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(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chip maker Intel wants to implant a brain-sensing chip directly into the brains of its customers to allow them to operate computers and other devices without moving a muscle. http://www.physorg.com/news178186859.html Technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:21:45 EST news178186859 Microsoft has held talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp over a possible plan for the software giant to pay the media company to remove its news websites from Google, a report said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news178183236.html Technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:21:30 EST news178183236 After wind, sun, currents and tides, a company is preparing to make clean electricity by harnessing another natural phenomenon, the energy-unleashing encounter of freshwater and seawater. http://www.physorg.com/news178183113.html Technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:19:14 EST news178183113 In the mountains above the southwestern Chinese town of Dali, dozens of new wind turbines dot the landscape -- a symbol of the country's sky-high ambitions for clean, green energy. http://www.physorg.com/news178086936.html Technology Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:40:04 EST news178086936 (AP) -- Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online - stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change. http://www.physorg.com/news178046136.html Technology Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:16:08 EST news178046136 (AP) -- A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's. http://www.physorg.com/news177954916.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:56:11 EST news177954916 A US judge set February 18 for a hearing on the revised legal settlement between Google and US authors and publishers that would allow the Internet giant to scan and sell millions of books online. http://www.physorg.com/news177945750.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:50:01 EST news177945750 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers has implemented support for 'trusted computing' in a commercially available version of the open source operating system Linux, breaking new ground in the global drive toward more secure computing environments. http://www.physorg.com/news177931452.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:40:02 EST news177931452 (AP) -- Consumers will have to wait until next year's holiday shopping season to find out if Google Inc.'s new operating system can deliver on its promise to make low-cost computers run faster. http://www.physorg.com/news177868136.html Technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:49:39 EST news177868136 (PhysOrg.com) -- Whether you call them myths, urban legends, fables or old wives' tales, there's a lot of misinformation out there about plug-in electric hybrid vehicles. These vehicles, abbreviated PHEVs, hold great promise as the key to weaning America from its dependence on imported oil, which represents nearly two-thirds of all the petroleum burned in the United States today. http://www.physorg.com/news177871345.html Technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:45:22 EST news177871345 Google, in a significant development for the deaf, announced on Thursday it was adding automatic caption capability to videos on YouTube. http://www.physorg.com/news177868630.html Technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:57:51 EST news177868630 Search engine use is not just part of our daily routines; it is also becoming part of our learning process, according to Penn State researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news177852158.html Technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:24:16 EST news177852158 (AP) -- The struggling Internet company AOL plans to shed up to 2,500 jobs - more than a third of its work force - as it prepares to separate from Time Warner and finally sever their ill-fated marriage. http://www.physorg.com/news177846925.html Technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:55:46 EST news177846925 (PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a unique and robust method to prevent cloning of passive radio frequency identification tags. The technology, based on one or more unique physical attributes of individual tags rather than information stored on them, will prevent the production of counterfeit tags and thus greatly enhance both security and privacy for government agencies, businesses and consumers. http://www.physorg.com/news177842859.html Technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:48:17 EST news177842859 (PhysOrg.com) -- There's one major drawback to most proposed renewable-energy sources: their variability. The sun doesn't shine at night, the wind doesn`t always blow, and tides, waves and currents fluctuate. That's why many researchers have been pursuing ways of storing the power generated by these sources so that it can be used when it's needed. http://www.physorg.com/news177842619.html Technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:46:21 EST news177842619 The biggest chemical battery in the United States is located near Interstate 90 in the small town of Luverne, Minn. The 80 ton device -- the size of two tractor-trailers stacked on top of each other -- stores as much energy as about 3 million rechargeable AA batteries and can power about 3,000 houses for more than an hour when discharging at its maximum rate. http://www.physorg.com/news177830654.html Technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:25:01 EST news177830654 The Internet is still under the control of the United States, participants at a governance forum said, despite a move by America to loosen its grip over the private corporation that administers the net. http://www.physorg.com/news177784165.html Technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:00:07 EST news177784165 (PhysOrg.com) -- Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new 'query by example' methods, built on peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures, could provide the way forward for such data-intensive content searches, say European researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news177780052.html Technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:30:01 EST news177780052 (AP) -- California regulators adopted the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for televisions Wednesday in hopes of reducing electricity use at a time when millions of American households are switching to power-hungry, wide-view, flat-screen, high-definition sets. http://www.physorg.com/news177765270.html Technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:40:02 EST news177765270 Internet traffic will have increased six fold by 2012 in a five-year period as more users view and post videos online, delegates at an Internet forum heard on Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news177759727.html Technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:10:04 EST news177759727 (PhysOrg.com) -- Today at SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition, while rivaling the brain's low power and energy consumption and compact size. http://www.physorg.com/news177744958.html Technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:37:37 EST news177744958 (AP) -- Online social hub MySpace is in talks to acquire struggling free music streaming site imeem, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news177704189.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:18:19 EST news177704189 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. leads its industry in part because a vast army of outside computer programmers design software that only runs on its Windows operating system. Now, the company is fighting to keep those programmers working with its tools as technology undergoes a massive shift. http://www.physorg.com/news177694718.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:10:11 EST news177694718 Google Labs on Tuesday brought more focus to finding pictures online, adding a "Swirl" tool that automatically groups similar images into categories presented on results pages. http://www.physorg.com/news177696206.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:03:53 EST news177696206 If you've ever gotten the dreaded "network busy" message while trying to make a cell phone call, you've experienced the complication of sharing a single network with numerous other users. http://www.physorg.com/news177692830.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:08:04 EST news177692830 (PhysOrg.com) -- Idaho National Laboratory scientists have set a new world record with next-generation particle fuel for use in high temperature gas reactors (HTGRs). http://www.physorg.com/news177678729.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:00:02 EST news177678729 Sezmi, a Silicon Valley startup that's pioneering a new type of TV service, is opening up a public test of its system Monday in California. http://www.physorg.com/news177668418.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:30:03 EST news177668418 A Chinese court has ruled Microsoft Corp. infringed a Chinese company's intellectual property rights by including certain fonts in its operating systems, the companies confirmed Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news177662158.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:42:00 EST news177662158 Worldwide semiconductor revenue is expected to decline by more than 11 percent in 2009 over last year, less than previously forecast, market research firm Gartner said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news177618729.html Technology Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:33:54 EST news177618729 Billed as Europe's first "personalised paper", "niiu", a newspaper tailored to readers' individual wishes and delivered to their door before 08:00 am, made its first appearance in Berlin on Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news177604238.html Technology Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:40:07 EST news177604238