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Funding gives group 'better chance' to find Franklin's ships: lead searcher
As the latest attempt by Canada to find the lost ships of Sir John Franklin began Monday in the Arctic, the archeologist leading the six-week mission says it will be...
Prediction Markets Strong At Forecasting US Presidential Elections, Says New Management Insights
A case study of the 2004 US Presidential election by researchers at Yale shows that prediction markets are proving to be a strong forecasting tool, one that may have an...
Qwest reaches labor agreement with 2 unions
(AP) -- Qwest Communications International Inc. has reached a tentative agreement with its largest union about a day after a labor contract had expired, both sides said early Monday.
Worst Web Glitches Of 2008 (So Far)
Users' expectations are rising, and Web companies often get themselves into trouble by promising far more than they can deliver.
New magazine-sharing site may violate copyrights
(AP) -- The magazine industry, already facing a decline in newsstand sales and falling ad revenue, is being besieged by a new foe: digital piracy.
Netflix resumes normal shipping after 3-day glitch
(AP) -- Online DVD rental leader Netflix Inc. resumed normal shipments Friday after its distribution centers were crippled by three days of severe technical problems, a spokesman said.
Electric bikes selling briskly as gas prices climb
(AP) -- When Honora Wolfe and her husband moved to the outskirts of Boulder, Colo., she wanted an environmentally friendly way to commute to her job as a bookshop...
Indonesia to push renewable energy: president
Stung by high oil prices, Indonesia plans to tap more into renewable energies and change course from a "nation that splurges" to one that saves, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said...
State quashes sale of Anaheim Memorial Medical Center to Pacific Health
The attorney general's office cites factors including 'pending criminal investigations' and a civil complaint. ...
Video: The MoD challenges schools & colleges to compete for robotic defense contract
The MoD shows off the nominees for its new robot technology competition, the Grand Challenge
Sensitive government document found on rainy Ottawa street
A sensitive government document detailing a classified computer database has been given to the CBC after it was found lying on an Ottawa street corner.
Court says copyrights apply even for free software
(AP) -- In a crucial win for the free software movement, a federal appeals court has ruled that even software developers who give away the programming code for their...
Japan gets first home-grown commercial communications satellite
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. announced Friday that it had successfully launched Japan's first domestically produced commercial communications satellite.
FTC deal brings Airborne settlement to $30 million
The makers of Airborne tablets have agreed to pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit and federal regulators' charges that they made false claims about the cold-fighting benefits of the...
VIDEO: Urban Farming Blooms in London
With food prices and interest in organic produce growing, some Londoners are growing their own—as their grandparents did in World War II.
From Web Site To The White House?
Chances are, you're getting a lot more of your campaign news from e-mail, Web sites and text messages. That means a candidate's online presence - and message - is crucial....
Digitizing Old Text and Fighting Spam, Too
Web security tool is helping computers read illegible books and writings
Probing Question: Is peak oil a myth?
Unprecedented summer gasoline prices are squeezing Americans' wallets and also expanding their vocabularies, as terms like "peak oil" gain common usage.
Studying Volcanoes With Balloons
People do all kinds of crazy things in Hawaii, but flying balloons over a volcano usually isn’t one of them. Unless you’re Adam Durant, that is.
Federal overseer seeks to seize $8 billion for California prison healthcare
The court-appointed receiver for the prison medical system asks a judge to order the state to provide the money and hold Schwarzenegger and state Controller Chiang in contempt of court. ...
Computer users are digitizing books quickly and accurately with Carnegie Mellon method
Millions of computer users collectively transcribe the equivalent of 160 books each day with better than 99 percent accuracy, despite the fact that few spend more than a few seconds...
Italy blocks Swedish file-sharing site
(AP) -- An Italian judge has ordered the country's Internet service providers to block access to The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing Web site, as part of a probe...
New nurses quitting because of overwork, Alberta union says
The shortage of nurses in Alberta will only worsen as many young RNs quit their jobs complaining of overwork, says the United Nurses of Alberta.
Supercomputer to explore mass of the universe
The University of Toronto and IBM Corp. are building Canada's most powerful supercomputer, a mammoth machine that will need its own building for storage and will be capable of performing...
Vegetable Scales With A Mind Of Their Own
What was the number you were supposed to enter for the chili-pepper on the self-service scales? Was it 67 or 76? And the number for the bananas? The latest self-service...
Timing Of Political Messages Influences Voter Preferences, Researcher Finds
In political campaigns, timing is almost everything. Candidates communicate with voters over a long period of time before voters actually vote. What candidates say to these voters is, of course,...
More acidophilus drugs recalled in Canada
OTTAWA, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Health Canada says a recall of several brands of acidophilus health products because of mislabeling has been expanded.
Psychologists show new ways to deal with health challenges in space
As NASA prepares to send humans back to the moon and then on to Mars, psychologists are exploring the challenges astronauts will face on missions that will be much longer...