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Netflix, TiVo Link Up After Long Courtship
Home entertainment trendsetters Netflix Inc. and TiVo Inc. are finally joining forces to deliver more movies and old TV episodes to their mutual subscribers, consummating a relationship that was supposed...
Digital Images A Lock For Copying Keys
Computer scientists at the University of California at San Diego have developed software that can make a duplicate of a key from just a distant photo of it using technology...
Hundreds queue for new Nintendo console
Hundreds of people queued to be among the first to buy Nintendo's latest games console on Saturday, as the Japanese electronic giant unveiled the DSi, featuring a built-in camera and...
Optical Firewall Aims To Clear Internet Security Bottlenecks
Researchers are developing the world’s first optical firewall capable of analyzing data on fiber optic networks at speeds of 40 gigabits per second. The work promises to save the internet...
Tally of improperly accessed UCLA patient records tops 1,000
As the state investigation ends, 1,041 people's records are found to have been subjected to snoops. ...
Spy researcher says once improbable Bond villains now close to real thing
Professor Richard J. Aldrich, Professor of International Security at University of Warwick says that the once improbable seeming villains in the Bond movies have become close to the real threats...
Nationalizing Banks Will Not Restore Health To The Banking Sector, Economist Warns
The current credit crisis has intensified politicians’ interest in the goings-on in the financial sector. Research has shown that quick and decisive action on their part is needed to avoid...
CRTC to deliver review of TV industry
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission will deliver its much-awaited review of the television industry on Thursday.
Fire Videos Dramatize Christmas Tree Safety Measures
As the weather grows cold and people start planning for the holidays, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have released two new research videos that illustrate...
Green Buildings: A 'Net-Zero' Energy Research Agenda
Buildings in the United States account for more than 40 percent of the nation's total energy consumption, and that is just one of their impacts on the environment. In a...
Croissant and latte breakfast may not be healthier than fry-up
A croissant and latte on the way to work may not always be a healthier option than stopping at a "greasy spoon" cafe, according to a campaign group that aims...
Helping wean the chemicals industry off crude oil
CSIRO scientists have joined one of the world's largest biotechnology consortia to help develop crops which produce oils to be used by the chemicals industry as sustainable alternatives to those...
SKorea's Hynix reports sharply higher net loss in Q3
South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second largest memory chipmaker, said Thursday its net loss rose sharply in the third quarter on lower world prices and losses on write-offs.
Turning dumb dialogue into intelligent conversation
Computer games are now incorporating AI characters that can converse with one another
Pilot Stuart Ross develops rocketbelt designed to strap on and fly
"I've always loved flying," says Stuart Ross, a commercial airline pilot for whom flying a 767 to the Mediterranean and back a couple of times a week just isn't enough...
Google looking to go green is the right kind of power grab
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has been talking a lot lately about green energy. OK, so everybody has been talking a lot lately about green energy. But for Schmidt it...
Crafting a better financial future
Dan Hassenplug's monthly expenses used to include around $300 for lunch and three or four books bought from Amazon.com. Now he's plugged into a new breed of social network that...
How G1 maker scored Taiwan's biggest marketing coup
HTC used to be a "discreet" mobile device maker, says Chief Executive Peter Chou. Not anymore.
Digital projectors making grand entrance at movies
Digital projectors should soon replace film on more than 20,000 of North America's 42,000 movie screens.
'Security-on-a-Stick' to protect consumers and banks from the most sophisticated hacker attacks
(PhysOrg.com) -- Resembling a memory stick with an integrated display, a prototype USB device developed at IBM's Zurich Research Lab brings a new level of security to online banking for...
4 former Dell managers claim discrimination
(AP) -- Four former human-resources managers at Dell Inc. are suing the computer company, accusing it of widespread gender and age discrimination.
Notebook sales surpass PCs for first time in US
Quarterly sales of notebook computers have topped those of desktop computers for the first time ever in the United States, market intelligence firm IDC reported on Wednesday.
Too Many New Lemur Species?
Primatologist Anne Yoder comments on the trend to pin the new species label on every variation of lemur
Thoroughly moderate America
(PhysOrg.com) -- The global credit crunch and Barack Obama's neutralisation of the 'religious right' in America are likely to sweep him to an historic victory in the US elections, according...
Even optimists get the blues when pink-slipped
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the midst of an economic crisis that's sparked massive layoffs, new research by a U of T professor shows that even optimists get the blues when facing...
Intel, ASUS Launch Project to Create Community-Designed PCs
Consumers become product designers at WePC.com, a Web site launched today by Intel Corporation and ASUS. WePC.com is where consumers can collaborate with each other and with Intel and ASUS...
New websites suggest agenda, cabinet for next US president
The US presidential election is still a few days away but websites are popping up where users can suggest an agenda for the next president or even help shape his...
U.S. to expand access to national labs
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Energy has announced two model agreements designed to expand access to its research facilities for academia and industry.