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Major email disaster avoided

Thank you, IMAP and auto-save! Minutes ago, I was checking my emails and responding to someone a particularly long and sophisticated email that took me some time to write. Suddenly, the screen of my laptop was black, and my computer started booting as if I had not just been typing merrily, milliseconds before. Half expecting [...]

Thank you, David Fincher

I found the newest David Fincher absolutely fantastic. Retracing the birth and rise of the blue social tsunami, the film makes you see Facebook under a different angle, and shows you the new buzzing atmosphere of the Silicon Valley, where you can make big money with just a single idea. The movie is thrilling. Every [...]

The surprising physics of cats’ drinking

“It has taken four highly qualified engineers and a bunch of integral equations to figure it out, but we now know how cats drink.” (the New York Times) Yesterday, Perdo M. Reis and Roman Stocker from the MIT, together with Sunghwan Jung (Virginia Tech) and Jeffrey M. Aristoff (Princeton) solved the mystery. They say that [...]

The giant money machine

Google is making lots of money. Every day we hear about them buying start-ups with great potential (or even wind-mill farms for that matter). At Wall Street, the colorful internet giant ended the third quarter of 2010 with $33.4 billion in cash, his stock now approaching a $200 billion market valuation, almost catching up with [...]