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From MPG to Mbps: broadband cars to hit top gear in ’12 (telecomasia.net)
May 31, 2009 – 8:23 pm | Comments Off

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American car manufacturers may be on the brink of bankruptcy, but by the time they sort themselves out, they’ll be competing on two fronts: green technology and wireless connectivity.

China to lead the way in electric cars, says Bain (China Daily)
May 31, 2009 – 8:22 pm | Comments Off

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China is set to become the world’s largest producer of environment-friendly cars within 10 years, largely due to the central government’s backing and the domestic car makers’ ambitions to push electric vehicles, according to …

Sir Richard Branson All Fired Up With Latest Rocket Motor Test (PhysOrg)
May 31, 2009 – 8:08 pm | Comments Off

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Virgin Galactic owned by Sir Richard Branson completed a successful test on May 28, 2009 of its hybrid nitrous oxide motor designed by Scaled Composites and a subcontractor Sierra Nevada Corporation. The innovative hybrid …

A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-First Century. By Jacques Attali. Arcade Publishing.
May 30, 2009 – 10:21 am | Comments Off
A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-First Century. By Jacques Attali. Arcade Publishing.

Attali argues that history flows in a single, stubborn direction that no upheaval, however momentous, can permanently deflect. Analyzing the past in order to predict the future, he pinpoints three political orders in human history: …

Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities are Changing the World. By Jeb Brugmann. Penguin.
May 30, 2009 – 7:46 am | Comments Off
Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities are Changing the World. By Jeb Brugmann. Penguin.

In Welcome to the Urban Revolution, Jeb Brugmann draws on two decades of fieldwork to offer an eye-opening anatomy of our urbanizing planet. Taking readers on a street-level tour of the world’s cities, Brugmann challenges …

Robots with fins, tails demonstrate evolution (Boston Globe)
May 29, 2009 – 10:45 pm | Comments Off

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Robots wag their tail fins and bob along like bathtub toys in a pool at a Vassar College lab. Their actions are dictated by microprocessors housed in round plastic containers, the sort you’d store …

Slicing chromosomes leads to new insights into cell division (PhysOrg)
May 29, 2009 – 10:44 pm | Comments Off

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By using ultrafast laser pulses to slice off pieces of chromosomes and observe how the chromosomes behave, biomedical engineers at the University of Michigan have gained pivotal insights into mitosis, the process of cell …

Could China Get to Mars First? (Spectrum Online)
May 29, 2009 – 10:44 pm | Comments Off

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Maybe–if it adopts a less top-down approach.

The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business. By Tara Hunt. Crown Business.
May 29, 2009 – 10:25 pm | Comments Off
The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business. By Tara Hunt. Crown Business.

While The Whuffie Factor will traverse the landscape of Web 2.0 and show how to become a player, it is not just another book about online marketing. People see the huge business potential of the …

Lost in Cyburbia: How Life on the Net Has Created a Life of Its Own. By James Harkin. Alfred A. Knopf.
May 29, 2009 – 6:04 pm | Comments Off
Lost in Cyburbia: How Life on the Net Has Created a Life of Its Own. By James Harkin. Alfred A. Knopf.

Once upon a time there were no text messaging, no e-mail and no social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo, Twitter and MySpace. The introduction of these new forums for communication has radically transformed the way …

The Future Arrived Yesterday: The Rise of the Protean Corporation and What It Means for You. By Michael S. Malone. Crown Business.
May 29, 2009 – 5:50 pm | Comments Off
The Future Arrived Yesterday: The Rise of the Protean Corporation and What It Means for You. By Michael S. Malone. Crown Business.

Business considerations such as the wireless World Wide Web, billions of new consumers, and an entrepreneurial ethos are all converging. How a corporation is organized and how people will be managed and employed will change …

Natural gas in the Arctic is mostly Russian (PhysOrg)
May 29, 2009 – 4:14 pm | Comments Off

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Nearly one-third of the natural gas yet to be discovered in the world is north of the Arctic Circle and most of it is in Russian territory, according to a new analysis led by …

Climate pressure ‘building on US’ (BBC)
May 29, 2009 – 4:14 pm | Comments Off

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Climate negotiations begin in earnest in Bonn with pressure building for the US to deliver deeper cuts in emissions.

Obama to create cyber chief in awareness effort (Boston Globe)
May 29, 2009 – 1:50 am | Comments Off

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The Obama administration is creating a "cyber czar" within the White House to coordinate U.S. computer security. Critics already say the post will not have enough authority to haul the government into the digital …

Is social media making you anti-social? (PhysOrg)
May 29, 2009 – 1:50 am | Comments Off

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The turning point came around November for Jessi Odenbach.

Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives. By Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, eds. MIT Press.
May 28, 2009 – 10:05 pm | Comments Off
Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives. By Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, eds. MIT Press.

Third Person explores strategies of vast narrative across a variety of media, including video games, television, literature, comic books, tabletop games, and digital art. The contributors — media and television scholars, novelists, comic creators, game …

Biomedical engineers teach bacteria to count (PhysOrg)
May 28, 2009 – 8:23 pm | Comments Off

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Biomedical engineers at Boston University have taught bacteria how to count. Professor James J. Collins and colleagues have wired a new sequence of genes that allow the microbes to count discrete events, opening the …

All the carbon counts (PhysOrg)
May 28, 2009 – 8:23 pm | Comments Off

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Cutting down forests for agriculture vents excess carbon dioxide into the air just as industrial activities and the burning of fossil fuels do. But whether policies to stabilize greenhouse gases in the atmosphere should …

Youth diabetes in Europe set to explode: study (PhysOrg)
May 28, 2009 – 2:49 pm | Comments Off

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Incidence of Type 1 diabetes in children aged under five in Europe is set to double by 2020 over 2005 levels while cases among the under-15s will rise by 70 percent, according to a …

Global emissions to leap 39 percent by 2030: US (PhysOrg)
May 28, 2009 – 3:44 am | Comments Off

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Global carbon dioxide emissions are set to rise 39 percent by 2030 as energy consumption surges in the developing world, notably in Asian giants China and India, the United States warned.

