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Nokia Booklet 3G

Netbooks start raising the stakes

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created 14 hours ago | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The standard desktop computer is about as popular as swine flu these days, with all the major innovations happening in the laptop and netbook segment.


The use and misuse of alcohol and marijuana can be traced to a common set of genes

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created 15 hours ago | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States. Roughly eight to 12 percent of marijuana users are considered "dependent" and, just like alcohol, the severity of symptoms increases with heavier use. ...


Scientists get to the root of ancient case of sour grapes

Scientists get to the root of ancient case of sour grapes

Biology / Biotechnology

created 18 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Cambridge have discovered that a lowly grape variety grown by peasants - but despised by noblemen - during the Middle Ages was the mother of many of today’s greatest grape varieties, ...


Diplomatic frenzy at final day of UN climate talks (AP)

Diplomatic frenzy at final day of UN climate talks

Space & Earth / Environment

created 19 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A diplomatic frenzy enveloped the final day of the U.N. climate conference Friday, with President Barack Obama twice meeting privately with China's premier as world leaders pressed to salvage a global ...


What's his name again? How celebrity monikers can help us remember

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created 19 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Famous mugs do more than prompt us into buying magazines, according to new Université de Montréal research. In the December issue of the Canadian Journal on Aging, a team of scientists explain how the abilit ...


Light-Driven Nanorod Could Roll on Water

Light-Driven Nanorod Could Roll on Water

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created 21 hours ago | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study, researchers have examined the possibility of rolling a nanorod on the surface of water. On the macroscale, perhaps the closest analogy might be the sport of logrolling, ...


Bourbon versus vodka: Bourbon hurts more the next day, performance is the same

Medicine & Health / Other

created 22 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Many alcoholic beverages contain byproducts of the materials used in the fermenting process. These byproducts are called "congeners," complex organic molecules with toxic effects including acetone, acetaldehyde, fusel oil, ...


French publishing house Le Seuil claimed that up to 4,000 of its works have been digitised by Google without consent

French court orders Google to stop scanning French books

Technology / Internet

created 23 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A French court on Friday told Google that it cannot digitise French books without publishers' approval and ordered the online giant to pay 300,000 euros (430,000 dollars) in damages.


The Wall Street Journal said militants had intercepted the unencrypted downlink between US drones and ground control

Pentagon plays down security breach with US drones

Technology / Other

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A day after the Pentagon acknowledged that Iraqi militants had used cheap software to intercept US drone feeds, a new report on Friday said senior military officials had dismissed that risk in 2004.


Take-Two posts larger 4Q loss on higher charges

Technology / Business

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Charges and expenses outweighed higher sales and drove video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. to post a wider fourth-quarter loss on Thursday, as billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn reported ...



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