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Hubble Mission Delayed until 2009

A few days ago, NASA officials announced that the recent mishap that affected the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday, September 27th, prevented the servicing mission scheduled for October 14th from taking place. Instead, the mission is currently moved to next year, until the problem is dealt with.The Hubble trouble l...

1 October 2008
09:34 GMT

Insects Have an Alien Type of Olfaction

Many aliens in the SF movies are inspired from insects; or perhaps vertebrates represent strange aliens for them. A new study to be published in "Nature" by a team of researchers from Rockefeller University and the University of Tokyo adds another proof of the fact that insects have evolved very differently from othe...

14 April 2008
04:49 GMT

Mystery Solved: How Anesthetics Work

This is a great mystery that has been finally solved: how do most anesthetics work. And it started with almost the only anesthetic our grandparents could name, the chloroform, which has been used for over 150 years. The discovery was made by accident by Leeds University Dr. Yahya Bahnasi."We take general anesthesia f...

2 April 2008
02:41 GMT

What Causes the Muscle Fatigue?

Every skeletal muscle fatigues, more or less rapidly, but why is that? It has been believed for almost a century that muscle fatigue is caused by lactic acid, produced during exercise and thought to impair contractile proteins. But studies made in the last years showed that, at body temperatures, very little acid sto...

15 February 2008
02:57 GMT

YouTube Proves to be Window to Chaos in Kenya

Following the news from all across the globe, you must have come across some information regarding last month's Kenya elections and the protests and riots that erupted when the results were finally released. As you might have gathered, they weren't the satisfactory ones for a lot of people and that led to s...

17 January 2008
06:06 GMT

BigThink, the Intellectual YouTube

BigThink.com is a new video site that's meant to bring to the online audience various hot topics talked about big thinkers of today, from the worlds of politics, academia, science and business. It's currently in Beta but it looks somewhere between decent and nice and it counts Peter Thiel and Larry Summers,...

8 January 2008
04:59 GMT

5 Billion Bucks for Weather

"Welcome to the Weather Channel. All weather, all day" (yawn). That's the quote I would use to best describe my feelings when I've heard of the deal that is about to go down. No way this could be worth three times more than YouTube! No, abso-frickin'-lutely not! Checking the story a little deeper, I fo...

3 January 2008
06:00 GMT

AMD to Spread Barcelona Misery Equally to All Partners

Earlier this month, AMD has stopped all the shipments of quad-core Opteron processors due to a product glitch. The company has issued a workaround that heavily affects the system performance, but, at least, gave it the opportunity of delivering "tens of thousands" of processors to HPC builders and to some other selec...

20 December 2007
02:46 GMT

YouTube Decides that Gadgets are Obsolete

The update that YouTube went through with, a couple of weeks ago, seems to still be in the works and things seem to be changing rather erratically. Categories have been switched and added to other lists, in such a manner that it would have been pretty difficult to know where to head to, had you wanted to do that. To...

29 November 2007
06:32 GMT

YouTube Closes Down Anti-Torture Activist's Account

Google earlier admitted to giving up the IP of a blogger accused of defamation after revealing some info about a corruption and tax fraud case in which three councilmen were involved. YouTube seems to be trying to fill it's papa's shoes and closes down an account of an Egyptian resident that posted videos o...

29 November 2007
02:41 GMT

MySpace Turning to Those in Need

Every once in a while, every human being feels the need to be generous and share what he/she has with another that was less fortunate in life. Some say that they don't mind sharing when they have a lot of something but the problem completely changes when they have little of that particular something, be it money...

28 November 2007
10:41 GMT

YouTube Anti-Bullying Channel to be Established

The above subtitle is a sort of a reminder of olden days when mIRC was the new thing, the thing to be chatting on and the best way to establish social connections for those who lacked the courage to go up to somebody they didn't know and start a conversation. But I'm sure most of you knew that. The reason I...

20 November 2007
10:48 GMT

More Celebrities for YouTube

Who is the undisputed queen of US television? Oprah Winfrey. What does she do best? Host talk shows. Why? Err… money? She is, after all, the best paid TV celebrity in the United States. The next step in her career was already decided, an "Oprah channel" on YouTube, made possible by the teaming of Harpo Production and...

5 November 2007
09:45 GMT

YouTube: 'This channel is not available'

While most companies struggle to create new YouTube channels, some other firms remove their existing YouTube pages and all the content published on the Google video sharing service. I'm talking about NBC Universal, the company which quietly deleted the YouTube channel a few months ago, Valleywag reports today. N...

23 October 2007
04:50 GMT

More Entertainment on YouTube

YouTube is continuously attracting new partners and today's news comes to support this statement. ITN recently joined the other companies which created a channel on Google's video sharing service and is supposed to deliver lots of entertainment, sports and film videos to YouTube. According to MediaGuardian,...

16 October 2007
15:16 GMT

One Million Hits Due To YouTube Deal

A few months ago, the European Commission decided to sign a deal with the online video sharing service YouTube in order to publish clips about people, environment and culture. Today, EUtube, the YouTube channel, reached the 1,000,000 views milestone which is pretty amazing if we think it attracted such an impressive ...

