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China's web censors easing off: report
Journalists covering the upcoming Beijing Olympics are finding some websites in some Chinese cities unblocked after complaints this week over internet censorship, the BBC reported Friday.
Maldives goes for mobile banking
The Maldives has launched a pioneering system for its citizens to bank primarily using mobile phones.
New Wireless Technology Responds To Emergencies Where GPS Doesn't Work
CSIRO is developing new wireless technologies for locating, tracking, sensing and communicating in areas where global positioning systems do not work.
House Votes to Let FDA Regulate Tobacco
The House overwhelmingly approved legislation that would give the F.D.A. new power to regulate tobacco products.
Feature: Brain scans break the mould for market mavens
Market researchers and neuroscientists have confirmed in hard data that most informed consumers fall into one of four broad personality groups whose preferences correlate predictably with consumer behaviour.
Bush signs bill to triple AIDS funding
(AP) -- President Bush signed legislation Wednesday that triples U.S. funding to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world.
Ancient Greek Calculator Tracked Olympics
An astronomical calculator considered a technological marvel of antiquity was also used to track dates of the ancient Olympic games, researchers can now say, thanks to the latest computer technology.
UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News
NASA creates image Web site … FDA seizes unapproved new drugs … New 'green' transit bus is developed … U.S. beach water quality still bad overall ... Health/Science news from...
Germany's top court rejects two states' anti-smoking laws
Germany's top court upheld complaints Wednesday against anti-tobacco laws in two states, in a ruling with broad implications for a country once seen as a smokers' paradise.
Visualizing Open Source Software Development
(PhysOrg.com) -- A UC Davis graduate student has created short, colorful movies that show the development of open source software. With dancing points of light, rings of color and a...
Project to rebuild Internet gets $12M, bandwidth
(AP) -- A massive project to redesign and rebuild the Internet from scratch is inching along with $12 million in government funding and donations of network capacity by two...
Yahoo offers coupons for music that stops working
(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. is offering coupons or refunds to users who find songs they bought inaccessible after Sept. 30, when the company shuts its music-download service.
ER docs: Don't text and walk, skate or cook
(AP) -- The warning came too late for Barack Obama's adviser: Don't walk and text at the same time. Obama aide Valerie Jarrett fell off a Chicago curb several...
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research Names New President
With 26 years of senior management experience at several of the leading independent biomedical research institutes in the United States, Kenneth Trevett is eminently qualified to build on SFBR's track...
Next space tourist spending bulk of fortune to fly
(AP) -- The world's next space tourist, a computer game wizard, says he's spending the bulk of his fortune on his $30 million adventure this fall.
Subprime lending not main trigger of real estate bubble
(PhysOrg.com) -- Critics often point to subprime mortgage lending - the funding of home loans to borrowers with less-than-perfect credit - as the culprit in the unsustainable boom...
Research on browser weaknesses triggers attacks
IBM's X-Force says cyber-criminals are using public research on Web browser weaknesses to launch attacks before most users are even aware of their vulnerability. The mid-year report from the security...
IBM Debuts 'Grammar Checker' Approach to Catching Software Bugs
Bug-ridden, poor quality software costs businesses billions of dollars annually and the cost of identifying and repairing a software defect in a product that is already being used by consumers...
Review: In an iPod Nano world, some rivals lure
(AP) -- It's easy to understand the appeal of Apple Inc.'s iPod Nano music and video player: It's slim and simple to use, and it has a crisp 2-inch...
Berlusconi's Mediaset suing YouTube over copyright
(AP) -- Mediaset, the media empire founded by Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, said Wednesday it was seeking at least 500 million euros ($779 million) in damages against Google Inc.'s...
Now What? Californians to Rehearse 'The Big One'
Stampeding during an earthquake is exactly what people tend to do and shouldn't.
General election campaign advertising surpasses $50 million in first two months
(PhysOrg.com) -- Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are airing more advertisements in more media markets than their counterparts did during a comparable period in the 2004 election campaign,...
Movie trade group sues 2 websites for copyright infringement
The Motion Picture Association of America says it's suing two websites for copyright infringement.
Hybrid Human Faces Could Populate Google Street View
Due to privacy concerns, Google has been blurring the faces of people caught on Google Street View cameras. But rather than blurring people's faces and diminishing the reality of the...
Students Have A Unique Way To Lower Energy Costs
UC San Diego undergraduate students have designed, built and deployed a network of five weather-monitoring stations as a key step toward helping the university use ocean breezes to cool buildings,...
Researchers Race to Make Desalination Eco-Friendly While There's Still Time
UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers explore options for desalination in eco-friendly ways.
Nano-foods: The next consumer scare?
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Those consumers already worried about genetically engineered or cloned food reaching their tables may soon find something else in their grocery carts to furrow their brows...
Diane Abbott: Where's the debate on the DNA database?
Diane Abbott: It contains the profiles of a million innocent people and lacks basic safeguards – but it has no legislative foundation