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Broadcasters' woes could spell trouble for free TV
Dec 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- For more than 60 years, TV stations have broadcast news, sports and entertainment for free and made their money by showing commercials. That might not work much longer.
Turtles' Christmas journey tracked by scientists
Dec 23, 2009 |
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The journeys of two marine turtles around the world's oceans will be available to view online this Christmas, thanks to a new research project launched by the University of Exeter.
Google gets digital foothold in France
Dec 20, 2009 |
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Despite fierce resistance to Google's plans to digitise the world's books, observers say it is well placed to start scanning Europe's cultural treasures -- beginning in France, where the US giant got a digital ...
Hollywood adds money, talent to made-for-Web shows
Dec 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Web sites that buy original video clips often pay so little that "The Bannen Way," a flashy crime thriller debuting online, looked destined to be made poorly if it could be made at all.
NY Post, Journal offer Sony e-reader deals
Dec 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post are offering exclusive subscription deals through the latest electronic reader from Sony Corp.
No More 'Social Media,' More Single Log-ins for Multiple Platforms
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As more people use social media platforms, they will begin moving away from using the term 'social media' in the new year, predicts Dr. Karla Gower, associate professor of advertising and public relations.
Bacteria wouldn't opt for a swine flu shot
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Bacteria inhabited our planet for more than 4 billion years before humans showed up, and they'll probably outlive us by as many eons more. That suggests they may have something to teach us.
FCC seeking to close programming access loophole
Dec 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Federal regulators are seeking to close a loophole that allows cable TV operators to withhold sporting events and other popular programming that they own from rival providers such as satellite TV.
Air Force grant to tighten online encryption
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientist Rafael Pass is seeking new approaches to cryptographic security with a $600,000, five-year grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Ending the cycle of poverty
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While many academically talented high-school students in Providence, Rhode Island, are figuring out what outfit to wear to school on a particular day, other top grade-earners are busily getting ...
Master gene Math1 controls framework for perceiving external and internal body parts
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Waking and walking to the bathroom in the pitch black of night requires brain activity that is both conscious and unconscious and requires a single master gene known as Math1 or Atoh1, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers ...
Researcher studying ways to handle huge quantities of biomass
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As scientists scramble to develop ways to generate enormous amounts of energy from cleaner-burning, renewable fuels to replace coal and oil, promising agricultural crops such as switchgrass ...
New criteria to project preemies' time in hospital, says researcher
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a new way to estimate when the tiniest preemies -- babies born months early -- will go home from the hospital.
UCSD Experts Calculate How Much Information Americans Consume
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- U.S. households consumed approximately 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008, according to the "How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers," released today by the University of ...
Global warming could significantly impact US wine and corn production, scientists say
Dec 14, 2009 |
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When it comes to nature, timing is everything. Spring flowers depend on birds and insects for pollination. But if spring-like weather arrives earlier than usual, and flowers bloom and wither before the pollinators appear, ...
