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Kaiser Permanente gets perfect four-star rating on HMO score card
California officials hope consumers will use the survey's results to shop for health coverage. ...
Bacteriophage, Plastic Steel and Round Robots Prove Winners
Think that college lab work is dull and uninspiring? Student inventors claimed a $25,000 grand prize and other awards Wednesday night for creating antibacterial agents, "plastic steel," and a spherical...
From Genes To Farmers' Fields: New 'Waterproof' Rice Developed
"Waterproof" versions of popular varieties of rice, which can withstand two weeks of complete submergence, have passed tests in farmers' fields with flying colors. Several of these varieties are now...
Reinventing the Supply Chain
The industrial revolution was inherently flawed from a supply chain perspective" says Patrick Penfield, assistant professor of supply chain practice in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. "The...
Report: Teen Kills Himself On Internet TV
The teenager took an overdose of pills while on camera and was apparently encouraged to do so by commentators on Justin.tv and a bodybuilding site, according to the report.
Samsung Now Producing 256GB Solid State Drives
Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing 256 gigabyte (GB) solid state drives for use in notebooks and desktop PCs. With the addition of the high-speed 256GB...
Opening the door to Europe's archives
(PhysOrg.com) -- Historical archives can be difficult to search, especially when relevant documents are held by institutions in different countries. A European project has shown how a single online portal...
Old-fashioned friendliness trumps incentives among supply chain partners
Cordiality and mutually beneficial arrangements can be more important than hard-negotiated deals when it comes to cementing strong working relationships among supply chain partners, according to the Management Insights feature...
Engineers face jail in economic espionage case
(AP) -- Two engineers from China who pleaded guilty to the rare charge of economic espionage against the U.S. are facing sentencing Friday, in a case that highlights national...
Wild beavers return to Britain after 400 years
Four families of beavers have arrived in Britain for a landmark project which will see them introduced into the wild here for the first time in over 400 years, experts...
Entomologist sets Hollywood straight about insects
University of Illinois entomologist May Berenbaum is used to seeing Hollywood take creative license with insects. After 25 years of screening films about giant bugs and killer swarms at an...
Google empowers users to edit search results
(AP) -- If Google delivers useless search results, just erase them and you won't see them again.
BASF closes 80 plants as demand slumps
Temporary shutdowns and production cuts represent 25 per cent of company’s total capacity
I'm Sticking With My Brand: Loyal Customers Perceive Competitor Ads Differently
What does it take for marketers to reach customers who are already loyal to a particular brand? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines brand loyalty and...
Extreme Makeover: Photos Realistically Embedded Within Videos
Stanford artificial intelligence researchers have developed software that makes it easy to reach inside an existing video and place a photo on the wall so realistically that it looks like...
Mobile banking prospects seen better in Asia
Polillo, a remote island in the northeastern Philippines with poor road infrastructure and no public transport, is set to get a taste of mobile banking long before the developed world...
Analyst upgrades Yahoo, calling stock cheap
Needham & Co. analyst Mark May upgraded shares of troubled Internet company Yahoo Inc. on Thursday, after the shares skidded below $10 for the first time in more than five...
Knocking Off Knockoffs
Despite our niftiest holograms and watermarks, counterfeiters still manage to sneak billions of dollars of fake goods onto store shelves. Instead of slapping on authenticity seals, which can be copied,...
Google's virtual world Lively to die next month
(AP) -- Lively, a virtual reality service from Google Inc., is dying. The company plans to shut down the service at the end of the year, reflecting Lively's inability...
Dell 3Q profit falls as PC spending slows
(AP) -- PC maker Dell Inc. said Thursday its third-quarter profit fell 5 percent as businesses around the world bought fewer computers and other technology products.
Bots Get Smart
The multi-billion-dollar video-game industry has become increasingly keen to make use of developments in artificial intelligence (AI) research, and computer scientists--including those in the University of Alberta's GAMES research group--have...
Whatever Happened To Google $1,000?
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...
Bush Moves To Shut Down Web Gambling
The Bush administration is moving in its last weeks to complete regulations to enforce a controversial law that seeks to block Internet gambling. The move is drawing hot protests from...
Supreme Court: No Limits On Navy Sonar Use
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Navy in a dispute over whether courts can limit training drills Navy sonar systmes may adversely affect whales. Separately, arguments commenced in...
Unlicensed News Stories Rampant On Web
Unauthorized copies of online news and magazine articles draw 1.5 times more viewers than the versions on publishers' official Web sites, a new study found.
The New Congress And Technology
Presidential elections may capture the public's attention, as Barack Obama's victory did last week, but the less glamorous work in the U.S. Congress tends to prove more important for technology...
After Virtual Affair, Real Divorce
Amy Taylor filed for divorce when she discovered her husband cheating in Second Life - an online community where players adopt personas called avatars, mingle with others and teleport themselves...
TiVo To Make Dominos On Demand
Digital video recording company TiVo Inc. said it is teaming up with Domino's Pizza Inc. to allow subscribers to order pizza for delivery or pick-up from their TV sets.