RAR is nowadays a very popular format for the compression of files, although its relatively recent development (it was created by 1993). The format itself poses a flexible bunch of options that turn out to be very helpful.
For instance, RAR files can be packaged to different levels of compression, from very loose to extremely packed. In the first case, disk space is sacrificed and in the latter, a bit of computer processor time. And taking into consideration the popularity of RAR files on the Internet, the most compressed the RAR …

Technically speaking, antimatter would be the aggregation of antiparticles. Being antiparticles the opposite charge analogous particles, that is, f.i. the positron (a positively charged electron) or the antiproton (a negative proton), which occur in the Universe in a smaller amount compared to the particles, and that when mixed with "normal" matter annihilate each other, producing vast quantities of high-energy photons and other particle-antiparticle pairs (such as the neutrino-antineutrino).’
We all know from our sensorial experience that the matter is everywhere in the known Universe in considerable masses, but the antimatter seems …

In one of those historic speeches, President of the United States of America - Barack Obama - has declared that his Administration will invest 3% of the GDP in Scientific Research.
President Barack Obama has pledged to return the United States to a "high water mark" of scientific achievement, on Monday at the Conference at the National Academy of Sciences. Obama has vowed to increase substantially the budget for Research&Development, in franc opposition to the NeoCons (fascist) Administration of former President Bush.
In a moment of international concern, regarding the recent outbreak …

Cyberloafing is a well known tendency among the current workers, who usually have access to the Internet at their workstations. It basically consists of wasting time in personal duties at work time. There are whole libraries and treatises of the losses experienced by the companies due to this very common behaviour.
But, a little time for the personal stuff at work might well have a big ROI, in a previously unsuspected way. According to Andrea Polzer-Debruyne, Ph D student at Massey University, New Zealand, who conducts a research on personal Internet …

Owen Van Natta was one of the Facebook team, until Feb. 2008, when he quit and became the CEO of social music startup PlayList. While in Facebook, Van Natta was the Chief Operating Officer, until he was lined-down to Chief Revenue Officer and VP of Operations.
It seems that the board of NewsCorp is ready to incorporate Van Natta as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MySpace. Jonathan Miller of NewsCorp is about to make the announcement during the next week, but it is a true fact that Van Natta …