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Intel Reader Transforms Printed Text to Spoken Word

Intel Reader Transforms Printed Text to Spoken Word (w/ Video)

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Intel Corporation today announced the Intel Reader, a mobile handheld device designed to increase independence for people who have trouble reading standard print.


90 percent of Africans are not protected by smoke-free laws

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

As African nations are poised to undergo the highest increase in the rate of tobacco use among developing countries, nearly 90 percent of people on the continent remain without meaningful protection from secondhand smoke, ...


Health care accounts for 8 percent of US carbon footprint

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The American health care sector accounts for nearly a tenth of the country's carbon dioxide emissions, according to a first-of-its-kind calculation of health care's carbon footprint.


New 'finFETS' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

New 'finFETs' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers ...


Experts offer strategies for working with immigrant victims of violence

Experts offer strategies for working with immigrant victims of violence (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Last year, the United States provided asylum and resettlement assistance for nearly 80,700 people from other countries, an increase from 71,300 individuals in 2007, according to the U.S. Committee for Refugees ...


Google says its news approach is "fully consistent with copyright law"

Google says Murdoch stories can be taken off

Technology / Internet

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Google said on Tuesday, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off. ...


AMA votes to seek repeal of 'don't ask,don't tell'

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- The American Medical Association on Tuesday voted to oppose the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and declared that gay marriage bans contribute to health disparities.


Gender-based pay gaps among US faculty

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Before the Equal Pay Act of 1963 was signed into law by President Kennedy, women earned about fifty percent less than men. Nationally, women still earn an average of thirty percent less than men regardless of education, choice ...


This smart wheelchair has laser vision

This smart wheelchair has laser vision

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Disability, John Spletzer believes, should no longer pose any obstacle to mobility. A blind person may not be able to see or a paraplegic to walk, but each can access the technology available ...


EU objects to Oracle's takeover of Sun (AP)

EU objects to Oracle's takeover of Sun

Technology / Business

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Sun Microsystems Inc.'s planned $7.4 billion sale to Oracle Corp., escalating a battle over a deal that has already been cleared in the U.S.



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