Glowing-green monkeys sets a ‘dangerous precedent’ (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
May 28, 2009 – 3:44 am | Comments Off

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Japanese researchers have genetically engineered monkeys whose hair roots, skin and blood glow green under a special light – and who have passed on their traits to their offspring.

On-demand book publishing booms in 2008 (CBC)
May 28, 2009 – 3:43 am | Comments Off

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The U.S. publishing industry passed a key marker last year, with the publication of more "on-demand" or short-run titles than traditional books, a U.S. bilbliograhic company says.

As hybirds go mainstream, Toyota, Honda rush to produce smaller models (Business Week)
May 27, 2009 – 2:13 pm | Comments Off

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Honda and Toyota are revving up plans a new generation of smaller gas electric models.

Filtering Twitter’s Noise with Mixero (ReadWriteWeb)
May 27, 2009 – 2:13 pm | Comments Off

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As many of us know, the usefulness of Twitter lies in the user’s ability to find, refine, and engage with a network. Most of the invalid complaints about the service revolve around signal-to-noise ratios; …

China said expanding its nukes, ICBMs (UPI)
May 27, 2009 – 4:08 am | Comments Off

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China is developing and expanding its arsenals of nuclear warheads and strategic missiles, military experts say.

Mouse genome laid bare to science (BBC)
May 27, 2009 – 4:08 am | Comments Off

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An international team of scientists has finished sequencing the mouse genome after a 10-year effort.

Scientists propose helping wildlife relocate due to climate change (CBC)
May 26, 2009 – 2:38 pm | Comments Off

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Rapid climate change is forcing some scientists to consider for the first time whether to help wildlife relocate to places where they are not currently found, says a group of international researchers.

Study says businesses can create clean energy jobs (AP via Yahoo! News)
May 25, 2009 – 7:09 pm | Comments Off

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Business leaders vowed to help world governments set a price on carbon, establishing a market that governments can use to cut greenhouse gases.

Man machine (BBC)
May 24, 2009 – 7:54 pm | Comments Off

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Making robots act like people.

Climate challenge (BBC)
May 24, 2009 – 3:30 am | Comments Off

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Chile faces up to threat of rising temperatures.

Africa’s Turn? By Edward Miguel. MIT Press.
May 23, 2009 – 10:15 pm | Comments Off
Africa’s Turn? By Edward Miguel. MIT Press.

In Africa’s Turn? Edward Miguel tracks a decade of hopeful economic and political trends throughout sub-Saharan Africa and suggests that we may be seeing a turnaround. Miguel warns, though, that recent progress is fragile. Violence …

e-Riches 2.0: Next-Generation Marketing Strategies for Making Millions Online. By Scott Fox. AMACOM.
May 23, 2009 – 5:57 pm | Comments Off
e-Riches 2.0: Next-Generation Marketing Strategies for Making Millions Online. By Scott Fox. AMACOM.

In good economies and bad, someone’s still making lots of money. More money than you’re making. And there’s a very good chance that the success involves savvy use of the emerging Social Web. Today, your …

Homeowners turn to online home trading sites (Mercury News)
May 23, 2009 – 3:04 pm | Comments Off

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Diane Peek needed to move from Georgia to central Florida, but for six months no one even showed interest in the house she and her husband built outside Atlanta.

Chinese Economist: Yuan Should be Regional Currency to Rival Dollar (Business Week)
May 23, 2009 – 2:59 am | Comments Off

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China at risk since the U.S. is undermining the dollar, says Tsinghua professor.

Engineering Carbon for Impressive Hydrogen Storage (PhysOrg)
May 23, 2009 – 2:59 am | Comments Off

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University of Missouri researchers recently showed how carbon nanostructures can be engineered to become excellent media for hydrogen storage, work that may be important for the advancement of hydrogen-energy technologies for vehicles and other …

Content Nation: Surviving and Thriving as Social Media Changes Our Work, Our Lives, and Our Future. By John Blossom. Wiley Publishing.
May 23, 2009 – 12:19 am | Comments Off
Content Nation: Surviving and Thriving as Social Media Changes Our Work, Our Lives, and Our Future. By John Blossom. Wiley Publishing.

This book is revolutionary not only in its scope, but in the way it came to be. Through the wiki collaboration process, it evolved and developed online at ContentNation.com — literally created by the social …

White House launches open government initiative (PhysOrg)
May 22, 2009 – 3:50 am | Comments Off

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The White House invited ordinary Americans on Thursday to contribute ideas on making government more open and unveiled a new website where raw federal data will be put online for public use.

Genome Alberta Funding Launches $22M Genomics Studies (GenomeWeb News)
May 22, 2009 – 3:50 am | Comments Off

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The government of Alberta and private funders have given C$25.2 million ($22.1 million) to two new research programs that will study genomics to discover new ways to use microbes in energy production and new …

Scientists predict mobile phone viruses will pose a serious threat (PhysOrg)
May 22, 2009 – 3:50 am | Comments Off

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If you own a computer, chances are you have experienced the aftermath of a nasty virus at some point. In contrast, there have been no major outbreaks of mobile phone viral infection, despite the …

Rotating Space Elevator Propels its Own Load (PhysOrg)
May 22, 2009 – 3:50 am | Comments Off

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The idea of the space elevator just got a little crazier. While the ‘traditional’ concept involved using rocket propulsion or laser light pressure to propel loads up a cable anchored to Earth, a new …

Parents turn to cell phones as high-tech rattles (Boston Globe)
May 21, 2009 – 2:31 am | Comments Off

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When Annamarie Saarinen needed to soothe her ailing daughter, she used a rattle — downloaded to her iPhone.

