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A new book argues that there are no scientific evidence to suggest that the apocalyptic scenarios concerning a massive earthquake being triggered by fault lines in the American Midwest are true. According to the publication, the warnings being circulated at this point about a massive tremor lurking just around the co... |
22 October 2010
10:21 GMT |
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Officials in Washington DC realized that the United States was nearly entirely dependent on China for supplies of critically-important rare-Earth elements, but they woke up too late; the Asian nation has just stopped exporting the minerals to America.Market analysts reveal that China, which controls an estimated 90+ ... |
20 October 2010
06:46 GMT |
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Officials at Berkeley Lab announce that their facility has been selected to lead an international consortium that will manage the creation of a US-China Clean Energy Research Center on Building Energy Efficiency at the Lab. The establishment of the Clean Energy Resource Center (CERC) was announced formally by US Pres... |
8 October 2010
04:26 GMT |
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A private company has yesterday, October 4, launched the first degradable, easily removable chewing gum in the world. Once used, the gum can easily be separated from a host of surfaces.The manufacturer for the new product tested the gum, and determined that it can be removed readily from a host of surfaces, such as c... |
5 October 2010
03:11 GMT |
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Netflix's Canada launch was supposed to be a great move, the first international market where the service is available. But the company has been apologizing for about three days straight and the hits just keep on coming. At first it was the whole business with the actors paid to mingle with the crowd at the laun... |
24 September 2010
05:56 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds, Linux's architect and leading figure, has finally become an US citizen after spending more than a decade living there. The Finish-born programmer is responsible for creating Linux and sparking the open-source revolution, achieving a somewhat legendary status in the process. Torvalds revealed the ... |
15 September 2010
06:35 GMT |
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According to a group of experts, it could be that as much as 5.7 million American citizens have been classified as suffering from an elevated risk of heart attack for nothing.The information also seems to indicate that millions of people may be currently mistreated for their conditions. They may receiving too many dr... |
10 September 2010
06:32 GMT |
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Craigslist has been the target of plenty of criticism and attacks from various groups, politicians and especially attorneys general looking to mentions in the press. The source of all of this has been the site's Adult Services section and Craigslist has now removed it in the US replacing it with a "censored" log... |
6 September 2010
04:32 GMT |
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Like it promised yesterday, Wikileaks has published a classified CIA document on the site. The document itself is interesting but hardly as controversial as some of the site's previous leaks. It's not the document that's important, but the message it sends, Wikileaks will not be stopped and will not bo... |
26 August 2010
06:37 GMT |
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In a recent survey, researchers at the University of Michigan showed that, while many Americans remain united on some core values, they are still very much divided on some sensitive issues.These include immigration laws, religious beliefs, gay marriages, stem cells research and universal healthcare, among other thorn... |
24 August 2010
10:49 GMT |
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Talk about giving too much power to a single individual. Judge Royce Lamberth is apparently the definition of not to do when in office. He basically put an end to federal funding for stem cell research in the United States, all by himself.In a decision that can be qualified as misguided at best, the Judge made a deci... |
24 August 2010
08:23 GMT |
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A new report on how America's space plans should look like is currently making the rounds in Washington DC. The document, elaborated by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), argues that the “assured access to space” policy that the US federal government has interpreted as meaning... |
29 July 2010
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The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has kept statistics that say that most babies are born during the summer, and there is a birth peak in August. The latest year for which these statistics are available is 2006. That year, August had the most US births, just like in 10 out of the 16 previous... |
29 July 2010
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US Congressmen on Wednesday approved a bill setting the budget of the American space agency at around $19 billion for 2011. The document also cuts the amount of money President Barack Obama wanted to make available to the private sector. Instead, politicians decided to award about $3 billion to research and developme... |
24 July 2010
03:24 GMT |
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In the US, there have been only two file-sharing cases involving individuals that have actually gone to court. In both of these cases, the individuals were found guilty of copyright infringement and were ordered to pay ridiculously high statutory damages to the music industry. Now, in both cases, the judges have lowe... |
10 July 2010
07:16 GMT |
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Twitter has been heralded as an international phenomenon for quite a while, but until recently, it was still very much an American company with a large US user base. However, that is changing and fast, as, according to a report put out by Semiocast, Asia is now the biggest user of Twitter, in terms of tweet volum... |
2 July 2010
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In a new investigation, it was revealed that as much as 20 percent of all Americans reported feeling either sleepy or drowsy in meetings or conversations. These are situations that are normally cataloged as necessitating a high degree of attention and focus, but citizens in the Unites States and Canada appear to perf... |
