08/01/2010

Echinoderms contribute to global carbon sink

The impact on levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere by the decaying remains of a group of marine creatures that includes starfish and sea urchin has been significantly underestimated.

Argumentative agents for online deal-making

(PhysOrg.com) -- Software agents that play devil's advocate and quarrel with each other may not sound like something you would want in your computer. But, say a team of European researchers, argumentative agents promise faster, ...

Supercomputer offers MATLAB capability

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Cornell Center for Advanced computing has deployed A 512-core parallel cluster running the scientific language MATLAB as an experimental resource on the TeraGrid.

MagicJack's next act: disappearing cell phone fees

(AP) -- The company behind the magicJack, the cheap Internet phone gadget heavily promoted on TV, has made a new version of the device that allows free calls from cell phones in the home.

Search engines that learn from searchers

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research aims to create search-engine software that can learn from users by noticing which links they click and how they reformulate their queries when the first results don't pay off.

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