iPod shuffle: Are these earbuds for you?
Apple has a history of making things without features that many people consider essential.
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 15, 2009
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Ordered Water: Just how much water is there in calcined gypsum?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Gypsum was used as a building material in antiquity and is still widely used as a binder in plaster, drywall, and spackling paste. Known as dihydrate in construction chemistry, gypsum is a water-containing ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 15, 2009
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OpenDNS service is an alternative to major Internet providers
You turn on your computer and try to log onto your favorite sites. Nothing happens. A message at the bottom of your screen tells you your computer is trying to connect, and trying and trying.
Internet
Apr 15, 2009
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So many passwords, so little memory
How many keys are on your keychain? I just looked at mine and counted nine keys. And that's not counting the bulky little remote control key fob that locks and unlocks my car. I've tried to consolidate my keys by making one ...
Software
Apr 15, 2009
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The sky is the limit for cloud computing
The prospects for "cloud computing" now seem a little less ... cloudy. Once a term confined to the personal-speak of high-minded tech geeks and derided by critics as a bogus marketing ploy, cloud computing today is arguably ...
Software
Apr 15, 2009
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Intel shares fall despite bullish PC prediction
(AP) -- Investors don't seem to totally buy Intel Corp.'s proclamation that slumping personal computer sales have "bottomed out."
Business
Apr 15, 2009
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The role of inbreeding in the extinction of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty
The powerful Habsburg dynasty ruled Spain and its empire from 1516 to 1700 but when King Charles II died in 1700 without any children from his two marriages, the male line died out and the French Bourbon dynasty came to power ...
Other
Apr 15, 2009
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Scientists harness nanoparticles to track cancer-cell changes
The more dots there are, the more accurate a picture you get when you connect them. A new imaging technology could give scientists the ability to simultaneously measure as many as 100 or more distinct features in or on a ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 15, 2009
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Study confirms 3 Neanderthal sub-groups
The Neanderthals inhabited a vast geographical area extending from Europe to western Asia and the Middle East 30,000 to 100,000 years ago. Now, a group of researchers are questioning whether or not the Neanderthals constituted ...
Evolution
Apr 15, 2009
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Climate change makes migrations longer for birds
Bird migrations are likely to get longer according to the first ever study of the potential impacts of climate change on the breeding and winter ranges of migrant birds.
Ecology
Apr 15, 2009
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