Manchester United signs 5-year-old kid. Charlie Jackson’s footwork was the thing that impressed Manchester United soccer scouts. Of course, his ball control had likely improved with his legs freshly freed from the diapers. Jackson was spotted by the powerhouse British side at age three, toying with his opponents in a community “Footytotz” program. But the club held off for two years before asking him to join their development squad when he was 5 years old. There, the tousle-headed tot, already touted as a potential superstar, will play with kids at least a year older than him. But Jackson, who’s a fan of arch-rival Manchester City, had mixed feelings about the situation. “He was mortified that he was having to train with United,” his father Andy told the U.K.’s Daily Mail.
“But he seems to be getting over that a bit now.” Jackon’s training with Manchester United’s junior squad hits even closer to the cradle than an arrangement made last summer by Real Madrid. Big-time European clubs have long recruited young players. $1.6 million just bought the world’s most expensive dog. Big Splash, or “Hong Dong” in Chinese, is an 11-month-old Red Tibetan Mastiff. He already stands nearly three-feet-high at the shoulder and weighs more than 180lbs. He was recently purchased by an unidentified Chinese coal baron. 5 Bizarre Killing Sprees that Never Got Solved. When you think about unsolved murder sprees, it’s usually cases like Jack the Ripper or The Zodiac Killer—the ones with movies and dozens of books about them.
But they’re not the only ones. They’re not even the weirdest ones. Here are five bizarre killing sprees that never got solved… The Chicago Tylenol Murders In the fall of 1982, people with headaches and menstrual cramps all over Chicago were fucked if they reached for the Tylenol bottle. The same day (what timing!) Chicago police informed Johnson & Johnson, who immediately put on the skids and issued a mass recall of Tylenol throughout the area .
Even with the recalls, though, it was too late for three other people who ingested the tainted pills. No one was ever caught and no motives ever uncovered, but one dumbass, a con-man/accountant (which is either the weirdest or best job combination we’ve ever heard of) by the name of James W. Bible John The 60s were a time of peace, free love and deranged killings in Glasgow, Scotland. Nanowire battery can hold 10 times the charge of existing lithium-ion battery. Stanford Report, December 18, 2007 Courtesy Nature Nanotechnology Photos taken by a scanning electron microscope of silicon nanowires before (left) and after (right) absorbing lithium. Both photos were taken at the same magnification. The work is described in “High-performance lithium battery anodes using silicon nanowires,” published online Dec. 16 in Nature Nanotechnology.
Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices. The new technology, developed through research led by Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, produces 10 times the amount of electricity of existing lithium-ion, known as Li-ion, batteries. A laptop that now runs on battery for two hours could operate for 20 hours, a boon to ocean-hopping business travelers.
"It's not a small improvement," Cui said. Then, along came silicon nanowires. Artificial Intelligence Is Coming to the iPhone, And It's Going to Change Everything. Let me start off by saying this: Your phone is not suddenly going to gain sentience and become Skynet. However, your phone is about to become a whole lot smarter, thanks to Apple and its new artificial intelligence Assistant. The hype surrounding Tuesday's Apple iPhone event is at an all-time high. But most of the hype is focused on the hardware that Apple will announce. What will the iPhone 5 look like? Will there be an iPhone 4S? The real star of Tuesday's show will not be the hardware, though. Assistant is the successor to Siri, the iPhone app that helped users with their daily tasks with natural language voice commands.
The technology that powered Siri was born from SRI's CALO project, the largest artificial intelligence project in U.S. history. Two months after its launch, Apple acquired Siri for more than $200 million. What Assistant Will Do On Tuesday, Siri will be reborn as Assistant. Say you're in a new city and you're really craving Chinese.
