As President Barack Obama prepares to officially end the lengthy and divisive U.S. combat operation in Iraq, he’ll personally thank some of the soldiers who fought there for their service to a mission he forcefully opposed from the start. Many of those soldiers deployed from Fort Bliss, the sprawling Army base in El Paso, Texas, [...]
In August 2010, NASA released the next major discovery by its highly-touted Kepler Mission space telescope: another solar system with multiple planets, like our own. This discovery was long expected, but until the launch of the Kepler telescope, available technology simply did not generally have the sensitivity necessary to carry out advanced planet-finding surveys. The [...]
Health testing of California’s beaches has slumped to its lowest level since ocean monitoring became law more than a decade ago, putting swimmers, surfers and divers at greater risk of exposure to contaminated water. Beaches from San Diego to the Bay Area are being tested less often and in fewer locations; some are going untested [...]
Fernando Alonso and Ferrari are refusing to give up on the world championship despite the Spaniard’s costly crash in the Belgian Grand Prix. Alonso said: “Anything can happen and I believe that for us, it is still a real possibility.”There are the same five drivers who can win and our chance is still 50-50, just [...]
Apple’s iPhone operating system runs only on Apple’s iPhone, and every app must be approved by the company before it appears on the App Store. Android, which Google gives away for free, runs on dozens of phones from many different carriers, and anyone can freely upload new apps to the Android Market without approval. But [...]
President Obama called for renewed efforts to stimulate small business, long the nation’s major engine of job growth, as new private data Monday showed that many smaller firms are losing confidence in the economic recovery and are slowing the pace of their hiring. Amid the latest signs of a sluggish recovery from the deep recession, [...]
Many in Birmingham will already have tasted the Do-Goodie brownies from The Greyston Bakery in the New York district of Yonkers as it is the exclusive supplier to Ben and Jerry’s – turning out 20,000lbs of cakes a day for the luxury ice cream maker. The cakes are all made by a staff of 65 [...]
If you love Nokia hardware but wish for a better operating system, consider what some enthusiastic developers have done. As part of a project called NITDroid, the developers have created a compatible version of the Android operating system for Nokia’s internet tablets. The result is a device that has the body of Nokia and the [...]
A new American fashion chain has been praised for its design of a new shop front for its prominent Birmingham store. Designer chain Hollister and Co is to move into the former USC store at the main New Street entrance to the Bullring. It is investing £2.5 million and creating nine full-time and 250 part-time [...]
Here’s a new thing filling online stores these days. The Zub Zirc No. 20 from Nooka is not only gorgeously futuristic, with a brand-new way of depicting the passing of time, it is also almost heretically easy to read. It is a cool watch actually. Designers can be a little precious, and watch designers are [...]
