Four More Convicted in eBay Fraud Case
Guilty pleas bring the number of people convicted of illegally selling copyrighted software to seven.
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May 2, 2007
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Trillian Vulnerabilities Open to Remote Exploitation
Three flaws affecting the Trillian IM chat application that could lead to remote exploitation by hackers are fixed in new Trillian version.
Software
May 2, 2007
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Sun's 'Rock' Shines a Little Brighter in First Test
The company completes the first test of its new UltraSPARC processor that includes a successful boot of its own Solaris 10 operating system.
Hardware
May 2, 2007
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Picking up bad vibes to gauge bridge health
By monitoring changes in vibrations of bridges it is possible to identify hidden cracks and fractures, according to a Queensland University of Technology researcher.
Engineering
May 2, 2007
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Quantum dot recipe may lead to cheaper solar panels
Rice University scientists today revealed a breakthrough method for producing molecular specks of semiconductors called quantum dots, a discovery that could clear the way for better, cheaper solar energy panels.
Nanomaterials
May 2, 2007
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Hubble finds multiple stellar 'baby booms' in a globular cluster
New observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have overturned conventional ideas about the early life of some massive globular clusters, showing that they can go through several periods of intense stellar formation ...
Astronomy
May 2, 2007
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New Evidence for the 'Solar Oxygen Crisis'
Scientists have published new evidence supporting the recent discovery that the Sun contains about half as much oxygen as previously thought, an issue some scientists have dubbed the solar oxygen crisis. This is a potentially ...
Climate change a threat to Indonesian agriculture, study says
Rice farming in Indonesia is greatly affected by short-term climate variability and could be harmed significantly by long-term climate change, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University, the University ...
Environment
May 2, 2007
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'Personality-gene' makes songbirds curious
Whether you are an anxious type, or a fearless person - such individual differences in personality could be partly due to the genes you carry. In humans, it is hard to prove the existence of such "personality genes" - there ...
May 2, 2007
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Scientists watch on the atomic level how individual molecules recognize each other
The body is an almost perfect machine. For it to function properly, each individual component, that is each molecule, must reliably fulfill its specific function. Each molecule must thus “recognize” other molecules and ...
Nanophysics
May 2, 2007
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