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Nabucco supplies developing, official says
BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 3 (UPI) -- The consortium managing the Nabucco gas pipeline is working hard to finalize agreements with potential supplier nations, officials said in Azerbaijan.
Malicious software: Hiding the honeypots
Armies of networked computers that have been compromised by malicious software are commonly known as Botnets. Such Botnets are usually used to carry out fraudulent and criminal activity on the...
Wind offering credits to break cell contracts
Wind Mobile, fresh off launching service in Edmonton this week, is cranking up the heat on established cellphone providers by offering customers credit to break their contracts.
U.K. Pol Zinged in Smutty Twitter Scam
Secretary of State for Energy Gets Password Hijacked By Phishers, Inadvertently Sends Out Sexy Tweet
Scientists listen to the sun in new sonification project
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists can now listen to a set of solar wind data that's usually represented visually, as numbers or graphs. University of Michigan researchers have `sonified` the data. They've...
Wal-Mart aims for greener supply chain
BENTONVILLE, Ark., Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Global retailing giant Wal-Mart said Thursday it plans to cut 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from its supply chain by...
The new ID card
By November 1, 2010 the ID card hitherto in use in Germany will be replaced by the new personal identity card, with built-in electronic identification and signature functions. At first...
Social Media Messages Telling Too Much?
Web Site PleaseRobMe.com Re-Posts Messages, Gives Location of Users; Expert Says Public "In Dark" About Social Media Networks
This is a rat race | Ask Carole, Evolutionary Agony Aunt
Carole Jahme shines the cold light of evolutionary psychology on reader's problems. This week: competitionUnder pressureFrom an anonymous teenDear Carole, I'm in 6th form and ever since GCSE revision I feel I have...
Explained: Linear and nonlinear systems
Spend some time browsing around the web site of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and you’ll find hundreds if not thousands of documents with titles like “On Modeling Nonlinear Shape-and-Texture Appearance...
‘Yes’ to Pop-Tarts! Panel Approves Bake-Sale Rules
The Panel for Educational Policy voted unanimously to implement a policy that bans most bake sales but allows students to sell premade items including Pop-Tarts and Doritos.
News Analysis: Uniting Democrats Is Challenge at Health Forum
The president did not seem to win over any Republicans, and seemed to end the day largely where he started, with little choice but to rally his Democrats to act...
'Yurbuds' offer pain-free listening
Seth Burgett tried out three different kinds of earbuds when he was training for a half Iron Man triathlon, but found all of them -- even the custom-fitted ones --...
Pioneer of online job search starts over again
(AP) -- Bill Warren founded an early online job board in the 1990s, helped kick-start an industry and was president of Monster.com, one of the leading Internet career sites....
Regulators propose grant program for public safety
(AP) -- Federal regulators will recommend that Congress devote up to $16 billion over 10 years to pay for a nationwide wireless broadband network that would allow police officers,...
Research may change course of flight instructor training
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new aviation training device in use at Arizona State University may help researchers develop rigorous new methods of training for both civilian and military instructor pilots.
Apple CEO Jobs favors flexibility of cash hoard
(AP) -- Apple Inc., buoyed by the success of the iPhones, iPods and computers it churns out to breathless buyers, could give some of its $25 billion in cash...
Feature: Grid, get smart
Researchers believe the smart grid, a system based on power network communication, will be the electricity solution of the future.
Study Finds More Licensed Characters, Other Packaging Promotions Used to Market Less Nutritious Foods to Kids
(PhysOrg.com) -- Supermarket aisles are enticing young eyeballs with more familiar characters, celebrities, toys and movie giveaways on food packaging than ever, according to a Yale University study.
IBM Researchers Develop Energy Efficient Method to Analyze the Quality of Data at Record Speeds
(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Research today unveiled a breakthrough method based on a mathematical algorithm that reduces the computational complexity, costs, and energy usage for analyzing the quality of massive amounts...
Seeking a More 'Poplar' Biofuel
(PhysOrg.com) -- Gas money for your car doesn't grow on trees, but one day you might be filling up with fuel that does.
Can avatars change the way we think and act? (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford researcher finds that experiences with avatars, including personalized images of ourselves, can change our view of reality and the way we act in the real world.
Bolivia oil industry held back by state meddling
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- State meddling is holding back Bolivia's hydrocarbons industry that showed early promise of growth but more recently has seen production fall, new...
Microsoft uses law to cripple hacker spam network
Microsoft on Thursday said it combined technology with an "extraordinary" legal maneuver to cripple a massive network of hacked computers that had been flooding the Internet with spam.
Apple Not Green? Environmental Plans Nixed
Shareholders Reject Proposals that would Force Computer Company to Do More to Analyze its Environmental Impact
NIH Director Ruffles Feathers Again With New Religion Book
National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins is again riling some scientists by publicly... [Read more]
Introducing RoSS, a 'flight simulator' for robotic surgery
A collaboration between the Center for Robotic Surgery at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has produced one of the world's...
The Unreal World: Boy bites girl on ABC's 'Private Practice'
Vampire? No, but the medical drama examines the link between human bites and hepatitis. ...