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(AP) -- One of the world's largest filesharing Web sites, The Pirate Bay, is going legal through a series of give-and-take payment models that in some cases may even earn its users a bundle of cash, the new owners said Saturday. http://www.physorg.com/news167162771.html Technology Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:10:02 EST news167162771 Comprehensive regulation of gun sellers appears to reduce the trafficking of guns to criminals, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. http://www.physorg.com/news166184521.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:22:32 EST news166184521 (PhysOrg.com) -- Two UQ Science researchers have proved two famous physical laws that have been widely used for the past 25 years do not always work. http://www.physorg.com/news166077673.html Physics Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:41:46 EST news166077673 (PhysOrg.com) -- Maxwell`s demon may be making a comeback. Physicists know that the demon, an imaginary creature that decreases the entropy of a system, cannot exist in macroscopic systems due to the energy it requires to perform its role. However, a recent study has shown that, on the nanoscale, Maxwell`s demon might be able to do its work with much less energy than previously thought due to tiny thermal fluctuations that occur in small systems. http://www.physorg.com/news165065343.html Physics Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:29:31 EST news165065343 (AP) -- Testimony begins Tuesday in the Italian trial of four Google executives accused of defamation and violating privacy for allowing a video to be posted online showing an autistic youth being abused. http://www.physorg.com/news164964300.html Technology Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:29:27 EST news164964300 Call it a wanted poster for the Digital Age, in 140 characters or less: "Can you ID this armed robbery suspect?" http://www.physorg.com/news164919642.html Technology Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:10:01 EST news164919642 What do high bankruptcy rates in states like Tennessee and Utah tell us about the people that live in those places? Not much, according to a new 50-state bankruptcy study published in the latest issue of the Journal of Law and Economics. http://www.physorg.com/news164914482.html Other Sciences Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:35:04 EST news164914482 New empirical research identifies successful strategies for the exploitation of television formats. Television formats such as X-Factor or Britain's Got Talent are extremely popular with audiences. Over the last decade, the UK has emerged as the world's major format developer, accounting for between 20-50% of all format hours broadcast annually worldwide. http://www.physorg.com/news164434492.html Other Sciences Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:50:01 EST news164434492 Ophir Kutiel didn't set out to become YouTube's Elvis Presley. The 27-year-old Israeli DJ was just looking for a good beat. http://www.physorg.com/news162997739.html Technology Sun, 31 May 2009 14:09:19 EST news162997739 (AP) -- Linda Fleming was diagnosed with terminal cancer and feared her last days would be filled with pain and ever-stronger doses of medication that would erode her mind. http://www.physorg.com/news162396148.html Medicine & Health Sun, 24 May 2009 15:06:59 EST news162396148 (AP) -- President Nicolas Sarkozy's governing party rejoiced when it muscled one of his pet projects through the French parliament: an unprecedented law to cut the Internet connections of people who repeatedly download music and movies illegally. http://www.physorg.com/news162128678.html Technology Thu, 21 May 2009 12:45:04 EST news162128678 (AP) -- The University of Michigan has amended a deal with Google Inc. to create digital copies of millions of library books and journals. http://www.physorg.com/news162128634.html Technology Thu, 21 May 2009 12:44:27 EST news162128634 Craigslist announced Wednesday that it had filed suit against a state attorney general who has threatened criminal charges against the online classifieds site in a dispute over "erotic services" ads. http://www.physorg.com/news162060177.html Technology Wed, 20 May 2009 17:43:24 EST news162060177 Dr. Jared Strote at the University of Washington Medical Center led a group that examined the medical records of nearly 900 patients subdued by the Seattle Police Department with a Taser over a six-year period. Less than one percent required hospital admission for an injury related to the restraint incident. No deaths occurred, even when patients exhibited signs of excited delirium. http://www.physorg.com/news161750228.html Medicine & Health Sun, 17 May 2009 03:37:37 EST news161750228 After Microsoft and Intel, the next big US technology giant to find itself in the sights of EU competition regulators may be Google with its ubiquitous Internet search engine and online ad business. http://www.physorg.com/news161442321.html Technology Wed, 13 May 2009 14:05:51 EST news161442321 Backed by a powerful House member, the online gambling industry is waging a campaign in Congress