NIGERIAN authorities filed charges overnight against ex-US vice president Dick Cheney and several others over a bribery scandal allegedly involving energy firm Halliburton, the prosecutor said. “It includes Dick Cheney,” said prosecutor Godwin Obla of the 16-count charge filed at a court in the Nigerian capital Abuja. “There are conspiracy charges and giving gratification to public officers. There is also a charge for obstruction of justice.” A spokesman for the country’s anti-graft agency…
Continue reading …Amazon demonstrates new Kindle for the Web, coming to Chrome Web Store early next year
December 7, 2010 No Comment
What do you do when the web’s 500-pound Googorilla decides to muscle in on your action ? Amazon’s answer, apparently, is to work with said primate. Instead of making pouty faces about Google eBooks, the Kindle purveyor has unwrapped a new version of its Kindle for the Web browser-based reader and is rolling it into Google’s Chrome Web Store. Up until now, this web offering only ever permitted the consumption of book samples in its short beta existence, but that’s a limitation that Amazon is lifting with its new software, promising to “enable users to read full books in the browser and [enable] any Website to become a bookstore offering Kindle books.” And hey, since it’s on the web, you shouldn’t have any trouble accessing it on Chrome OS, either! Coming to a Web Store near you early next year. Amazon demonstrates new Kindle for the Web, coming to Chrome Web Store early next year originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Photo: Jungbim , Wikimedia, CC Not all of the cables aired in the latest Wikileaks focus on the tense, high-stakes diplomacy with China, Afghanistan, or the Middle East, though that stuff certainly grabs the headlines. Yet there are quiet revelations about other important diplomatic subjects as well — like Canada, for instance. And no, the news is not that our northern neighbor is boring ; it’s about concern over tar sands … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit University of Maryland College Park One of the first known viruses, the Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), spelled disaster for tobacco crops, but it could be the secret to success for more efficient batteries and fuel cells, according to research from University of Maryland. Researchers are learning how to exploit the virus’s amazing ability to self-renew and self-assemble to improve on today’s lithium ion batteries. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Mercury levels in tuna remain too high, according to a new investigation by Consumer Reports.
Continue reading …U.S. government hits snag printing new $100 bills, prints old ones instead
December 7, 2010 No Comment
The U.S. Treasury Department may have been eager to open the doors to its money printing factory back in July to show off its brand new $100 bills, but it looks to be a decidedly different story today. As CNBC reports, all of the added security measures have apparently been harder to print than expected, and have resulted in a creasing problem that has left some bills with a blank portion on the face. The real problem, however, is that it’s not clear how many bills have the flaw, which has forced the department to “quarantine” some 1.1 billion bills until they can be sorted — one person familiar with the matter says as many as 30 percent were affected at the height of the problem. As you might expect, that accounts for a pretty big chunk of the bills intended for circulation, which has forced the fed to print some more of the older $100 bills that still feature Bush Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s signature in the meantime. U.S. government hits snag printing new $100 bills, prints old ones instead originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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A British judge jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday, ordering the leader of secret-spilling website behind bars as his organization’s finances came under increasing pressure. (Dec. 7)
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Baltimore firefighters battle two big blazes in the course of hours. One fire downtown does damage to the city’s adult entertainment district and buildings more than 100 years old. (Dec. 7)
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A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to halt Washington’s alleged programme to capture or kill Americans who join militant groups…
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