A 70 ans, la chanteuse capverdienne, malade et épuisée, annule tous ses concerts et se retire définitivement.
An anonymous reader writes "A stunning array of prehistoric feathers, including dinosaur protofeathers, has been discovered in Late Cretaceous amber from Canada. 'Protofeathers aren't known from any modern, existing groups of birds and therefore the most obvious interpretation is that they belong to dinosaurs,' said University of Alberta professor, Alexander P. Wolfe. The 78 to 79-million-year-old amber preserved the feathers in vivid detail, including some of their diverse colors."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Heineken ? Carlsberg ? Budweiser ? Vous n'y êtes pas. La mousse la plus servie en ce bas monde est la Snow Beer, une bière... chinoise, évidemment.
Steve Jobs, elegant and to the point, as always:
To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.
After releasing his letter, Apple announced that Jobs has indeed been elected chairman, and that Tim Cook has already been named CEO.
Damn.
Samsung lawyers just have too much time on their hands. Florian Mueller over at Foss Patents notes that late last night Samsung filed a brief in opposition to an Apple suit against the company claiming that the iPad is not original. In fact, the brief claims that there is 'prior art' in the 1968 film '2001-A Space Odyssey'. The filing notes that in a scene in the movie, the two astronauts are shown eating and watching the news on a device that looks like an iPad. You can watch a clip from the film here.
"As with the design claimed by the [Apple patent], the tablet disclosed in the clip has an overall rectangular shape with a dominant display screen, narrow borders, a predominately flat front surface, a flat back surface (which is evident because the tablets are lying flat on the table's surface), and a thin form factor," Samsung said.
Actually, our Steve Sande pointed out the tablet device here at TUAW last January (Samsung, expect our bill shortly).
If successful, Samsung could invalidate the Apple patent that is irritating the company and driving them to tactics like this. I'm not holding my breath that a court will rule for Samsung. Perhaps they should consult with the HAL 9000 computer before going too much farther down this road, or did Apple copy HAL, too?
Chuckle Chuckle: Samsung claims Stanley Kubrick invented the iPad in his '2001- A Space Odyssey' originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
cylonlover writes "Last year, researchers developed a cancer-detecting electronic nose inspired by dogs' ability to sniff out different types of ovarian cancer. Now a new study has found that sniffer dogs' abilities extend to reliably detecting lung cancer. The researchers say the results of the study (abstract) confirm that there is a stable marker for lung cancer, which offers the possibility that a 'breath test' for the early detection of lung cancer could be developed."
Les forêts tropicales humides ne sont pas nées le long de l'équateur il y a 65 millions d'années, mais bien avant et plus au Nord.
Alors que son personnage fétiche Iznogoud allait fêter son jubilé dans les prochains mois, Jean Tabary, son dessinateur et co-créateur, est mort jeudi à 81 ans.
The Turkish Anatolia news agency is reporting that Apple may make a bid for a contract to supply 15 million iPads to school children in Turkey over four years. During Turkish Trade Minister Zafer Caglayan's visit to the US, Apple reportedly told the Trade Minister that it would consider manufacturing some iPhone and iPad peripherals, like Smart Covers and ear buds, in Turkey in order to win the contract.
However, an agreement by Apple to manufacture accessories in Turkey might not be enough to secure the contract as the Turkish government had previously said that the tablets themselves would need to be manufactured in the country. Besides Apple, Microsoft and Intel are also reportedly interested in submitting bids for the 15 million tablet contract.
[via Bloomberg]
Apple, Microsoft may bid to build tablets for Turkish school children originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Selon une étude, un habitant du globe sur trois habitera probablement en Afrique d'ici à 2100, date à laquelle la population mondiale devrait avoir passé le cap des dix milliards d'individus.
When the Modest Proposal argued, a year ago, in favour of a debt management system, for the eurozone as a whole, with the ECB at its centre, the general response was that it was a good idea...
Switching to GooglePlus
Posterous does not accept autoposts by mail from/to GooglePlus, so some of my articles can now only be seen on my G+ page.
Moreover, given the complexity of managing Facebook, Twitter, a blog (Posterous was a potential solution for merging these streams) and now G+, I will progressively group everything in the latter stream.
You can read my Google+ stream from this address: My GooglePlus.
