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Downadup Worm Hits Over 3.5 Million Computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Security firm F-Secure has advised that the Downadup worm has spread to more than 3.5 million computers by exploiting a vulnerability Microsoft patched last October. This is achieved by trying ...

Technology / Internet

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Many in NY cheer delay of animal disease lab move

(AP) -- The Obama administration has put the brakes on a plan to build a new lab that studies contagious animal diseases, a decision that has pitted disappointed Kansans hopeful about growth against New Yorkers fighting ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Toward a global microwave standard

Much of what is known about decadal climate change – and much of what appears on the evening weather forecast as well – comes from satellite-based remote sensing of microwave radiation at different ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

GSM phones -- call them unsafe, says security expert

(PhysOrg.com) -- A German security expert has issued a warning that billions of mobile phone users who depend on GSM networks are vulnerable to having their personal mail hacked. He blames the problem on network ...

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

The future cometh: Science, technology and humanity at Singularity Summit 2011 (Part II)

(PhysOrg.com) -- In its essence, technology can be seen as our perpetually evolving attempt to extend our sensorimotor cortex into physical reality: From the earliest spears and boomerangs augmenting our arms, horses and ...

Technology / Other

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (23) | comments 42 | with audio podcast feature

Rise of outsourcing poses new cybersecurity problems

Big banks, hospitals and insurance companies worry about computer security because they handle so much personal information.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Polymeric material has potential for noninvasive procedures

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed what they believe to be the first polymeric material that is sensitive to biologically benign levels of near infrared (NRI) irradiation, enabling the material ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Laundry duty getting you down? Robots to the rescue!

Folding a towel or a T-shirt is kind of a mindless, simple chore, unless you’re a robot. Then it’s still mindless, but not so simple.

Electronics / Robotics

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

India health costs a crisis impoverishing millions

(AP) -- When Nasir Khan cried out at night from the searing pain of kidney stones, the entire slum could hear him.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Robotic arms: Rubbing elbows with robotics (w/ Video)

Brian Zenowich will sometimes spend his workdays doing a little arm-in-arm dancing. His dance partners manage to stay in step, duplicating his every move almost flawlessly. The "twist" here isn't the type ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Go-everywhere, do-everything phones usher in host of security concerns

Chances are you lock your door when you leave home, don't leave the keys in the ignition when you run into the 7-Eleven for milk and have at least some kind of security software on your computer. But what about your smart ...

Technology / Software

created Mar 10, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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