iTunes is available on Windows 8 like any other 'legacy' application in desktop mode, but Microsoft really wants to see a version built for their Modern-style “Metro” UI. In fact, Microsoft wants the app so bad that it went directly to Apple in an attempt to convince the company to make… … Read More
ABBA – The Museum expected to be a big hit
The world’s first museum dedicated to Sweden’s iconic disco group ABBA is set to open in Stockholm on Tuesday, offering visitors a chance to get up close and personal with the 1970s foursome with a little help from modern technology, AFP’s Camille Bas-Wohlert reports. … Read More
Watch: Yugoslav communist leader Josip Broz Tito’s bunker turned into a modern art museum
Sarajevo – Obsolete and lifeless for years, a secret anti-nuclear shelter built inside a remote Bosnian mountain during the Cold War for Yugoslav communist leader Josip Broz Tito has opened its doors as a modern art space. “The idea of installing a contemporary art collection in Tito’s…
Robot unlocks ancient Mexico mysteries
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The Secret of the Seven Sisters – Episode 2: Desert Storms
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, cubed
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Leonard A. Lauder has made a major donation of Cubist art that will transform New York’s largest museum into a major center for Cubist art. The pledged gift is comprised of 78 works, including 33 works by Pablo Picasso, 17 by Georges Braque, 14 by Juan Gris, and 14 by Fernand Léger. As part of the donation, the Metropolitan Museum will create the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, which will serve as a leading center for scholarship on Cubism and modern art. According to the New York Times, the Lauder Center “will be supported by a $22 million endowment that he has helped finance along with museum trustees and supporters.” The Center promises to attract leading scholars and curators in the field, and transform the institution into a player in a field where its collections have long been sparse. The Metropolitan Museum only received its first Cubist painting in 1996.Continue Reading… … Read More
Scientists use biological tissue to recreate main computer component inside E coli bacteria
Stanford researchers demonstrate ‘transcriptors’ inside E coli bacteria, in advance in synthetic biology Scientists have used biological tissue to recreate one of the main components of a modern computer inside living cells. The biological device behaves like a transistor, one of the…
