Microsoft Shows Off Internet Explorer 10
Just a scant four weeks after the launch of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft is back with the first platform preview of Internet Explorer 10. Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Internet Explorer, unveiled the new platform preview of IE10 at the ongoing Mix developer conference in Las Vegas.
If you’d like to try out this very early release of IE10, head over to the IE Test Drive site and download a copy. The company plans to update the IE10 preview every eight to 12 weeks. Although Microsoft hasn’t set a final date for IE10, with W...
E-Mails Prove Zuckerberg Stole 50 Percent of Facebook, Suit Claims
A businessman who claims Mark Zuckerberg scammed him out of a $2,000 controlling interest in Facebook has amended his federal lawsuit, in an attempt to cash in on a company now valued at $65 billion.
Paul Ceglia, a New York businessman with a sketchy past, says he owns half of Facebook after having paid Zuckerberg $2,000 to fund the site. In his new complaint, he alleges that Zuckerberg tried to weasel out of the contract by lying about how well the site was doing.
Ceglia is now offering up what he calls damning e-mails in pursuit of what he says is rightfully his, after agreements and...
Physicists Build Big Bang in a Box
Sitting on a bench at the University of Maryland is the first-ever desktop model of the Big Bang.
Don’t worry, the 20-micrometer&endash;wide device simulates how light behaved and time flowed at the universe’s spark, not the explosion itself. It could someday help explain why time marches in only one direction.
“What we have done, with simple experimental geometry, is reconstruct the way that space-time expands,” said Igor Smolyaninov, who describes the model in a paper submitted to Physical Review Letters.
Smolyaninov and Yu-Ju Hung, both electrical engineers at the University of Maryland,...