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TwitterGoogle?s Gmail service has suffered a worldwide crashpreventing millions of users from accessing their mailFrom The Telegraph:Google’s web-based email service, Gmail, has crashed this morning, leaving millions of users from Britain to Australia unable to send and receive messages. The email service went offline at around 10.25am GMT, and the outage appears to have affected users throughout the UK as well as across Europe, and even as far afield as Australia and India.It appears that only web-based Gmail access is affected, and users can continue to send and receive messages using other devices, such as mobile phones and third-party mail clients.Read more ….More News On Today’s Gmail InterruptionGoogle apologizes for Gmail outage — CNETGmail Struck With Service Outage — PC WorldGoogle mail users hit by global outage — Times OnlineGmail breakdown affects users worldwide — AFPFour Hours Without Gmail — New York TimesGmail Experiences Worldwide Crash — FOX News
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Google’s Gmail Service Crashes Across World
February 24th, 2009 
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February 21st, 2009 admin A DANGEROUS COUSIN: This chimp from the Knoxville Zoo bears its teeth to visitors, who observe from behind glass. Chimpanzees have been known to bite off fingers from behind bars. FLICKR/THE GUTFrom Scientific American:After a chimp mutilated a Connecticut woman’s face, some are questioning the wisdom of keeping wild animals as petsEarlier this week, a 14-year-old, 200-pound (90-kilogram) pet chimpanzee in Stamford, Conn., left a woman in critical condition after attacking her—mutilating her face and hands.
Posted in Science News Tags: Animal Control, Chimp, Chimpanzee, Chimpanzee Attack, Chimpanzees, Connecticut Woman, Critical Condition, Dangerous Cousin, Herold, Kilogram, Knoxville Zoo, New York Times, Pet Chimpanzee, Police Officers, Scientific American, Stamford Conn, Stemmed Glass, Television Commercials, Wild Animals, York Times Reports Comments OffAlaska Is a Frontier for Green Power
February 18th, 2009 admin The turbine manufacturer Northern Power Systems has units in eight Alaska villages, including Toksook Bay, above, and is pursing projects in 45 others. Stefan Milkowski for The New York TimesFrom The New York Times:TOKSOOK BAY, Alaska — Beyond the fishing boats, the snug homes and the tanks of diesel fuel marking this Eskimo village on the Bering Sea, three huge wind turbines tower over the tundra.
Posted in Science News Tags: Alaska Fishing, Barge, Bering Sea, Diesel Fuel, Diesel Generators, Eskimo Village, Fertile Ground, Fishing Boats, Fossil Fuels, Hydroelectric Projects, New York Times, Power Generation, Power Generators, Renewable Energy, Renewable Sources, Toksook Bay Alaska, Turbine Manufacturer, Urban Areas, Wary Eye, Wind Turbines Comments OffAlaska Is a Frontier for Green Power
February 18th, 2009 admin The turbine manufacturer Northern Power Systems has units in eight Alaska villages, including Toksook Bay, above, and is pursing projects in 45 others. Stefan Milkowski for The New York TimesFrom The New York Times:TOKSOOK BAY, Alaska — Beyond the fishing boats, the snug homes and the tanks of diesel fuel marking this Eskimo village on the Bering Sea, three huge wind turbines tower over the tundra.
Posted in Science News Tags: Alaska Fishing, Barge, Bering Sea, Diesel Fuel, Diesel Generators, Eskimo Village, Fertile Ground, Fishing Boats, Fossil Fuels, Hydroelectric Projects, New York Times, Power Generation, Power Generators, Renewable Energy, Renewable Sources, Toksook Bay Alaska, Turbine Manufacturer, Wary Eye, Wind Turbines Comments OffDo We Need A New Internet?
February 15th, 2009 admin Image by Guy HoffmanFrom The New York Times:Two decades ago a 23-year-old Cornell University graduate student brought the Internet to its knees with a simple software program that skipped from computer to computer at blinding speed, thoroughly clogging the then-tiny network in the space of a few hours.The program was intended to be a digital “Kilroy Was Here.” Just a bit of cybernetic fungus that would unobtrusively wander the net.
