Easy Poached Eggs Recipe

Fresh eggs work best for poaching. Their whites hold together better than older eggs. Some people put a little vinegar in the poaching water—the vinegar helps the proteins in the egg whites coagulate. But the vinegar does affect the taste. I usually skip it. Save Recipe Ingredients Fresh eggs Equipment needed Saucepan with cover Slotted spoon Method 1 Fill a saucepan with a couple inches of water. [...]

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PayPal will let you pay with Bitcoin, sometimes

First Braintree, and now PayPal. Ebay's popular online payment system recently announced that merchants selling digital goods can opt to start accepting Bitcoin payments via PayPal's payment portal, if they're based in North America. That means you may soon be able to pay for non-physical goods such as music and comic book downloads with Bitcoin via PayPal. Sort of. For now, PayPal will be keeping Bitcoin at arms length, and won't be fully integrating the payment method into its services. [...]

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Sugar

When it comes to healthy eating, so much is about context. I’ve been reminded of this in the wake of the recent Nigel Latta documentary on television about sugar. View the documentary here. In the show, Latta highlighted the abundance of sugar in our food supply, and the potential harm this is doing to our health. He showed the heart-breaking reality of the thousands of toddlers who require general anaesthetic to have decayed teeth removed every year. And he made the link between sugar [...]

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Alibaba's IPO could be 'open sesame' for global expansion

Alibaba, an e-commerce giant in China, wants to make new friends in the U.S. Especially friends with money. The firm is expected to begin offering shares Friday for $68 a pop on the New York Stock Exchange, in one of the biggest IPOs ever. At that price, the company could raise almost $22 billion, on par with the Agricultural Bank of China's record-setting $22 billion 2010 offering, and handsomely beating Facebook's $16 billion in 2012. Outside of the investor community, Alibaba is also [...]

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Windows 9 leaks: How to get its best new features today

Brad Chacos @BradChacos Sep 12, 2014 2:20 PM e-mail print Update: This article was originally published on April 16, 2014 but was updated with virtual desktop information and tweaked language on September 12, 2014 when leaks of the Windows 9 Technical Preview appeared. The Windows 9 Technical Preview is expected to be announced in late September or early October. Between the release of the PC-friendly spring update for Windows 8.1 and [...]

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Blackberry Shortcake

Who says strawberries have an imposing business model on shortcake treats? In genuine dissent with respect to the end of August and the sunlight hours that get shorter and shorter, I purchased a tremendous bushel of blackberries at the business today. I threw them with a little lemon squeeze and sugar and let them macerate while I made a cluster of margarine and cream bread rolls. Obviously the issue with making shortcake rolls is that I can't resist the opportunity to call my father [...]

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Saving files to memory is something that's supposed to be mostly invisible for the end user. We don't need to think about it; it just has to work. But whether it's a solid-state or hard disk drive, conventional storage solutions have their limitations -- namely, speed, rewritability and durability. A team at IBM Research's Almaden facility in California has a cure for all of that and it's called "racetrack memory." Stuart Parkin, an IBM fellow heading up research into the field [...]

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