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submitted by Robby for team staff news 12 weeks 7 hours 24 minutes ago
Don't be afraid. You can read that headline again. I'll wait for you... Aaaand, okay: With cold fusion nowhere in sight, hot fusion looks to be the cleanest way to whip up some atomic energy. However, the steel needed to line the reactor may not be...(more)
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Spam was once a simple annoyance. But its exponential growth -- reports suggest that about 90 percent of all e-mail is spam -- has led e-mail users to build daunting ramparts to block unwanted messages and companies to circulate blacklists of alleged spammers. One cannot...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 6 weeks 3 days 2 hours 24 minutes ago
When a 1991 cholera outbreak that killed thousands in Peru was traced to plankton blooms fueled by warmer-than-usual coastal waters, linking disease outbreaks to epidemics was a new idea. Now, scientists say, it is a near-certainty that global warming will drive significant increases in waterborne...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 13 weeks 2 hours 24 minutes ago
Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have linked a chemical found in everyday plastics to problems with brain function and mood disorders in monkeys -- the first time the chemical has been connected to health problems in primates. The study is the latest in...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 10 hours 24 minutes ago
Sony isn't the only company that tried to rips its gear out of Circuit City's broke, zombie clutches. Samsung has been asking for the bankrupt company to return $74 million of merch from September. In a bankruptcy court filing, Samsung said it believes "that Circuit City...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 12 weeks 14 hours 24 minutes ago
MEYRIN, Switzerland -- It is the biggest machine ever built. Everyone says it looks like a movie set for a corny James Bond villain. They are correct. The machine is attended by brainiacs wearing hard hats and running around on catwalks. They are looking for...(more)
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submitted by Ari for team iphone mania 74 weeks 5 days 4 hours 28 minutes ago
Those standing in line around the Bay Area to be among the first to spring for a new iPhone shouldn't feel bad: Even the cofounder of Apple was queued up.
Steve Wozniak arrived at the Apple store at Valley Fair Mall in San Jose at 4 a.m....(more)
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submitted by Lisa 1 week 5 days 23 hours 41 minutes ago
It's taken more than a century, but Einstein's celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists.
A brainpower consortium led by Laurent Lellouch of France's Centre for Theoretical Physics, using some of the world's mightiest supercomputers,...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 3 weeks 2 hours 24 minutes ago
Not content with focus groups and analyzing market trends, research firm Nielson and California-based NeuroFocus have launched a service in Japan that scans the brain waves of potential customers to help companies improve marketing. Their service basically measures how much ads actually grab the attention...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 11 weeks 5 days 15 hours 24 minutes ago
At least six dust devils have been imaged by the Phoenix Mars lander – the first ever observed by the probe
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 9 weeks 4 days 17 hours 24 minutes ago
3M's new Mobile ID Reader scans MRZ and RF chip data from passports and visas and immediately checks them against local or international watch lists by using wifi or GSM/GPRS EDGE networks. It seems like a great tool to further make you feel like you're living...(more)
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submitted by JKM 58 weeks 2 days 6 hours 49 minutes ago
Apple just stated in their earnings call that out of 1.4 million iPhones sold since launch, 250,000 are unlocked. They know this from subtracting the number of iPhones activated on AT&T from the number of iPhones sold total—which is 250k. That's a farmhouse load of unlocked...(more)
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