14/10/2010

Facebook joins forces with Skype

Skype and Facebook joined forces Thursday to let users of the popular Internet communications service chat with their friends on the booming social network.

Yahoo shares rise on buyout talk

(AP) -- Investors are running up the price of Yahoo Inc. shares after a report saying AOL Inc. and a group of private equity firms may bid for the Web company.

Physicists detect and control quantum states in diamond with light

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have succeeded in combining laser light with trapped electrons to detect and control the electrons' fragile quantum state without erasing it. This is an important step toward using quantum physics ...

Code RED for biodiversity

While not an outright failure, a 2010 goal set by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) for staunching the loss of the world's species fell far short of expectations for "The International Year of Biodiversity."

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