| News | page 1 page 2 | Pakistan blocks YouTube access - report
By MarketWatch - Last update: 12:53 p.m. EST Feb. 24, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The government of Pakistan has blocked access to YouTube because of video clips posted on the popular Web site that officials considered anti-Islamic, according to a media report.
The country's 70 Internet service providers have been told by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority that access to the Web site would be blocked until further notice, the Associated Press reported, citing an unnamed source.
Among the video clips considered offensive was a movie trailer for an upcoming film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, the report said. Wilders has said he plans to release a movie that portrays Islam as fascist and tends to incite violence against women and homosexuals, the report said. | Google Sponsors Lunar X PRIZE to Create a Space Race for a New Generation
$30 Million Purse to be Awarded to Winners
SANTA MONICA, Calif., September 13, 2007 – The X PRIZE Foundation and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon to win a remarkable $30 million prize purse. Private companies from around the world will compete to land a privately funded robotic rover on the Moon that is capable of completing several mission objectives, including roaming the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and data back to the Earth.
The Google Lunar X PRIZE is an unprecedented international competition that will challenge and inspire engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world to develop low-cost methods of robotic space exploration. The X PRIZE Foundation, best known for the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for private suborbital spaceflight, is an educational nonprofit prize organization whose goal is to bring about radical breakthroughs to solve some of the greatest challenges facing the world today. | Potential Flaw Seen in Design of Fallen Bridge
By MONICA DAVEY and MATTHEW L. WALD - Published: August 9, 2007
In making public their suspicion about the flaw, officials were signaling a potentially crucial discovery and a safety concern for other bridges. | Biotech Trends Hit the Valley - Reported by Tamara Hinton - July 13, 2007
The Shenandoah Valley is slowing transitioning into a bio-tech hotspot. You might say they are going from people who grow apples to people who use them--and PCs, too.
It's a real opportunity for a number of reasons: it's a growing industry, it's friendly to agriculture and it brings high-paying jobs to the area.
Merck, SRI International and Atlantic Research Group are just a few names in the biotech industry that are making their homes in the Valley. With them come countless other opportunities to add more. | CNN Future Summit brings together some of the brightest minds of our time to see how science and technology are shaping our future. With a landmark television event this June and weekly stories on this site, we're inviting you to take part in an on-going discussion of the technologies and how they'll change our lives. | Founder of Yo! Sushi brings capsule hotels to Britain
By Jonathan Brown - Published: 22 June 2007
Its backers proudly admit there is only just enough space to swing a cat: a tiny room barely bigger than the bed - just a place to shower, plug in a laptop and sleep.
But the Yo! Sushi entrepreneur Simon Woodroffe, who made a fortune when he brought the dining concept of raw fish on a conveyor belt to Britain, believes he is now about to revolutionise the hotel industry with his new rent-by-the-hour range of capsule airport accommodation.
The initial Yotel, complete with 46 cabins, launched at Gatwick's south terminal this week. It is the first hotel to be situated inside a British air terminal just a short stroll from the check-in desk. Its backers say it is ideal for early morning flights, long delays and lengthy transfers. There are plans to open another at Heathrow this year followed by Stansted and then at major international airports in cities across the world.
The idea, it is insisted, came not from Japan's notorious capsule hotels, but from the design features of a first-class British Airways bed and a racing yacht. | SAN DIEGO and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Graspr, the social media and learning company with the Internet's largest user-generated video showcase for instructional content, today publicly unveils the Graspr Community, an online video community that enables people to connect and share their life experiences and expertise with people who are seeking it.
At DEMOfall 07, the premiere launching pad for innovative and disruptive technologies, Graspr will demonstrate how it is making the world smarter by making knowledge more accessible, more affordable, and by accelerating learning. At its core are user-generated and professionally produced "how-to" videos that inform and inspire people to learn something new or sharpen existing skills. The Graspr community is built around topic-specific videos in a variety of interest categories, such as home & garden, cooking, crafts, sports and many more. Graspr currently hosts over 10,000 videos from 1,100 producers, across 15 categories and 250 sub-categories with hundreds of new videos being added daily.
Graspr aspires to become the online platform of choice for "teachers" and learners who wish to amplify their passions through collaboration, seek the experience of others, and market their know-how. The Graspr community and product have been designed to embrace users of all skill and experience levels -- from beginner to expert. Graspr helps learners advance to the next stage of development, while giving them the tools to conveniently and easily teach others who follow in their footsteps. (http://www.graspr.com/) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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