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China searches for high-tech leap forward

Technology / Hi Tech

created Aug 09, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

The manicured lawns and carefully sculpted buildings of Huawei's headquarters are a far cry from the sweatshop image of southern China's factory belt.


Kroger uses technology to stop flow of recalled items

Technology / Hi Tech

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Supermarkets across the country cleared the shelves of more than 2,600 items recalled after salmonella contamination was found in some products made by the Peanut Corp. of America.





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MIT's big wheel in Copenhagen

Biking 2.0: MIT's big wheel in Copenhagen (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created 6 hours ago | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Yesterday, Dec. 15, at the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change, MIT researchers debuted the Copenhagen Wheel -- a revolutionary new bicycle wheel that not only boosts power, but can keep track of friends, ...


New Automated Technique with Online Verification Eases Network Analyzer Calibration

New Automated Technique with Online Verification Eases Network Analyzer Calibration

Technology / Engineering

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Verifying the accuracy of network analyzers—instruments that are used to measure key performance characteristics of electronic networks—was once an awkward process involving multiple steps and pieces of equipment.


Aggressive infection control protects cancer patients from acquiring H1N1 influenza

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Despite a 100-fold increase in H1N1 influenza cases in the Seattle area during spring 2009, an aggressive infection control program to protect immunocompromised cancer patients and thorough screening measures resulted in ...


Taiwan has developed tiny microchips that could lead to lighter and cheaper laptops or mobile phones

Taiwan unveils super-tiny microchip

Technology / Semiconductors

created 18 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Taiwan has developed tiny microchips that could lead to lighter and cheaper laptops or mobile phones, researchers and observers said Wednesday.


Our devices will spin denser webs of data in 2010s (AP)

Our devices will spin denser webs of data in 2010s

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(AP) -- Ten years ago, we would have been blown away by a cell phone with far more computing power and memory than the average PC had in 1999, along with a built-in camera and programs to manage every aspect ...


Researcher develops formula that can ID music industry payola

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A University at Buffalo researcher has invented a statistical method that can detect payola-like corruption in the music industry, a system that gives law enforcement an inexpensive statistical guide to identify potential ...


Court to review employer access to worker messages

Technology / Other

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide how much privacy workers have when they send text messages from on their employers' accounts.


FDA researchers identify new MRI safety risk for patients with pacemakers

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

FDA researchers have found that certain cardiac pacemakers may inadequately stimulate a patient's heart while undergoing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan due to the magnetic pulses mixing with the electronic pulses ...


Australian government to introduce Internet filter (AP)

Australian government to introduce Internet filter

Technology / Internet

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (15) | comments 8

(AP) -- Australia plans to introduce an Internet filtering system to block obscene and crime-linked Web sites despite concerns it will curtail freedoms and won't completely work.


Canadian first: The heart in telemonitoring

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The electrophysiology team at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) recently performed the first implantation of a new type of cardiac pacemaker (Accent RF) in Canada. This landmark procedure was carried out on October 22, 2009 ...



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