Category Archives: SciTech

Apple has given Tim Cook 1 million shares of restricted stock as he takes over as reins of the company from Steve Jobs. At current prices, the stock package is worth more than $383 million.

Mark Hurd may get his $100 million payday after all.

Mark Hurd may get his $100 million payday after all.

Facebook is ending its Deals program, which offered the site’s 750 million users discounts similar to those offered by daily deals site Groupon.

Photos will now be 33 per cent wider, with a variable height. The last time the company increased its photo size was in March 2010.

Steve Jobs has been Apple’s most recognizable personality, but much of its cachet comes from its clean, inviting designs. For that, Apple can credit its head designer, Jonathan Ive.

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A new study says half of all American adults are now on social networks, and use among Baby Boomers is growing.

Some worker ants are more equal than others. As with other social insects, it was once thought that workers were essentially equivalent in ant colony hierarchies. But it appears that a few well-informed individuals shape group decisions by leading nestmates to new homes. The findings could add a new dimension to ant-derived models of self-organization.

Facebook is increasing the resolution of photos that people post to its website and making them load twice as fast before.

Physicist and blogger Rhett Allain measures the speed of the East Coast earthquake on Aug. 23 compared to the “tweet wave” that occurred simultaneously.