Woolly mammoths ate their own dung: related news

Woolly mammoths ate their own dung

They lived in frozen wastelands with sparse food supplies, but Woolly mammoths had a dirty habit that may have helped them delay their eventual extinction – they ate their own dung.

Media Cybernetics Offers Free Image Processing Consultations

Researchers learn sophisticated image analysis techniques using their own images BETHESDA, Md.--(Business Wire)-- Media Cybernetics, the scientific imaging software company, has added an exciting, new tool to their website that enables individuals to upload their images and receive a free image processing consultation. This new image upload feature gives researchers the opportunity to describe their imaging challenge and receive feedback on how they can accomplish their desired outcome using image processing tools. This tool allows Media Cybernetics' representatives to consult with and train researchers-using their own images- resulting in a significantly reduced learning curve. Researchers benefit immediately, improving their research processes through the use of advanced image analysis techniques, including counting objects, tracking th

Etisalat's Online Services leaves positive impact on customers during the holiday season

Etisalat today announced that its online services continue to receive positive feedback from customers during the holiday season by helping them to conduct transactions at their own convenience even when they are on holiday abroad. Etisalat services allow customers to automatically pay their bills when it is due; renew their ‘Wasel’ balance automatically or manually through their mobile by dialing *122# , along with access to many other services that are available on www.etisalat.ae/online. Customers can easily manage their account through the online services; check the value and details of their bills, make payments online, recharge their ‘Wasel’ account and carry out many transactions quickly and safely at any time with one single click.

Online Privacy Versus Piracy

Millions of YouTube enthusiasts - including many in Singapore - should be relieved the video-sharing website's owner Google has to hand over only anonymised viewer logs in media giant Viacom's US$1 billion copyright lawsuit. Viacom and other plaintiffs may be suing only for payment of fair value of their content YouTube has made freely available online. They may have no wish to go after individual uploaders or viewers. Another, less obvious, motive might be that the usage data may come in handy in carving out their own online video market share and in boosting their own advertising revenues. Stripping out users' names and their Internet protocol addresses from the evidence allows the plaintiffs a chance to prove their case without compromising US privacy protection law.

Farmers Recognised for Their Commitment to Wildlife ; East Yorks: Farmers Who Encourage Wildlife Have Been Recognised for Their Exceptional Efforts to Help Birds and Animals on Their Farms.

East Yorks: Farmers who encourage wildlife have been recognised for their exceptional efforts to help birds and animals on their farms.

T-Mobile To Open App Store For All of Their Phones

tsa brings news that T-Mobile will be developing their own application store to compete with Apple's popular distribution scheme. Their aim is to be capable of bringing new services to all of their customers. Excerpting: "Developers will submit their applications online; the revenue-share agreement will be based on how much the application uses the network; and the applications will be presented to the user in order of popularity, not according to T-Mobile's preferences. It's all pretty straightforward, but the more interesting aspect is that this will apply to all the carrier's platforms from upcoming Android to Java to Sidekick and Windows Mobile."

Panasonic to Mass Produce 150-Inch TV, Requires Your Own Nuclear Power Plant

Panasonic is saying that they are going to start mass-manufacturing their 150-inch 2,106 x 4,096 display, which obviously is not directed at consumers unless a) they have their own Quad-HD video material to play and b) they have their own nuclear power plant, since this beast eats 1,500 watts, which in the Michael Phelps scale is 243 pizzas, two roasted pigs stuffed with chicken breasts, five chili burritos and two dozen plates of pasta with veal meatballs. Hmmm. Meatballs. [Engadget]

MapusoftMapuSofts Solutions Give Tecnobit the Ability to Move their Code to the Linux Operating System MapuSoft Technologies (MT) announced that Tecnobit, of Valdepeas, Spain has selected MTs OS Changer software reuse product for their current mig

MapuSoft Technologies (MT) announced that Tecnobit, of Valdepeñas, Spain has selected MT´s OS Changer software reuse product for their current migration project. Tecnobit is using OS Changer to move their legacy software to the Linux operating system. The application that uses OS Changer is a simulator of a navigation console for a tactical data system for the Spanish Armada. By implementing MT´s solution, and recycling their original software, Tecnobit will save valuable development resources and eliminate an expensive and time consuming code rewrite.

