Skype founder gives thumbs-up to European IT sector
Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom on Wednesday praised European information technology, saying 2015 had been an "amazing year" for the sector.
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J.J. Abrams, 'Infinity Blade' maker join forces for new game
Two years ago, when the creator of the hit mobile game series "Infinity Blade" joked at the latest iPhone unveiling that the device would boast "lens flares that would make J.J. Abrams proud," Chair Entertainment co-founder ...
Software
Nov 11, 2015
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Researchers study possible benefits of residential prairie gardens
Prairie gardens offer Midwestern suburban dwellers an alternative option to the traditional grass lawn. Their combination of native grasses, like tall and wispy bluestem and sideoats, and forbs, such as the colorful yellow ...
Environment
Nov 11, 2015
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Nanopores could take the salt out of seawater
University of Illinois engineers have found an energy-efficient material for removing salt from seawater that could provide a rebuttal to poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's lament, "Water, water, every where, nor any drop to ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 11, 2015
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Titan takes on the big one
The San Andreas Fault system, which runs almost the entire length of California, is prone to shaking, causing about 10,000 minor earthquakes each year just in the southern California area.
Earth Sciences
Nov 11, 2015
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Focusing on user habits key to preventing email phishing
The cumulative number of successful phishing cyberattacks has risen sharply over the last decade, and in 2014 that figure surged past the total U.S. population.
Security
Nov 11, 2015
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Machine learning could solve riddles of galaxy formation
A new machine-learning simulation system developed at the University of Illinois promises cosmologists an expanded suite of galaxy models - a necessary first step to developing more accurate and relevant insights into the ...
Astronomy
Nov 11, 2015
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The owls beyond the Andes: Divergence between distant populations suggests new species
They might be looking quite identical, while perched above humanised farmlands and grasslands across several continents, but each of the populations of two owl species, living in the opposite hemispheres, might actually turn ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 11, 2015
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Southern right whale calf wounding by Kelp Gulls increased to nearly all over four decades
Wounding of southern right whale calves and mothers by Kelp Gulls has increased from 2% to 99% over four decades, according to a study published Oct. 21, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Carina Marón from the ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 11, 2015
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Plate tectonics thanks to plumes?
"Knowing what a chicken looks like and what all the chickens before it looked like doesn't help us to understand the egg," says Taras Gerya. The ETH Professor of Geophysics uses this metaphor to address plate tectonics and ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 11, 2015
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