Breast Transplantation, the Consequences
Sheyla Hershey, the woman with the biggest breasts (breast transplantation operation – 30 times), is now encountering serious health problems. Sheyla now living in Texas, originally comes from Brazil.
Technology
‘Sea Levels Rising in Parts of Indian Ocean’
*Greenhouse gases are playing a role in changes, say scientists*
Newly detected rising sea levels in parts of the Indian Ocean, including the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java, appear to be at least partly a result of human-induced increases of atmospheric greenhouse gases, says a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.
IBM Announces Open Beta Program for Industry-Leading UNIX Operating System
AIX 7 Exploits Performance, Energy Management Capabilities of POWER7 System
ARMONK, N.Y. – 14 Jul 2010: IBM today announced an open beta program for AIX 7, the company’s open standards-based UNIX® operating system. (more…)
comScore Releases June 2010 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
RESTON, VA – comScore, Inc. a leader in measuring the digital world, released (July 13) its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace.
In June 2010, Americans conducted 16.4 billion core searches, up 3 percent vs. May.
Plant ‘Breathing’ Mechanism Discovered
Palo Alto, CA — A tiny, little-understood plant pore has enormous implications for weather forecasting, climate change, agriculture, hydrology, and more. (more…)
The Long-Term Fate of the Oil Spill in the Atlantic
Honolulu, HI – The possible spread of the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon rig over the course of one year was studied in a series of computer simulations by a team of researchers from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Microsoft and NASA Bring Mars Down to Earth Through the WorldWide Telescope
*Dramatic imagery from NASA Mars missions creates new user experiences in the Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope.*
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft Research and NASA are providing an entirely new experience to users of the WorldWide Telescope, which will allow visitors to interact with and explore our solar system like never before.
Amazon Web Services Introduces Cluster Compute Instances
*New Cluster Compute Instances provide scalable, elastic, cost-efficient AWS cloud resources for advanced HPC workloads*
SEATTLE, Jul 13, 2010 – Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company, today announced Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2, a new instance type specifically designed for high-performance computing (HPC) applications and other demanding network-bound applications.