PARIS – The fabulous “sunstone” which would, according to Norse sagas, Viking mariners to move even on cloudy days is not just a legend, researchers ensure that demonstrate its effectiveness in a study published Wednesday. It is known that the Vikings traveled thousands of kilometers in the direction of Iceland and Greenland, probably discovering North [...]
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For decades, paleontologists have thought it was a human jawbone fossil prehistoric among others. If you look closely, they realized the owner was the oldest modern human ever found in Western Europe. According to a study released Wednesday, the maxilla is indeed old 41,000 to 44,000 years and belonged to one of our ancestors, Homo sapiens, [...]
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There would be no age limit for the cells! Even reached a final stage of aging, they could still be reduced to the status of stem cells, according to French researchers. French researchers announced that they were able to reprogram the cells of the very old, nonagenarians and even centenarians in pluripotent stem cells capable of [...]
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Many customers complain about battery life abnormally low. Apple technicians have not yet found the solution. After “Antennagate”, the “batterygate”? Apple is facing since the release of the iPhone 4S comments on battery life. Some users would see the battery run down by 10% hours of standby time.Apparently all phones are not affected in the same way. Thetopic discussed [...]
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The manufacturer publishes results up sharply and the luxury of being the first vendor of smartphones in the U.S. in Q3. HTC is truly entered a virtuous circle. Buoyed by the success of his many (many) Android smartphones, Taiwanese once again displays the results to be the envy of a Nokia. For its third quarter, the [...]
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The discovery of xenon gas in the No. 2 engine raises fears of a resumption of nuclear fission in the plant damaged in the tsunami of March. TEPCO, the operator of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, announced Wednesday it had detected the xenon gas inside the No. 2 engine. This gas whose life is [...]
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Security – Microsoft ensures work on developing a patch to reduce this threat rather important but refuses to give a timetable. The threat Duque (sic) is growing in the world but Microsoft believes that there is no emergency. Discovered a few weeks ago, this Trojan infects a position via a specially crafted Word file by exploiting [...]
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BEIJING – China has successfully launched Tuesday a ship that will attempt the first unmanned rendezvous Chinese docked with a test module already in orbit, crucial step towards building a space station planned by 2020, a China news agency nouvelle.L docking to take place “within two days after the launch of Shenzhou VIII at an [...]
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The novelist Mona Simpson, who is none other than the biological sister of Steve Jobs, delivered in ”New York Times” the eulogy for her brother she gave on October 16 in Memorial Church of Stanford University. That which has been separated from her brother, who was adopted by an American family, and has met him at the [...]
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A specialist in the penetration of safety systems has discovered a significant gap in Facebook. For its part, INRIA also alerts users on a Skype vulnerability. Nathan Power tests the security levels for different companies on behalf of the consulting firm CDW. He has discovered a vulnerability on Facebook and told the site on September 30. The flaw [...]
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