Scientist Hawking ill in hospital – “The spokesman said the 67-year-old, who has motor neurone disease, had “been unwell for a couple of weeks”. “

GM ‘Likely’ to Build in China as U.S. Factories Close – “General Motors Corp., shuttering U.S. plants in a bid to avoid bankruptcy, is “likely” to build a new factory in China on surging demand…”

Single-finger text input – “Here’s a fascinating video demo of Dasher, a single finger interface that allows you to enter text without a keyboard…”

Endeavour and Atlantis – two shuttles on their launch pads at once – “Shuttle Atlantis (right) is scheduled for a May 12 launch on its mission to upgrade NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (STS-125). Shuttle Endeavour (left) is scheduled for a June 13 launch on its mission to the International Space Station (STS-127), but will first serve on the launch pad as a rescue spacecraft for Atlantis’ Hubble mission.”

The painful truth about trainers: Are running shoes a waste of money? – “Thrust enhancers, roll bars, microchips…the $20 billion running – shoe industry wants us to believe that the latest technologies will cushion every stride. Yet in this extract from his controversial new book, Christopher McDougall claims that injury rates for runners are actually on the rise, that everything we’ve been told about running shoes is wrong – and that it might even be better to go barefoot… “

Twitter’s Oprah-tunity: Time to get down to business – “Now that Oprah has placed her Midas Touch on Twitter and the membership numbers seem to be growing as a result of it, you’d think that Twitter would be able to hammer out a revenue model that would allow the financial floodgates to open…”

6 Things You Can Buy That Will Pay For Themselves In A Year – “I really get a kick out of doing little things that will pay big dividends. So each of these 6 items offer a little bit of that promise. Put a few bucks in now and save more! What I love about it is that, you can run out and buy everything mentioned here and actually be richer in a year!”

Top 10 Tallest Freestanding Structures In The World – “Freestanding structure on land is defined as the tallest self-supporting man-made structure that stands above ground. This definition is different from that of world’s tallest building or world’s tallest structure based on the percent of the structure that is occupied and whether or not it is self-supporting or supported by exterior cables…”

Doe v. Fortuny – “Mr. Fortuny, a now-famous Internet “troll” who was featured in an August 2008 New York Times article, performed a notorious “Craigslist Experiment” in 2006, in which he posted a fake ad on Craigslist pretending to be a woman seeking a “str8 brutal dom muscular male” for sex. According to the New York Times, over one-hundred men responded, providing photographs and contact information. Mr. Fortuny allegedly posted this material to his blog…”

Sigma 200-500mm F2.8 EX DG on the field – The biggest camera lens you will see today

Cybercriminals create botnet using Mac computers – “A piece of malicious software unwittingly shared over a peer-to-peer network in January was the key tool in what security researchers are saying was the first known attempt to create a botnet of Mac computers…”

What’s up, bot? Google tries new Captcha method – “Google has released research results about a new test to foil computers pretending to be humans by requiring them to orient an image so it’s upright…”

10 Things Cable Companies Won’t Say – “For years the cable business had acted like a typical monopoly, providing less than ideal customer service, skyrocketing prices, and little choice of service. Then along came the Telecommunications Act of 1996…”

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