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Blind Japanese woman receives IBM's top award
Jun 05, 2009 |
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US computer giant IBM has named Chieko Asakawa as the first blind engineer -- as well as the first Japanese female -- to receive the company's highest technical honour.
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Use of telemedicine for ICU patients not linked with improvement in survival
9 hours ago |
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Remote monitoring of patients in intensive care units (ICUs) was not associated with an overall improvement in the risk of death or length of stay in the ICU or hospital, according to a study in the December 23/30 issue of ...
Hacker pleads guilty in huge credit card theft case
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A 28-year-old Florida man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to hacking into corporate computer networks and carrying out what US officials have described as the largest credit card theft in US history.
Moving video to 'captcha' robot hackers
Technology / Computer Sciences
14 hours ago |
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We see the popular "captcha" security mechanism often ― wavy letters websites ask us to type into a box. It's used by web pages and newsletter sign-up forms to prevent computer robots from hacking into servers and databases. ...
CU Students to Build Tiny Spacecraft to Observe 'Space Weather' Environment
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
15 hours ago |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded $840,000 from the National Science Foundation for students to build a tiny spacecraft to observe energetic particles in space that should ...
Researchers Create New Way To Locate Big Genetic Variants
Dec 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers, analyzing hundreds of billions of bits of genetic information, have collated and standardized 2,000 signposts that mark the boundaries of large blocks of human genomic variants.
A facial expression is worth a thousand words
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Moving pictures are more suitable to interpret the mood of a person than a static photograph.
Cockroaches offer inspiration for running robots
Dec 28, 2009 |
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The sight of a cockroach scurrying for cover may be nauseating, but the insect is also a biological and engineering marvel, and is providing researchers at Oregon State University with what they call "bioinspiration" ...
Seeing without looking
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Like a spotlight that illuminates an otherwise dark scene, attention brings to mind specific details of our environment while shutting others out. A new study by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological ...
Taiwan notebook maker Inventec plans China plant
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Taiwan's Inventec Corp, the world's fourth largest contract notebook computer maker, said Monday it will spend 800 million US dollars to build a plant in southwestern China.
Glider robot a sleek ocean explorer
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 27, 2009 |
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The sea was heaving, the skies gray. The captain of the research ship was worried about the weather. About 120 miles off the coast of Spain, three Rutgers University scientists had a narrow window of opportunity to find and ...
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