The mechanism inside a DSLR that converts your press of a button to a giant, detailed JPEG is concealed by a click and an instant. But in that instant lies some incredible engineering—watch it all happen super slowly. More »
Everything you think you know about love is probably wrong. Common statements get repeated over and over. Popular sayings about love get passed on from generation to generation. Ideas about love get affirmed by our ?feelings? and what we hope to be true rather than real logic and accurate facts. Yep, we?ve all been duped [...]
HelloWallet, a personal finance software, has raised $12 million in Series B funding from Morningstar and TD Fund. The startup previously raised $9 million in Series A funding, from Grotech Ventures and AOL co-founder Steve Case and his wife Jean. HelloWallet, which launched last year, helps users track and proactively manage their personal finances from [...]
BEIJING (Reuters) ? An 18-year-old Tibetan nun died after setting herself on fire in protest at Chinese rule in Tibet, activists said on Sunday, adding to a fast growing list of self-immolations in ethnically Tibetan areas of China. Chinese army troops moved in after Tenzin Choedon set herself alight at the Mamae convent in China’s [...]
President Nixon declared a war on cancer on Dec. 23, 1971. The war on cancer is arguably being lost on a daily basis. My daughter Alexis Agin, just two weeks shy of her fifth birthday, became yet another name etched on the proverbial wall of names who laid down their life in this war. Sure, [...]
BEIJING/LONDON (Reuters) ? China is scouring the world for alternative oil supplies to replace a fall in its imports from Iran, as it seeks to negotiate lower prices from Tehran, and has been drawing heavily on Saudi Arabia. Industry sources told Reuters that Beijing had bought the bulk of an increase in crude oil supplies [...]