Posted in Science News Tags: Anonymity, Bad Neighborhood, Cornell University Graduate, Freedoms, Fungus, Gated Community, Government Internet, Guy Hoffman, Harbinger, Internet Image, Internet Security, Internet Users, Kilroy, New York Times, Programming Error, Secure Network, Security Experts, Simple Software, Software Program, University Graduate Student Comments OffA Major Advancement In Controlling Artificial Limbs
February 11th, 2009 admin Amanda Kitts was fitted with a bionic arm after she lost her arm in an automobile accident in 2006. (Shawn Poynter for The New York Times)From International Herald Tribune:Amanda Kitts lost her left arm in a car accident three years ago, but these days she plays American football with her 12-year-old son, and changes diapers and bear-hugs children at the three Kiddie Cottage day care centers she owns in Knoxville, Tennessee.Kitts, 40, does this all with a new kind of artificial arm that moves more easily than other devices and that she can control by using only her thoughts.”I’m able to move my hand, wrist and elbow all at the same time,” she said. “You think, and then your muscles move.”Her turnaround is the result of a new procedure that is attracting increasing attention because it allows people to move prosthetic arms more automatically than ever before, simply by using rewired nerves and their brains.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: American Football, Artificial Arm, Artificial Limbs, Automobile Accident, Bear Hugs, Bionic Arm, Brains, Car Accident, Day Care Centers, Diapers, Elbow, International Herald Tribune, Kiddie, Knoxville Tennessee, Left Arm, Nerves, New York Times, Poynter, Prosthetic Arms, Turnaround Comments OffLarge Hadron Collider To Be Re-Started Later This Year
February 8th, 2009 admin At Cern, the Large Hadron Collider could recreate conditions that last prevailed when the universe was less than a trillionth of a second old. Above is one of the collider’s massive particle detectors, called the Compact Muon Solenoid. Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York TimesFrom The Telegraph:Scientists are expected to make a decision within days on when the Large Hadron Collider, the broken “Big Bang” machine, will be re-started.The LHC suffered a catastrophic malfunction soon after being switched on last September amid a fanfare of publicity.Officials and scientists from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which built the £4billion device, have been in talks this week about when to re-start it.They have also discussed what caused the LHC to grind to a halt and how to prevent similar incidents happening in the future.CERN have now said that they hope the machine will be up and running in time to deliver the first batch of data for experts to begin experiments by the end of the year.A final decision on the exact date to switch it back on is expected following a meeting on Monday.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Bang Machine, Big Bang, Cern, Compact Muon Solenoid, European Organization, Fanfare, Final Decision, Large Hadron Collider, Large Hadron Collider Could Recreate Conditions, Last September, Lhc, Massive Particle, New York Times, Nuclear Research, Particle Detectors, Publicity, Scientists, Solenoid, Telegraph, Trillionth Comments OffUS Wind Power Grew By 50% In 2008 As China’s Doubled
February 5th, 2009 admin Vail Resorts said Tuesday that it would buy credits for wind power like that generated by the turbines at the Gray County Wind Farm in Kansas. Orlin Wagner/Associated Press (New York Times)From Ars Technica:The Global Wind Energy Council, an industry group, has totaled the past year’s growth in generating capacity, and found that wind had a very good year, with US wind power having its highest annual growth ever, and China doubling its installed capacity.Many renewable energy technologies, most notably photovoltaic, are struggling to reach what’s called “grid parity,” where the cost of the power they generate matches that of fossil fuel generation.
Posted in Science News Tags: Ars Technica, Associated Press, Economies Of Scale, Energy Council, Energy Producer, Energy Technologies, Fossil Fuel, Fourth Year, Global Wind Energy, Good Year, Gray County, Industry Group, New York Times, Orlin, Parity, Top Wind, Turbine Technology, Vail Resorts, Wind Farm, Wind Industry Comments Off