Obama Gets Credit-Card Crackdown (Business Week)
May 21, 2009 – 2:31 am | Comments Off

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Every American with a credit card will see sweeping changes in the market, with limits on sudden hikes in interest rates that drive consumers deeper into debt.

New memory material may hold data for one billion years (PhysOrg)
May 21, 2009 – 2:31 am | Comments Off

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Packing more digital images, music, and other data onto silicon chips in USB drives and smart phones is like squeezing more strawberries into the same size supermarket carton. The denser you pack, the quicker …

Ford’s last-minute cold feet put emissions deal at risk (PhysOrg)
May 21, 2009 – 2:31 am | Comments Off

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It had taken weeks of hardball negotiations, but by Sunday afternoon White House officials thought everything was falling into place. In less than 48 hours they would unveil a landmark deal with U.S. automakers …

Germany to Google: Erase raw street-level images (Boston Globe)
May 21, 2009 – 2:30 am | Comments Off

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A data protection official for Germany said Wednesday that Google had yet to meet a key request that photos gathered for its panoramic mapping service be erased after they are sent to the United …

‘Junk’ DNA Has Important Role, Researchers Find (Science Daily)
May 21, 2009 – 2:30 am | Comments Off

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Researchers who have been studying the genome of a pond organism have found that junk DNA may not be so junky after all. They have discovered that DNA sequences from regions of what had …

Researchers create DVDs with massive storage (iTNews)
May 21, 2009 – 2:30 am | Comments Off

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Researchers at Australia’s Swinburne University “five-dimensional” discs with a capacity 10,000 times greater than current DVDs could be on the market within 10 years.

Strategic Customer Service: Managing the Customer Experience to Increase Positive Word of Mouth, Build Loyalty, and Maximize Profits. By John Goodman. AMACOM.
May 20, 2009 – 9:07 pm | Comments Off
Strategic Customer Service: Managing the Customer Experience to Increase Positive Word of Mouth, Build Loyalty, and Maximize Profits. By John Goodman. AMACOM.

In Strategic Customer Service, John Goodman, Vice Chairman of TARP Worldwide, proposes a new concept in customer service, and shows how leading companies use it to transform their businesses, drawing on thirty years of research …

Canada could face gaps in GPS service as U.S. satellites age (CBC)
May 20, 2009 – 9:05 pm | Comments Off

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The U.S. may not be able to replace its aging global positioning system satellites before they start to fail, a U.S. government report says, and that could lead to GPS service gaps in Canada …

New ‘broadband’ cloaking technology simple to manufacture (PhysOrg)
May 20, 2009 – 9:05 pm | Comments Off

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Researchers have created a new type of invisibility cloak that is simpler than previous designs and works for all colors of the visible spectrum, making it possible to cloak larger objects than before and …

RFID tagging: Chips with everything (Daily Telegraph)
May 20, 2009 – 9:05 pm | Comments Off

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Building an ‘internet of things’ could be the next crucial step in the march towards a truly digital age.

Vancouver mulls making itself an ‘open city’ (CBC)
May 20, 2009 – 9:05 pm | Comments Off

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Vancouver residents and businesses would benefit if the city made the data it collects open and accessible to everyone wherever possible, a city councillor says.

Scientists discover area of brain that makes a ‘people person’ (PhysOrg)
May 20, 2009 – 1:14 pm | Comments Off

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Cambridge University researchers have discovered that whether someone is a ‘people-person’ may depend on the structure of their brain: the greater the concentration of brain tissue in certain parts of the brain, the more …

Largest wind farm to be expanded (BBC)
May 20, 2009 – 1:14 pm | Comments Off

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Europe’s largest onshore wind farm is to be expanded further, Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond announces.

Japan’s Economy Shrinks A Record 15.2% (Business Week)
May 20, 2009 – 1:14 pm | Comments Off

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How bad is the recession in Japan? Today, the government announced that from January to March the economy shrank 4%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2008, for an annualized rate of 15.2%. It …

Early skeleton sheds light on primate evolution (San Francisco Chronicle)
May 20, 2009 – 1:14 pm | Comments Off

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The nearly complete and remarkably preserved skeleton of a small, 47 million-year-old creature found in Germany was displayed Tuesday by scientists who said it would help illuminate the evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and …

Chaotics: The Business of Managing and Marketing in the Age of Turbulence. By Philip Kotler and John A. Caslione. AMACOM.
May 20, 2009 – 7:16 am | Comments Off
Chaotics: The Business of Managing and Marketing in the Age of Turbulence. By Philip Kotler and John A. Caslione. AMACOM.

In Chaotics, noted business strategists Philip Kotler and John Caslione present the intriguing, if unsettling, argument that these troubled times are not an aberration, but the new face of normal. In fact, the economic downturn …

Jury Deliberations in the Digital Age (Law.com)
May 20, 2009 – 4:07 am | Comments Off

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The online behavior of jurors has prompted challenges to the fairness of their verdicts. According to Ken Strutin, director of legal information services at the New York State Defenders Association, jurors’ indiscriminate use of …

New gene linked to autism risk, especially in boy (PhysOrg)
May 19, 2009 – 10:28 pm | Comments Off

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UCLA scientists have discovered a variant of a gene called CACNA1G that may increase a child’s risk of developing autism, particularly in boys.