9 June 2010
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Officials in the United States said recently that the federal government might push British oil company BP out of the way, and assume command of the clean-up efforts in the Gulf of Mexico. Even though British Petroleum is the only company involved in the efforts that has the know-how to seal a spill taking place at s... |
24 May 2010
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This month marks the 60th anniversary of the US National Science Foundation (NSF), an organization that has been set into place in order to promote innovation and scientific research in the nation. In the subsequent decades, the NSF has been actively involved in providing generous funding for a wide variety of projec... |
5 May 2010
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A group of investigators at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln recently published the results of a new research, which sought to determine changes in church attendance patterns over the past 35 years. Their work used a new multi-level estimation method to determine both the number of people using places of worship, a... |
15 April 2010
18:01 GMT |
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The United States are at this point one of the most appealing countries for legal and illegal immigrants alike. Thousands of people flock there every year, and it’s the job of relevant authorities to separate those who should stay from those who arrived illegally. However, in some instances, US authorities abus... |
1 April 2010
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The writing's on the wall for Google's stay in China, at least as far as the search engine is concerned. The first clear indications came a couple of days ago when reports claimed the imminent announcement of pull-out. Now the Financial Times is also claiming the very same thing. But the clearest sign that ... |
22 March 2010
05:58 GMT |
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It's not definitive and it's coming from just one website analytics company, but Facebook is now the biggest site in the US. According to the latest numbers from Hitwise, Facebook squeezed past Google to become the most visited site in the US in the past week. It's a very small gap between the two and ... |
16 March 2010
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Just like with almost everything, the Internet has had quite an effect on the way people consume news. And it's not just that they have another avenue for news, the very way people get their news has changed in the past years. The latest Pew Research Center Internet study shows that US consumers get their news f... |
1 March 2010
09:21 GMT |
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Most of the advancements in the Information Age were ushered forth by the fact that the Silicon Valley learned to use the relatively common chemical silicon in processors, chips and other electronic applications. This has enabled a fast history of progress over the last few decades, but now innovation is becoming inc... |
15 February 2010
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Just last week, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) allowed Cecil Filed, a former naval air base, to become the seventh spaceport in the United States. The documents the airfield received ensure that, in the very near future, it will be used as a starting point for horizontal take-offs to suborbital flights. One goo... |
19 January 2010
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As international relief efforts are underway in the severely affected Caribbean nation of Haiti, researchers in the United States are beginning to wonder whether the nation's cities are safe from such a potentially devastating natural disaster. Numerous cities in the US lie on, or very close to, intensely active... |
16 January 2010
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There are a lot of companies in the gaming industry that pride themselves on a vast number of released titles and an outstanding history in the business. But no matter how proud they are, and what their achievements may be, none can really stand up to Nintendo. This isn't just some random fanboy propaganda, sinc... |
7 December 2009
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For the first time in more than ten years, scientists in the United States will finally have access to embryonic stem cells. These cells, which are the first ones to divide inside a new organism, have the ability to differentiate into any type of other cells in the body easily, and, as such, hold great promise for tr... |
3 December 2009
08:57 GMT |
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The latest scientific estimates on the strain that diabetes, as a disease, will place on the US healthcare system over the medium-term have revealed that costs will more than triple within 25 years, while the number of patients will reach double its current value, Reuters reports. The viability of Medicare, as well a... |
27 November 2009
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In a gesture of good will towards the international community, China published just a few days ago its emission-cut goals, just a couple of weeks ahead of the UN Summit on Climate Change, to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. The country is one of the few large polluters around the world that have become actively engage... |
26 November 2009
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According to a new scientific study on the eating habits that citizens in the United States exhibit, nearly 40 percent of the food supply in the country goes to the trash can after purchase, rather than being consumed. This waste only seem to be getting worse as the years go by, experts say and argue that measures sh... |
26 November 2009
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Sony's PlayStation 3 is becoming less and less of a gaming console with the introduction of all sorts of applications, but, recently, the platform has become even less of an entertainment system. Just last week, we saw that the PS3's Cell processor was being used by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcemen... |
24 November 2009