Lead image courtesy of DreamWorks. Ipswich tattooist charged over 40cm penis tattoo on man's back. Villagers In Philippines Capture Giant One-Ton Crocodile. The world’s fastest supercomputer. The world’s fastest supercomputer August 30th, 2011 allfromweb Twice a year, the world’s top 500 supercomputers are announced. The most recent winner is the Jaguar which pretty much wiped the floor with the competition, managing a performance benchmark 69% above the IBM Roadrunner which came in second. Let’s take a closer look at the Jaguar, the fastest supercomputer in the world today. Quick data about the Jaguar * Performance: 1.759 petaflops (theoretical maximum: 2.33 petaflops) * Processors: 37,376 six-core AMD Opteron 2.6 GHz * Processor cores: 224,256 * Total RAM: 300 terabyte * Total disc space: 10 petabyte * System type: Cray XT5 * Operating system: Cray custom version of SUSE Linux One petaflops is the equivalent of one thousand trillion operations per second, which means the Jaguar is capable of a theoretical maximum performance of 2,330,000,000,000,000 operations per second.
Source: here You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Hulu up for sale, Google bidding big against Amazon, Yahoo, Dish Network. September 07, 2011, 10:35 AM — How much is Hulu worth, now that they have over a million Hulu Plus subscribers? Reports range from $500 million to $2 billion. And anytime a company on the block gets in that high a price range, Google's name comes up. Does YouTube need a younger brother? After Comcast bought NBC, on original Hulu backer, things got a little wonky about Hulu's direction. Besides Google, other bidders chasing Hulu are Amazon, Dish Network, and Yahoo. Google and Hulu = greatness Google is the best thing that could happen to Hulu. Yes and if GOOG had that library they could offer a 'free' (with ads) equivalent of Netflix.
Google buying Hulu makes the most sense! Google and Hulu = disaster Google will strangle hulu to death. Does anyone else see a future where google takes over the world.Kevin Peavler on allthingsd.com How would Google possibly integrate Hulu with YouTube? Not Google Amazon all the way. Yahoo is still in the bidding mix. Half-male, half-female butterfly emerges from cocoon at museum exhibit. The Sensational Butterflies exhibition at the London Natural History Museum is usually an opportunity for experts to wow museum-goers about colorful butterflies from around the world. But at this year's exhibition, one unusual great Mormon butterfly surprised even the experts. The butterfly is an extremely rare half-male, half-female bilateral Gynandromorph, which means that it appears to be male on one side but female on the other, according to the Guardian.
Dual-sex animals are a rare occurrence in nature, but it's especially rare for such a creature to be so uniformly bilateral. This butterfly appears perfectly split down the middle, with smoky black colors on its male side, but with visible flecks of blue, red and tortoiseshell on its female side. It also has one antenna longer than the other, a single male clasp on its abdomen, and its genitalia are also cut half and half — the male and female reproductive organs are fused right down the middle. "It's an amazing butterfly. Video: New Atomic Clock Reaches A 100 Quadrillionth Of A Second Accuracy |... A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo has developed a new type of optical atomic clock that boasts a 100 quadrillionth of a second accuracy (one quadrillion has 15 zeros).
The optical lattice clock is the brain child of Professor Katori who says his device observes a million atoms simultaneously whereas conventional atomic clocks measure time by using single atoms. The Professor explains: “(…) if one clock is placed one centimeter higher than another clock, the higher clock is affected by less gravity, so it goes faster. That difference could be read out in the 18th decimal place of the clocks in one second averaging time. Until now, clocks have been thought of as tools for sharing a common time. The idea is to eventually use the new clock to improve GPS (which is based on atomic clocks delivering 14-or 15-digit accuracy) or to predict earthquakes, for example. This video (shot by Diginfonews in Tokyo, in English) provides more insight:
The Human Marvels. Eyeborg filmmaker fires up eye-cam to document cutting edge prosthetics... Dead Bodies On Mount Everest: Pics, Videos, Links, News. 02002-02029 (27 years): By 2029 no computer - or "machine intelligence" - will have passed the Turing Test. - Long Bets. The Significance of the Turing Test. The implicit, and in my view brilliant, insight in Turing's eponymous test is the ability of written human language to represent human-level thinking. The basis of the Turing test is that if the human Turing test judge is competent, then an entity requires human-level intelligence in order to pass the test. The human judge is free to probe each candidate with regard to their understanding of basic human knowledge, current events, aspects of the candidate's personal history and experiences, as well as their subjective experiences, all expressed through written language.
