Are you ready for Earth Hour? The fifth annual global green event, hosted by the World Wildlife Fund, asks citizens around the world to shut off lights for one hour on Saturday, March 26, at 8:30 p.m. local time, to raise awareness about climate change. Back in 2007, Sydney, Australia was the first city to [...]
Tonight will be a great game for college football. Stanford Cardinal will face Virginia Tech at the field Tonight. A must game to be watch as Stanford’s this will be Stanford first appearance at the Discover Orange Bowl tonight at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST on ESPN. This will be the first meeting of the [...]
In his last quarter as a graduate student in electrical engineering at Stanford University, Akshay Kothari skipped out of school this spring and failed a bunch of his courses. Mr. Kothari wasn’t lollygagging at the beach. He and fellow student Ankit Gupta used the time to finish up and roll out the Pulse News Reader, [...]
Google Celebrates 12th Birthday (27-9-2010) With New Doodle Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, FWB: GGQ1) is a multinational public cloud computing, Internet search, and advertising technologies corporation. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products,[5] and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program.[2][6] The company was founded by Larry Page and [...]
Prof. Elon Lindenstrauss of the Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem today received the Fields Medal for 2010 — a prize regarded as the “Nobel Prize” in mathematics that is awarded once in four years. He was the first Israeli to be awarded the medal. The Fields Prize is given to [...]