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"On Tuesday, an industry group reported that in February, auto sales in China accelerated 55% compared to last year's sales. According to the Government-affiliated China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, while sales of cars, commercial vehicles and SUVs increased to 942,900 units, sales of all vehicles including trucks and buses swelled 46% year-on-year to 1.21 million." - τorƍue

"China Unicom is working with Apple to finally launch a Wi-Fi version of the iPhone, according to The Wall Street Journal. The iPhone hit China in October, but sans Wi-Fi. Chinese regulations had prohibited the sale of any Wi-Fi device that does not use the country's own wireless standard known as WAPI (Wired Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure). As a result, Apple was forced to introduce the iPhone with Wi-Fi disabled in order to enter the Chinese market without delays." - τorƍue

"The answer to the eternal mystery of what makes up a Filet-O-Fish sandwich turns out to involve an ugly creature from the sunless depths of the Pacific, whose bounty, it seems, is not limitless." - τorƍue

"The world’s most famous fish sandwich begins as one of the ocean’s ugliest creatures. Filet-O-Fish, like many of the fish patties used by fast-food chains, is made predominantly from hoki, a gnarly, crazy-eyed fish found in the cold waters off the coast of New Zealand. In the past, McDonald’s has purchased up to 15 million pounds of hoki a year, each flaky fillet destined for a coat of batter, a bath of oil, a squirt of tartar, and a final resting place in a warm, squishy bun." - τorƍue

"The “meat” in the McNugget alone contains seven ingredients, some of which are made up of yet more ingredients. (Nope, it’s not just chicken. It’s also such nonchicken-related stuff as water, wheat starch, dextrose, safflower oil, and sodium phosphates.) The “meat” also contains something called “autolyzed yeast extract.” Then add another 20 ingredients that make up the breading, and you have the industrial chemical—we mean, fast-food meal—called the McNugget." - τorƍue

Did you just have a baby? If so, congratulations! - Mark Trapp

Congratulations and May God bless this little one and your family! - Melanie Reed

The new/used contrast is important. - τorƍue

"But... compile time. Hmm. That wasn’t much better. I got it down from 30 seconds to ... 30 seconds." - τorƍue

""Research without Google would be like life without electricity," one Chinese scientist said in the survey, which asked more than 700 scientists for their views." - τorƍue

"TAT built the augmented ID demo, called Recognizr, to work on a phone that has a five-megapixel camera and runs the Android operating system. A user opens the application and points the phone's camera at someone nearby. Software created by Swedish computer-vision firm Polar Rose then detects the subject's face and creates a unique signature by combining measurements of facial features and building a 3-D model. This signature is sent to a server where it's compared to others stored in a database. Providing the subject has opted in to the service and uploaded a photo and profile of themselves, the server then sends back that person's name along with links to her profile on several social networking sites, including Twitter or Facebook. The Polar Rose software also tracks the position of the subject's head--TAT uses this information to display the subject's name and icons for the Web links on the phone's screen without obscuring her face." - τorƍue

"In the last few years, scientists have developed a way to stimulate neurons using light rather than electricity. Researchers first introduce a gene for a light-sensitive molecule, called channelrhodopsin 2 (ChR2), into a specific subset of neurons. Shining blue light on these neurons then causes them to fire. One advantage of this approach is its specificity--only the neurons with the gene are activated. It also provides a way to shut neurons off--introducing a different molecule, halorhodopsin (NpHR), silences the cells in response to yellow light. "That's the other unique thing about this approach," says Tim Denison, senior IC engineering manager in Medtronic's neuromodulation division. "It allows us to silence neurons' activity, which is extraordinarily difficult with electrostimulation."" - τorƍue

"A person's "singing center" is also located on the right side of the brain near the speech hole, but, once engaged, singing has the ability to activate many other parts of the brain, including cognitive, emotional, and physical functions and abilities. What the new study has shown is that, as patients are taught to add words to their melodies, the speech center in the right brain begins to to develop more connections. And if patients tapped out the rhythm of each syllable, it made their results even more effective." - τorƍue

I just wrote about this too... I worry though about privacy implications. I can't help but think "minority report". http://snapmyinfo.com/blog... - mikepk

Thing is, once this genie is out of the bottle, isn't the minority report vision inevitable? - mikepk

"A defensive feature of the aircraft was its high speed and operating altitude, whereby, if a surface-to-air missile launch were detected, standard evasive action was simply to accelerate." - τorƍue

sorta related I think i saw a couple http://ff.im/gss3Q in the boneyard - WarLord

"A new version of the 'Foxhound' with upgraded avionics, the MiG-31B, was introduced in 1990. Its development was the result of the Soviet discovery that Phazotron radar division engineer Adolf Tolkachev had sold information on advanced radars to the West. Tolkachev was executed, and a new version of the compromised radar was hastily developed. Many earlier MiG-31s were upgraded to the new standard, designated MiG-31BS." - τorƍue

"China's technology ministry moved to tighten controls on Internet use Tuesday, saying individuals who want to operate Web sites must first meet in person with regulators." - τorƍue

One if you're American, two if you're British. - Mark Trapp

and three if by sea! - mikepk

+1000000 to mikepk :) - Scott. Cat Herder.

I would be scared of accidentally snapping off the extra screen. - τorƍue

That's a good question. It is said that the snails in the Bay Area are of the French escargot variety. They completely demolished my son's green pepper plant. :( - τorƍue

Looks like something that belongs in Windows Phone 7. - τorƍue

"At next month's MIX10 event in Las Vegas, Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) will officially name Silverlight as the platform for building native applications in Windows Phone 7 and future generations of Windows Phones, sources familiar with the matter told Channelweb.com late Monday." - τorƍue

"We’re in Barcelona keeping an eye on Eric Schmidt’s Mobile World Congress keynote, where the Google CEO just disclosed an interesting fact: Google and their hardware partners are now shipping 60,000 Android handsets each day. Whether “shipped” here means “sold to end users” or “ordered by retailers” is unclear – but regardless, it’s quite the feat either way." - τorƍue

"Among the items in the 13-count federal indictment was the curious case of the $177 bagel sandwich and soda. Mr. Seabrook, a Bronx Democrat and former assemblyman and former state senator, bought a bagel sandwich and diet soda for $7 one day and submitted a doctored receipt that inflated the cost to $177, according to the indictment." - τorƍue