Thursday, March 4, 2010

UK's Copyright Change 'Could Block YouTube'

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Lord Mandelson's plans to tackle illegal filesharing have received widespread criticism Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters From The Guar...

Microsoft Exec Pitches Internet Usage Tax To Pay Or Cybersecurity Programs

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From The Hill: A top Microsoft executive on Tuesday suggested a broad Internet tax to help defray the costs associated with computer securit...

What Is The “Einstein” Cyber Shield?

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Cybersecurity Chief Howard Schmidt said he wants the U.S. to become "stronger through stronger technology." Lawrence Jackson/White...

Google China Hackers Stole Source Code - Researcher

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A Chinese national flag sways in front of Google China's headquarters in Beijing in this January 14, 2010 file photo. From Yahoo News/R...

'Dinosaurs' 10 Million Years Older Than Previously Thought

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Asilisaurus kongwe from the Middle Triassic of Tanzania, with the sail?backed archosaur Hypselorhachis in the background Photo: Marlene Don...

Want To Seduce A Man? Smile at Him 35 Times Every Hour: The Bizarre But True Secrets Of Attraction

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'Smile at him broadly': The most effective female technique for drawing a man's attention, according to a flirting study (posed ...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Mass Loss from Alaskan Glaciers Overestimated? Previous Melt Contributed a Third Less to Sea-Level Rise Than Estimated

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NAU geographer Erik Schiefer surveys a debris-covered glacier margin. (Credit: Photo by Amanda Stan) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Mar....

The Man Behind The Technology Of "CSI"

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Biomedical engineering professor Zheng Ouyang (left), chemistry professor Graham Cooks and post-doc Guangming Huang with a mass spectrometer...

Internet Industry Told To Respect Human Rights Abroad

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Photo: Internet rights: Dick Durbin and Nicole Wong, vice president and deputy general counsel of Google, at a hearing of the Subcommittee ...

To Mars In 39 Days

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An artist's impression of VASIMR - a rocket that may cut down the travel time to Mars to just 39 days. Credit: NASA From Cosmos/AFP: WAS...

Tons Of Water Ice At The Moon’s North Pole Could Sustain A Lunar Base

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From Discover Magazine: Water, water, everywhere! Radar results from a lunar probe have revealed that the moon’s north pole could be holding...

Dirty Tricks Of The Egg And Sperm Race

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In many mammals the entire sperm enters the egg, bringing proteins that may influence development (Image: Thierry Berrod/Mona Lisa Productio...

New Sensors Directly Track The Brain's Chemical Messengers For The First Time

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Imaging the Brain Patrick Gillooly From Popular Science: Courtesy of those brainy folk at MIT and Caltech. This i...

New Era Of Planet Discovery On Horizon

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The deepest image of the universe ever taken in near-infrared light, captured by Hubble Space Telescope Photo: NASA/AP From The Telegraph...

Spanish Police Arrest Ringleaders Who Infected 13m PCs With Credit-Card Stealing Virus

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The virus was used to steal login credentials and record every key stroke on the 13m infected computers From The Daily Mail: Spanish police ...

Limp Wrists And tight Fists: What Your Handshake Says About You

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From Scientific American: There is a man—a very well-known man, a legend of sorts—whom I’ve been privileged enough to have seen on occasion ...

Learning Keeps Brain Healthy: Mental Activity Could Stave Off Age-Related Cognitive And Memory Decline

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New findings suggest that learning promotes brain health -- and, therefore, that mental stimulation could limit the debilitating effects of ...

Earth's Earthquake Hotspots

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The Seward highway in Alaska after the 1964 earthquake / USGS From Live Science: The powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake that rocked Chile was...

Polar Bear And Its Cub Drift On Shrinking Ice 12 Miles From Land ... But Is It All It Seems?

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Adrift: The polar bear cub snuggles against its mother as they drift 12 miles from land From The Daily Mail: A forlorn polar bear cub is com...

Androids Will Challenge The iPad

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Image: Tap and go: This prototype device runs on the Android operating system and features a customizable home screen. The interface was cre...