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Video: Facebook, lawmakers discussing kid users' privacy
Facebook officials head to Capitol Hill to talk with lawmakers about the privacy of its young users. Nancy Cordes reports on privacy issues and social networking sites.
Study: Musicianship maintains hearing
TORONTO, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- A study suggests lifelong musicians experience less age-related hearing problems than non-musicians, Canadian researchers say.
Green Blog: A New Name for the Agency That Polices Offshore Drilling
The Interior agency that policies offshore drilling, referred to by some critics as "bummer," will split into two parts with different names.
Authors sue universities over digital library
Authors in Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and Australia sued are suing five U.S. universities to stop the creation of online libraries made up of up to seven million copyright-protected...
Robot Financial Workers to Replace Human Traders, Report Says
The world economy increasingly finds itself in the virtual hands of computer algorithms and robot traders.
Microsoft: Still sexy after all these years?
The company gets ready to dish to developers on Windows 8 about its plans for the post-PC era
New wheelchair-friendly vehicle tours N.B.
A unique vehicle is touring through New Brunswick this week that is offering people with disabilities a different perspective while on the road.
A smarter Harvard marketplace
From creating micro-robots to designing a lung on a chip, Harvard researchers perform some of the most complicated and cutting-edge work in the world. But until recently, the process of procuring the tools...
Green Blog: Know Your Enemies: Vanquishing the Emerald Ash Borer
Using the equivalent of a lie detector, scientists figured out that the emerald ash borer loves the color purple and the scent of manuka oil. Hence the so-called Barney trap,...
Nurse takes Royal Society's pulse
Nurse takes Royal Society's pulseNature News , 13092011 doi: 10.1038/477258aGeoff BrumfielPresident plans wider role for Britain's national academy.
Nintendo looks to boost 3DS with new games
Nintendo unveiled a string of new software titles at a highly anticipated Tokyo trade show on Tuesday, as it attempts to boost sales and reignite interest in its struggling 3DS...
Glenn Beck back -- on Web pay TV
Viewers have to fork over almost $10 a month to stream his new daily show on his new, Internet-based network, GBTV
Study: Word sounds contain clues for language learners
(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do words sound the way they do? For over a century, it has been a central tenet of linguistic theory that there is a completely arbitrary relationship...
No-borders mouse runs across screens
(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft has announced a free download that lets you work your mouse to navigate across multiple PCs. Mouse Without Borders is the name of the program and it...
Bionic ear maker Cochlear recalls hearing implants
(AP) -- Bionic ear maker Cochlear has been forced to begin a global recall of the world's thinnest hearing implants after some stopped working.
Fate of digital assets 'vague' after death
When you die, does your Facebook account die with you? Or that online photo album? What about your iTunes playlist, blogs or tweets?
Amazon says tax delay will save jobs
Amazon on Monday said legislation allowing online retailers to delay for one year the collection of sales tax in California would save jobs and provide time for a national law...
Tracking The Ghosts Of Surfers Past
Deep Web Interferometry compares curves in trendlines from synchronized multiple data sources. Interferometric analysis of Web metrics data increases the clarity of meaningful data points by isolating events. For example,...
National Briefing | NORTHWEST: Seattle Council Votes for Paid Sick Time
The Seattle City Council voted Monday to require employers with five or more workers to provide paid sick days.
Grizzly shooting pits Idahoans against Uncle Sam
U.S. prosecutors charge a man who said he was protecting his family. State residents and officials are outraged.To understand the deep rift over federal regulation of endangered species, one only...
Plans for Confederate flying machine on block
While Rebel and Union soldiers still fought it out with bayonets and cannons, a Confederate designer had the foresight to imagine flying machines attacking Northern armies. He couldn't implement his...
Bridging New Technology's "Valley Of Death"
Julie Lenzer Kirk's nonprofit Path Forward Center, brings women entrepreneurs together with scientists and engineers, helping to bridge the gap between basic research, innovation and the marketplace.
‘The Constitution and the Question of Power’
Noah Feldman, Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School, will deliver a lecture titled “The Constitution and the Question of Power” at 1 p.m. Sept. 19 in Emerson Hall, Room...
Confronting meaninglessness
You've just finished an amazing dinner at your favorite restaurant and you are ready to put on your comfy pajamas and slip into sweet slumber. You arrive at your doorstep...
Boston Globe launches subscription-only website
The Boston Globe on Monday became the latest major US newspaper to begin charging readers online.
New TechCrunch editor named after founder flap
AOL named a new editor for popular US technology blog TechCrunch on Monday after 10 days of uncertainty and controversy over the fate of the founder of the site, Michael...
Flipboard sees magazine future in tablet computers
Flipboard chief executive Mike McCue on Monday said the startup's iPad application has been downloaded more than 3.5 million times as tablet computers enable personalized Internet-Age magazines.
Philly papers kick off Android tablet initiative
(AP) -- The owner of Philadelphia's two major newspapers is offering discounted tablet computers in an effort to attract more digital subscribers.