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Real Pilots And 'Virtual Flyers' Go Head-to-head
Stunt pilots have raced against computer-generated opponents for the first time -- in a contest that combines the real and the "virtual" at 250 miles per hour.
Election forecast predicts democrats will gain 3 seats in Senate, 11 in House
An election forecast model developed by a political scientist 99 days before the 2008 elections and before the recent Wall Street crisis predicts significant Democratic gains in the 2008 congressional...
The New T-Mobile G1 Android Has A Remote Kill Switch For Apps
The new T-Mobile G1 phone with Android goes on sale October 22nd. A sneak peak at the first phone to run Android reveals a notice to users that goes as...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey's 3-D guide to the final frontier
A remarkable model brings a sense of order to the universe, allowing observers to navigate it as if by rocket ship. ...
Did Pirates Create The Credit Crunch?
As the world’s money markets do their best to combat the Credit Crunch, a politics lecturer has discovered that the root of modern democracy’s money woes may lay with the...
New Computer Program Improves Search For People
A new computer program speeds up the process of finding the right person in an organization's network. This technique can also make it easier to search for specific people on...
Retail Display Fixtures Can Affect Consumer Perceptions Of Products
In virtually all stores, consumers view products on display fixtures that are presumed to be of little consequence. Yet, suppose that you were shopping for a set of trendy new...
Three Things Apple Won't Do
In brief comments after his keynote speech, Apple CEO Steve Jobs did something he doesn't usually do, and clarified what isn't on his company's immediate notebook road map.
IBM 3Q profit jumps 20 pct
(AP) -- IBM Corp. says its third-quarter profit jumped nearly 20 percent, surpassing analysts' estimates. However, slumping hardware sales hurt the technology company's revenue, which missed Wall Street's forecast.
Aussies think grants should be repaid
A survey has found most Australians would support a scheme that has businesses paying back research and development funding when they are financially well off.
Video games: out of the lab and into the living room
Brookhaven's Tennis for Two is considered by many to be the first real video game, but Ralph Baer is the undisputed father of the industry.
Understanding the power of music
More than 7,000 runners who raced earlier this month in a half-marathon in London were under the influence of a scientifically derived and powerful performance-enhancing stimulant — pop music.
Asus recalls Eee Box desktop PCs shipped with viruses
A Taiwan discount personal computer manufacturer has begun a voluntary recall of desktop computers delivered to Japan after it found they had been infected with a virus before shipment.
10 years on, high-school social skills predict better earnings than test scores
Ten years after graduation, high-school students who had been rated as conscientious and cooperative by their teachers were earning more than classmates who had similar test scores but fewer social...
Entrepreneurial activity affected by degree of states' economic freedom
A new study in the journal Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice examines how entrepreneurial activity and level of employment in U.S. service industries respond to changes in the degree of economic...
Obama's and McCain's Technology Policies Examined
As the 2008 presidential election enters its final month, researchers have found some sharp differences -- and surprising similarities -- in the two major candidates' positions on technology policy.
Nation's Only Citywide Electronic Health Information Exchange: Improving Health And Lowering Costs
Across the nation concerns about health-care quality and costs are growing. For the first time, both candidates aspiring to the nation's highest office are looking to greater reliance on electronic...
Mathematician Solves Problem After 30 Years
When Dr. Claudio Morales, a mathematics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, presents his findings on the Leray-Schauder condition to a mathematics conference later this month, it will...
Agriculture: Is China ready for GM rice?
In an effort to avoid a food crisis as the population grows, China is putting its weight behind genetically modified strains of the country's staple food crop. Jane Qiu explores...
FDA's lax approach to China comes back to bite us
If we've learned anything watching our 401(k)s go down the toilet and the stock market take a pistol-whipping, it's that too-lax regulation and the nowhere-to-hide nature of the global economy...
Another Bailout? Government Pension Insurer Could Be Next, Expert Says
Another multi-billion dollar taxpayer bailout could lie ahead, this time to rescue a cash-strapped government program that insures pensions of 44 million American workers and retirees, a finance professor warns.
Japan's Sharp introduces LCD TVs with built-in Blu-ray
Japan's Sharp Corp. on Wednesday launched what it billed as the world's first liquid crystal display television with a built-in next-generation Blu-ray DVD recorder.
No financial chaos in virtual world of Second Life
In contrast with the turmoil rattling gobal financial markets, it's all smooth sailing in the virtual economy of Second Life, the California-based creators of the Internet-based universe said Wednesday.
Green Invention Wins "IP-to-market" Competition
Software that will save data centers millions of dollars in energy costs has won the Southeastern Universities Research Association Intellectual Property to Market (IP2M) competition. The patent-pending invention, dubbed EcoDaemon...
How electronic trading has added to market's volatility
More than anything else, raw fear has been driving the huge declines in stock prices over recent weeks.
FCC overhaul eyes broadband but could raise bills
(AP) -- The head of the Federal Communications Commission wants a massive overhaul of the fees that phone companies pay each other when they connect calls. Supporters say the...
Game makers create incentives to buy new over used
Game publishers and developers have long been frustrated by their inability to get a cut of used game sales at retailers such as GameStop.
Help create WikiCandidate -- the ideal presidential candidate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Step aside, John McCain and Barack Obama. Meet Sen. Julian Polonius Foley Marcos DeWiki III, a true man of the people. DeWiki -- in Internet fashion -- is...