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Sorting diamonds from toothbrushes: New guide to protecting personal information

Technology / Other

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Thefts of personally identifiable information (PII), such as social security and credit card account numbers, are increasing dramatically. Adding to the difficulty of fighting this problem, organizations often disagree on ...





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Largest study of PGD children shows embryo biopsy is safe for singleton pregnancies

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The largest and longest running study of children born after preimplantation genetic diagnosis and screening has shown that embryo biopsy does not adversely affect the health of babies born as the result of a subsequent singleton ...


Web retailers extend shipping deadlines (AP)

Christmas Web sales spike after snowstorm

Technology / Business

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Stores in the snow-battered East Coast may have been sparse this weekend, but shoppers kept spending online. Retailers spurred sales with new discounts and shipping offers to make sure gifts arrive ...


Mobile tech 'can replace cheques'

Mobile tech 'can replace cheques'

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- With cheques due to be phased out in the UK by 2018 new security technology developed at Oxford University could offer a replacement, allowing people a secure way to pay in almost any situation.


Want to live well? Harvard experts offer pragmatic pointers on getting healthy and staying there

Want to live well? Harvard experts offer pragmatic pointers on getting healthy and staying there

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (13) | comments 3

You are what you eat. You're also how you feel, how you exercise, how you sleep, how you handle money, how you relate to people, and what you value.


Hacker seeks reduced sentence, citing Asperger's

Technology / Internet

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- A computer hacker who was a force behind one of the largest cases of credit card theft in U.S. history says he has a developmental disorder and is asking for a reduced sentence.


Miami Herald asks online readers for donations

Technology / Internet

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The Miami Herald began Tuesday asking readers of its Web site to voluntarily pay for the privilege, a new wrinkle in newspapers' ongoing battle to increase revenue from their online operations.


Their infinite wisdom

Their infinite wisdom

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hotel guests come and go. But in the first decade of the 1900s, a pair of frequent Russian visitors to the Hotel Parisiana, near the Sorbonne on Paris' Left Bank, stood out vividly. The children ...


UN talks: Rich nations must make big emission cuts (AP)

UN talks: Rich nations must make big emission cuts

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (11) | comments 8

(AP) -- Wealthy nations would commit to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade, and the world should strive to nearly eliminate them - or at least cut them in half - by 2050 under ...


Europe's flora is becoming impoverished

Europe's flora is becoming impoverished

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

With increasing species richness, due to more plant introductions than extinctions, plant communities of many European regions are becoming more homogeneous. The same species are occurring more frequently, ...


Livestock lead to better health in developing nations, rising consumption poses challenge

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the face of reports about the ills livestock generate for the climate, environment and health, a new study published in the December issue of the journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability emphasizes that l ...



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