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News archive: 8th of November 2008 |
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Moving from Windows XP onward to Windows Vista, Microsoft completely overhauled the installation process of the Windows client. The blue background of the XP install was scrapped altogether, and replaced with a much friendlier Aero-inspired wallpaper. But the changes in terms of visual style only came to accompany th... |
8 November 2008
07:22 GMT |
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The leader of the Catholic Church announced in a recent press release that he had asked a conference of Catholic priests and doctors to come to a consensus regarding the issue of death, one that would also incorporate the latest scientific discoveries and medical techniques. The main topic was deep coma, when patient... |
8 November 2008
07:07 GMT |
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For the past 2 or so years, our own star has kept an unusually low profile that has worried most scientists, involving both the numbers of its spots and its wind-like phenomena. However, over the past month, it has finally shown distinct signs of an increased activity, which is normal to happen during its 11-year cy... |
8 November 2008
06:59 GMT |
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Bojan Zdrnja from the Internet Storm Center (ISC) warns that he has encountered malicious PDF files, which exploit the recently announced and patched JavaScript-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.2 and older. The attack is based on proof of concept code that was released on exploit tr... |
8 November 2008
06:12 GMT |
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A recently-developed tiny solar array is sparking a very vivid interest in Army officials. The array is comprised of 20 small solar cells, each a little over a millimeter long. This early version of the solar device built from organic polymers is able to generate only 7 volts of electric power for the time bein... |
8 November 2008
06:00 GMT |
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Past studies argued that the maximum amount of carbon that our atmosphere could handle was somewhere around 450 ppm (parts per million). However, this is an extremely wrong assessment, argue the supporters of a new theory, which states that a maximum of 350 ppm is sufficient to trigger significant changes in our plan... |
8 November 2008
05:54 GMT |
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According to a new study made by ABI Research, wireless audio and video connectivity products shipped this year reached a number of 150 million, but are expected to reach nearly 700 million worldwide by the end of 2013. The products are included in four classes, namely Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, UWB (ultra-wideband) and 60 GH... |
8 November 2008
05:12 GMT |
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Scientists from Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology managed to create the first computer model predictive of human action. The program, named Soar, was able to foretell accurately the times 10 students needed to complete basic trouble-shooting tasks, such as identifying misfit components ... |
8 November 2008
05:09 GMT |
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Obviously and admittedly inspired by the Training Remotes concept (the small droid spheres that helped Luke Skywalker perfect his lightsaber skills) from Star Wars, three autonomous spheres are roaming around the International Space Station. They're even called SPHERES, but not because of an off-moment in terms... |
8 November 2008
05:06 GMT |
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Basically, Brazilian authorities applied the “if you can't beat them, join them” principle in tackling deforestation and the loss of valuable ecosystems in the Amazon. They decided to place stock market values on the forest, so that revenues that would be obtained from it could rival the illegal mone... |
8 November 2008
04:38 GMT |
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When disaster strikes and nature wreaks havoc to all you hold dear, there's little hope left and not much you can do. The following few days are especially critical, when you're forced to rely on anything that the surroundings have to offer. Well, that's if you don't have the latest survival kit ... |
8 November 2008
04:10 GMT |
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The latest reports on NVIDIA have it that the company plans to start shipping the new Tegra system-on-a-chip for mobile devices sometimes by the middle of 2009. Tegra is expected to be officially launched in the spring of next year, Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA's president and CEO, has revealed during a conferenc... |
8 November 2008
04:04 GMT |
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China recently argued that Organization for Cooperation and Economic Development (OECD) countries should transfer about 1 percent of their GDP to developing nations, funds to be invested in clean technology and sustainable energetic practices. These sums of money would pave the way for a faster development of poor na... |
8 November 2008
04:04 GMT |
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ASUS, world-leading producer of high quality IT products, has announced the launch of two lineups of proprietary graphics cards, the EAH4870X2 and the EAH4830 Series. The new cards are aimed at those users that require the best graphics performance, along with exceptional cooling for their cards. Considering users�... |
8 November 2008
03:30 GMT |
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Even with all the progress medicine has made over the past decades, leprosy still remains an incurable disease if it's not diagnosed early. Throughout history, Mycobacterium leprae has ravaged continents, and especially Europe, during the Great Plague. Thousands of people died at the time, while the outbreak die... |
8 November 2008
03:28 GMT |
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