Heinz Fromm avgår efter fiaskot kring nazistiska terrordåd.

Slutförhandlingarna kring det omstridda första bindande globala vapenhandelsfördraget hann inte ens börja, innan de sent i kväll brakade ihop på grund av dispyter mellan FN:s medlemsländer.

A proposal to declare almost all of the southern Atlantic Ocean a whale sanctuary is defeated at the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting.

Apple has released a new iOS app called Podcasts that focuses on — wait for it — podcasts, removing the need to listen to podcasts in the Music app. However, along with some impressive skeumorphic graphics, the Podcasts app has a few interface and performance issues.

 

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Det blir inget symboliskt valreservat i södra Atlanten, efter att Japan tillsammans med tjugo andra länder röstat ner förslaget under den internationella valfångstkommissionens möte.

Det är högst troligt att alla dinosaurier hade en sorts fjädrar.

Förseningar har drabbat tågtrafiken Stockholm-Göteborg, Stockholm-Karlstad-Oslo samt Göteborg-Karlstad sedan i eftermiddags.

43,1 procent hade mutationer.

An anonymous reader writes in with news about the arrival of the Orion spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center today. "More than 450 guests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida welcomed the arrival of the agency’s first space-bound Orion spacecraft Monday, marking a major milestone in the construction of the vehicle that will carry astronauts farther into space than ever before. 'Orion’s arrival at Kennedy is an important step in meeting the president’s goal to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and to Mars in the 2030s,' NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said. 'As NASA acquires services for delivery of cargo and crew to the International Space Station and other low-Earth destinations from private companies, NASA can concentrate its efforts on building America’s next generation space exploration system to reach destinations for discovery in deep space. Delivery of the first space-bound Orion, coupled with recent successes in commercial spaceflight, is proof this national strategy is working.'"

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85 syriska militärer, däribland en general, har gått över gränsen till Turkiet uppger nyhetsbyrån AFP.

sciencehabit writes "Scientists have developed a water-soluble carbohydrate glass based on a decoration used on cakes and lollipops. The material can be cast into a variety of shapes, is completely nontoxic, and, when it has done its job, will dissolve naturally in the moist environment of lab-grown tissue, leaving behind spaces that can carry blood to cells. The advance solves one of the major problems of growing new organs in the laboratory."

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Hugh Pickens writes writes "Simone Sebastian writes in the Houston Chronicle that the nation's energy transportation network is undergoing a multibillion-dollar overhaul, as oil and natural gas production surges in new regions of the country and energy producers charge into new areas with technology that can reach oil and natural gas trapped in shale and other tight rock formations leaving pools of crude and gas stranded far from the Gulf Coast refineries and petrochemical plants that need them. 'Where it used to be isn't where it is now. Where it needs to go isn't where it used to go,' says Terrance McGill, president of fuel carrier Enbridge Energy. 'You're seeing this fundamental shift of crude oil across the country.' For example Phillips 66 CEO Greg Garland says his company is considering buying 2,000 more rail cars that could carry an additional 150,000 barrels a day from shale regions (PDF) to its refineries across the country because the glut of crude oil pouring out of the newly tapped shale oil plays like North Dakota's Bakken has kept the price of Mid-Continent crude at a record-wide discount of up to $27 per barrel relative to its rival European benchmark Brent crude because there is not enough pipeline capacity to get Bakken crude to Gulf coast refineries. 'That's a pipeline on wheels,' says Garland. 'You'll see us stepping out and doing some more things around infrastructure. Like everyone else, we're doing everything we can to get more barrels in front of those facilities.'"

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Manton Reece released Clipstart 1.5. It’s no longer on the Mac App Store, unfortunately.

Also: Manton provides a discount code. Today is a good day to buy software. (Like every day, yes.)

Matt Galligan asks:

What in God’s name was Facebook thinking when they defaulted everyone’s publicly facing email address to their @facebook.com address?

Förseningar har drabbat tågtrafiken Stockholm-Göteborg, Stockholm-Karlstad-Oslo samt Göteborg-Karlstad sedan i eftermiddags.