Archive: 06/03/2009
Microsoft bringing 1080p video streaming to Xbox 360
If Microsoft can actually deliver on its promise to offer 1080p video streaming on the Xbox 360's new Zune video marketplace by this fall, it will be a heck of a coup.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
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Children should wear sunglasses when outside
How important is it for my child to wear sunglasses?
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Gadgets: Even in a recession, you gotta have tunes
Back in the mid 80's I bought my first component stereo system, which included Klipsch speakers. To this day they perform as well as the day I got them.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
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Google tool tracks flu in Australia, New Zealand
Google on Wednesday expanded "Google Flu Trends," its online tool for tracking influenza outbreaks, to Australia and New Zealand.
Jun 03, 2009 |
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No scars: New obesity surgery goes through mouth
(AP) -- Doctors are testing a new kind of obesity surgery without any cuts through the abdomen, snaking a tube as thick as a garden hose down the throat to snap staples into the stomach. The experimental, ...
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Power-sipping cell phone displays come closer
(AP) -- The first factory dedicated to making a new type of power-thrifty cell phone display has started operations, Qualcomm Inc. said this week.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Federal judge tosses warrantless wiretap cases
(AP) -- A federal judge on Wednesday tossed out more than three dozen lawsuits filed against the nation's telecommunications companies for allegedly taking part in the government's e-mail and telephone eavesdropping program ...
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10-year-old SoCal girl copes with breast cancer
(AP) -- Ten-year-old Hannah Powell-Auslam is trying to remain brave as she copes with a rare form of breast cancer.
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New Opera Web browser offers more tab options
(AP) -- Web browsers from the Norwegian company Opera Software ASA have been better known for their innovation than their usage.
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Yahoo sues NFL Players Association over data (Update)
(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. has sued the NFL Players Association, claiming it shouldn't have to pay royalties to use players' statistics, photos and other data in its popular online fantasy football game because the ...
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Brain irradiation in lung cancer
A national Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) study led by a Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center physician at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee has found that a course of radiation therapy to the brain after treatment ...
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Obesity does not worsen asthma, but may reduce response to medications
Being overweight or obese does not make asthma worse in patients with mild and moderate forms of the disease, according to a study by National Jewish Health researchers, although it may reduce the response to medications.
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Health, life insurers hold billions in tobacco stocks
More than a decade after Harvard researchers first revealed that life and health insurance companies were major investors in tobacco stocks - prompting calls upon them to divest - the insurance industry has yet to kick the ...
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Could new government regulations lead to increased use of physical restraints?
Over the past 20 years, the health care system has made tremendous progress in reducing the use of physical restraints among hospitalized elderly patients, a positive change that has had numerous numerous ripple effects, ...
Jun 03, 2009 |
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University of Cincinnati study finds needle biopsies safe in 'eloquent' areas of brain
After a review of 284 cases, specialists at the Brain Tumor Center at the University of Cincinnati (UC) Neuroscience Institute have concluded that performing a stereotactic needle biopsy in an area of the brain associated ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
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