As humans jump from one concept and one domain to the next, it is possible to quickly touch upon all human knowledge, on all aspects of human, well, humanness. There are many contemporary examples of computers passing "narrow" forms of the Turing test, that is, demonstrating human-level intelligence in specific domains. Why I Think I Will Win. 10 Of The Strangest Unclaimed Airline Baggage Items Ever Found. Computer derives natural laws. Lindsay France/University Photography Professor Hod Lipson and graduate student Michael Schmidt adjust a double pendulum. Refectors on the pendulum enable motion-tracking software to record position and velocity as the pendulum swings. From this a new computer algorithm can derive equations of motion.
If Isaac Newton had had access to a supercomputer, he'd have had it watch apples fall and let it figure out what that meant. But the computer would have needed to run an algorithm developed by Cornell researchers that can derive natural laws from observed data. The researchers have taught a computer to find regularities in the natural world that represent natural laws -- without any prior scientific knowledge on the part of the computer. The research is described in the April 3 issue of the journal Science (Vol. 323, No. 5924) by Hod Lipson, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and graduate student Michael Schmidt, a specialist in computational biology.
Utah's Liquor Laws: Still Crazy, but Less So (I Think) Two years ago, in what may have been his single greatest achievement as governor of Utah, Jon Huntsman signed legislation that eliminated the state's "private club" rule for serving alcohol. No longer would bar patrons have to pay a fee to join a legal fiction before ordering a drink. But as The New York Times notes, Utah still has some pretty weird alcohol regulations. For instance: 1. Restaurants that can't obtain highly coveted "club liquor licenses," which are limited to one per 7,850 Utah residents, can still serve alcoholic beverages, but they have to be prepared behind "a solid, opaque or translucent permanent structural barrier" (a.k.a. a "Zion Curtain") and appear as if by magic. 2. 3. 4.
Stiff drinks and doubles are illegal in Utah. Assembling a Long Island Iced Tea would seem to require collusion by at least two different customers. Guatemalan woman finds huge sinkhole under bed | World news. You may sometimes wish the ground would swallow you up, but for some the danger of disappearing down a deep hole is all too real. The people of Guatemala City are increasingly unable to trust what's beneath their feet because of treacherous sinkholes. The latest person to get a shock was 65-year-old Inocenta Hernandez. "When we heard the loud boom we thought a gas canister from a neighbouring home had exploded, or there had been a crash on the street.
"We rushed out to look and saw nothing. A gentleman told me that the noise came from my house, and we searched until we found it under my bed. " A reporter for AFP news agency who visited her home, estimated the hole, which appeared late on Monday, was 12.2m (40ft) deep and 80cm (32inches) in diameter. "Thank God there are only material damages, because my grandchildren were running around the house, into that room and out to the patio," said Hernandez. Others have not been so lucky. Adobe Adds Flash Privacy Controls -- InformationWeekAdobe Adds Flash Privacy Controls - security Blog.
Flash Player and Google Chrome get patches against attacks currently seen in the wild. Recommended Reading: -- Adobe Flash Attacks Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerability -- Online Privacy Battles Advertising Profits Adobe is aiming to make Flash safer for users, in part by blocking questionable website-tracking practices. The company on Thursday released Flash Player version 10.3, which now enables users to wipe the data stored by Flash from within the browser. That capability is designed to help people block the use of persistent Flash cookies--also known as Local Shared Objects (LSOs)--which some advertisers use to surreptitiously track every website that a user visits, regardless of their cookie or cache settings.
The new plug-in-wiping feature is facilitated by an API known as NPAPI:ClearSiteData. Any browser plug-in can use the new API, though Flash is the first to do so. The use of persistent Flash cookies, however, may be waning. More Insights.