Amazon unveils plans for huge biospheres on its new Seattle campus

On Tuesday, a slew of new drawings (PDF) unveiled by online retail giant and device maker Amazon hinted at what possibly could be the company's new Seattle campus. The drawings revealed three massive, mirrored, biosphere-like domes by the side of a taller rectangular building; as well as plentiful green space and landscaping.

The designs have been created by architecture firm NBBJ, whose architects have compared Amazon's proposed new Settle campus with similar glass biosphere projects in Arizona, Montreal, Genoa, Italy, and Belgium's Royal Greenhouses.

HTC experiencing an exodus of high-level employees

According to reports, the lower-than-anticipated sales of HTC's flagship One handset and its Facebook-branded HTC First device has apparently triggered an exodus of high-level employees at the embattled Taiwanese device maker.

The high-profile HTC employees who have recently quit the company include Jason Gordon, the company's former VP of global communications; Rebecca Rowland, global retail marketing manager; and John Starkweather, director of digital marketing.

Body image of our boys and girls leads to eating disorders

We have a body image problem and this is evident from the rising number of boys and girls in the UK having eating disorder. This problem cannot be solved until and unless we realize the role that perceptions of gender play in the nation's emotional wellbeing.

According to new research led by Dr Nadia Micali of University College London, from 2003 to 2009, there was a 13 per cent rise in the number of diagnosed cases of eating disorders.

Google is “improving the look and feel of Google+ on the mobile Web"

Close on the heels of the recent unveiling of the Google+ revamp on desktop and Android, Google said in a Tuesday announcement that it is now upgrading the look and feel of the social network on cell phones.

According to the Google announcement, efforts are underway at the company for "improving the look and feel of Google+ on the mobile Web."

As a result of the Google+ redesign for the mobile Web, users will be able to see posts as "cards" in the stream; thereby making it much easier for them to read as well as share the posts.

Opera for Android now available as free download from Google Play

Within three months of the launch of Opera for Android in beta, the Opera browser is now available for Android devices. Though fairly akin to the other Android browsers, finalized Opera for Android version boasts the inclusion of some of the popular features of its desktop version.

Opera for Android is based on the well-liked WebKit engine; and is now available as a free download from the Google Play digital storefront, where it takes on Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox as an alternative to the somewhat testy browser baked into Android.

China Army resumes cyber-attacks on US networks

After having suddenly stopped their cyber-attacks on the US in February when its actions became public, the Chinese Army has added to its cyber-warfare arsenal, and is launching fresh cyber-attacks on US networks which have not been strengthened since the last attacks.

According to a report released by Mandiant, the Chinese hacking squad has started hacking again after taking some time off for apparently improving their tools and honing their skills.

Adobe suspends Creative Cloud file-sync tool to make updates

According to a Friday blog post by Adobe, the company's decision to suspend the file-syncing part of its new Creative Cloud family of technologies was hastened by a few days because of unexpected instabilities.

While Adobe had earlier planned to suspend the service - which facilitates the syncing of files made on mobile devices or uploaded to the Web with the PC - to make some updates to it this week, the service was actually brought down by the company on May 15 at 6:02pm UTC.

Herefordshire health bosses warn of norovirus outbreak

People are being asked to be on guard as the winter vomiting bug or Norovirus affect people in hospitals of Worcestershire. People in Herefordshire are also being urged to be on guard by health bosses.

Alexandra Hospital in Redditch has been closed following an outbreak and wards at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Wye Valley NHS Trust has given out warnings about people getting infected if they are not careful.

Mozilla walks back on plans to block advertisers' cookies in Firefox

Mozilla has recently revealed that it has decided to delay the execution of its plans pertaining to the blocking cookies from third-party advertisers by default in Firefox.

The patch for blocking advertisers' cookies in Firefox was developed by Stanford law student Jonathan Mayer; and was initially set to be deployed in Firefox 22. However, with Mozilla now delaying the deployment of the patch, there is no clear timeline for its expected release.

Norovirus outbreak causes visitor ban

Due to a norovirus outbreak, visitors are not allowed to visit all wards at Worcestershire's Alexandra Hospital.

According to officials at the Redditch hospital, it was only under exceptional circumstances that the visits are possible. For this the ward has to give a permission, otherwise no visit takes place.

The winter vomiting bug has infected people in Avon Three and Laurel Three wards of the hospital. This is the reason why visitors are asked to keep away.

In case any other symptoms were shown, visitors to other wards were asked to keep away too.

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