Archive: 09/11/2009
Twitter keeps it simple with new terms of service
(AP) -- Twitter Inc. keeps it simple, even when it comes to updating the legalese in its terms of service.
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Archaeologists find early depiction of a menorah
(AP) -- Israeli archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest depictions of a menorah, the seven-branched candelabra that has come to symbolize Judaism, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Friday. The ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Space Shuttle Discovery Returns to Earth After Successful Mission
Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven astronauts ended a 14-day journey of more than 5.7 million miles with an 5:53 p.m. PDT landing Friday at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 11, 2009 |
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After years of toil, sustaining change in education still a vexing problem
Researchers in the Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education (CEMSE) this year finished poring over more than 65,000 abstracts and nearly 600 full-text articles for insights regarding how to ...
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Scientists report adulthood body size associated with cancer risk
A team of scientists led by researcher Brenda Hernandez, Ph.D., M.P.H.—an assistant professor at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's Cancer Research Center of Hawai'i—has reported that body mass in younger and older ...
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Spanish security firm detects 'swine flu' computer virus
Cyber criminals are taking advantage of swine flu fears with e-mails promising news on the illness which then infect computers with a virus, a Spanish computer security firm warned Friday.
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Winds of change
Wind farms can be self-sustaining, concluded two Northeastern finance professors in a recent journal article. A few measures to increase productivity and decrease equipment costs could reduce the current dependence ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Verdict spares Microsoft $358M in patent damages
(AP) -- A federal appeals court said Friday that Microsoft Corp. does not have to pay Alcatel-Lucent $358 million for patent infringement because of problems with how the damages were calculated.
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Flu already widespread, nearly all swine variety
(AP) -- Health officials say influenza is circulating unusually early this year with cases in every state - and nearly all the infections are swine flu.
Sep 11, 2009 |
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NASA's LCROSS Reveals Target Crater For Lunar South Pole Impacts
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has selected a final destination for its Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, after a journey of nearly 5.6 million miles that included several orbits around Earth ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Flowering lantana draws butterflies -- but little water
Big color, little water, lots of butterflies. How does that sound? That's the story of lantana in a nutshell. But I'm famous for verbosely pontificating on the attributes of plants whenever I have an audience, so let's dig ...
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Twitter opening up to advertising
Twitter, the micro-blogging platform which has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money, has changed its terms to potentially open up the free service to advertisers.
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Hacker pleads guilty to huge theft of card numbers
(AP) -- A computer hacker could spend more than 15 years in prison now that he has pleaded guilty to some of the largest thefts of credit card numbers.
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New physics theory prize names first recipient
Pioneering theorist and Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson has been named the first recipient of the Richard E. Prange Prize and Lectureship in Condensed Matter Theory and Related Areas. Anderson will receive a $10,000 honorarium ...
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Google's search box gets bigger
Google just got bigger. Not the company, but the search box on its home page, that is.
Sep 11, 2009 |
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