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Country cousins: Climate connections and land urbanization dynamics

(Phys.org) -- What’s in a name? Quite a bit in climate science, where the term teleconnection refers not to digital communications, but rather to a recurring and persistent large-scale pattern of pre ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created 13 hours ago | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers conclude that climate change led to collapse of ancient Indus civilization

A new study combining the latest archaeological evidence with state-of-the-art geoscience technologies provides evidence that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the great Indus or Harappan Civilization ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 7 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

New York is vying to become global high-tech hub

(AP) -- Just as a trench dug in the 1800s created a shortcut to the nation's interior and helped make New York a global trading hub, the city is now hoping for another "Erie Canal moment" with a high-tech research complex ...

Technology / Business

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Facebook smartphone could come by next year: report

Facebook hopes to release its own smartphone by next year, as the newly public social networking giant looks to boost its revenue in the mobile Internet market, the New York Times reported Monday.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created 4 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Yahoo! ditches digital newsstand for iPads

Yahoo! shuttered its fledgling digital newsstand for iPads on Friday in what it said was the start of a product purge intended to make the floundering Internet pioneer more nimble.

Technology / Internet

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

OmniVision tops up sensors for cameras, phones

(Phys.org) -- OmniVision has announced two high-resolution image sensors for the digital still and digital video camera market (DS/DVC) and higher end smartphones. In end-user language, it is a claim for superior ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Broadcasters sue Dish over ad-skipping DVR service

(AP) -- Broadcasters Fox, NBC and CBS sued Dish Network Corp. on Thursday over a service that offers commercial-free TV.

Technology / Telecom

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New Orleans newspaper to end daily publication

The Times-Picayune, the largest newspaper in New Orleans, said Thursday it would end daily print publication, moving to a schedule of three issues per week, to adapt to "an increasingly digital age."

Technology / Business

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

American Express plants money trees in "Farmville"

American Express on Tuesday began letting lovers of Zynga games plant money trees on "Farmville" acreage.

Technology / Business

created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

New ad zapper has TV networks worried about sales

(AP) -- The maker of a new DVR that lets consumers zap away broadcast TV commercials at the touch of a button suggested Tuesday that the networks are being short-sighted in opposing the technology.

Technology / Telecom

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Kodak patent deemed invalid in fight with Apple-RIM

A US judge on Monday said a Kodak patent allegedly infringed upon by Apple and Blackberry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) was not valid, dealing another blow to the struggling photography pioneer.

Technology / Business

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Browser wars flare in mobile space

The browser wars are heating up again, but this time the fight is for dominance of the mobile Internet.

Technology / Software

created May 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Diagnostic labs analyze from bugs to toenails

Found an odd bug in your closet? Rhododendrons inexplicably wilting? Need a toenail analyzed? There's a lab for that.

Biology / Other

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Yahoo kills 'Livestand' just 6 months after debut

(AP) -- Yahoo is killing a tablet magazine called Livestand just six months its debut on the iPad.

Technology / Business

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The neutrinophone: It's not for you. (But it is cool)

First of all, the neutrinophone isn’t really a phone. It has the potential to be used for communication across immense distances—including into outer space—but even Jeff Nelson says the neutrinophone’s ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0