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Journalists take their place at a press conference

Journalism evolving, not dying: science author

Technology / Internet

created Mar 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Newspapers are dying but journalism is evolving, an acclaimed science writer told a gathering of the techno-hip at South By South West Interactive Festival on Friday.





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China maintains strict censorship of the Internet

China issues new rules on Internet domain names

Technology / Internet

created 18 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

China's Internet watchdog issued a new set of rules on domain name registration this week in a bid to curb pornography and illegal content.


Google has a digital foothold in France

Google gets digital foothold in France

Technology / Internet

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Despite fierce resistance to Google's plans to digitise the world's books, observers say it is well placed to start scanning Europe's cultural treasures -- beginning in France, where the US giant got a digital ...


Video game watchdog shuts down, victim of economy

Technology / Other

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- David Walsh said when he was assembling his first report card on video game violence 13 years ago, children were attacking on-screen monsters or aliens with imaginary chain saws and guns.


Hackers steal SKorean-US military secrets (AP)

Hackers steal SKorean-US military secrets

Technology / Internet

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- South Korea's military said Friday it was investigating a hacking attack that netted secret defense plans with the United States and may have been carried out by North Korea.


New study finds gender divide in children's use of cell phone features (w/ Video)

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

It's a given that many children will ask their parents for cell phones this Christmas. Now, a recent study by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) sociologist Shelia Cotten, Ph.D., finds that the way the kids will use ...


How to spur energy storage innovations

How to spur energy storage innovations

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Imagine flying all the way from coast to coast, completely guilt-free, in an airplane that doesn’t emit a single particle of greenhouse gas or air pollutants. That could happen someday, perhaps brought to ...


Internet-based customized newscast has been cooking in the InfoLab at a US university for over three years

US university coding future of news

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Personalized newscasts culled from the Web and presented by digital avatars. Baseball stories written by computers using raw data.


UCSD Experts Calculate How Much Information Americans Consume

UCSD Experts Calculate How Much Information Americans Consume

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- U.S. households consumed approximately 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008, according to the "How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers," released today by the University of ...


Electronic patient records are not a panacea

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Large-scale electronic patient record (EPR) programmes promise much but sometimes deliver little, according to a new study by UCL researchers that reviewed findings from hundreds of previous studies from all over the world.


The 'sci' behind the 'fi'

The 'sci' behind the 'fi'

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 1

As the voyagers of the Starship Enterprise boldly went to explore new worlds week after week on Star Trek, they used a host of futuristic technologies — including tricorders, holodecks, teleportation systems ...



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