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US Senate gears up for climate debate
Cap-and-trade bill largely mirrors legislation passed in the House of Representatives.
SNM urges Congress to support CARE bill
SNM is calling on Congress to support the Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Act (CARE bill), which would ensure that states set minimum education...
Dell's Latitude Z introduces wireless charging (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dell has introduced its new ultra-thin Latitude Z laptop with the world's first wireless laptop battery charger.
Ein, Zwei, Molson Dry? Researcher Says Hand Gesturing To Count In Foreign Countries Can Be Tricky
If you are planning to do some Oktoberfesting in Germany, you may want to pay attention to how you order your beverages. The server is not giving you a three-for-the-price-of-two...
GM's trial program selling cars on eBay set to end
(AP) -- General Motors Co. said Tuesday that it is concluding its partnership with eBay Inc. in which the automaker used the auction site to sell new cars through...
Sold-out Products Influence Consumer Choice
An empty store shelf tempts shoppers to buy the next best thing, according to a new study.
Appeals court upholds dismissal of vaccine suit
(AP) -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a program that requires some members of the military to be vaccinated against anthrax over objections from service members who...
Driver misjudgment and landscape variations cause collisions at stop sign intersections
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stop signs are supposed to be traffic safety tools, but how effective are they? According to one Ryerson University researcher, intersections with stop signs can be some of...
New project to create 'FutureGrid' computer network
The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego is part of a team chosen by the National Science Foundation to build and run an experimental high-performance grid test-bed, allowing...
New digital security program doesn't protect as promised
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Texas at Austin scientists have shown that they can break "Vanish," a program that promised to self-destruct computer data, such as emails and photographs, and thereby...
Next season on the box? Cheap and light TV
Cash-strapped couch potatoes forced to stay in thanks to the global economic crisis next season will be dished up platters of light low-cost entertainment as TV networks chase rare advertising...
Panasonic, Sanyo win EU takeover approval
(AP) -- Panasonic Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co. must sell off a European plant that makes batteries to win EU antitrust approval for the $9 billion deal creating one...
Warning: Homegrown Tobacco Still Deadly
Tobacco seeds sales have sharply risen this year as smokers try growing their own.
Tokyo Pitches a "Green Olympics"
Organizers Rally Support in Bid for 2016 Games, Promoting Eco-Friendly Venues, Waste Recycling and Giant Robots
Facebook pulls Obama assassination poll
Social website Facebook yanks a poll about assassinating President Barack Obama after being contacted by the U.S. Secret Service.
Synthetic Biology And Nanotechnology - The Public Knows Little
Not a week goes by in science that there isn't a new study related to synthetic biology or nanotechnology. They are two of the hottest fields in science and...
First Intelligent Financial Search Engine Developed
Researchers have completed the development of the first search engine designed to search for information from the financial and stock market sector based on semantic technology, which enables one to...
Texas Tech Coach Clamps Down on Twitter
Negative Posts by Players Prompts Decision; Coach Says Facebook Pages will be Monitored, Too
AT&T to start selling Garmin nuvifone in October
(AP) -- After more than a year of delays, Garmin Ltd.'s GPS unit/wireless device hybrid nuvifone is finally going on sale in the U.S.
9 in 10 high schoolers short on fruits, veggies
(AP) -- Health officials say only 13 percent of U.S. high school students get at least three servings of vegetables a day and just 32 percent get two servings...
Elpida Unveils Industry's First 2-Gigabit DDR2 Mobile RAM
Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that it had developed the industry's first 2-gigabit DDR2 Mobile RAM.
Computer hacks jump in '09: study
Canadian companies faced more computer attacks in the past 12 months, each of which cost the firm almost twice as much to fight, according to a study released Tuesday.
Companies dodge grisly duty
Cigarette companies are bending laws that force them to print gruesome images on packets, according to a recent study.
Abbott wins the race for Solvay’s pharma business
Abbott has beaten off rival bids to acquire its cholesterol-franchise partner, Solvay Pharmaceuticals.
ASUS Unveils First TUF Series Motherboard
ASUS today unveiled the first motherboard in its newly-developed "TUF" (The Ultimate Force) Series, the SABERTOOTH 55i.
Union executive sues CUPE, alleges email spying
An eastern Ontario union executive has launched a lawsuit against the Canadian Union of Public Employees, accusing a colleague of violating her privacy by reading her emails.
Fujitsu Develops Golf-Swing Analyzer Featuring Latest Sensing Technology
Fujitsu today announced that it has codeveloped a sensing technology that accurately measures the body movements of a person carrying a sensor-equipped mobile phone. The technology was developed in collaboration...
As phones get smarter, game makers ring the changes
Tetsuya Ide doesn't own an iPhone, but the teenage computer boffin is betting that Apple's hit gadget is the key to having a new generation of video game players in...