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Whole Foods recalls possible E. coli-tainted beef
Whole Foods Market, the top US organic foods supermarket chain, announced this weekend a voluntary recall of fresh ground beef it sold since June 2 due to potential contamination with...
Google 'gadgets' called gateways for hackers
Hackers turned computer security specialists accuse Google of setting users up for online disasters by letting them personalize home pages with applications that could be tainted.
Beyond 3G: Ultra-fast Mobile Radio Networks Of The Future
Today's growing third generation (3G) of mobile data services are only a taste of what is to come. Now, European researchers are paving the way to a world where ultra-fast...
Norwegian Wood: Putting Wood Chips In The Fuel Tank
While the Norwegian company "Norske Skog" is struggling with unprofitable paper production and trees are rotting from the roots up, the world is researching alternatives to petrol. Scientists believe we...
Comprehensive Treatment Of Extensively Drug-resistant TB Works, Study Finds
XDR-TB has been reported in 49 countries throughout the world. This study shows that a comprehensive, ambulatory management program can cure more than 60 percent of HIV-negative XDR-TB patients in...
Anti-virus software might soon be obsolete
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. computer scientists say the time is fast approaching when you can say goodbye to problematic personal computing anti-virus software.
Calorie counts could be added to menus at some chain restaurants in L.A. County
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky wants the eateries to provide a caloric breakdown for all their offerings to help diners 'make the right dietary choices.' ...
Supermarket Chains Narrow Their Sights
Supermarkets are beginning to compete with farm stands and farmers’ markets for a wider variety of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Monsanto Looks to Sell Dairy Hormone Business
The move comes as more retailers, saying they are responding to consumer demand, are selling dairy products from cows not treated with the artificial hormone.
U.S. says submarine leaked radiation in 3 Japan ports
TOKYO (Reuters) - A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine which has steadily been leaking a small amount of radiation for over two years stopped at three Japanese ports, as well as Guam...
Nintendo DS to become personal beauty consultant
Women in Japan will soon be able to have their own hand-held beauty consultant after games company Sega teamed up with cosmetics giant Shiseido to offer make-up tips on the...
Major Internet security flaw also affects e-mail
(AP) -- A newly discovered flaw in the Internet's core infrastructure not only permits hackers to force people to visit Web sites they didn't want to, it also allows...
Google launches free music search service in China
(AP) -- Google Inc. said Wednesday that it has launched a music search service in China that allows users to access music legally online in a forum backed by...
Pacific Health's plan to buy Anaheim Memorial meets with resistance
Opponents say the company should not be expanding at a time when its current hospitals have been hit with so much criticism from regulators over the last year. ...
ALife Conference To Reveal Bio-inspired Spam Detection
An algorithm for spam recognition inspired by the immune system will be presented at the first European conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE XI).
MySpace to connect users with US presidential debates
MySpace announced Wednesday it is launching a website devoted to the US presidential debates.
Study finds Net search becoming far more prevalent
(AP) -- The search box is everywhere online these days. It's built into Web browsers. It's incorporated into Web sites of all sorts. And it's a major driver of...
Prices of commercial properties decline in Q2
Transaction sale prices of commercial property sold by major institutional investors declined 2.7 percent overall in the second quarter of 2008 with prices for office properties declining 5.5 percent, according...
Elpida Ready to Launch World's Largest Capacity (16-Gigabyte) FB-DIMM
Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), announced today that it is ready to launch 16-gigabyte Fully Buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM), the world's largest capacity FB-DIMM....
AMD Launches World's Fastest Motherboard GPU: AMD 790GX
AMD today announced the availability of the industry`s preeminent performance desktop platform, the AMD 790GX. Packing a host of innovations, the AMD 790GX integrates advanced performance tuning for AMD Phenom...
Dell says its operations are now carbon-neutral
(AP) -- Computers are far from being truly clean machines, but Dell Inc. and other PC makers are trying to make their own business operations greener.
Hunting the elusive L-function
(PhysOrg.com) -- There was a lot of excitement last month about ‘L-functions`. A PhD student in the Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Ce Bian, in collaboration with his supervisor,...
South Asia News in brief: 24 July–6 August
Clinton gets involved in malaria drug prices, Sri Lanka launches rival to UN development index, Bangladesh gains landmass, and more.
US launches centre for science diplomacy
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has launched a centre to promote science diplomacy and international understanding.
Sprint Nextel reports 2Q loss, its stock slides
(AP) -- Sprint Nextel Corp., the nation's third-largest wireless carrier, said Wednesday it swung to a second-quarter loss on severance and other charges but still beat Wall Street expectations.
Banking by phone for the poor
(AP) -- It can scale mountains in a single bound and wend its way down the most wretched roads. It is the mighty cell phone signal - and the...
Financial planning
An impasse over the budget and the impending presidential election mean that US science spending will likely be frozen for months, David Goldston reports.
A stone wall made of potato chips
For years, snack makers fought a California suit to cut back levels of the cancer-causing chemical acrylamide. ...