Archive: 07/14/2009
Cyber crime lords using big business tactics: Cisco
Cyber criminals are aping executives when it comes to sales, marketing and risk management in the world of online treachery, according to a report released by networking giant Cisco.
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'Tasks' software is Gmail Labs first graduate
Google Labs brainchild "Tasks" graduated from the sandbox on Tuesday as the Internet giant seeks to entice computer users to switch from packaged software to programs offered online as services.
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IMEC shows optimizations for next-generation transistors
IMEC has achieved promising results in the race to scale CMOS to 22nm and below. The breakthroughs from its transistor scaling programs include a successful integration of the laser-anneal technique in a high-K/metal-gate ...
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Magazine touts NJIT idea to harness clean energy for NYC
An NJIT architecture professor with an architecture student has designed a network of modular floating docks to harness clean energy for New York City. The proposal was featured this week in Metropolis magazine.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
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Adult brain can change within seconds
(PhysOrg.com) -- The human brain can adapt to changing demands even in adulthood, but MIT neuroscientists have now found evidence of it changing with unsuspected speed. Their findings suggest that the brain has a network ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
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Intel shares soar as company beats soft forecast
(AP) -- Intel Corp. offered support Tuesday for its assertion that the computer business is rebounding, even as other parts of the industry throw off mixed signals. Intel's results and outlook were much better ...
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NYC bank heist makes for an unexpected Tweet
(AP) -- "So tired today," Annemarie Dooling tweeted early Tuesday. "really really tired. ugh."
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Study: 7 key genes predict brain cancer survival
(AP) -- Scientists have found seven key genes in the type of brain tumor affecting Sen. Edward Kennedy that together can predict how aggressive a patient's cancer will be.
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Researchers Suggest New Approach in Development Efforts for Parkinson’s Therapeutics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers outline today a new approach in the potential development of drugs to counter a cellular defect that triggers Parkinson’s and other diseases.
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Mars Dust Devil Has Colorful Effect in Image Series
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have combined a trio of shots taken seconds apart through different colored filters to create a special-effects portrait of a moving dust devil on Mars.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Capturing images in non-traditional way may benefit AF
New research in imaging may lead to advancements for the Air Force in data encryption and wide-area photography with high resolution.
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Scientists report first remote, underwater detection of harmful algae, toxins
Scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have successfully conducted the first remote detection of a harmful algal species and its toxin below ...
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Not Only Dogs, but Deer, Monkeys and Birds Bark to Deal with Conflict
(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologically speaking, many animals besides dogs bark, according to Kathryn Lord at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, but the evolutionary biologist also says domestic dogs vocalize ...
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Bird population declines in northern Europe are explained by thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency
Wild birds of several species are dying in large numbers from a paralytic disease with hitherto unknown cause in the Baltic Sea area. A research team at Stockholm University, Sweden, led by Associate Professor Lennart Balk, ...
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Reviews of microbial gene language published in special issue of Trends in Microbiology
Ten articles describing how a universal language to describe genes is bringing benefits to the study of the microbial world have been published in a special issue of Trends in Microbiology, co-edited by Virginia Bioinformatics Instit ...
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