Investment firm bids for ailing Barnes & Noble
An investment firm offered Friday to take a controlling stake in the troubled US bookseller Barnes & Noble, sending the share price soaring.
Business
Feb 21, 2014
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Japan gamers finally get PS4 at midnight launch (Update 2)
Diehard gamers in Japan who began queuing earlier this week finally got their hands on a new PlayStation 4 as Sony unleashed its console on home turf in a midnight launch.
Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 21, 2014
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NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Guito exit the Mozambique Channel
NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Cyclone Guito as it exited the Mozambique Channel and moved into the open waters of the Southern Indian Ocean.
Earth Sciences
Feb 21, 2014
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Tracking catalytic reactions in microreactors
A pathway to more effective and efficient synthesis of pharmaceutical drugs and other flow reactor chemical products has been opened by a study in which for the first time the catalytic reactivity inside a microreactor was ...
Materials Science
Feb 21, 2014
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Fruit-loving lemurs score higher on spatial memory tests
Food-finding tests in five lemur species show that fruit-eaters may have better spatial memory than lemurs with a more varied diet.
Plants & Animals
Feb 21, 2014
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Google buys firm to stem online fraud
Google said Friday it was buying the British-based startup spider.io for its technology to weed out fraud in online advertising.
Internet
Feb 21, 2014
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No quick solution to payment card hacking
Consumers shell-shocked by the escalating size and frequency of payment card hacks like the one that recently struck Target aren't likely to get much relief any time soon.
Security
Feb 21, 2014
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Technology is bringing legal advice, documents to the masses
Joey Mucha used to seal a business deal with a handshake or an email. Now he whips out his smartphone.
Business
Feb 21, 2014
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Australian sponge survey driving medical research
Sponge gardens along WA's coast are proving to be a haven of new species—and many are playing an important role in new drug discoveries.
Plants & Animals
Feb 21, 2014
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Researchers develop automated technologies to analyze causes and effects that drive complicated systemsÂ
During the 1854 cholera epidemic in London, Dr. John Snow plotted cholera deaths on a map, and in the corner of a particularly hard-hit quadrangle of buildings was a water pump. Snow's maps, a 19th-century version of big ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 21, 2014
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