The Genius Machine: The Eleven Steps That Turn Raw Ideas into Brilliance. By Gerald Sindell. New World Library.
May 19, 2009 – 9:39 pm | Comments Off
The Genius Machine: The Eleven Steps That Turn Raw Ideas into Brilliance. By Gerald Sindell. New World Library.

A complete, step-by-step system for developing an idea, thinking through an issue, or creating a revolutionary innovation. Gifted with the unique ability to help people discover and apply their own innate genius, intellectual property consultant …

Interview with Stephen Wolfram
May 19, 2009 – 6:46 pm | Comments Off

MP3… A first look at Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine, with Stephen Wolfram. This is uncut audio from David Weinberger’s 55 minute interview with Stephen for Radio Berkman. Look for the more concise version …

Virtual Successes and Failures
May 19, 2009 – 6:43 pm | Comments Off

MP3… For Linden Lab’s founder and chairman Philip Rosedale, the open-ended social experiment that is Second Life doesn’t end at the borders of the virtual world he envisioned and brought to life. The …

Making Up the Mind
May 19, 2009 – 6:40 pm | Comments Off

MP3… An interview with neuropsychologist Dr. Chris Frith, author of Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World. Our brain processes information about the world outside us (via our senses) …

The new cold war: Why Russia and the U.S. are facing off over massive Arctic resources made available by global warming (Daily Mail)
May 19, 2009 – 2:25 pm | Comments Off

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The new cold war: Why Russia and the U.S. are facing off over massive Arctic resources made available by global warming.

Obama to curb vehicle emissions (BBC)
May 19, 2009 – 2:25 pm | Comments Off

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US President Barack Obama is to announce strict limits on vehicle pollution that will set national standards for the first time.

World top city chiefs meet to fight climate change (AFP via Yahoo! News)
May 19, 2009 – 2:25 pm | Comments Off

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Leaders of the world’s largest cities, which together produce more than two thirds of its climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions, opened a summit hoping to reverse the trend.

South Koreans designing ‘online’ electric vehicles (Mercury News)
May 19, 2009 – 2:25 pm | Comments Off

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Urban visionaries in London and Seoul, two of the world’s busiest capital cities, foresee buses gliding through their streets with speed, ease and efficiency ‘” without emitting the exhaust fumes that scientists say are …

Scientists discover neurons that ‘mirror’ the attention of others (PhysOrg)
May 19, 2009 – 2:16 am | Comments Off

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Whether a monkey is looking to the left or merely watching another monkey looking that way, the same neurons in his brain are firing, according to researchers at the Duke University Medical Center.

Automated Tissue Engineering on Demand (PhysOrg)
May 19, 2009 – 2:16 am | Comments Off

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There is an increasing demand for skin. Manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, chemicals, cosmetics and medical engineering products need it in order to test the compatibility of their products with human skin. At the 2009 BIO …

Embrace the renewable energy future (The Age)
May 19, 2009 – 2:16 am | Comments Off

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From China, to Britain, to the US, the public is demanding that politicians show leadership in the march to a low-carbon future.

Air-fueled battery could last up to 10 times longer (PhysOrg)
May 19, 2009 – 2:16 am | Comments Off

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A new type of air-fuelled battery could give up to ten times the energy storage of designs currently available.

Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time. By Joel Comm and Ken Burge. John Wiley & Sons.
May 18, 2009 – 10:16 pm | Comments Off
Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time. By Joel Comm and Ken Burge. John Wiley & Sons.

Twitter Power shows you how to leverage the power of Twitter for instant business benefits — like reaching new markets and increasing sales. You can build a loyal customer following, expand your brand, and generate …

London bids to be world’s greenest by 2012: mayor (PhysOrg)
May 18, 2009 – 2:25 pm | Comments Off

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Mayor Boris Johnson outlined plans to make London "the cleanest, greenest city on earth" by the 2012 Olympics and called for commitments from other world cities at a climate change conference.

Emerging Patterns in the Crisis Economy (Business Week)
May 18, 2009 – 2:25 pm | Comments Off

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A challenging economic environment is fostering a burst of fresh entrepreneurial energy.

Virtual Goods May Be a Blip (New York Times)
May 18, 2009 – 2:39 am | Comments Off

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The sale of virtual gifts, services and other fictitious charms on the Internet is becoming a big business, but this made-up industry faces some very real barriers.

Secrets of Social Media Marketing: How to Use Online Conversations and Customer Communities to Turbo-Charge Your Business! By Paul Gillin. Quill Driver Books.
May 17, 2009 – 10:07 pm | Comments Off
Secrets of Social Media Marketing: How to Use Online Conversations and Customer Communities to Turbo-Charge Your Business! By Paul Gillin. Quill Driver Books.

Powered by the new and dynamic force of social media marketing, the world of business is evolving faster than we have ever known before. Paul Gillin’s new book, Secrets of Social Media Marketing: How to …

The Unofficial Guide to Building Your Business in the Second Life Virtual World: Marketing and Selling Your Product, Services, and Brand In-World. By Sue Martin Mahar and Jay Mahar. AMACOM.
May 17, 2009 – 7:23 pm | Comments Off
The Unofficial Guide to Building Your Business in the Second Life Virtual World: Marketing and Selling Your Product, Services, and Brand In-World. By Sue Martin Mahar and Jay Mahar. AMACOM.

