2008 COMPUTEX Taipei: Three awards, One target

February 17, 2023 By

Monday, June 23, 2008 Taiwan Design Gallery, designed to promote excellent “Made In Taiwan” products.Image: Rico Shen. 2008 COMPUTEX Taipei, the largest trade fair since its inception in 1982, featured several seminars and forums, expansions on show spaces to TWTC Nangang, great transformations for theme pavilions, and WiMAX Taipei Expo, mainly promoted by Taipei Computer […]

Major ‘Spiritual Life of College Students’ study released by UCLA

February 14, 2023 By

Thursday, April 14, 2005 Results of the second phase in an ongoing major study of the spiritual lives of college students was released Wednesday, April 13 by a research center at UCLA. The study is a groundbreaking attempt to gain insight into the spiritual lives and concerns of students and improve how faculties and administrators […]

Bank of America leads Consumer Financial Protection Bureau complaints about mortgages

February 12, 2023 By

Thursday, October 3, 2013 A review this week by Wikinews of US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) complaints about mortgages in the United States shows Bank of America leads all lending institutions in complaints. Since mortgages complaints were recorded in December 2011, 77,622 total have been added to CFPB’s database. 29.2% of these complaints involved […]

Several episodes of ‘Orange is the New Black’ released prematurely by hacker

February 9, 2023 By

Tuesday, May 2, 2017 A hacker, or group of hackers, operating under the alias of The Dark Overlord uploaded ten episodes of Netflix’s web TV series Orange is the New Black on Friday and Saturday on The Pirate Bay after they said the online streaming service failed to meet their demands. Netflix had planned to […]

Buffalo, N.Y. restaurant to end nearly 30-year tradition

February 8, 2023 By

Monday, August 21, 2006 Buffalo, New York — Pano’s Restaurant at 1081 Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, New York. After nearly thirty years, Pano’s Restaurant at 1081 Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, New York will end a tradition of being open 24 hours a day, seven days a week by ending its overnight food service. The tradition […]

Category:April 24, 2010

February 8, 2023 By

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Kansas School Board has copyright withheld over teaching Intelligent Design

February 7, 2023 By

Monday, October 31, 2005 Kansas has been denied permission to use two key documents commonly used in the writing of science education standards for states, the National Science Education Standards (published by the National Research Council) and Pathways to Science Standards (published by the National Science Teacher Association). The respective organizations argued that they could […]

Race to save Chilean miners trapped underground from spiralling into depression continues

February 7, 2023 By

Thursday, September 2, 2010 It has emerged that the 33 Chilean miners trapped underground after the mine they were working in collapsed could be brought to the surface in a shorter time than was initially feared. While officials publicly announced that the men would not be brought to the surface until Christmas, sources inside technical […]

Getty taps into Flickr snappers

February 7, 2023 By

Sunday, June 20, 2010 Flickr and Getty Images have announced an extension on their one year partnership. The new deal will grant Getty Images access to all 40 million registered users images. To protect privacy, users must opt into the project, though details are yet to emerge. To ensure that Getty Images doesn’t get free […]

Four arrested after building spire in Moscow painted in Ukrainian colors

February 4, 2023 By

Friday, August 22, 2014 Russian authorities have detained four people on Wednesday on suspicion of vandalism, following an incident where the spire of the iconic Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building in Moscow was painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. The suspects, reportedly consisting of two men and two women, allegedly ascended the building by stairs […]