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Researchers create ‘invisible cloak’

PodcastOct 6, 2011

U.S. researchers have created a cloaking device that takes advantage of the effect of mirages to make objects invisible. This technology from the University of Dallas uses of sheets of carbon nanotubes. When the nanotubes are electrically stimulated, the resulting temperature gradient causes light rays to bend away from whatever object is being concealed behind the device, making it appear invis...
Steve Jobs, from dropout to Apple visionary

PodcastOct 6, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at age 56, left an indelible mark on the world with his uncanny ability to marry hard-core technology with an understanding of human nature. In a rare personal moment at one of his last press events, he displayed a huge picture of street signs showing the intersection of "technology" and "liberal arts," saying that it was ther...
Late top N. Korean defector sought to form N.K. interim gov't: daughter

PodcastOct 6, 2011

SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Yonhap) -- Hwang Jang-yop, the highest-ranking North Korean defector, had sought to create North Korea's interim government before he died last year, his adopted daughter said Thursday. Hwang, a former secretary of the North's ruling Workers' Party, drafted a plan on how to set up the organization as part of efforts to prepare for the potential unification with North Korea, Kim Su...
Cloning method may help make personal stem cells

PodcastOct 6, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. scientists used a cloning technique to create the type of customized stem cells that show promise for treating disease. But the first-of-its-kind result comes with a big hitch. The newly created stem cells have too much genetic material to function properly. They include DNA from two people, not just the patient the cells were meant to match. Scientists still have to figur...
Yahoo shares soar on new Microsoft takeover hopes

PodcastOct 6, 2011
Rich Spanish duchess weds for third time at age 85

PodcastOct 6, 2011

SEVILLE, Spain (AP) — A wealthy, 85-year-old Spanish duchess considered the world's most title-laden noble married a civil servant 25 years her junior on Wednesday, shrugging off her children's qualms and celebrating by kicking off her shoes and dancing flamenco. A crowd of several hundred clapped and roared its approval as the Duchess of Alba waved, smiled and danced on a red carpet after her w...
Obama: Jobs one of America's greatest innovators

PodcastOct 6, 2011

WASHINGTON, Oct 5, 2011 (AFP) - US President Barack Obama mourned Apple visionary Steve Jobs Wednesday as one of America's "greatest innovators" and said it was fitting many people learned of his death on a device he invented. "He transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world," Obama said in...
Slurring Jackson aimed to build hospital for kids

PodcastOct 6, 2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Six weeks before Michael Jackson died, his doctor recorded the semi-comatose superstar mumbling what might have been his farewell address to the world. In a slow, slurred voice, clearly under the influence of sedatives, Jackson spoke about leaving a performance legacy bigger than Elvis or The Beatles, and building a fabulous hospital for children with proceeds from his highly ...
Steve Jobs' impact will last for generations: Bill Gates

PodcastOct 6, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -- Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has had an impact on the world which will last for generations, Microsoft boss Bill Gates said Wednesday, adding that it had been "an insanely great honor" to know him. "Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives," he said, adding that he was "truly sad...
Jobs rose From parents’ garage to technology icon: timeline

PodcastOct 6, 2011

Steve Jobs was a college dropout who built computers in his parents’ garage in the mid-1970s with a friend, Steve Wozniak. They founded what is now Apple Inc. (AAPL) in 1976 to sell their creations. Apple, based in Cupertino, California, surpassed Microsoft Corp. in 2010 to become the world’s most valuable technology company. A timeline of Jobs’s career follows: Feb. 24, 1955: A boy is born in...
Loss of Steve Jobs makes world 'iSad'

PodcastOct 6, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - The passing of Steve Jobs left people around the world "iSad" on Thursday, with countless mourners typing out their grief on the handheld Apple gadgets that have transformed modern life. Tributes poured in from notables from US President Barack Obama to Bill Gates, but it was the scale of the outpouring from ordinary people around the world, hammering out characters on Jobs...
Daniel Shechtman wins Nobel chemistry prize

PodcastOct 5, 2011

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals, a chemical structure that researchers previously thought was impossible. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Shechtman's discovery in 1982 fundamentally changed the way chemists look at solid matter. Contrary to the previous belief that atoms were pa...
Samsung seeks iPhone sales ban in France, Italy

PodcastOct 5, 2011

Samsung Electronics Co. is seeking to prevent Apple Inc.’s new smartphone iPhone 4S from going on sale in France and Italy. The Korean firm announced Wednesday that it plans to file an injunction in the two European countries to prevent the device from going on sale saying that the new iPhone breached its patent rights on two accounts. In a separate action, Samsung Electronics has made a move t...
Samsung seeks sales ban on new iPhone

PodcastOct 5, 2011

Samsung Electronics Co. is seeking to prevent Apple Inc.’s new smartphone iPhone 4S from going on sale in France and Italy. The Korean firm announced Wednesday that it plans to file an injunction in the two European countries to prevent the device from going on sale saying that the new iPhone breached its patent rights on two accounts. In a separate action, Samsung Electronics has made a move t...
Young woman ages mysteriously in Vietnam, experts to help

PodcastOct 5, 2011

Hanoi (dpa) - Medical experts in southern Vietnam offered to help a 26-year-old woman whose skin wrinkled virtually overnight, making her look 30 years older, local media reported Wednesday. Three hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City have offered Nguyen Thi Phuong consultations with experts after the Tuoi Tre newspaper published photographs of her Sunday. Phuong's skin is wrinkled but she still has th...