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Review: Everybody's streaming Netflix, but what?

Netflix's streaming-video audience of more than 20 million subscribers has led many to label it a kind of digital TV network, and one that may grow into an HBO rival - if it's not already.

Technology / Business

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 7

India bid to censor Internet draws flak

Indian government efforts to block offensive material from the Internet have prompted a storm of online ridicule along with warnings of the risk to India's image as a bastion of free speech.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lions in Greece, the reforestation of the West and the use of satire in environmental conservation

As the Greek economy maintains its slide towards default and the global climate continues to change for the worse, one organisation, writing in Biotropica, has come up with some novel answers to both proble ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 6

Miracle material: Graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the 19th century novel, Flatland, by Edward A. Abbott, residents of that fictional country exist in only two dimensions. Women are born as line segments, while men come in a range of geometric ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Secrets of Swift's intimate letters revealed

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Oxford University academic has applied digital image analysis to intimate letters sent simultaneously by Jonathan Swift to two women, with some surprising results.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 28, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Truthy.indiana.edu to search, identify smear tactics, Twitter-bombs through election runup

Astroturfers, Twitter-bombers and smear campaigners need beware this election season as a group of leading Indiana University information and computer scientists today unleashed Truthy.indiana.edu, a sophisticated ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Adult industry sees iPorn potential in new phone

(AP) -- It's a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in.

Technology / Business

created Jul 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Entomologists name 'diving beetle' for Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert

"What has six legs and is way cooler than a spider?" asks a riddle on the cover of a birthday card sent to Stephen Colbert by entomologists Quentin Wheeler at Arizona State University and Kelly Miller at the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 6

Go ahead, unfriend 'em

I knew I had to delete her or suffer the consequences.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Take novels seriously, urge poverty experts

(PhysOrg.com) -- Best sellers can give powerful insights into aspects of poverty that are overlooked by scholars, government advisors and pundits, according to a report.

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1


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