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Review: `The Show' still swinging for the fences

(AP) -- No video game can duplicate the drama of the end of the 2011 Major League Baseball season. You remember: The historic collapse of the Red Sox. The Rays' late-inning recovery from a seven-run deficit ...

Technology / Software

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NJIT math professor announces picks for Cy Young and Most Valuable Player: Says Rangers will win

With Major League Baseball's World Series set to begin today, NJIT math professor Bruce Bukiet has once again analyzed the players most deserving of winning baseball's most important awards for the 2011 season. He also provides ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

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NJIT prof sees 70 percent chance for Yanks to win the 2009 World Series

NJIT's Bruce Bukiet, a mathematician who has applied mathematical modeling techniques to elucidate the dynamics of run scoring in baseball, has computed the probability of the Yankees and Phillies winning the World Series. ...

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E3 to showcase big videogame titles, hot trends

Sequels to blockbuster console titles and play on smartphones or tablets will be showcased with Times Square-like glitz starting Tuesday at the E3 videogame extravaganza in Los Angeles.

Technology / Software

created Jun 03, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Physics to tackle how food is cooked in future

In this month's Physics World, Sidney Perkowitz, Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus at Emory University, explains how applied physics led to the innovation of flameless cooking in the late 19th century and addresses the ch ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Winds of change for pollution sensing

(Phys.org) -- The Great Smog of London is often upheld as a time when pollution reached appalling levels: over a four-day period in December 1952, the capital came to a standstill, cars were abandoned, airports ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Mobile devices star in prime time at home

His kids might commandeer the TV before bedtime, but online game designer John Comes still gets his prime-time fix. Just on a smaller screen.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

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Medicare auction will face severe difficulties, research shows

Medicare's new method for buying medical supplies and equipment -- everything from wheelchairs and hospital beds to insulin shots and oxygen tanks -- is doomed to face severe difficulties, according to a new ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Wii U, sequels take another swing at E3

(AP) — Is the Wii U right for you?

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Nationwide adoption of NIST-developed test predicted to cut death toll due to cigarette-caused fires

In 2003, New York became the first state requiring cigarettes sold within its borders to pass a fire safety standard based on a test developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to ...

Technology / Other

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

SpaceX cargo vessel prepares to leave space station (Update 2)

US company SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship is preparing to make its return journey to Earth after a landmark mission to the International Space Station, NASA and SpaceX representatives said Wednesday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Samsung begins Europe sales of Galaxy S III smartphone

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of mobile phones, said its third-generation Galaxy S smartphone went on sale Tuesday in 28 European and Middle Eastern countries, hoping to cement its lead ...

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created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Japan firm unveils radiation-gauging smartphone

Mobile phone operator Softbank on Tuesday unveiled a smartphone that can measure radiation as consumers in Japan clamour for reassurance following last year's Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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