Apple schedules music-themed event for Sept. 1
(AP) -- Apple is holding a music-themed event in San Francisco next Wednesday that could yield updated iPods or a new music streaming service.
Business
Aug 25, 2010
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Where are you? A rundown of Facebook's Places
(AP) -- Services based on your location, such as Foursquare, are popular in the tech-centric bubbles of Silicon Valley and New York City. But for many people, these services remain odd - and potentially creepy - tools on ...
Internet
Aug 25, 2010
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IBM and EU partner to enable digitization of historic European texts on massive scale
IBM and the EU have expanded their research collaboration, which now includes more than two-dozen national libraries, research institutes, universities, and companies across Europe to provide new technology that will enable ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 25, 2010
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Google plugs free PC-to-phone calling into e-mail
(AP) -- Google is adding a new e-mail feature that may persuade more people to cut the cords on their landline phones.
Internet
Aug 25, 2010
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On organic coffee farm, complex interactions keep pests under control
(PhysOrg.com) -- Proponents of organic farming often speak of nature's balance in ways that sound almost spiritual, prompting criticism that their views are unscientific and naďve. At the other end of the spectrum are ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 25, 2010
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Bacteria make thrift a habit, researchers find
(PhysOrg.com) -- In these lean times, smart consumers refuse to pay a lot for throwaway items, but will shell out a little more for products that can be used again and again. The same is true of bacteria and other microbes, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 25, 2010
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Nanomagnets purify blood
Swiss scientists have succeeded in clearing a toxin from blood in just a few minutes, using specially produced nanomagnets. The procedure appears promising. If the method can be put into practice, it could one day help people ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 25, 2010
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Relics from Scott's doomed Antarctic trip on sale
The skis and scientific instruments of a physicist who accompanied Captain Scott on his ill-fated trip to the Antarctic will be sold in London next month, Christie's auctioneers said Wednesday.
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2010
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The mutating Mars hoax
It spreads, it mutates, it refuses to die. For the seventh year in a row, the Mars Hoax is infecting email boxes around the world. Passed from one reader to another, the message states that on August 27th Mars will approach ...
Space Exploration
Aug 25, 2010
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Scientists develop the first atomic view of key genetic processes (w/ Video)
In a landmark study to be published in the journal Nature, scientists have been able to create the first picture of genetic processes that happen inside every cell of our bodies. Using a 3-D visualization method called X-ray ...
Biochemistry
Aug 25, 2010
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