7:59 PM
Iran showed the Oscars...but they photoshopped sleeves onto Michelle Obama's Oscar gown!
http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/02/25/Iran-added-sleeves-to-Michelle-Obamas-Oscar-gown/3861361820419/
The stereotype had been that boys did better than girls at math and in competitions...but a study found that the gender gap was due to first-round nerves, and after the first round girls did just as well as boys:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130226-girls-perform-as-well-as-boys-in-math-competitions
Scientists found a key factor in China's horrible pollution problem--China produces by far the most nitrogen in the world (from industry, cars and fertilizer), with nitrogen deposits in China increasing by 60% annually from the 1980s to the 200s...and now their human-caused problem is out of control:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/02/scientists-help-shed-light-key-component-chinas-pollution-problem
The US military had been claiming a 7% drop in Taliban violence in 2012 was a measure of progress in the war in Afghanistan...but it turns out that there *wasn't* a drop in Taliban violence. The Pentagon claims that the false claim was due to a data-entry error after the AP discovered that there was no actual drop:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/taliban-attacks/
The Pentagon wants a family of smartphones and tablets available to their hundreds of thousands of members, letting the troops pick from a selection of approved smartphones and tablets instead of making everyone use the same mobile device:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/pentagon-mobile/
Sony has joined a long list of smartphone makers and developers that have expressed interest in making smartphones running the Firefox OS:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/mobile-technology/smartphone-makers-and-developers-line-mozillas-firefox-os-phone-213542
HP appears to have gotten a MUCH better deal than the webOS sale articles published yesterday. HP is keeping the entire cloud services division (App Catalog, system updates, etc. for webOS) and HP is keeping all of patents from Palm and webOS--yesterday, reports said that LG was getting the patents as part of the purchase. LG now says that they might release a webOS smartphone, even saying that the UI for webOS is better than Android:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/25/4027814/hp-emerges-as-big-winner-in-webos-sale
http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/02/25/Iran-added-sleeves-to-Michelle-Obamas-Oscar-gown/3861361820419/
The stereotype had been that boys did better than girls at math and in competitions...but a study found that the gender gap was due to first-round nerves, and after the first round girls did just as well as boys:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130226-girls-perform-as-well-as-boys-in-math-competitions
Scientists found a key factor in China's horrible pollution problem--China produces by far the most nitrogen in the world (from industry, cars and fertilizer), with nitrogen deposits in China increasing by 60% annually from the 1980s to the 200s...and now their human-caused problem is out of control:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/02/scientists-help-shed-light-key-component-chinas-pollution-problem
The US military had been claiming a 7% drop in Taliban violence in 2012 was a measure of progress in the war in Afghanistan...but it turns out that there *wasn't* a drop in Taliban violence. The Pentagon claims that the false claim was due to a data-entry error after the AP discovered that there was no actual drop:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/taliban-attacks/
The Pentagon wants a family of smartphones and tablets available to their hundreds of thousands of members, letting the troops pick from a selection of approved smartphones and tablets instead of making everyone use the same mobile device:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/pentagon-mobile/
Sony has joined a long list of smartphone makers and developers that have expressed interest in making smartphones running the Firefox OS:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/mobile-technology/smartphone-makers-and-developers-line-mozillas-firefox-os-phone-213542
HP appears to have gotten a MUCH better deal than the webOS sale articles published yesterday. HP is keeping the entire cloud services division (App Catalog, system updates, etc. for webOS) and HP is keeping all of patents from Palm and webOS--yesterday, reports said that LG was getting the patents as part of the purchase. LG now says that they might release a webOS smartphone, even saying that the UI for webOS is better than Android:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/25/4027814/hp-emerges-as-big-winner-in-webos-sale