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What to do with 15 million gigabytes of data

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (26) | comments 5

When it is fully up and running, the four massive detectors on the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva are expected to produce up to 15 million gigabytes, aka 15 petabytes, of data ...


Carnegie Mellon urges industry to broaden carbon footprint calculations

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 16, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Carnegie Mellon University researchers are urging companies to embrace new methods for following the trail of dangerous carbon emissions that are responsible for much of the world's global warming threats.





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Go for the gold (or silver): Status tiers promote loyalty

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

How special does that gold card offered by a hotel or airline make you feel? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research explores the connection between status and loyalty.


Sicker patients socked with higher copays

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 15, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Healthcare analysts said U.S. health insurers are rapidly adopting a new pricing system that is boosting copays for expensive prescription drugs.


Higher co-payments reduce use of antidepressants

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 07, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

As they struggle to contain skyrocketing medication costs, health plans across the U.S. have responded by implementing multi-tiered formularies requiring higher copayments for 'non-preferred' medications. New research from ...


Electronic prescribing system may encourage physicians to choose lower-cost drugs

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clinicians using an electronic prescribing system appear more likely to prescribe lower-cost medications, reducing drug spending, according to a report in the December 8/22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the ...


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Data-Taking Dress Rehearsal Proves World’s Largest Computing Grid is Ready for LHC Restart

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s largest computing grid has passed its most comprehensive tests to date in anticipation of the restart of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider ...


Verizon pushes faster (and pricier) FiOS bundles

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Verizon is boosting speeds on its FiOS service. And it's throwing in a high-definition Flip video camera or Hewlett-Packard computer to get you to join.


London 2012 replaces sponsor Nortel with Cisco

Technology / Business

created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- London Olympic officials on Friday replaced bankrupt Canadian technology sponsor Nortel Networks with Cisco for the 2012 Games, a move that will cost organizers $19.4 million in revenue.


Elpida Develops Top-Tier Power Efficient 2Gbps High-Speed DDR3 SDRAM

Elpida Develops Top-Tier Power Efficient 2Gbps High-Speed DDR3 SDRAM

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 15, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Elpida Memory, Inc., Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), announced today that it has developed a top-tier power efficient 1 Gigabit DDR3 SDRAM, which is capable of operating ...


Verizon offers global EV-DO broadband

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created Sep 15, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Verizon Wireless Thursday debuted a wireless broadband system with worldwide reach.


Report: DDoS attacks big Net threat

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created Oct 12, 2005 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new report warns that Internet service providers are facing an unrelenting barrage of distributed denial of service attacks aimed at crashing the network.



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