Unilever has sued Hampton Creek, a start-up food company that is developing animal-free alternatives to industrialised foods over the definition of mayonnaise. The lawsuit was filed in Newark, NJ, in a federal court on October 31, ...
Tags: mayonnaise, false advertising, Agriculture
Apple has announced HealthKit, a glorified healthcare and fitness app bundled into iOS8 that can potentially communicate patient health data to hospitals. The company also announced a partnership with the Mayo Clinic, which is exploring the ...
Tags: Apple, Digital Health Company
Smartphones can already understand your voice commands but imagine if they tried to read your emotions as well. What if you asked it for details of movies showing at your local cinema and it replied: Well, you look a bit sad. A rom-com ...
People tweet about anything and everything, but a new Twitter analysis coauthored by University of Maryland computer scientist Ben Shneiderman shows much of this conversation falls into six distinct patterns or networks. The study ...
Tags: NodeXL, Twitter, Network Type, Cluster
The discovery of a Portuguese manuscript purporting to include an illustration of a kangaroo has been used to question which European power was first to "discover" Australia. The drawing is included in a pocket-sized religious manuscript, ...
Tags: European power, discover"Australia
Maersk Group/Flickr A.P. Moeller-Maersk plans to sell its stake in a supermarket and department store to focus on transport and energy, Bloomberg News reported. The owner of the world's largest container line, with 3.4 million ...
Tags: A.P.Moeller-Maersk, sell stake, Dansk Supermarked, Nils Andersen
Seagate will show a revamped portable storage line this week, including a 4TB model geared toward the prosumer. The Back Up Plus Fast is a USB 3.0 bus powered 4TB portable storage drive. The unit has Raid O data storage and is targeted at ...
Tags: Seagate, portable storage, 4TB portable storage drive, Back Up Plus Fast
I was happy watching television shows and movies on my computer—until I realized what I was missing. Streaming video devices such as Roku, Apple TV and Google's Chromecast project video from Netflix, YouTube and other services onto ...
Tags: TV, Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Facebook is positioning itself as a mobile-first social network, so its interest in the moves of major smartphone companies is natural. BlackBerry is a sinking ship searching desperately for a rescue, so its turning to any major mobile ...
Tags: Facebook, Computer Products, smartphone, Blackberry
What happens if US loses California food production? Cotton growers huddle to glean variety info for 2014 Is the wine shortage a false alarm? One of the fascinating and little-promoted aspects of agriculture is the amount of natural ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
UK-based pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has reached an agreement with Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP), the Brazilian funding agency for scientific research, to establish a new center of excellence ...
Tags: Sustainable Chemistry, Medicine
Designs come and go, and although that good old rotary phone still remains in many of our hearts there is no need to fret it has been brought back to life with light. Desk lamps and table lamps are popping up all over that use the base of ...
Tags: Phone Table Lamps, Lights, Lighting
Motilal Oswal HQ is one of the brightest sparks of fresh, contemporary glass façade design in Mumbai. The building is complete with modern,energy efficient feature and a fair blend of modern trends and corporate sophistication. ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration
The US government made 12,444 requests for data about 40,322 Yahoo users, the web firm has revealed in its first annual transparency report. The report marks a more detailed account of what world governments have requested from Yahoo, ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Yahoo received more than 30,000 requests from seventeen different countries around the world for user data in the first half of this year, resulting in more than 25,000 instances of data disclosure, it said Friday in its first transparency ...
Tags: Yahoo, Data Requests