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Glitch snarls air traffic in latest woes for FAA
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- For the second time in a little more than a year, a glitch at one of the two centers that handle flight plans for the nation's air travel system set off delays and cancellations for passengers around ...
Europe's first 'personalised paper' rolls off the presses
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Billed as Europe's first "personalised paper", "niiu", a newspaper tailored to readers' individual wishes and delivered to their door before 08:00 am, made its first appearance in Berlin on Monday.
UK: Millions of customer records sold
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Rogue employees at a major mobile phone company illegally sold millions of customer records to rival firms, Britain's information watchdog said Tuesday.
Microsoft co-founder Allen treated for lymphoma
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.
New handbook for Google, Droid users
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Before buying one of the new Google-powered "Droid" phones from Verizon Wireless, you may want to read the manual. Not the setup directions in the box.
Professor Finally Publishes Controversial Brain Theory
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the late '90s, Asim Roy, a professor of information systems at Arizona State University, began to write a paper on a new brain theory. Now, 10 years later and after several rejections and ...
Green heating and cooling technology turns carbon from eco-villain to hero
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Carbon is usually typecast as a villain in terms of the environment but researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a novel way to miniaturise a technology that will make carbon a key material in ...
Photoshopped Images Could Carry Warnings in France
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A law has been proposed in France that would see digitally enhanced images carry a warning to viewers that the image has been retouched to change the physical appearance of a person. The proposed ...
A new system preserves the right to privacy in Internet searches
Nov 05, 2009 |
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A team of Catalan researchers has developed a protocol to distort the user profile generated by Internet search engines, in such a way that they cannot save the searches undertaken by Internet users and thus ...
Want responsible robotics? Start with responsible humans
Jul 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When the legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov penned the "Three Laws of Responsible Robotics," he forever changed the way humans think about artificial intelligence, and inspired generations of engineers ...
Apple's restriction-free music downloads create pause
Feb 11, 2009 |
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When Apple Inc. announced in January that it would sell restriction-free music files, that was supposed to mean consumers could buy songs and play them on the portable gadget of their choice.
School sued for punishing teens over MySpace pix
Nov 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Two sophomore girls have sued their school district after they were punished for posting sexually suggestive photos on MySpace during their summer vacation.
Lawmakers seek ban on laptops in airliner cockpits
Nov 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Lawmakers are moving to ban the use of computer laptops and other personal electronic devices in airline cockpits to prevent another incident like the Northwest Airlines plane that overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles.
Scientists design first robot using mould
Aug 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of the West of England are to design the first ever biological robot using mould.
Bringing gaming to the disabled
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Ironically, it was located in one of the least-accessible areas of the Games for Health conference held a few months ago in Boston. Up a set of stairs and around a corner from the large conference halls and breakout rooms ...