Playstation Blog: The Eye of Judgment: Official Online Tournaments Begin Next Week

We hope people have been working on their summoning skills since our last post because we are happy to announce that the Official North American EOJ Tournaments starts this month! You may have noticed our friends in Japan and UK been having their own, now North American players get their chance to prove their skills and their decks!

Subject to Change

prostoalex writes "Most companies would call themselves innovative and would claim they're delivering an above-average service to their customers. Yet, their customers opinions might differ. If you drill a company on their innovation practices, they would probably mention two approaches they employ: 1. Their research department meets with target groups, compiles presentations for the upper management, which then occasionally hands those reports over to the development department. 2. Their research or marketing department comes up with competitive matrix of the products available from competition. In a meeting then, executives see that their product is missing a feature, and hence the development department is assigned the task of adding 'an Internet-enabled installer' to the product, since everybody else offers them, thereby creating mark

Second Life Faces Open Source Challenges

ruphus13 writes "Linden Labs has talked about Open Sourcing aspects of their platform for a while, but have not always followed through. Now, the OpenSimulator project has been gathering some solid momentum, and this was followed by an announcement by IBM that showed interoperability between OpenSimulator and Linden Servers. What this means is that you can use a Second Life client to log on to an OpenSim server. Beyond that, anyone can run their own server. 'Working with the protocols derived from the official Second Life client, and a knowledge of how Second Life works, these people have implemented their own compatible server code.' It is only a matter of time before users will be able to move profiles, virtual goods, and other elements of their 'second life' on to any server in a truly open world, thereby threatening Linden Labs' virtu

South Africa desperate to fight back

And so, the Kevin Pietersen fairytale continues. England took an unassailable 3-0 lead at The Oval, but for England's new and irrepressibly positive captain, he and his team have greater goals in their sights: a 5-0 whitewash. It may have seemed an implausible task before the series, but such has been England's dominance that Pietersen's ambition is perfectly achievable. Sunday's match represents another chance for South Africa to turn around their short-term fortunes, yet the poor form of their senior players - Jacques Kallis and Mark Boucher in particular - has prompted their coach, Mickey Arthur, to look ahead to the future. He wants the younger generation to stake a claim for their own futures, but also sees Lord's as the beginning of a new era.

Genetic Glitch May Prevent Kids from Learning from Their Mistakes

jamie pointed out an interesting piece being featured in Newsweek that claims a "genetic glitch" may prevent some kids from learning from their mistakes to the same degree as others. "If there is one thing experts on child development agree on, it is that kids learn best when they are allowed to make mistakes and feel the consequences. So Mom and Dad hold back as their toddler tries again and again to cram a round peg into a square hole. [...] But not, it seems, all kids. In about 30 percent, the coils of their DNA carry a glitch, one that leaves their brains with few dopamine receptors, molecules that act as docking ports for one of the neurochemicals that carry our thoughts and emotions. A paucity of dopamine receptors is linked to an inability to avoid self-destructive behavior such as illicit drug use.

Remains of Woolly mammoths on display

The remains of two woolly mammoths are displayed in a refrigerated viewing box. The long extinct elephants in the Ice Age, found in Siberian permafrost, are kept at the Taiwan National Democracy Memorial Hall.

Zimbabwe v Bangladesh 2006-07

Zimbabwe concluded their World Cup preparations with a home one-day series against their most frequent opponents of recent times. This was the third one-day series between these two since July 2006: including a game in the Champions Trophy, the overall match score in that time was 11- 4 to Bangladesh. It was a close-fought one, the first two games being shared before Bangladesh - who left their long-serving wicketkeeper Khaled Mashud at home - won the third after a Zimbabwean collapse, and the fourth despite a late collapse of their own.

Ruby Tuesday To Blow Up Its Store Live Online

Dining chain Ruby Tuesday will blow up their site - literally! According to their website, they will demolish their "last old" restaurant and they will broadcast the spectacle live online. The eatery announces the "brand new Tuesday" ad campaign that they are about to launch after they demolish their last old Ruby Tuesday. The location is still a secret but patrons can watch it live on their website on August 5 at 3 p.m. EST.