to legalize Internet betting, saying it will continue regardless of its legal status and can be regulated and taxed if not outlawed. Opponents are raising moral objections. http://www.physorg.com/news161429944.html Technology Wed, 13 May 2009 10:40:04 EST news161429944 (AP) -- Google Inc. is about to add more features to its already dominant Internet search engine - and some of the changes could give Web surfers less reason to click through to other sites. That scenario might upset the creators of the material highlighted in Google's results. http://www.physorg.com/news161364058.html Technology Wed, 13 May 2009 05:00:08 EST news161364058 (AP) -- Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt is taking a government inquiry into his role on Apple Inc.'s board in stride, expressing confidence that the probe won't find any evidence that the ties between the two companies throttle competition in mobile phones and other technology fields. http://www.physorg.com/news160941667.html Technology Thu, 07 May 2009 19:01:56 EST news160941667 The U.S. economy would be better served by letting failing firms file for bankruptcy rather than by bailing them out under presumptive federal policies that deem them to be "too big to fail," according to new research from Penn State's Smeal College of Business. http://www.physorg.com/news159803303.html Other Sciences Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:49:20 EST news159803303 (AP) -- Ebay Inc. has won regulatory approval to acquire online marketplace Gmarket, South Korea's antitrust watchdog said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news159694370.html Technology Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:33:15 EST news159694370 Southeast Asian militants have grown more sophisticated in using the Internet to spread radical ideas, recruit and train supporters, according to a new study urging governments to take action. http://www.physorg.com/news159347285.html Technology Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:08:41 EST news159347285 (AP) -- Addicted to that GPS navigation system? On Connecticut roads, that might make you a lawbreaker. http://www.physorg.com/news159344040.html Technology Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:14:32 EST news159344040 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have warned that world leaders are in a race against time to make key decisions about the future of international co-operation in the Arctic. http://www.physorg.com/news159194392.html Space & Earth Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:40:56 EST news159194392 Lack of law enforcement against illegal trade in Indonesia threatens the survival of orangutans and gibbons on Sumatra, a new study by the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC shows. http://www.physorg.com/news159190623.html Biology Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:37:26 EST news159190623 A new study finds that enforcing federal and state laws against tobacco sales to minors dramatically decreases underage smoking rates. The results show that laws prohibiting sales of cigarettes to minors and stepped up enforcement of those laws in the United States have led to a 20.8 percent drop in the odds of 10th graders becoming daily smokers. http://www.physorg.com/news159174279.html Medicine & Health Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:06:22 EST news159174279 (AP) -- One of the servers of Swedish file sharing Web site Pirate Bay that was confiscated by police last year has become a museum artifact. http://www.physorg.com/news159099745.html Technology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:22:53 EST news159099745 Longfin smelt in the San Francisco Bay-Delta do not warrant protection under the federal endangered species law, regulators said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news158518103.html Space & Earth Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:49:10 EST news158518103 (AP) -- French lawmakers unexpectedly rejected a bill Thursday that would have cut off the Internet connections of people who repeatedly download music or films illegally. http://www.physorg.com/news158479503.html Technology Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:05:32 EST news158479503 Three professors at the University of Kansas have found that a one-time tax break allowed multinational corporations to receive a 22,000 percent average return on lobbying expenditures. http://www.physorg.com/news158479297.html Other Sciences Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:02:23 EST news158479297 State laws that prohibit people under the age of 21 from purchasing or possessing alcohol, and from driving with any alcohol in their system save 732 lives a year in the United States, according to a study released today that has examined 23 years of research on the subject. The study further shows that if every state adopted 'use and lose' laws -suspending the license of anyone under 21 cited for possession, consumption or attempt to purchase alcohol -an additional 165 lives would be saved. http://www.physorg.com/news158345777.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:56:37 EST news158345777