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I don't think it's a secret that I have something against organized religion. I've never tried to keep that a secret, and I've struggled to explain why throughout my articles. In my quest to discover people with similar points of view to my own, I came across some fairly interesting speakers, as w... |
21 November 2009
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While open-source software and applications have been providing a generous and efficient way to replace proprietary software in our day-to-day life, many Governments around the Globe have hesitated in adopting such solutions for their official platforms. Last week, the U.S. Department of Defense has released to the p... |
2 November 2009
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When things happen over and over for a couple of times without bringing anything new, they're labeled as repetitive and usually shunned by society for their lack of creativity. Bun when they ignore what the world thinks of them and persevere in their cycle, they slowly become traditions. One such repetitive cycl... |
16 October 2009
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After numerous meetings and discussions on the correct course of action, the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to award this year's Prize for Peace to US President Barack Obama, “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” In the century since... |
9 October 2009
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Google Maps is one of the company's most successful products and one of the earliest. But despite its popularity it's far from perfect and one area where it could improve is the basic map data which, even in places where there is plenty of information, like the US, it is still lacking in certain aspects. Go... |
8 October 2009
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According to a new report released by the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association (PCNA), Americans are, at this point, more educated about heart conditions than they ever were, but still take little action to prevent their emergence. Such diseases are the leading cause of death in the United States, but people ... |
5 October 2009
05:38 GMT |
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The Internet may seem like a pretty wild and open place with no one party having too much control over it. Still, there are many asking for even more freedom especially when it comes to the domain name allocation system currently run by ICANN. Though an independent organization, ICANN still has some ties with the US ... |
25 September 2009
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Recently, reports in the press stated that experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had drafted a secret paper, saying that Iran had the necessary expertise required to build a functional atomic bomb. Within a few hours after the report surfaced, officials from the United Nations nuclear watchdog pu... |
23 September 2009
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For the first time ever, it may be that establishing an international ban on the testing of nuclear weapons is within reach, experts say. Plans for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) state that all explosions involving nuclear weapons, be they for civilian or military purposes, are to be banned. The negotiation... |
22 September 2009
03:45 GMT |
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When the Cold War began, the United States and the Russian Federation started stocking up nuclear armament in immense quantities. After it became clear that the two superpowers would not go to war, efforts were made to limit the production of these terrible weapons, and to reduce existing stocks. But the remaining nu... |
1 September 2009
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Broadband speeds in the US lag way behind countries like South Korea or Japan, a new study by the Communications Workers of America shows. The study showed that the average speed for Internet connections in the US is at 5.1 Mbps just 1.6 Mbps higher than two years ago. At this growth rate it would take the US 15 year... |
26 August 2009
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The recent Russian incident, in which several people were killed in an explosion that took place inside a Soviet-era dam, has again brought into highlight the challenges facing dams in the US as well. With most of them older than half a century, these constructions are right now beginning to show signs of fatigue, an... |
26 August 2009
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It was bound to happen eventually, Internet “addiction centers” are making their way to the US after several similar initiatives in Japan, South Korea and, of course, China. The reStart Internet Addiction Recovery Program recently launched in the US with a 5-acre facility in Fall City, Washington, intere... |
20 August 2009
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In a new scientific study conducted on 250 Philadelphia homeowners currently undergoing foreclosure procedures, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have determined that this situation is directly tied to a very high risk of these individuals developing major mental depression. The study... |
19 August 2009
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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.com is pushing into the US market with a big marketing campaign starting next week. The move is the first big foray in the area and aims to familiarize American entrepreneurs with the English version of its site, the WSJ reports. The site itself has been around since the company was f... |
8 August 2009
04:56 GMT |
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The US government isn't going to let ICANN go without a fight. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a non-profit company set up to handle top-level domain names. Founded in 1998, it's an independent organization but still has strong ties with various US government bodies through a Join... |
6 August 2009
11:22 GMT |
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Back in 2006, sociologists Miller McPherson, Lynn Smith-Lovin and Matthew E. Brashears reported that the number of Americans who lived in social isolation – defined as those people who did not discuss important matters with anyone – had increased by more than 300 percent between 1985 and 2004. The paper h... |
5 August 2009
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