switch-carriers_id39277
Brazilian woman is accused of trying to murder her husband by putting poison in her genitals and asking him to perform oral sex on her. The husband was about to do so when he noticed a strange smell, took her to a hospital, and tests discovered the poison:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/oral-sex-assassination-plot--1560455
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/bull20130130-israeli-planes-destroy-large-syrian-military-convoy-on-its-way-to-hezbollah
Study found that the networks of narrow ridges found in impact craters on Mars appears to suggest water used to flow on Mars. Many of the ridges are hundreds of meters in length and a few meters wide:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/01/ridges-mars-suggest-ancient-flowing-water
Scientists found that a gene variant explains why the flu hit China so much harder than elsewhere. For people who went to the hospital due to the swine flu in 2009-2010, 69% of those with the genetic alteration had serious complications such as kidney failure or pneumonia, while only 25% of those with the mild illness had the genetic variation. 25% of Chinese people have the gene variant that makes them vulnerable to severe flu complications, the gene variant is also common in Japanese and Korean people, but less than 1% of Caucasians have the gene variant:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/01/genetics-may-explain-severe-flu-chinese-people-0
Google is giving 15,000 Raspberry Pi computers to schooks in the UK to boost the education of the next generation of computer programmers and hardware designers:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=49943&id=24918e49-f85e-4515-a3ae-5f0b6506f9f5
RIM unveiled is (at least twice delayed) BlackBerry 10 OS, a complete redesign of their OS, but the U.S. release of devices with BlackBerry 10 is delayed until at least mid-March. It will be available in the UK tomorrow and in Canada on Feb 5, but another delay in the U.S. market just pushes them further behind Android/Apple:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/rim-unveils-blackberry-z10-and-q10-pushes-us-launch-march/2013-01-30
Zynga's chief game designer resigned:
http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/29/zyngas-chief-game-designer-brian-reynolds-resigns/
U.S. Cellular is paying people $300 to switch to them:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/U.S.-Cellular-will-pay-you-300-to-switch-carriers_id39277
Brazilian woman is accused of trying to murder her husband by putting poison in her genitals and asking him to perform oral sex on her. The husband was about to do so when he noticed a strange smell, took her to a hospital, and tests discovered the poison:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/oral-sex-assassination-plot--1560455