Kaiser Permanente, a health care system with 8.6 million members, is offering some of its members a USB flash drive containing all of their personal medical information. Read more…
Archive for April, 2009
It is just something you have to see to really understand. Read more…
Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol has criticized the sentences received by the crew of The Pirate Bay, branding them as “way over the top”. The band’s frontman also says if you’re a file-sharer and you know how to get music for free, “f**king go for it.” Meet you at The Pirate Bay then? Read more…
Users vote for proposed changes to Facebook’s terms which give them more control over data posted to the site. Read more…
Yahoo is closing its GeoCities web hosting site – that allowed people to set up personal web pages – it bought it for $3.6bn in 1999. Read more…
Microsoft sales fall in the first three months of 2009 – its first quarterly revenue drop since 1986. Read more…
It’s official: News Corp. has named former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta as its CEO, following reports on Thursday that an announcement was imminent. Read more…
How much would you guess it costs to power a city’s streetlights for a year? In the case of San Jose, Calif., the tenth largest city in the country, the answer is $3.5 million. Add in the price of maintaining and replacing those lights, and that dollar figure rises much higher. Read more…
Alaska’s Mount Redoubt towers more than 10,000 feet above sea level, is an active volcano and can send clouds of ash so high that jetliners could be at risk. Read more…
On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary, from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay, from Nepal, became the first humans to successfully climb to the peak of Mt. Everest,… Read more…