Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
The project, known as Distributed Nuclear Detection by Ubiquitous Cell Phone, would help locate dirty bombs or nuclear weapons by "triangulating" the source of radiation when people carrying mobile phones pass by. (The greater the number of equipped cell phones, the greater the precision: phones closest to radioactive material will ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
If as one expert said Seinfeld is the perfect pitchman to showcase Vista as the operating system of the 1990's, the director of Eternal Sunshine, a story about breakups in which the protagonist has his memory erased to forget the pain of his ex-girlfriend, may be the perfect compliment to ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
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: AFTER buttoning up a lab coat, snapping on surgical gloves and spraying them with alcohol, I am deemed sanitary enough to view a robot's control system up close. Without such precautions, any fungal spores on my skin could infect it. "We've had that happen. They just stop working and ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Spammers have upped the ante in their efforts to trick news consumers, switching from e-mails with tabloid-style headlines to impersonating major online news services. On Wednesday, e-mails that appeared to be from msnbc.com landed in inboxes worldwide, promising breaking news and confusing some recipients.Read the full story
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
While Knol is only three weeks old and still relatively obscure, it has already rekindled fears among some media companies that Google is increasingly becoming a competitor. They foresee Google's becoming a powerful rival that not only owns a growing number of content properties, including YouTube, the top online video ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Colegrove thinks Apple might unveil a 7- to 10-inch laptop, joining the many other PC companies that are offering relatively low-cost and lightweight laptops. "If you look at Apple's products - the iPhone, the iPod touch - what's next?" she said. "It's natural that you'll see [touch technology] with ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
In a submission to court, Google is arguing that in the modern world there can be no expectation of privacy. Google is being sued by a Pennsylvania couple after their home appeared on Google's Street View pages. The couple's house is on a private road clearly marked as private property.Read ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
A couple of hours earlier, I had purchased tickets to see Dark Knight at the Fandango Web site - Fandango.com. Fandango - not associated with Facebook. Yet, Fandango shared the details of my credit card transaction with Facebook. They did this despite the fact that I gave Fandango my personal ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Strong, interesting women are taking over the blogging world. They have the passion, they have the skills, and they are here to stay. Today, we're listing fifty most influential female bloggers at the moment.Read the full story
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Seattle's Getty Images said it will exclusively offer its customers the right to license images from Flickr, a popular photo-sharing site owned by Yahoo. One analyst said the deal, of undisclosed value, will benefit both companies as well as photographers, who will now have a better chance of being ...
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