Women With Both High Math and Verbal Ability Appear Less Likely to Choose Science Careers Because Their Dual Skills Confer More Career Options

PITTSBURGH—There has been ongoing public discussion about the need to educate and recruit more young Americans for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).   Original post on pitt.edu    Comments on reddit.com   

Mega Accepts Bitcoin; Email, Chat, Voice, Video, Mobile Coming

Kim Dotcom knows how to stir up a storm on Twitter. On Saturday, he announced Bitcoin support for his cloud storage service and also sent out a slew of tweets suggesting Mega is going…   Original post on thenextweb.com    Comments on reddit.com   

I’m in London for work and paying $24 for 300 minutes, 3K texts and unlimited data for 30 days on Three U.K. Why don’t we have those types of plans in the Unite States?

We give you tips for getting smartphone service when traveling outside the United States   Original post on cell.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Judge strikes down Nevada’s ‘none’ voting option – Yahoo! News

From Yahoo! News: A quirky Nevada law that Republicans feared could siphon votes from a disgruntled electorate and sway the outcome of close presidential and U.S. Senate races in the state was struck down Wednesday by a federal judge.   Original post on yahoo.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Game Of Thrones On Track To Be Most Pirated Show Of 2012; Pirates Still Asking HBO For Legitimate Options – Techdirt

Much like the North, Game of Thrones cannot be held—it’s too big and too wild. Matthew Inman warned HBO that they should make their content more accessible or risk driving people to piracy, but that isn’t really HBO’s style…   Original post on techdirt.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Firefox to introduce click-to-play option to protect against dangerous plugins – Naked Security

Mozilla developer Jared Wein is introducing a new security feature to Firefox 14 called click-to-play. Plugins will not load automatically when visiting websites using things like Flash and Java requiring the user to click before the content is loaded. This could prevent many common drive-by attacks on the web.   Original post on sophos.com    Comments on reddit.com   

MPAA: Ripping DVDs Shouldn’t Be Allowed Because It Takes Away Our Ability To Charge You Multiple Times For The Same Content – Techdirt

It’s that time again when the Librarian of Congress is considering special exemptions to the DMCA’s anti-cicrumvention provisions. One of the key proposals, which we discussed earlier, was Public Knowledge’s request to allow people to…   Original post on techdirt.com    Comments on reddit.com   

2012 Coda Sedan Electric Car Gets Smaller Battery Pack Option

With only one month to go before Californian electric automaker Coda is due to commence sales of its $39,900 Sedan, you’d expect available options and specifications to be set in stone. But at yesterday’s 2012 Detroit Auto Show, Coda announced it had made the decision to offer customers…   More