7:17 PM
This year's flu vaccine is only 62% effective or moderately effective against the current flu, with 45 children and a lot of adults dying from flu-related deaths this season. A researcher has developed a universal flue vaccine that avoids the need to guess the flu strains for the season and will be more effective than vaccines that are limited in scope:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/02/researcher-taking-shot-flu-vaccine-thats-more-effective-easier-make?et_cid=3079086
Central Missouri mathematicians identified the largest prime number yet discovered--17 million digits! The group that finds the first 100 million digit prime number is eligible for a $150k prize:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/02/missouri-researchers-id-largest-prime-number-yet
Microsoft is spending more than a million dollars in attack ads criticizing Gmail for scanning emails to improve the accuracy of its ads...but Microsoft uses a similar tactic with Outlook and Hotmail!
http://www.infoworld.com/t/internet-privacy/microsoft-attacking-gmail-tactics-it-uses-itself-212455
Sprint lost 337,000 subscribers last quarter and reduced its LTE buildout plans for this year:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/sprint-loses-337000-net-subs-lowers-lte-coverage-goal-200m-year-end/2013-02-07
The world's oldest known wild bird recently hatched a healthy chick the age of 62! This bird has had between 30 and 35 chicks!
http://news.msn.com/science-technology/worlds-oldest-known-wild-bird-lays-egg-at-62
High school recruit wanted to sign with Arkansas yesterday but his mother stole the papers he needed to sign and went into hiding! He then had a press conference today to sign the paperwork--his father was there to sign the letter for the required parental signature...however, his Mom has now hired a law firm to try to somehow get him to go to Miami instead:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/alex-collins-announces-going-arkansas-while-mother-hires-184640271--ncaaf.html
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/02/researcher-taking-shot-flu-vaccine-thats-more-effective-easier-make?et_cid=3079086
Central Missouri mathematicians identified the largest prime number yet discovered--17 million digits! The group that finds the first 100 million digit prime number is eligible for a $150k prize:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/02/missouri-researchers-id-largest-prime-number-yet
Microsoft is spending more than a million dollars in attack ads criticizing Gmail for scanning emails to improve the accuracy of its ads...but Microsoft uses a similar tactic with Outlook and Hotmail!
http://www.infoworld.com/t/internet-privacy/microsoft-attacking-gmail-tactics-it-uses-itself-212455
Sprint lost 337,000 subscribers last quarter and reduced its LTE buildout plans for this year:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/sprint-loses-337000-net-subs-lowers-lte-coverage-goal-200m-year-end/2013-02-07
The world's oldest known wild bird recently hatched a healthy chick the age of 62! This bird has had between 30 and 35 chicks!
http://news.msn.com/science-technology/worlds-oldest-known-wild-bird-lays-egg-at-62
High school recruit wanted to sign with Arkansas yesterday but his mother stole the papers he needed to sign and went into hiding! He then had a press conference today to sign the paperwork--his father was there to sign the letter for the required parental signature...however, his Mom has now hired a law firm to try to somehow get him to go to Miami instead:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/alex-collins-announces-going-arkansas-while-mother-hires-184640271--ncaaf.html