Real Estate Blogging 101: Achieving Profit And Success In 3 Easy Steps

Real estate agents today are blogging their real estate business to rise up from the competition, as well as giving their venture a little boost in success and profit. In fact, real estate blogs number by the thousands on the World Wide Web, implementing their own specific strategies to attract potential clients and customers to increase their profit and online reputation.

Chinese leading folk artists have been demonstrating their skills in Olympic Village since it was opend early August, making it a place for foreign athletes to feast their eyes on Chinese culture.

Kong Bingzhang, a Chinese kite artist, shows his works at the Olympic Village in Beijing, China, Aug. 21, 2008. Chinese leading folk artists have been demonstrating their skills in the village since the village was opend early August, making it a place for foreign athletes to feast their eyes on Chinese culture.(Xinhua Photo/Li Ziheng)

Panasonic Digital Wall takes on Microsoft: no multitouch but bigger

Microsoft Research got some hack-kudos earlier on in the year when they demonstrated their low-cost TouchWall, a potentially far-cheaper (and larger, and vertical) version of their Surface multitouch table. Now Panasonic are here to steal their thunder, with their own imaginatively-titled “Digital Wall�.

Study: Some doctor bloggers tell all

Although doctor or nurse bloggers might think they're anonymous, they sometimes inadvertently end up revealing their identities and, as a result, their patients', according to a study. Researchers reviewed five entries each for 271 blogs written by people who said they were a physician or a nurse, and they found that 114 of the blogs described patients. More than half of the bloggers provided enough information in their text or images to reveal their identities, and 45 of the blogs that described interactions with individual patients included enough information for them to identify their doctors or themselves. Three blogs went so far to show recognizable photos of patients.

Workplace BlackBerry Use May Spur Lawsuits

An anonymous reader writes "From an article on cnbc.com: 'As employers hand out electronic devices to their employees at a greater pace, there are growing concerns that workers eligible for overtime pay, known as non-exempt employees, could begin suing their employers for overtime hours earned while tapping on their devices during after-work hours. As a result, lawyers are advising their corporate clients to update their policies and handbooks related to BlackBerry use and reconsider who gets a device.'"

More Than Just a Game: The Science of Fantasy Football

Across the country, millions of people have spent the last few weeks feverishly studying figures, boldly predicting future performance, and deciphering bewildering trends. Armed with reams of research, they congregate in meeting rooms and living rooms, in person and on their computers, where they will test their theories and attempt to outmaneuver their adversaries. The best of them will earn the begrudging respect of their foes, and may even earn significant financial rewards. Using the same skills that breed success in the stock and real estate markets, people across the country are preparing for the fantasy football season. This is a key weekend for fantasy drafts as fans select their teams before the kickoff of the NFL season on September fourth.

Next Year's Madden, Others to Get Music Download Service

Joystiq is reporting that next year's version of Madden, and other subsequent EA games, will offer the ability to download new background music tracks. They have not yet said if this would be a pay-per-song service. "It might seem a bit silly for EA to offer a proprietary music download service when all current-gen consoles allow users to create their own custom soundtracks from their already-existing digital music collections. You have to realize, though, that EA needs to offer its own downloads so it can [...] gently suggest the latest hot track from Kid Rock to their captive audience of millions of players."

GDC Austin Preview

Soothing and seductive, flOw draws you into the evolution of a simple aquatic creature journeying through the surreal abyss. Initially an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) thesis, flOw is a game about piloting an aquatic organism through a surreal biosphere where players consume other organisms, evolve, and advance their organisms into the abyss. The stunning graphics and power of PLAYSTATION 3 set the stage for a truly unique gameplay experience. With an embedded design of DDA (dynamic difficulty adjustment), players with differing skill levels can intuitively adjust their game experience and enjoy playing at their own pace. Players can customize the appearance of their organisms based on gameplay. In flOw, you are what you eat.

When Adoptees Know Their Biological Mother

Every year, more families are undergoing "open adoptions," meaning children remain in contact with their birth mothers after joining their new families. Findings published in the Journal of Family Psychology this month confirm that open adoptions are changing the definition of "family" for adoptees and their loved ones.

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