San Francisco - The family involved in the murder-suicide that shook California's Silicon Valley on Monday were recent immigrants from India, local media reports said Tuesday.
Six people, including the gunman, died in the horrific incident, but police declined to give any identifying details about the family until their relatives had been informed.
The San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News reported that the gunman and his six victims were all from India - only one survived, his wife.
San Francisco - A California jury has awarded 8.6 million dollars to a motorbike rider who was severely injured when he crashed into a wild pig that was crossing a highway.
According to the Monterey County Herald, the jury agreed with lawyers for Adam Rogers, who argued that the state of California was responsible for the crash because it took no steps to mitigate the problem even though it knew that wild boars were crossing the road to eat newly planted vegetation on its verges.
San Francisco - Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it was terminating its Encarta online encyclopedia, as the world's largest software company found it too difficult to compete with the challenge of its collaborative competitor Wikipedia.
Microsoft said it would discontinue all editions of Encarta on October 31, 2009 except for Encarta Japan, which would be discontinued on December 31, 2009.
Encarta was launched in 1993 as a pet project of Microsoft chairman and founder Bill Gates who saw the project as a great way to showcase the power of computers.
San Francisco - Researchers have discovered the first easy way to detect the presence of the Conficker computer worm on networked computers, just days before the worm is scheduled to morph into a new form that could seriously compromise millions of computers, PC magazine reported Monday.
San Francisco - A new study has found that action video games can improve players' eyesight, researchers said Monday.
The study, which was published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, found that the visual processes needed to play games like Call of Duty 2 improved players' contrast sensitivity. Contrast sensitivity allows people to notice different shades and is particularly important for such tasks as driving at night and discerning patterns and facial expressions.
San Francisco - In a move that could ring in big changes in the way customers use their mobile phones, internet telephone company Skype will introduce its free software for the iPhone on Tuesday, with versions for other smartphones following in May, the New York Times reported Monday.
Skype already boasts that 400 million customers around the world are using its peer-to-peer telephone system that allows free calls to other Skype members and cheaper rates than other phone companies for calls to landlines and mobile phones.
San Francisco - The family involved in the murder-suicide that shook California's Silicon Valley on Monday were recent immigrants from India, local media reports said Tuesday.
San Francisco - A California jury has awarded 8.6 million dollars to a motorbike rider who was severely injured when he crashed into a wild pig that was crossing a highway.
San Francisco - Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it was terminating its Encarta online encyclopedia, as the world's largest software company found it too difficult to compete with the challenge of its collaborative competitor Wikipedia.
San Francisco - Researchers have discovered the first easy way to detect the presence of the Conficker computer worm on networked computers, just days before the worm is scheduled to morph into a new form that could seriously compromise millions of computers, PC magazine reported Monday.
San Francisco - A new study has found that action video games can improve players' eyesight, researchers said Monday.
San Francisco - In a move that could ring in big changes in the way customers use their mobile phones, internet telephone company Skype will introduce its free software for the iPhone on Tuesday, with versions for other smartphones following in May, the New York Times reported Monday.
