German authorities are investigating thousands of Credit Suisse customers who are suspected of evading taxes with the help of insurance products sold by the Swiss bank.
From Wired Top Stories: Ouya Android Game Console Nets $3M, With 28 Days to Go
Initially seeking $950,000, Ouya drew over $2 million in its first day of fundraising.
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From WSJ.com: What’s News US: Enbridge, U.S. Faulted for Michigan Oil Spill
Safety lapses by pipeline company Enbridge and “weak regulation” by the U.S. are to blame for the 2010 Michigan oil spill, the NTSB said.
From New Scientist – Online news: Smart nanoparticles filmed destroying a blood clot
Watch an obstruction in a mouse artery disappear in minutes thanks to a novel biology-inspired therapy
From Gizmodo: Hungary’s Red Sludge Disaster Zone Still Looks Apocalyptic Two Years Later
In 2010, a lake of caustic, poison mud from an aluminum manufacturing operation spilled out and destroyed a nearby town, along with much of the native life. Humans were killed and burned, property destroyed. And it still looks like Mars. More »
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From Geeks are Sexy Technology News: Levitating Light Bulb
From Engadget: 36.7 million FPS camera revolutionized cancer screening, next comes combat sports
We’re quite familiar with the fun you can have when you’ve got a high speed camera in your possession. But, even Phantom’s pricey and impressive 2,800 FPS cameras have nothing on the latest project out of UCLA. Engineers at the school have rigged up a microscope cam that uses serial time-encoded amplified microscopy (STEAM) to capture clips of individual cells at 36.7 million FPS. Let that sink in for a moment — that’s a “shutter” speed of 27 picoseconds. The school actually pioneered the method years ago, which uses ultra-fast laser pulses to generate images of cells as they speed by. The camera is capable of processing 100,000 cells a second, allowing doctors to spot cancerous anomalies that might have otherwise gone undetected. Now we just hope they can supersize the tech and sell it to HBO… boxing KOs can never be played back slow enough.
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