Japan bank to install palm-reading ATMs
A regional bank in central Japan will become the country's first financial institution to adopt automated teller machines that will identify users by their palms.
A regional bank in central Japan will become the country's first financial institution to adopt automated teller machines that will identify users by their palms.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 13, 2012
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(AP) -- A judge has ordered further negotiations on what should be done with millions of data files that were removed from the Internet when federal investigators shut down one of the world's largest filesharing sites.
Internet
Apr 13, 2012
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You're probably familiar with ".com" and ".org." How about ".oops"? A technical glitch forced the abrupt shutdown of a system for letting companies and organizations propose new Internet domain name suffixes. The Internet ...
Internet
Apr 13, 2012
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Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Northern California, from which University of California, Berkeley, telescopes most recently the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) scanned the Milky Way and other galaxies for 50 years ...
Space Exploration
Apr 13, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- For the first time, scientists have captured images of auroras above the giant ice planet Uranus, finding further evidence of just how peculiar a world that distant planet is. Detected by means of carefully ...
Space Exploration
Apr 13, 2012
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Chloroplasts, the plant cell's green solar power generators, were once living beings in their own right. This changed about one billion years ago, when they were swallowed up but not digested by larger cells. Since then, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 13, 2012
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Thinking of selling or giving away your smartphone or laptop computer? If you have a BlackBerry or an iPhone, go right ahead. But if you have an Android phone or a computer running Windows XP, you may want to hold off.
Software
Apr 13, 2012
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Proteins are large organic molecules that are vital to every living thing, allowing us to convert food into energy, supply oxygen to our blood and muscles, and drive our immune systems. Since proteins evolved in a water-rich ...
Biochemistry
Apr 13, 2012
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British engineer Offshore Group Newcastle announced on Friday that it would create up to 1,000 jobs after receiving a government grant to help build offshore wind farms.
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 13, 2012
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In a few days - barring cloud cover - the night skies will present one of the more arresting displays of meteors streaking through space.
Space Exploration
Apr 13, 2012
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