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At least one in three drivers who commute to work during peak periods in most major cities do not need to do so and could significantly reduce traffic congestion by simply choosing a different time to travel, according to a University of Sydney Business School survey. http://phys.org/news286786319.html Technology Fri, 03 May 2013 07:52:08 EST news286786319 (AP)—Police and politicians across the U.S. are pointing to the surveillance video that was used to help identify the Boston Marathon bombing suspects as a reason to get more electronic eyes on their streets. http://phys.org/news286726293.html Technology Thu, 02 May 2013 15:50:01 EST news286726293 (AP)—Windstream Communications is recovering from a major outage that knocked out long-distance telephone service and blocked toll-free calls to its business customers. http://phys.org/news286481550.html Technology Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:30:01 EST news286481550 China is considering a ban on barbecues to help reduce air pollution in built-up areas after heavy smog recently choked large swathes of the country, state media reported Wednesday. http://phys.org/news280589052.html Space & Earth Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:24:23 EST news280589052 New York City experienced a historic decline in crime rates during the 1990s, but it was not due to the implementation of CompStat or enhanced enforcement of misdemeanor offenses, according to an analysis by New York University sociologist David Greenberg. The study, which appears in the journal Justice Quarterly, did not find a link between arrests on misdemeanor charges and drops in felonies, such as homicides, robberies, and assaults. In addition, the analysis revealed no significant drop in violent or property crime attributable to the NYPD's introduction of CompStat in 1994. http://phys.org/news279215365.html Other Sciences Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:50:50 EST news279215365 Pakistan is expected to unblock access to the popular video sharing website YouTube on Saturday after taking measures to filter blasphemous material and pornography, a cabinet minister said. http://phys.org/news275987348.html Technology Sat, 29 Dec 2012 07:09:14 EST news275987348 Hackers staged a surprise attack on the online role-playing game World of Warcraft and "killed" some virtual characters, the company operating the game said Monday. http://phys.org/news268916623.html Technology Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:20:01 EST news268916623 (Phys.org) -- Recent economic turbulence and the pressures of an ongoing news cycle have forced some daily newspapers to re-examine their business models and change how they deliver news, according to a Kansas State University newspaper expert. http://phys.org/news262338730.html Other Sciences Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:52:16 EST news262338730 While census data shows racial diversity is increasing in major cities across the United States, highly diverse neighborhoods are still rare, newly arrived immigrants continue to settle in concentrated residential patterns, and many African Americans remain concentrated in segregated neighborhoods, according to recent research by Richard Wright, professor of geography and the Orvil E. Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs. http://phys.org/news259409938.html Other Sciences Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:19:14 EST news259409938 (Phys.org) -- Visitors to major cities in the world might disagree, but a small group of French and British researchers has found that regardless of city density, structure and other factors, subway systems running in the biggest cites in the world are more alike than not in truly fundamental ways. In their paper published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, the team says that all of the large city subway systems in the world grow in a way that share common features - such as the fact that they all have central cores with a branch topology. http://phys.org/news256892818.html Other Sciences Tue, 22 May 2012 08:07:20 EST news256892818 An often quoted parable has the "foolish builder" building on sand, but in reality many major cities are built on soft deposits – some in earthquake prone regions – and world-leading research at UTS will help make them safer. http://phys.org/news255855959.html Technology Thu, 10 May 2012 08:06:29 EST news255855959 (AP) -- Major wireless service companies have agreed to disable cellphones after they are reported stolen under a strategy intended to deter the theft and resale of wireless devices. http://phys.org/news253281775.html Technology Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:03:01 EST news253281775 (AP) -- Two-thirds of China's cities currently fail to meet stricter air quality standards that the government wants to phase in over four years to combat notoriously smoggy skies, a senior Chinese environmental official said Friday. http://phys.org/news249900014.html Space & Earth Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:40:24 EST news249900014 A city that obtains its power from renewable resources, where electric cars move quietly along the streets and which emits almost no carbon dioxide - German federal minister Mrs. Schavan and the president of Fraunhofer, Hans-Jorg Bullinger, shone a spotlight on the scenario of a sustainable city of the future in the vision of "Morgenstadt". http://phys.org/news239885832.html Technology Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:57:20 EST news239885832 Not buying cars but sharing them -- car-sharing is practiced in many major cities. And in the electromobile future, city dwellers will use lots of vehicles and infrastructure together -- that is the idea of Fraunhofer researchers. In the project "eMobility Together: Vehicles, Data and Infrastructure" or "GeMo" for short, researchers are working to make this vision a reality. http://phys.org/news238163326.html Technology Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:28:53 EST news238163326 (AP) -- Online deals site LivingSocial is launching an invitation-only service aimed at food fans, offering experiences such as a visit to an environmentally sustainable farm or a meal served in a restaurant's kitchen. http://phys.org/news238039339.html Technology Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:02:29 EST news238039339 Are minorities moving into suburbs that are essentially an extension of the inner city? Or are the outer-ring suburbs becoming more diverse? University of Cincinnati researchers tracked 30 years of U.S. Census data covering 250 metropolitan areas in an examination of those questions, with some findings that challenge previous scholarly thought on the issue. http://phys.org/news201173727.html Other Sciences Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:20:03 EST news201173727