A comprehensive, in-depth guide to conducting business in this new marketplace, The Unofficial Guide to Building Your Business in the Second Life Virtual World will ensure you make the best use of this site. With …

Energy Shift: Game-Changing Options for Fueling the Future. By Eric Spiegel and Neil McArthur. McGraw-Hill.
May 17, 2009 – 7:20 pm | Comments Off
Energy Shift: Game-Changing Options for Fueling the Future. By Eric Spiegel and Neil McArthur. McGraw-Hill.

Energy Shift: Game-Changing Options for Fueling the Future is a one-stop resource for busy executives and senior policymakers who need a reliable, accessible guide to the big strategy questions surrounding energy. Supported by the latest …

Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office: Essential Wisdom from the Twentieth Century’s Greatest Entrepreneurs. By Todd G. Buchholz. Harper Collins Business.
May 17, 2009 – 5:45 pm | Comments Off
Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office: Essential Wisdom from the Twentieth Century’s Greatest Entrepreneurs. By Todd G. Buchholz. Harper Collins Business.

Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office uncovers the secrets behind the success of the great CEOs through their lives and personal stories. Why did Ray Kroc’s plan for McDonald’s thrive when all other burger joints …

The Adversity Paradox: An Unconventional Guide to Achieving Uncommon Business Success. By J. Barry Griswell and Bob Jennings. St. Martin’s Press.
May 17, 2009 – 5:41 pm | Comments Off
The Adversity Paradox: An Unconventional Guide to Achieving Uncommon Business Success. By J. Barry Griswell and Bob Jennings. St. Martin’s Press.

While many motivational business books promise easy access to prosperity and power by way of secret insight, quick and easy steps, or “insider tips” that are dubious at best, The Adversity Paradox tells it straight …

Collapse of Distinction: Stand Out and Move Up While Your Competition Fails. By Scott McKain. Thomas Nelson.
May 17, 2009 – 5:38 pm | Comments Off
Collapse of Distinction: Stand Out and Move Up While Your Competition Fails. By Scott McKain. Thomas Nelson.

A cross country road trip or a flight across time zoned today will teach you a sobering lesson — the faster we move, the more everything begins to be the same. From Starbucks in Singapore …

Stephen Wolfram’s Plan to Leapfrog Google (Newsweek)
May 17, 2009 – 3:02 pm | Comments Off

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Silicon Valley is full of imperial visionaries whose mission is to take down Google, which now controls about 64 percent of the search market worldwide. They range from Microsoft to newcomers like Cuil, but …

Foodies flock to Twitter-savvy food trucks (Boston Globe)
May 16, 2009 – 1:55 am | Comments Off

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For some foodies, Tweets lead to great eats. Twitter recently became the communique of choice for the almost cultishly popular Kogi BBQ trucks, roving Korean-style taco vendors in Los Angeles that use the 140-character, …

The Next Best Thing to You ( PhysOrg)
May 16, 2009 – 1:55 am | Comments Off

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Have you ever wished you could be in two places at once? Perhaps you’ve had the desire to create a copy of yourself that could stand in for you at a meeting, freeing you …

Brazil to Propose Dropping Dollar in China Trade, Caijing Says (Bloomberg)
May 16, 2009 – 1:55 am | Comments Off

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Brazil and China should conduct bilateral trade using their own currencies rather than the dollar, the Caijing magazine reported, citing Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in an interview.

Fujitsu develops world’s fastest processor (PhysOrg)
May 16, 2009 – 1:55 am | Comments Off

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Japanese computer maker Fujitsu Ltd. said that it has successfully developed the world’s fastest supercomputer processing unit with more than twice the speed of the current leader.

Progress Toward Artificial Tissue? (PhysOrg)
May 16, 2009 – 1:55 am | Comments Off

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For modern implants and the growth of artificial tissue and organs, it is important to generate materials with characteristics that closely emulate nature.

Flat-screen light bulbs switch on (BBC)
May 15, 2009 – 12:38 pm | Comments Off

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Organic light-emitting diodes outperform fluorescent tubes, bringing closer their promise as the next generation of light bulbs.

The Origin of Artificial Species: Creating Artificial Personalities (PhysOrg)
May 15, 2009 – 3:30 am | Comments Off

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Does your robot seem to be acting a bit neurotic? Maybe it’s just their personality. Recently, a team of researchers has designed computer-coded genomes for artificial creatures in which a specific personality is encoded. …

Google to reshoot Japan Street Views after privacy complaints (PhysOrg)
May 15, 2009 – 3:30 am | Comments Off

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US Internet giant Google has decided to reshoot Street View photos in Japan following complaints from people who said public images of their homes violated their privacy.

Health effects of climate change will affect billions: report (CBC)
May 14, 2009 – 4:22 am | Comments Off

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Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century because it could change patterns of mosquito-borne diseases, exacerbate food and water scarcities and threaten shelter, according to a new report.

Chemists see first building blocks to life on Earth (PhysOrg)
May 14, 2009 – 4:22 am | Comments Off

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British scientists said that they had figured out key steps in the process by which life on Earth may have emerged from a seething soup of simple chemicals.

Europe’s Overseas Push into Biofuels (BusinessWeek)
May 13, 2009 – 8:25 pm | Comments Off

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Companies are buying tracts of land in Africa, Russia, and Ukraine to produce biofuels in a move that could harm farmers in developing economies.

Diode lights offer bright future for low energy (PhysOrg)
May 13, 2009 – 8:25 pm | Comments Off

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German scientists said Wednesday they had tweaked organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) — the materials used in flat-screen TVs, laptop computer screens and mobile phone displays — to become flexible, energy-efficient sources of white light.

New warning over Arctic ice-cap (BBC)
May 13, 2009 – 8:25 pm | Comments Off

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The Arctic ice-cap could vanish in summertime far sooner than previously predicted, a leading scientist says.

