Apple’s iPhone 5c Build Costs!

Every time Apple builds a new device, search firm IHS takes a look at the parts and tries to estimate the bill-of-materials for the new gadget. The resulting price is a rough approximation of what it costs Apple to build each iPhone, which can provide some idea of what Apple makes on the sale of each device to consumers.

What the Bible Says About Money!

Most people know Sean Hyman from his regular appearances on Fox Business, CNBC, and Bloomberg Television, but what they don’t know is that Sean is a former pastor, and that his secret to investing is woven within the Bible.

Perhaps that can explain why, despite his uncanny ability to predict precise moves in the stock market, Sean is often laughed at for his unique stance on investing.

Shutdown won't delay Twitter's public IPO filing

The U.S. government is shut down, but that won't stop Twitter from posting its documents on a government website for an upcoming initial public offering.

Twitter is expected to make public its IPO documents this week, according to multiple news reports. That would pull back the curtain on the company's finances for the first time.Twitter "confidentially" submitted its IPO filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 12.

U.S. government is shut down

Congress failed to pass a funding bill on Monday night. And so began a series of complex procedures to power down the federal government.

Many parts of the government technically shut down as the clock struck midnight and the new fiscal year began without a budget.

Science:: Phone App that Prevent Blindness.

Since January hundreds of Kenyans have undergone eye tests, not in a clinic with a doctor, but on their own doorstep, using a smart-phone application.

The app uses a camera to scan the lens of the eye for cataracts, and its developers say it could save millions of people from blindness.

Dr. Andrew Bastawrous from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine developed the new application along with a small team.

New Tech::Sex With Robots?

Meet Roxxxy the sex robot with a triple XXX. Depending on your view 'she' is either at the cutting edge of the human-robot interface, or a modern reflection on some men's difficulties in relating to real-life partners.

While sex aids are nothing new, what makes Roxxxy different is "we've taken artificial intelligence" and "combined it with a human form," says creator Douglas Hines. more pix below>>

Apple:: Two New iPhones For World Market.

Apple on Tuesday unveiled two new iPhones, fielding a slick new top-end model along with one aimed at budget-conscious smartphone shoppers around the world.

“The business has become so large that this year we are going to replace the iPhone 5 and we are going to replace it with two new designs,” Apple chief Tim Cook announced at the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. The new iPhone 5C is displayed during an Apple product announcement at the Apple campus on September 10, 2013 in Cupertino, California.

UN Humans Cause Global Warming '95%

A landmark report says scientists are 95 percent certain that humans are the "dominant cause" of global warming since the 1950s.



The report by the UN's climate panel details the physical evidence behind climate change.

It explained that on the ground, in the air, in the oceans, global warming is "unequivocal".

A pause in warming over the past 15 years is too short to reflect long-term trends, it adds.

The panel warns that continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and changes in all aspects of the climate system.

To contain these changes will require "substantial and sustained reductions of greenhouse gas emissions".

ASSU ::FG Stops University Lecturers’ Salary

The Federal Government has invoked the ‘no work, no pay’ labour rule against striking university lecturers as their industrial action enters the 93rd day with no end in sight.

Some of the federal university vice chancellors have not paid the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) members their August and September salaries in compliance with the government’s directive.

MTV Base official Naija Top 10

Burna Boy has displaced D’Banj at the head of this week’s MTV Base Official Naija Top 10 Powered by Star Music. Burna Boy’s ‘Run My Race’ has indeed won the race to the head of the chart after toppling ‘Don’t Tell Me Nonsense’ from the number one slot.

Photos::Scientists discover a different kind of hermaphrodite

There are hermaphrodites (people born with both female and male reproductive organs) but this person is somewhat different. He/she has a big penis and a vagina and they are both functional. Sorry can't put the photos on this blog, you will have to go to another link to view them. But biko don't open at work place o...very graphic!  18+ only pix below!