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IBM Locks Up Lead in PC Security

IBM today built on nearly six years of leadership and innovation in PC security by announcing three new security technologies for its industry-leading ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops, including new biometric fingerprint ...

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New software helps with anti-terrorism planning

New software can help anti-terrorism planners determine how best to allocate limited resources to defend military bases, industrial parks and civic facilities from terrorist attacks, according to the Penn State researchers ...

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Saturn's Aurora Defy Scientists' Expectations

Aurora on Saturn behave in ways different from how scientists have thought possible for the last 25 years, according to new research by a team of astronomers led by John Clarke, a professor in BU’s Department ...

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NanoChromics™ Technology Makes Paper-Bright, Low-Power Visual Communications Affordable for Intelligent Devices

NTERA's NanoChromics displays feature unparalleled ink-on-paper visual impact at an effective price point, besting the 30-year dull, gray liquid crystal display (LCD) and the costly organic light emitting diode (OLED) technologies.

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SMART-1 mission extended

ESA's SMART-1 mission was extended by one year, pushing back the mission end date from August 2005 to August 2006. ESA's Science Programme Committee endorsed unanimously the proposed one-year extension of SMART-1 ...

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Renesas Technology and Symbian Collaborate on 3G Mobile Phone Platform

Renesas Technology Corp. and Symbian Ltd. announced an agreement to add full-scale support for Symbian OS, the market leading open OS for smartphones, to Renesas Technology’s advanced silicon platform for 3G mobile phones. ...

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Nano Mechanism to Control Protein May Lead to New Protein Engineering

UCLA scientists have created a mechanism at the nanoscale to externally control the function and action of a protein. "We can switch a protein on and off, and while we have controlled a specific protein, we ...

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NASA Observatory Confirms Black Hole Limits

The very largest black holes reach a certain point and then grow no more. That's according to the best survey to date of black holes made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Scientists also discovered previously ...

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New DRAM circuit design approach for gigabit-era DRAM

Hitachi, Ltd., in cooperation with Elpida Memory, Inc. announced that they have developed a new methodology for memory-array design, Concordant Memory Design Using Statistical Integration, which gathers statistics on device ...

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World’s first DVD content protection solution

Macrovision® Corporation, announced the worldwide availability of RipGuard DVD™ a digital rip-control solution for DVD Video. RipGuard DVD is a technological solution that effectively protects a copyright owner’s ...

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Open Microfluidic and Nanofluidic Systems

The labs of the future will be "labs-on-a-chip", i.e., integrated chemical and biochemical laboratories shrunk down to the size of a computer chip. An essential prerequisite for such labs are appropriate microcompartments ...

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X-rays have become laser-like

Radiologists and biologists have been dreaming - ever since the discovery of lasers - of a compact laboratory source emitting X-rays in one direction in a laser-like beam. Such a source would permit X-ray images ...

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