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Google to leave China April 10: state media
US Internet giant Google will close its business in China next month and may announce its plans in the coming days, Chinese media reported on Friday, after rows over censorship...
WHO: Not sure if drug-resistant TB is worsening
(AP) -- The World Health Organization says it doesn't have enough information to know if it is winning the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Conservationists urge treaty panel to reject ivory sale by Tanzania, Zambia
An international convention will meet next week to decide whether to grant requests from Tanzania and Zambia to lower the protection status of their elephants, allowing them to conduct one-time...
MP3 tax bill opposed by Conservatives
Conservatives voiced their opposition Wednesday to a private member's bill that would add a tax to MP3 players and extend users' rights to make copies of digital content.
Internet access funds not cut: Clement
The Conservative government is denying reports it was cutting funding to community institutions that provide free internet access to Canadians who don't have affordable access at home or at work.
Explained: Regression analysis
(PhysOrg.com) -- Regression analysis. It sounds like a part of Freudian psychology. In reality, a regression is a seemingly ubiquitous statistical tool appearing in legions of scientific papers, and regression...
Cash crisis looms for vaccine drive
Rising demand for immunization programmes in developing countries could outstrip funding.
Easy Credit Caused The Recession And Eased Its Impact
Questionable lending helped sink the U.S. economy, but also provided a lifeline that kept countless firms afloat and averted an even deeper recession, according to research by University of Illinois...
Twitter Makes Bid for Chinese Users
Twitter Remains Blocked In China, But Company Hopes To Develop Chinese Registration Page
S.Korea to offer software to fight web addiction
South Korea will offer gamers and other Internet addicts free software from next year to limit the time they spend on the web, the prime minister's office said on Tuesday.
Prescriptions found on street spark probe
Ontario's privacy commissioner is investigating after thousands of medical prescriptions were found blowing around on a street in Gatineau last week.
MPAA boss Glickman says goodbye to Hollywood
(AP) -- Dan Glickman spent his Hollywood years aiming to improve the ratings system that tells Americans what to expect in a movie - and fighting pirates.
Video Games May Hinder Learning for Boys
Young boys who own video game systems are slower to progress in reading and writing than those who don't own a system, a new study finds.
File Sharing Software Reveal Users' Private Information
Thousands of Americans may unwittingly be sharing personal medical and financial information stored on their home computers when they use file-sharing software
Uncle Sam Wants to "Friend" You
Feds Create Fake Accounts on Social Network Sites to Collect Evidence, But Does Undercover Work Violate Terms of Service?
India drinks from Venezuela's oil cup
NEW DELHI, March 16 (UPI) -- A consortium of Indian energy companies announced said it would purchase 45 percent of the crude oil produced by its partners in Venezuela.
Montreal movie pirate faces 4 months in jail
A Montreal man the FBI once called Canada's biggest movie pirate will be sentenced in on Tuesday for illegally distributing copyrighted material on the internet.
Third ATV named after Edoardo Amaldi
Production of the Automated Transfer Vehicles is gearing up. After the flawless flight of the first ATV, Jules Verne, the second, Johannes Kepler, is being completed for launch later this...
Creditors of S.Korea's Hynix sell 813 million dollar stake
Creditors of South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor said Tuesday they had raised 923.2 billion won (813.5 million dollars) by selling a 6.67 percent stake in the world's second-largest memory chipmaker.
AIG closes Transatlantic Holdings public offering
NEW YORK (AP) -- Insurer American International Group Inc. said Monday it closed a secondary public offering of Transatlantic Holdings Inc. for about $452 million....
UConn, Stanford, Tennessee and Nebraska top seeds
On their way to a record 72-game winning streak, the Connecticut Huskies have beaten just about every power program in women's college basketball....
New imaging technology brings trace chemicals into focus
Arizona State Univeristy scientist N.J. Tao and his colleagues at the Biodesign Institute have hit on a new, versatile method to significantly improve the detection of trace chemicals important in...
Farm-to-school programs motivate school food service professionals
During the school day, children eat roughly one-third of their nutritional needs while at school. Besides lunch, breakfast and snacks may be served, providing ample opportunities for obesity-prevention strategies by...
Emergency online communities
Online social networks could help with communications and recovery for people with disabilities following major natural disasters, or even terrorist attack, according to a research paper in the International Journal...
Call forwarding: New NIST procedure could speed cell phone testing
By accurately re-creating the jumbled wireless signal environment of a city business district in a special indoor test facility, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have...
Cuba Criticizes US Over Internet Access
Cuba Says US Ruling Loosening Internet Services To Island Meant To Aid 'subversion'
Brain food: the truth about internet profiles
There's more honesty out there than you thinkNearly 17 years ago, the New Yorker ran what is probably still the best-known cartoon about the world wide web. It featured two dogs sat...
Intel Announces X25-V 40GB Solid-State Drive for $125
Intel Corp. announced today a new addition to its award-winning lineup of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs): the Intel X25-V Value SATA SSD. Priced at $125, the 40 gigabyte (GB) drive...