Citizens of Cincinatti, be grateful that none of you were alive 450 million years ago, because if you were, you'd have to deal with a monstrous Godzillus. Not a Godzill a , but a Godzill us , and an amateur paleontologist has just dug up a fossil of one of these fearsome creatures.

This is one wild blanket. It's all embroidered up with sensors, conductive tassels and resistors that enable it to gather enough information to create a 3D model of itself no matter how it is folded or laid out

Though it sounds like the plot of a Philip K.

Bloomberg Businessweek publishes a cover story on the ongoing patent war between Apple and Android, outlining the history of the disputes between Apple and Android manufacturers such as HTC, Samsung and Motorola. The report notes that Apple has actually experienced only limited success in its legal efforts, suggesting that Steve Jobs' vow to wage "thermonuclear war" against Android may be backfiring somewhat with Apple's soaring legal costs and retaliatory actions from its targets subjecting the company to risk while the benefits remain meager.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is out with a new report today citing data from research firm NPD on U.S. sales of Macs. According to the data, Apple's U.S.

Following today's media event that saw the introduction of iBooks 2 with new iPad digital textbooks alongside expanded iTunes U functionality, Apple has now posted video of the event to its site. The video is also available as a podcast video download in HD and standard formats. Among today's announcements: - Apple Launches iBooks 2 with Interactive Textbooks - 'iBooks Author' eBook Authoring App for Mac Now Available - iTunes U for iPad Retools the Learning Experience Our additional coverage includes: - Hands-On Video With Apple's Digital Textbooks - Some iPad Textbooks Weigh In Above Apple's 2GB Book Size Limit - iBooks Textbook Sales: Authors Set Pricing Up to $14.99, Apple Takes 30%, iBooks-Exclusive - New iBooks 'Not Technically' in ePub Format Recent Mac and iOS Blog Stories • New iBooks 'Not Technically' in ePub Format • iBooks Textbook Sales: Authors Set Pricing Up to $14.99, Apple Takes 30%, iBooks-Exclusive • Some iPad Textbooks Weigh In Above Apple's 2GB Book Size Limit • A Comparison of US iPhone Data Plans • Apple's Smartphone Market Share Surge Continues through December on iPhone 4S Strength

Engadget has posted a hands-on video of the iPad's interactive digital textbooks in the press demo section of Apple's education-focused media event today, and they were impressed : Interacting with the books is a generally intuitive combination of tapping, swiping and pinching. You can pinch from any page to get out to the heading of that chapter, then drag along a bar on the bottom to quickly go from one chapter to the next

You'd have to be a pretty small ninja to wield one of these stars, since they're made of molecules . Or rather, each star is just one single molecule all tied in knots, and they're the most complex molecules (outside of DNA) that we've ever synthesized.

It may surprise you to learn pigeons can count much less understand abstract rules about numbers, but in fact, researchers have proved just that. This skill is something previously only showed in rhesus monkey testing from the 1990's. Pigeons, super smart

It may surprise you to learn pigeons can count much less understand abstract rules about numbers, but in fact, researchers have proved just that.