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Whither Google As It Turns Ten?
It grew exponentially from garage startup to Web superstar and part of our culture -- but what lies ahead? Daniel Sieberg took a look.
Driving The Future Of In-vehicle ICT
Information and communications systems in road vehicles are progressing steadily, but the research community behind these developments remains fragmented. Now a European initiative has linked key knowledge centers and is...
Disruption-free Videos
Standardized video coding techniques still have their snags – digitally transmitted images are not always disruption-free. An extension of the H.264/AVC coding format allows to protect the most important data...
Technology Users Are Failing To Take Adequate Steps To Protect Their Digital Privacy
Technology users are failing to take adequate steps to protect their privacy in digital society. In the face of technology that will soon be able not only to track an...
FDA posts drug-safety watch list
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has established a drug-safety watch list that will be posted quarterly on its Web site.
New initiative to fund faculty research worldwide
MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives has unveiled new seed funding for international collaboration that supports faculty research worldwide and encourages student participation.
Bad science: Cheer up: it's all down to random variation
Ben Goldacre: Britain's happiest places have been mapped by scientists
Tech firms fare better than most in jobs slump
(AP) -- Technology appears to be one of the least hard-hit sectors in an economy beset by unemployment at a five-year high. The Labor Department reported Friday that companies...
Florida Keys Evacuation Ordered for Hurricane Ike
Hurricane Ike is forecast to hit the islands early next week as a major hurricane. Given the limited escape routes, officials aren't taking chances, ordering evacuations, to begin Saturday.
Manitoba, Ottawa come to agreement on 'Jordan's Principle'
The provincial and federal governments have reached an agreement aimed at putting jurisdictional issues aside when dealing with children with severe disabilities who live on First Nations reserves.
Iowa State Wins $18.5 Million Grant to Create NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals
The National Science Foundation has awarded Iowa State University and its research partners an $18.5 million grant to establish the NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals based at Iowa...
Microsoft deploying in-store customer-service reps
(AP) -- As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers like Best Buy...
Comcast's new bandwidth limit irks some users
Comcast's plan to place a cap on consumer Internet use worries some customers who have come to take unfettered Web surfing for granted, even though most users aren't affected by...
NHGRI/NIH awards team $6.5M to advance DNA sequencing using Nanopores
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $6.5 (over 4 years) grant to a team of Harvard University researchers to...
Prisons' New Challenge - Going Digital
The big switch to digital TV has prison officials scrambling to keep one of the most important peacekeeping tools in prisons across the nation - broadcast television.
WEEK IN PHOTOS: Virgins Gather, Freak Hailstorm, More
Hurricane Gustav inspired a bit of bathing, virgins awaited a king in Africa, hail spurred "snowball fights" in Kenya, and more.
Making a Hopping Robot
What started as an academic problem in a robotics class—how to build a robot that can hop like a pogo stick, roll on wheels, and walk up stairs—has grown into...
Greens tops, Tories flops in Sierra Club climate-change report card
The Sierra Club of Canada gives top marks to the Green party and a failing grade to the Conservatives in its ranking of parties' climate-change platforms.
Another Voice Warns of an Innovation Slowdown
Judy Estrin’s book is the latest call to action by scientists, technologists and political leaders worried about the country’s future competitiveness in technology.
Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old
(AP) -- When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet...
UNC Spin-off Company Receives $2 Million Grant to Market Cancer Treatment Technology
A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill spin-off company has been awarded a $2 million grant to commercialize a new technology to improve radiation treatment of prostate cancer.
Nokia warns 3Q market share will fall; shares dive
(AP) -- Nokia Corp. warned Friday its third-quarter global market share will decline from second-quarter levels, sending its U.S. shares tumbling more than 10 percent.
Listeria warning for Labrador
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has warned people who shop in Happy Valley-Goose Bay that bologna may be contaminated with listeria.
Science and maths assaulted by educational reforms, say scientists
Educational reforms are undermining efforts to increase the number of pupils taking maths and science, the Royal Society has warned
MySpace links users to US hurricane emergency alerts
In what is heralded as the seeds of an Internet-age emergency broadcast system, MySpace has teamed with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to spread news on hurricanes through...
Sims creator's long-awaited "playing god" game hits stores
"Spore", the eagerly-awaited computer game five years in the making allowing people to play God by re-creating the universe, hits stores worldwide this week.
Labs easy target, former manager says
The Cameron inquiry heard testimony Thursday of drastic budget cuts at what would become part of Newfoundland and Labrador's largest health authority, now at the centre of public medical scandal.
Future of biology rests in harnessing data avalanche
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like most sciences, biology is inundated with data. However, a group of researchers warns in a Nature feature that the avalanche of biological information is at the point...