worldspy - 04.06.12 15:29 While the Mutually Assured Destruction game is playing out economically in Europe as Spain (et. al.) square off with Germany, it seems we just ticked a minute closer to midnight on the doomsday clock globally. In a somewhat stunning report from Der Spiegel, Israel is arming up to six new German-made submarines with nuclear weapons. mehr bei zerohedge.com

worldspy - 04.05.12 17:32 Microsoft Research is opening a new lab in New York City, headed by ex-Yahoo senior scientists. The star crop of researchers includes sociologist and network theorist Duncan Watts, computational scientist David Pennock, and machine learning expert John Langford. mehr bei fastcompany.com

worldspy - 14.08.11 03:00 The Guardian reports on a new study which has found that "the number of ivory items on sale in key centres in southern China has more than doubled since 2004, with most traded illegally." Fears about the future of elephants and rhinos of Africa has the researchers calling for China to tighten the enforcement of ivory trading regulations. mehr bei treehugger.com

KMR - 12.05.11 10:37 The app that everyone’s been waiting for. After months (20 minutes) of coding and Q&A, Data Driven is proud to release Sparkbars! In Twitter! v2.0 You may need to right click and save as an xls to stop the .zip being added. As Twitter now accepts Unicode, we can use the block elements to create a sparkline in our posts (a sparkbar, I suppose... mehr bei datadrivenconsulting.com

KMR - 02.08.10 09:45
What summer doldrums? The startup launches, venture financings, and M&A deals were flying about as fast as they come last week. —I got the inside story on OpenAppMkt, a new marketplace for Web apps for the Apple iPhone, from co-founder Teck Chia. The service, which went live on Friday, is similar to the iTunes App Store [...]

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worldspy - 10.06.10 15:35
Today Software-as-a-Service company Vocus will announce the acquisition of Help a Reporter Out for an undisclosed sum, with the aim of furthering both companies’ missions…
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grrow - 30.04.10 15:01
A mechanical music machine, built from bits of old piano and driven by computer built by third year student Felix Thorn (21). It is invention with an array of hammers, keys and dampers – all taken from an old upright piano. He has also added drums, a glockenspiel and other percussion instruments. mehr bei makeahistory.com