16 October 2007
09:55 GMT

Toyota Creates New YouTube Channel

Google's video sharing service is now hosting a new channel created in collaboration with Toyota in order to host several short documentary clips about environmental protection efforts. Toyota has been trying to promote its "aim: zero emissions" campaign for a long time and is now turning to YouTube to bring th...

15 October 2007
09:54 GMT

Bad Girls on YouTube

Oxygen, one of the largest US cable networks, signed a deal with YouTube to create a new channel on the online video sharing service in order to publish exciting content usually distributed through its TV channel. The new YouTube - Oxygen page was already released on September 17th and provides one click access to at...

26 September 2007
09:20 GMT

Courtney Love's Back...Naked and Stylish

The controversial rock singer has finally managed to put some order into her life and apparently leave her tense and sometimes-not-so-hot past behind her. Love, who is now 43, took off her clothes for the latest issue of "Harper's Bazaar" and spoke very frankly about weight loss, taking drugs and straightening u...

16 August 2007
06:20 GMT

8Gbit/s Fibre Channel Out Now

The storage networking market has two main contestants right now. On one had, there's the new 8Gbit/s Fibre Channel and on the other hand, we have the iSCSI over 10Gbit/s Ethernet standard. The new Fibre Channel has many advantages over the already retreating 10Gbit/s Fibre Channel that did not support the exist...

10 August 2007
11:26 GMT

Stone Age Settlement Found at 35 ft (12 m) Depth on the English Channel

Once, Britain was a peninsula attached to Europe, but when the ice melted at the end of the Ice Age, it flooded the English Channel, turning Britain into a special island with such special people ...Now, erosion on the floor of the Channel exposed a Stone Age settlement just off the Isle of Wight, found to be 8,000 y...

10 August 2007
06:38 GMT

High Performance Notebook Memory

Walton Chaintech announced the release of its latest APOGEE DDR2 667/800MHz 2GB SO-DIMM aimed for use in high-end notebook or laptop computer systems. As operating systems and general purpose applications demand more and more from the hardware layer, and especially from the CPU and memory subsystems, the APOGEE memor...

24 July 2007
10:30 GMT

World Travel Awards Now on YouTube

The popular online video sharing service YouTube is now offering one more channel after the parent company Google signed a deal to support the World Travel Awards campaign. The new page offers several clips provided by the tourism industry and according to Travel Guides, it already recorded more than 1000 views. This...

6 July 2007
09:33 GMT

The European Commission Is Interested in Google's YouTube

The European Commission launched a brand new channel on the popular online video sharing service, in a move meant to keep the users up-to-date with the latest efforts of the organization. According to Eux.tv, the channel already contains 50 videos including cartoons and other programs, all of them being a part of the...

29 June 2007
10:02 GMT

YouTube Partner With Russian Media

The English side of Russia Today, one of the largest Russian news services, partnered with YouTube to create a new channel and publish its video content. Russia Today wants to upload news clips, documentaries and commentaries on the newly introduced YouTube channel, Cnews reports. "Russia Today is entering a new medi...

5 June 2007
13:31 GMT

YouTube Major Update - New Exciting Features

Google debuted a new set of updates that bring some new features for the video sharing service, improving the functionality and the users' powers. Among a lot of new functions, Google debuted the "Who can comment?" ability that will help uploaders control the comments for their videos. For example, you can custo...

30 April 2007
05:27 GMT

Google Creates Advertising Program for Intel

As a plan of widening their reseller channel, Intel called upon the services of Google to aid them in creating a virtual marketing storefront. Just like purchasing from an online store, where you can choose from a vast array of products and services, not to mention how many options these websites pack nowadays, so w...

25 April 2007
09:34 GMT

University Channels on YouTube

Some time ago, when YouTube signed the deal with Chelsea FC, NBA and BBC, the company created separate channels for the firms especially meant to offer their content. Now, YouTube designs similar websites for universities, the first one being Kansas State University. The channel was revealed one month ago and record...

19 April 2007
10:43 GMT

Major Improvements for YouTube

YouTube, the online video sharing service owned by Google, received an impressive pack of updates able to improve the functionality of the official website. Take for example the homepage of the service that is now displaying channels and groups, allowing users to organize and navigate through the entire collection of...

2 April 2007
03:39 GMT

YouTube - a New Kind of TV

OK, so YouTube is the most popular online video sharing service on the Internet, being owned by Google since October 2006 when the company paid $1.6 billion. Since the Google acquisition, the search giant made impressive efforts to boost the YouTube traffic but the company encountered several problems caused by the c...

26 March 2007
10:02 GMT

YouTube and Antena 3 to Create New Video Channel

YouTube launched a new channel on its page after the online video sharing service announced a new partnership with Antena 3, a Spanish broadcaster and one of the largest television channels in the country. It seems like the new channel will provide instant access to numerous programs offered by Antena 3, including Bu...

13 March 2007
11:18 GMT


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