August 21, 2008 (Thursday)
- Jerry Seinfeld will anchor a $300 million dollar Windows Vista campaign in an attempt to renew the OS's poor public image. (ArsTechnica)
- By creating brown fat that burns calories and increases the metabolism, unlike white fat which simply stores calories, researchers hope to combat obesity. (ScienceDaily)
- Using new algorithms called P4P researchers have shared files over the internet 20% faster and using 5 times less bandwidth than current P2P programs. (Forbes)
Read more about this topic: August 2008 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word august:
“Until, on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave.
Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.
The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave.
They buried us without shroud or coffin
And in August the barley grew up out of the grave.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)