Births to unwed moms rising, N. Europe beats US (PhysOrg)
May 13, 2009 – 8:25 pm | Comments Off

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The percentage of births to unmarried women in the United States has been rising sharply, but it’s way behind Northern European countries, a new U.S. report on births shows.

Recession Boosts Working From Home (BusinessWeek)
May 13, 2009 – 8:24 pm | Comments Off

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More than half of employees are working from home more often since the financial crisis began as workers find new ways to save money.

Can Diesel Save Detroit? (Business Week)
May 13, 2009 – 12:55 pm | Comments Off

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Lower gas prices slowed diesel’s progress with U.S. carmakers. But new emissions and fuel-economy standards could reignite enthusiasm.

Harris: Milpitas company offshores its IPO (MercuryNews)
May 13, 2009 – 12:55 pm | Comments Off

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Array Networks, a maker of enterprise networking software, today will become the first foreign-based startup to debut on the Taiwan Emerging Stock Market, said Array CEO Michael Zhao.

Huge Bolivian glacier disappears (BBC News)
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One of Bolivia’s most famous glaciers, once the world’s highest ski run, has almost disappeared, scientists say.

EU pushes for smart tag revolution (EUActiv)
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The use of smart tags, with which people can pay road tolls and access office buildings, should receive a boost thanks to a recommendation to be issued by the European Commission today (12 May), …

Newspapers failing web 2.0 challenge (Silicon.com)
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Newspapers need to find innovative ways to embrace web 2.0 – or accept certain doom, says CIO Ian Cohen. Newspapers are facing the most fundamental period of change in their history. In many ways, …

Chemist’s discovery of new salt jumpstarts extended-life battery research for electric vehicles (PhysOrg)
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A University of Rhode Island chemistry professor’s discovery of a new salt has been received with enthusiasm by companies seeking to develop an advanced lithium ion battery for use in the next generation of …

Swarm mentality (BBC)
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On the design of tiny but powerful ‘chemical robots’

Dell bans e-waste export to developing countries (PhysOrg)
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PC maker Dell Inc. is formally banning the export of broken computers, monitors and parts to developing countries.

Electricity more efficient than ethanol as energy pathway from biomass (PhysOrg)
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lectricity or ethanol, which is the better use of our nation’s biomass crops when it comes to powering vehicles? Our government seems to have chosen ethanol, recently announcing nearly $800 million of research money …

Book publishers face digital piracy problems (MercuryNews)
May 12, 2009 – 7:36 am | Comments Off

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For a while now, determined readers have been able to sniff out errant digital copies of titles as varied as the ‘Harry Potter’ series and best-sellers by Stephen King and John Grisham. But now, …

Obama Lauds Offer to Cut Costs (Washington Post)
May 12, 2009 – 7:36 am | Comments Off

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President says health care industry’s pledge to cut $2 trillion comes from past critics of reform.

Chinese Envoy to Russia: Oil Pipeline Serves Strategic Goals of Both Sides (Rigzone)
May 12, 2009 – 7:36 am | Comments Off

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The construction of the China-Russia oil pipeline conforms with the strategic goals of China and Russia to diversify the former’s energy imports and latter’s energy exports, Chinese Ambassador to Russia Liu Guchang has said.

Canadian astronaut to operate earthbound rover by remote control from space (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
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Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk is going to conduct a unique experiment from space on his six-month visit to the International Space Station beginning later this month.

Brain’s problem-solving function at work when we daydream (PhysOrg)
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A new University of British Columbia study finds that our brains are much more active when we daydream than previously thought.

Pliable proteins keep photosynthesis on the light path (PhysOrg)
May 12, 2009 – 7:35 am | Comments Off

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Photosynthesis is a remarkable biological process that supports life on earth. Plants and photosynthetic microbes do so by harvesting light to produce their food, and in the process, also provide vital oxygen for animals …

Liquid lens creates tiny flexible laser on a chip (PhysOrg)
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Like tiny Jedi knights, tunable fluidic micro lenses can focus and direct light at will to count cells, evaluate molecules or create on-chip optical tweezers, according to a team of Penn State engineers. They …

Smart metering closer to reality (Epolitix via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
May 12, 2009 – 7:35 am | Comments Off

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Ed Miliband has outlined plans to replace all 47 million meters in Britain with new ‘smart’ meters for electricity and gas within 10 years.

Batch vs Real Time Processing and the Emerging Web Culture (O’Reilly Media)
May 12, 2009 – 7:35 am | Comments Off

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Malcolm Gladwell treats us to another of his counter-intuitive x-rays of the world’s workings in this week’s New Yorker feature, "How David Beats Goliath." His focus on the difference between batch and real time …

Israeli sperm bank posts diminishing returns (PhysOrg)
May 12, 2009 – 7:34 am | Comments Off

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Wall Street giants are not the only banks hit by diminishing assets. New research for an Israeli sperm bank shows that depositors are 40 per cent less fertile than a decade ago, the Haaretz …

New Danish research shows how oil gets stuck underground (PhysOrg)
May 12, 2009 – 7:34 am | Comments Off

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It is a mystery to many people why the world is running out of oil when most of the world’s oilfields have only been half emptied. However some of the oil that has been …

Asking a machine to spot threats human eyes miss (Boston Globe)
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The surveillance cameras at Big Y, a Massachusetts grocery chain, are not just passively recording customers and staff. They’re studying checkout lines for signs of "sweethearting."

Google prime target for regulators (PhysOrg)
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Google’s unabashed success as an Internet search and advertising juggernaut has placed it in the crosshairs of regulators worried the firm will trample free market competition.

