Posts Tagged ‘California’

Twitter To Let Go Of The ‘Suggested Users’ Feature

Monday, November 16, 2009 20:02 By Rajeev Saxena

The micro blogging sensation, Twitter has finally decided to forfeit its newly introduced feature, ‘Suggested Users’ amid great amount of controversy as to the process through which Twitter decides which users go on list. Twitter has announced that, it will be exploring other alternatives to provide new users with suggestions, that would allow them to [...]

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Mobile magnification: Aydogan Ozcan builds $10 DIY cellphone microscope!

Monday, November 9, 2009 7:05 By Neo

If you thought that the mobile phone was only for making calls, texting, having fun, listening to music and connecting with the rest of the world, then a brand new and very special add-on app might change all of that very soon. Aydogan Ozcan, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and member of the California [...]

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SolarReserve aims to set up salt-based solar power plant in California

Saturday, November 7, 2009 6:55 By Neo

Excessive salt might ruin the taste of your food, but when it comes to solar energy, plenty of salt seems to be very good news- at least for the folk in California. Using a technology that will harness power through the sun and molten-salt, Solar Reserve, a California based solar firm intends to generate power [...]

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CalStar to Soon Produce Bricks with a Novel Method

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 17:58 By Robert

CalStar, a California based company, which has been a well-known pioneer for decades in the building supply industry is going the unconventional way of making bricks by adapting a novel method. Kane, the CEO of the company states in an interview that their method doesn’t involve a huge waste of energy, which is a common [...]

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Bottle village: A Wonderful Village Made of Recycled Bottles by Grandma Prisbrey

Monday, October 19, 2009 23:04 By Robert

There is no denying the fact that all grandmas are versatile but Tressa Prisbrey known as “Grandma Prisbrey” beats the rest for creating the unbelievable Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village on her own, which is located at Simi Valley in California.

Grandma Prisbrey took 25 long years to produce this creativity. What is even more fascinating is [...]

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British Team Breaks the Oldest the Land Speed Record with an Amazing Speed

Wednesday, August 26, 2009 14:52 By Robert

The century old record set by American; Fred Marriott in 1906 in land speed record for a steam powered car has been broken by Charles Burnett III yesterday, the 25th of August, 2009 at Edward’s Air Force Base in California. The British Steam Car hit a fantastic record of 139.843mph smashing the old one that [...]

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The home of Twitter up for grabs: Biz Stone puts his cottage for sale

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 14:03 By Neo

Real estate is big business and even though the global economic meltdown has meant that the profits have been cut down in a huge way and the business itself has taken a huge hit, there is no arguing that land always continues to remain premium commodity. In places like San Francisco, where the techno geeks [...]

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Fear of earthquakes stops project in California

Thursday, July 16, 2009 0:21 By NARUTO

Two federal organs are impeding that a controversial project in California fractures the bedrock to kilometers of depth of the surface to extract energy, until that a scientific study is determined the project can or not to unchain dangerous earthquakes, they said assistants of press of the departments of Energy and Interior of the USA [...]

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Final Tribute to MJ

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 13:03 By MB

Final Tribute to MJ
The final tribute will be paid to the Michael Jackson, King of Pop on Tuesday at a massive ceremony at the Staples Center at Los Angeles, California. The Jackson family will begin the ceremony with a private gathering at the cemetery at 8 am. The California Highway Patrol is to escort the [...]

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A House Of White In California Attracts Attention

Monday, June 22, 2009 3:23 By Saba

The Californian law for reflective roof going into effect next month is there for a reason. Environmentalists believe that if every building had a white roof, the surroundings will be a lot more cooler. The same eco-friendly vein has got on to architect Richard Meier who along with his partner Michael Palladino have created a [...]

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