'You Can Succeed In India:' Cobra Beer Founder Lord Karan Bilimoria

The heat of business engagement around India is getting more intense.

Fracking behind the rise of man-made earthquakes, new maps show

PASADENA, Calif. — New earthquake hazard maps signal a watershed moment: They show that fracking's byproducts are clearly to blame for swarms of earthquakes plaguing several states.

The maps highlight 17 hotspots where communities face a significantly increased risk of earthquakes, and the accompanying report links the earthquakes to wastewater injection wells. Previous maps did not include earthquakes that are induced by human activities.

"We consider induced seismicity to be primarily triggered by the disposal of wastewater into deep wells," said Mark Petersen, chief of the National Seismic Hazard Project for the U.S. Geological Survey, which released the maps on April 23 Read more...

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OTC Dietary Supplements Sold To Minors In Many Health Food Stores, Despite Warnings

According to the results of a new study, teens were able to purchase potentially dangerous supplements at a variety of health food stores across the US, despite labels reading “for adult use only.” More troubling is the fact that the staff at certain stores recommended and endorsed specific products, although they were “for adult use only.”

What weak earnings? Ev Williams says Twitter is 'on a roll'

Sure, Twitter disappointed with earnings on Tuesday, but co-founder Ev Williams believes the company is currently "on a roll" where product development is concerned.

Over the last few months alone, the social network has rolled out numerous new features, tweaks and updates, including group messaging and video this January, a revamped homepage and retweet feature in April, and stricter anti-harassment policies.

See also: Twitter's leaked earnings report shocks investors, drives stock down 18%

Williams credited Twitter's SVP of Product Kevin Weil, who previously led product and design, and Alexander Roetter, who became head of engineering last May, for taking the company's talent and "harnessing" it. Read more...

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The word 'selfie' is Australia's flamin' fault

Australia has already gifted the world so much: Chris Hemsworth, pavlova, Ja'mie: Private School Girl, but yet we can bear to give still more. Namely, the word "selfie."

See also: Behold the First 'Selfie' Hashtag in Instagram History

Mark Gwynn, editor and researcher at the Australian National Dictionary Centre (ANDC) at the Australian National University, whose recent article on the BBC delved into the popularity of Australian slang, told Mashable Australia everyone, including vocabulary experts, became familiar with the word "selfie" a few years back, but its Australian roots weren't immediately apparent. Read more...

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Massive outcry in Australia after 'cruel and unnecessary' executions in Indonesia

Two Australian prisoners were executed in Indonesia overnight and the local fallout has been drastic. Australia's prime minister called the deaths of the men "cruel and unnecessary," and will make the unprecedented move of removing Australia's ambassador in Indonesia.

Myuran Sukumaran, 34, and Andrew Chan, 31 — who were convicted of attempting to smuggle 8.3 kilograms of heroin from Indonesia to Australia in 2006 — were shot in the heart in an isolated field, along with six other prisoners, in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Australian time

The Australian people and government had gone to great lengths to express their disgust at the move by the Indonesian government to execute two of their countrymen. Read more...

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Watch this smart bullet help untrained snipers hit moving targets

This time last year we told you about DARPA's smart bullet — a terrifying piece of technology that has the ability to correct itself in mid-air to reach its target

As if that wasn't scary enough, a new video from the government agency shows another test, conducted in February, in which a person who has never used a sniper rifle easily hits a moving target

The .50-caliber size smart bullet is the product of a program called Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO). In a statement on the agency's website, DARPA program manager Jerome Dunn called the bullet "a major breakthrough and opens the door to what could be possible in future guided projectiles across all calibers.” Read more...

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