In S.C., high-tech bet on hydrogen-powered cars may be move in wrong direction (PhysOrg)
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The Obama administration’s plan to cut research dollars for hydrogen-powered cars is not good news for South Carolina and its capital city Columbia, which just last month opened two hydrogen fueling stations and unveiled …

Indian PM: Outsourcing helps US companies (Boston Globe)
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Any U.S. restrictions on outsourcing from India and other countries would hurt American corporations, India’s prime minister said.

Touchy feely (BBC News)
May 9, 2009 – 2:38 pm | Comments Off

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From speech recognition to gesturing, tech companies are finding many different ways for users to interact with devices.

Will the economic crisis lead to major societal changes? (PhysOrg)
May 9, 2009 – 5:04 am | Comments Off

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Why are former business executives and attorneys volunteering more time to help their communities? Why do the children of immigrants assume values very different from those of their parents? Why has the size of …

Wolfram Alpha ‘Knowledge Engine’ is Like a Modern Farmer’s Almanac (PhysOrg)
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Currently, there’s a lot of hype and skepticism surrounding the latest "Google rival," a so-called search engine named Wolfram Alpha. In the near future, anyone with Internet access will be able to freely visit …

Emerging Infectious Diseases Tracked By Online Surveillance Tool (Medical News Today)
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Tapping the Internet – including personal Web searches, news reports, blogs, chat rooms and social networking sites – is fast becoming a way to get a complete, up-to-the-minute view of public health threats, say …

Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others. By David Kord Murray. Gotham Books.
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Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others. By David Kord Murray. Gotham Books.

As a former aerospace scientist, Fortune 500 executive, chief innovation officer of two major companies, inventor and software entrepreneur, David Murray has made a living by coming up with new and innovative ideas. In Borrowing …

Google: Make newspapers more like Wikipedia (The Register)
May 8, 2009 – 3:56 am | Comments Off

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Wire creator: No, don’t Google, the nemesis of newspapers, was at the Congress yesterday, to turn a blonde deaf ear to their troubles. The company’s pin-up VP of products Marissa Meyer described quite a …

Spam down but ‘zombie’ armies growing: McAfee (PhysOrg)
May 7, 2009 – 2:16 pm | Comments Off

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Hackers appear to be beefing up armies of "zombie" computers to recover from a major hit scored in the battle against spam email, according to software security firm McAfee.

Hit by job crunch, China trains entrepreneurs (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
May 7, 2009 – 2:15 pm | Comments Off

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Jia Shaohua is offering a radical solution to China’s employment crunch: he teaches his students not just the skills they will need to find jobs, but how to create jobs of their own.

Five futurist visionaries and what they got right (New Scientist)
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Many imagine what the future might hold for the human race, but few have thought so sharply about it, or tried to make their vision come true.

Audit: air traffic systems vulnerable to attack (Boston Globe)
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A new government audit says the nation’s air traffic control systems are vulnerable to cyber attacks, and support systems have been breached in recent months allowing hackers access to personnel records and network servers.

A fifth of US homes have cell phones, no landlines (Boston Globe)
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For the first time, the number of U.S. households opting for only cell phones outnumber those that just have traditional landlines in a high-tech shift accelerated by the recession.

Ray Kurzweil: A singular view of the future (New Scientist)
May 7, 2009 – 5:06 am | Comments Off

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For one futurist, being human with limited intelligence and doomed biology was never enough. So he came up with the idea of merging man and machine forever — but will any of us live …

Scientists ID gene key to Alzheimer’s-like reversal (PhysOrg)
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A team led by researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has now pinpointed the exact gene responsible for a 2007 breakthrough in which mice with symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease regained long-term …

Ocean carbon: A dent in the iron hypothesis (PhysOrg)
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Oceanographers Jim Bishop and Todd Wood of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have measured the fate of carbon particles originating in plankton blooms in the Southern Ocean, using data that …

Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation
May 6, 2009 – 10:38 pm | Comments Off

MP3… David Edwards describes how contemporary creators achieve breakthroughs in the arts and sciences by developing their ideas in an intermediate zone of human creativity where neither art nor science is easily defined. …

Flow of potassium into cells implicated in schizophrenia (PhysOrg)
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A study on schizophrenia has implicated machinery that maintains the flow of potassium in cells and revealed a potential molecular target for new treatments. Expression of a previously unknown form of a key such …

Australia warned – ‘Dementia Tsunami’ on the way (News-Medical-Net)
May 6, 2009 – 3:41 pm | Comments Off

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According to a new report Australia could be facing a ‘Dementia Tsunami’ in twenty years time.

A larger Kindle could upend textbooks, periodicals (Boston Globe)
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Amazon.com Inc. is widely expected to unveil a new Kindle electronic book device with a larger screen, which would be geared for textbooks, magazines and newspapers and possibly shake up the economics of multiple …

Robot sub aims for deepest ocean (BBC)
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Robotic submarine undergoes the final preparations before its dive to the deepest-known part of the oceans.

Experts: Mild swine flu could quickly turn deadly (PhysOrg)
May 6, 2009 – 2:01 am | Comments Off

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A flu virus is a powerhouse of evolution, mutating at the maximum speed nature allows. A mild virus can morph into a killer and vice versa.

Fuel efficiency of vehicles on the road: Little progress since the 1920s (PhysOrg)
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Vehicles on America’s roads today get only about three miles more per gallon than vehicles back in 1923, University of Michigan researchers say.

