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Scientists anticipate a new meteor shower tonight: the May Camelopardalids, resulting from the dust of periodic comet 209P/LINEAR. No one has seen it before, but the shower  could  put on a prolific show. The shower is predicted to be active on May 24, 02:30 - 11:00 UTC (May 23, 10:30 p.m. to May 24, 7 a.m. EDT). The peak is projected between 06:00 - 08:00 UTC (2-4 a.m EDT). This will be a one-night-only event. Projected viewing of May Camelopardalids meteor shower at 06:00 UTC.  Click here for full map .   (NASA/MSFC/Danielle Moser) “Some forecasters have predicted a meteor storm of more than 200 meteors per hour,” said Bill Cooke, lead for NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office. “We have no idea what the comet was doing in the 1800s. The parent comet doesn’t appear to be very active now, so there could be a great show, or there could be little activity.” › Viewing tips, projected rates, other FAQs › Audio: Dr. Bill Cooke discusses May Camelopardalids (mp3s...

IMAGE: MASHABLE, NINA FRAZIER HANSEN The tech sector is booming. If you've used a smartphone or logged on to a computer at least once in the last few years, you've probably noticed this. As a result, coding skills are in high demand, with programming jobs paying significantly more than the average position . Even beyond the tech world, an understanding of at least one programming language makes an impressive addition to any resumé. The in-vogue languages vary by employment sector . Financial and enterprise systems need to perform complicated functions and remain highly organized, requiring languages like Java and C#. Media- and design-related webpages and software will require dynamic, versatile and functional languages with minimal code, such as Ruby, PHP, JavaScript and Objective-C. With some help from Lynda.com , we've compiled a list of 10 of the most sought-after programming languages to get you up to speed. 1. Java 2. C Language 3. C++ 4. C# 5. Objective...

WHAT'S THIS? The YouTube website shown on a computer on March 18, 2010. IMAGE: RICHARD VOGEL/ASSOCIATED PRESS BY SETH FIEGERMAN 5 HOURS AGO Some YouTube users experienced rare disruptions from the service on Wednesday. DownRightNow , which tracks outages for popular sites, said that YouTube was evincing a "likely service disruption." The outage comes just one day after Twitter experienced a massive outage  on the web and on mobile. A rep for YouTube could not immediately confirm the outage, or the reason for it. UPDATE 3:35 pm ET Weds : A rep for YouTube confirmed that "some" users had problems accessing the video service on Wednesday, but no reason was provided for the disruption. "Some people encountered errors, or a slower than normal experience on YouTube today," the rep said in a statement provided to  Mashable . "We worked quickly to address the issue and fixed the problem. We're sorry for any inconvenienc...

NEW DELHI: Technology giant  Yahoo ! invested $1 billion in 2013 on product development to beef up its media, news and entertainment offerings to serve advertisers and consumers better as it takes head on giants like  Google .  Also, the California-headquartered company went on an acquisition spree, acquiring as many as 28 start-ups last year, as it looks to grab consumers' attention, especially those using  mobile handheld devices .  CEO  Marissa Mayer , who joined the firm in 2012 to revive its declining fortunes, has been working on "re-imagining" Yahoo's core businesses across search, communications, media and video.  "Product development expenses for 2011, 2012, and 2013 totaled approximately $919 million, $886 million and $1 billion, respectively, which included stock-based compensation expense of $81 million, $74 million and $83 million, respectively," the firm said in a US SEC filing.  Yahoo! continually launches, improves and sca...

 by  James Altucher Sometimes I wish the mother ship would land and take me home. I look in the sky. Where is the ship, with the beautiful aliens. The ones I belong with. Why did they leave me here on this pathetic planet. Did they really want me to grow old and die here? In the past 15 years I was probably suicidal on at least three different occasions. How would I kill myself? Who knows. I googled it. It’s hard to actually find a technique that works. Try googling “I want to die”. You’ll  just end up back on this blog. Which won’t tell you how to die. Because there is no good technique. Trust me. But all of those moments had several things in common. I couldn’t take the pain. I didn’t want to die.  I wanted the pain to die.  I had gone from a high to a low (being constantly at a low doesn’t do it. You have to go from a high to a low to experience the sense of loss) and when I thought the only way my kids would be happy is if they wer...

View Gallery Stills from Katy Perry's 'Dark Horse' music video Uh-oh – it seems that  Katy Perry  has landed herself in hot water with her Muslim fans. The US pop singer has come under fire for featuring what is being viewed as a blasphemous scene in the music video for her latest single, Dark Horse. An  online petition  has been launched by a British-Muslim fan demanding that the video – in which a pendant featuring the name of Allah is seen being burned – be removed from YouTube. At the time of publishing, the petition had received 35,378 signatures. Dark Horse features Katy dressed as Katy-patra, the object of many pharaoh’s attention. Just over a minute into the video, the singer is seen zapping a man who is wearing the necklace. Katy Perry has come under fire for featuring what is being viewed as a blasphemous scene in the music video for … The petitioner, Shazad Iqbal, explains that the video is “considered as highly controversial...