November 12th, 2009 
TechNewsUpdate China has moved to defuse a currency spat with the United States by hinting that it will allow the yuan to rise in the coming months.
The weakness of China’s currency, which critics say gives its exporters an unfair trade advantage, has become a major issue ahead of Barack Obama’s arrival in Shanghai on Sunday.…
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Comments Off April 5th, 2009 Tushar Mathur North Korea defied world leaders and United Nations’ resolutions this morning to launch a ballistic missile test.
The missile blasted off in the early hours from a coastal site in the north east of the country, prompting immediate condemnation from Britain and the U.S.
The U.S. and other nations suspect the launch was a cover for a test of North Korea’s long-range missile techonology.…
Posted in Tech News Tags: Ballistic Missile, Barack Obama, David Miliband, Emergency Session, Hosti, Hostile Policy, International Effort, International Outrage, International Response, Missile Test, Nations Security Council, Nuclear Security, Range Missile, Rocket Launch, Satellite Test, Security Council Resolution, South Koreans, United Nations Resolutions, United Nations Security, United Nations Security Council Comments Off March 3rd, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
A flu shot is prepared in Chicago, Illinois. US President Barack Obama has vowed to fight for his budget proposals that include investments in clean energy and healthcare as he faces a tough battle moving the measures through Congress. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Tim Boyle)From Yahoo News/Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Virtually all cases of the most common strain of flu circulating in the United States now resist the main drug used to treat it, the U.S.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Afp, Barack Obama, Budget Proposals, Cdc, Centers For Disease Control, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Chicago Illinois, Clean Energy, Disease Control And Prevention, Flu, Flu Drug, Flu Shot, Getty Images, Resistant Strain, Reuters Washington, Roche, Tamiflu, Tim Boyle, Tough Battle, Yahoo News Comments Off February 15th, 2009 Tushar Mathur 
President Obama and his BlackBerry at the White House in late January.From CNET News:
When the mainstream media first announced Barack Obama’s “victory” in keeping his BlackBerry, the focus was on the security of the device, and keeping the U.S. president’s e-mail communications private from spies and hackers.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Barack Obama, Blackberry, E Mail, Focus, Hackers, Mail Communications, Mainstream Media, Personal Safety, Physical Location, Physical Security, Pool, Real Time, Sachs, Safety Risks, Security Experts, Security Risks, Spies, Upi Photo, Victory, White House Comments Off January 31st, 2009 Tushar Mathur 
From The Telegraph:
Astronaut Neil Armstrong walking on the moon is the most memorable television first, according to a survey of 3,000 people.
More than half chose the moment in 1969 when man first walked on the moon as their most memorable television world first.
Among the other events which left their mark on viewers was the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president, nominated by 37.5 per cent of people questioned.…
Posted in Science News Tags: 000 People, American President, Astronaut Neil Armstrong, Barack Obama, John F Kennedy, Launch, Lcd Tv, Man First, Neil Armstrong, Neil Armstrong Walking On The Moon, President John F Kennedy, Sony, Sony Bravia, Survey, Telegraph, Television World, Walking On The Moon Comments Off January 23rd, 2009 Tushar Mathur Free-content Web site is your No. 1 source for late-breaking inaccuracies
The speed with which some rabbit-reflexed webmaster changed regimes on the White House Web site still couldn’t match the mad skillz of the jackass responsible for breaking the big fake news on Wikipedia: Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass. is dead!
Day one for the oft-described “first tech-savvy” president of the United States tested the mettle of the World Wide Web.…
Posted in Tech News Tags: 44th President, Barack Obama, Content Web, Dot Gov, Dubi, Fake News, Heavy Lifting, Hypothermia, Jackass, Mad Skillz, Mettle, President Of The United States, Row Seat, Salient Point, Short Attention Span, Ted Kennedy, Timestamp, Web Czar, White House Web Site, Wikipedia Comments Off January 22nd, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
Mike Griffin gave his last speech as NASA administrator to his staff before departing Washington on a ski vacation on Jan. 16, leaving Associate Administrator Chris Scolese to run the agency until U.S. President Barack Obama settles on a successor.
Griffin’s departure and the resignation of his deputy, Shana Dale, left Scolese as the top ranking official at NASA.…
Posted in Tech News Tags: Air Force Maj, Barack Obama, Bush Appointees, Career Staff, Fighter Pilot, George W Bush, Jonathan Scott, Mike Griffin, Nasa Administrator, Nasa Chief, Page Space, Parting Words, Personal Thanks, Political Appointee, President George W Bush, Shana Dale, Space Shuttle, Supporting Bush, Time Gap, U S Air Force Comments Off January 21st, 2009 Tushar Mathur This is cool.…
January 21st, 2009 Malvika Sampat It was the largest crowd in history to ever have witnessed a presidential inauguration.
A record-setting 1.8million people crowded on to the National Mall in Washington DC yesterday to watch Barack Obama become the first black president of the United States on the steps of the Capitol Building.
Now the clean-up: Trash and other debris scattered across the National Mall after the inauguration ceremony
A satellite view of the National Mall shows nearly two million people swarming the grounds before the Capitol Building yesterday during Barack Obama’s inauguration
They had been waiting since dawn – some had even camped over night – in sub-zero temperatures for a ceremony full of pomp and circumstance.…
Posted in Tech News Tags: American Flags, Barack Obama, Capitol Building, Coffee Cups, First Black President, Food Wrappers, Inauguration Ceremony, Loos, Parade Route, Plastic Bottles, Pomp And Circumstance, Pomp Circumstance, President Of The United States, Presidential Inauguration, Satellite View, Septic Tanks, Setting 1, Two Million, Washington Monument, Zero Temperatures Comments Off January 17th, 2009 Tushar Mathur A team of University of Michigan researchers created a set of electron microscope images of carbon nanotube structures depicting images of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama. John Hart, leader of the research team says it wasn’t a political statement, but an attempt to draw attention to what is possible these days with nanotechnology, and imaging at the very small scale.…
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