Extreme makeover: Scientists explore new way to change cell’s identity (PhysOrg)
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Even cells aren’t immune to peer pressure. Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have now shown that skin cells can be coaxed to behave like muscle cells — and muscle cells like …

Now Rumors Say Apple Could Buy Twitter (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News)
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Facebook tried to buy Twitter, but was rejected. Google didn’t buy Twitter, but acquisition plans were rumored. Will Apple be the winner in the Twitter acquisition game.

GEN highlights emerging biotechnology clusters (PhysOrg)
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Although Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, and Cambridge (U.K.) are always near the top of most biotechnology cluster lists, other areas around the world are starting to pop up on the life science radar …

US to push plan to swap for fuel efficient cars (PhysOrg)
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A key US lawmaker announced agreement after White House talks on a plan to offer Americans government cash to trade in "old clunkers" — ancient, gas guzzling cars — for fuel efficient models.

Male ‘contraceptive jab’ closer (BBC)
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A male contraceptive jab could be as effective at preventing pregnancies as the female pill or condoms, work shows.

Better Water Use Could Reduce Future Food Crises (Science Daily)
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If the overall water resources in river basins were acknowledged and managed better, future food crises could be significantly reduced.

U.S. pledges “ambitious actions” in U.N. climate pact  (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
May 5, 2009 – 3:05 pm | Comments Off

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The United States promised on Tuesday to take "ambitious actions" under a new U.N. pact to fight global warming and urged a dramatic increase in cash to help developing nations cope with climate change.

Six degrees
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Is the theory we all know Kevin Bacon actually true.

India, Suddenly Starved for Investment (New York Times)
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India’s phenomenal growth in recent years was largely financed by foreign investments and loans, which have fallen sharply in the downturn.

Autism Genes Discovered; Help Shape Connections Among Brain Cells (Science Daily)
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A research team has connected more of the intricate pieces of the autism puzzle, with two studies that identify genes with important contributions to the disorder.

China set to repatriate Mexicans as flu fears ease (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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China prepared to repatriate Mexicans who were under forced quarantine over fears of a new flu strain, and Mexico announced plans to revive its economy hit by the deadly epidemic, which showed signs of …

Austrian breakthrough in quantum cryptography (PhysOrg)
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Austrian physicists say a breakthrough in next-generation quantum cryptography could allow encrypted messages to be bounced off satellites, the British journal Nature reported.

Social networking for terrorists
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A new approach to analyzing social networks, reported in the current issue of the International Journal of Services Sciences, could help homeland security find the covert connections between the people behind terrorist attacks. The …

Food security: It starts with seed
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With each passing year, the human population of our planet continues to expand. This growth has created a wide ranging strain on our water and soil resources, as well as our environment, creating an …

GM: The Government Is in Charge (BusinessWeek)
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The White House task force in charge of salvaging the carmaker is using a heavy hand. Is it hurting or helping.

Mexico shuts down to control flu
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Mexico starts a five-day shutdown of parts of its economy in a bid to curb swine flu, as the virus reaches China.

Robots on a recycling rampage
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More than 150 robots, in a wide variety of sizes, shapes and capabilities, will battle it out in a contest to see which can collect the most soda cans and simulated bales of trash …

Swine flu roots traced to Spanish flu
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Contact with pigs might have spread the current strain of influenza to humans, attracting worldwide attention, but new Canadian-led research suggests that we might have given pigs the flu in the first place, during …

Virtual mobility for disabled wins Second Life prize (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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An organization that lets people with disabilities virtually climb mountains and hike trails shared top honors in a first-ever Second Life prize for in-world projects improving real-world lives.

Google flu tracker had trouble with latest virus
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The search giant created a detection system based on searches, but it generally lagged the outbreak in Mexico.

White House takes Web 2.0 leap (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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The White House took a major leap into the Web 2.0 world, launching pages on social networks MySpace and Facebook and sending its first “tweets” on hot micro-blogging service Twitter.

How satellites could ‘sail’ home
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Satellites and spent rocket stages could soon deploy "sails" to guide them back to Earth to help clear the sky of space junk.

History lessons (BBC News)
May 1, 2009 – 12:48 pm | Comments Off

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Silicon Valley’s influence is waning, says tech veteran.

Fertilisers ‘reducing diversity’
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Excess fertilisation reduces plant diversity, as fast growing species block some plants’ access to sunlight, a study shows.

Quicken helps budget-minded iPhone owners
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Intuit is offering iPhone owners free Quicken software designed to help them live within their means during these tough economic times.

Making Movies: The Next Big Thing in iPhones?
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Apple made no mention of any video recording capability when it unveiled its iPhone 3.0 software a few months back. And yet blog posts from Gizmodo and others have pretty much confirmed that it’s …

NBC Seeks Vision of TV’s Future
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Marc Graboff of NBC Entertainment says some networks could decide to stop airing a full schedule of programs each week.

Conficker worm hits hospital devices
May 1, 2009 – 6:49 am | Comments Off

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A computer worm that has alarmed security experts around the world has crawled into hundreds of medical devices at dozens of hospitals in the United States and other countries, according to technologists monitoring the …

Proteins, soft tissue from 80-million-year-old dino support theory that molecules preserve over time
May 1, 2009 – 6:49 am | Comments Off

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A North Carolina State University paleontologist has more evidence that soft tissues and original proteins can be preserved over time – even in fossilized remains – in the form of new protein sequence data …

Invisibility cloak edges closer
May 1, 2009 – 6:49 am | Comments Off

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A tiny "carpet cloak" that makes objects invisible to optical light has been made by a US research team.

Survey: 22 pct of Internet users ditch newspaper
May 1, 2009 – 6:48 am | Comments Off

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Sure, plenty of readers are turning more to the Web for newspaper and magazine stories, but are they giving up on print altogether? In many cases, yes, according to a recent study by the …