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S. African officials use Twitter for Mandela news

Nelson Mandela's health scares send Twitter into overdrive, but South African officials made savvier use of social media to keep the world informed on the global icon's latest medical woe.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 26, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

To LOL, or not LOL? That is the question

(AP) -- There was a time when LOL - "laughing out loud" - was so simple.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What's in a name? 7 wacky tech monikers on the Web and where they came from

Last week, Google said it's working on a Web-based operating system called Chrome, sharing a name with its Web browser.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1




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Physicists store short movies in an atomic vapor

The storage of light-encoded messages on film and compact disks and as holograms is ubiquitous---grocery scanners, Netflix disks, credit-card images are just a few examples. And now light signals can be stored ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Cellphone towers fade into landscape

Faced with providing service for ever more data-hungry cellphones, telecommunications carriers are in a nonstop race costing billions of dollars to boost the capacities of their networks.

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Strain and spin may enable ultra-low-energy computing

By combining two frontier technologies, spintronics and straintronics, a team of researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University has devised perhaps the world's most miserly integrated circuit.

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

NASA goes below the surface to understand salinity

(PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Aquarius mission launches this week, its radiometer instruments will take a "skin" reading of the oceans' salt content at the surface. From these data of salinity in the top 0.4 ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Berlin moves from capital of cool to start-up haven

Already a magnet for tourists and young artists, Berlin is attracting a new generation of Internet start-ups, changing the ways scientists interact or musicians store and share music.

Technology / Business

created Apr 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Review: Library e-books easier, but still hassle

(AP) -- Libraries have been lending e-books for longer than there's been a Kindle, but until recently only a few devices worked with them. That's changed in the past few months with the arrival of software for reading library ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Researchers settle argument over mobility of flexible filaments (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Theo Odijk, you win. The professor of biotechnology at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has a new best friend in Rice University's Matteo Pasquali.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physics student's prefix idea is 'hella' good

Forget 15 minutes of fame. Austin Sendek is getting hella minutes. The University of California-Davis physics undergraduate has reaped international attention since March, when The Bee wrote about his campaign to establish ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 10, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Health overhaul may mean longer ER waits, crowding

(AP) -- Emergency rooms, the only choice for patients who can't find care elsewhere, may grow even more crowded with longer wait times under the nation's new health law.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 02, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Gift Guide: Tech books that enlighten, entertain

(AP) -- Your holiday shopping list probably includes gadgets, games and gizmos that illustrate how technology is changing the way we work, play and communicate. So why not throw in a few books about the people and services ...

Technology / Other

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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