Archive: 10/21/2009
Papershow is portable whiteboard, presentation, more
It all began with the blackboard that lets you write on a large surface for all to see and that can be easily erased. To this day, blackboards continue to be found mostly in schools. It's how teachers communicate their ideas ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 21, 2009 |
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With Windows 7 and new designs, PCs looking better
(AP) -- Although no one waits in long lines for a new edition of Windows software anymore, the debut of Microsoft's latest operating system is part of why buying a PC is starting to feel fun for the first ...
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Widely used virus assay shown unreliable when compared to other methods
In the course of doing research on the mosquito-borne pathogens chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and o' nyong-nyong virus (ONNV), Virginia Tech researchers have discovered an inconvenient truth about an assay, strand-specific quantitative ...
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Grudgingly, young people finally flock to Twitter
(AP) -- They think it's pointless, narcissistic. Some don't even know what it is. Even so, more young adults and teens - normally at the cutting edge of technology - are finally coming around to Twitter, ...
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Study surprise yields new target for assessing genes linked to autism
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have uncovered a new genetic signature that correlates strongly with autism and which doesn't involve changes to the DNA sequence itself. Rather, the changes are in the way the ...
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Google CEO: Vast Web changes coming within 5 years
(AP) -- A Web where Chinese is the dominant language, and connections are so fast that distinctions between audio, video and text are blurred is perhaps just five years away, the head of Google said Wednesday.
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Two flu vaccines, twice the number of questions
The annual ritual of fending off the flu is more complicated than usual this fall as Americans weigh the opportunity to receive two vaccines to protect against different types of influenza.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 21, 2009 |
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First White Spaces Network Brings Broadband Internet to Rural America
For the first time in the U.S., unused TV broadcast channels freed up by the transition to digital TV are being used to wirelessly deliver high-speed Internet connectivity to business, education and community users. These ...
Oct 21, 2009 |
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MySpace Music videos to appear on Facebook
(AP) -- Social-networking site MySpace is using its joint venture with recording companies to launch a music video service that will pop into millions of profiles at rival Facebook as well.
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Acer goes deep with 3-D laptop for gaming, movies
(AP) -- With the launch of Windows 7 this week, PC makers are trying some new things, including laptops with touch screens. Acer Inc. is going further - introducing a laptop with a 3-D screen.
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Apple unveils new features for desktop, laptop models
Apple on Tuesday updated its consumer desktop and laptop lines, one day after announcing record quarterly computer sales.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Twitter becomes mutual friend of Google, Microsoft
(AP) -- Refusing to be upstaged, Google's Internet search index will include public updates from Twitter's communications stream.
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Study of baby teeth yields new findings on nuclear fallout
Joan Ketterer still recalls the button her son Edward got for donating his baby teeth to what was then a ground-breaking study looking at the effect of nuclear fallout on children born in the St. Louis-area in the 1960s.
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Improved Electric Propulsion Could Boost Satellite Lifetimes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have won a $6.5 million grant to develop improved components that will boost the efficiency of electric propulsion systems used to control ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Production of swine flu vaccine is way behind
(AP) -- The federal government originally promised 120 million doses of swine flu vaccine by now. Only 13 million have come through.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 21, 2009 |
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