Think you’re going to see video of Whitney Houston’s autopsy because of a link you…
Month: February 2012
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Clear iPhone app offers simple, gesture-based task management (Appolicious)
Appolicious – Realmac Software released Clear, a new iPhone to-do list manager to much anticipation…
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Time of year important in projections of climate change effects on ecosystems
Based on more than 25 years of data, ecologists looked at how droughts and heat…
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In new mass-production technique, robotic insects spring to life
A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of…
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Virtual ghost imaging: New technique enables imaging even through highly adverse conditions
By using some of light’s “spooky” quantum properties, researchers have created images of objects that…
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New ‘soft’ motor made from artificial muscles
The electrostatic motor, used more than 200 years ago by Benjamin Franklin to rotisserie a…
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Boiling breakthrough: Nano-coating doubles rate of heat transfer
The old saw that a watched pot never boils may not apply to pots given…
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Cisco challenges Microsoft takeover of Skype in EU (AP)
AP – Networking company Cisco said Wednesday that it is challenging Microsoft’s $8.5 billion takeover…
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FCC adopts new rules against ‘robocalls’ (AP)
AP – The federal government is cracking down on “robocalls,” those automated phone calls with…
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Computer sleuthing helps unravel RNA’s role in cellular function
Computer engineers may have just provided the medical community a new way of figuring out…