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Anonymous, the loosely organized group of Internet activists known as much for their bombastic rhetoric as for their actions, has announced that it plans to once again go after Sony, because of its support for its Stop Online Piracy bill, but plans to do so without creating the same amount of chaos as the PlayStation... |
3 January 2012
08:02 GMT |
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Eco-conscious people who own an iPhone or an iPad will most likely be pleased to find out that Taptu has launched a new app using Guardian content, to keep keen green activists up to date with the most important news from this sector. One of the most important advantages is that users can edit or “DJ” the... |
21 December 2011
05:42 GMT |
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Ubisoft's I Am Alive has received a new batch of details, thanks a new listing from the U.S. ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board) which published a full description of the game and its core mechanics.I Am Alive was presented many years ago and, since then, not a lot has been heard, with many gamers thinkin... |
28 September 2011
03:33 GMT |
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In a paper published in the August 12 issue of the esteemed journal Physical Review Letters, researchers at the University of York made a monumental discovery, when they found that black holes tend to gulp up all the matter in their surroundings, but leak information.The new data adds to the growing database of knowl... |
13 August 2011
06:52 GMT |
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All the people in the world may have originally had a common language, reveal experts who recently analyzed the amount of information contained in arrangements of words. They explain that this amount is consistent across Earth's languages. The correlation even holds true when taking into account languages that h... |
18 May 2011
04:23 GMT |
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One of the most significant issues plaguing the fight against global warming today is getting the severity of the situation through to the general public. Efforts to do so thus far have had only limited success, and experts are currently determining how to address this issue. Among the most obvious reasons is that pe... |
30 March 2011
05:42 GMT |
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According to a new theory proposed by an American researcher, it could be that all physical systems in the Universe, and the Cosmos itself, may be nothing more than quantum mechanical computers. Examples of physical systems include individual humans, rivers, a forest, an ecosystem and so on. In other words, just abou... |
20 January 2011
07:00 GMT |
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Many believe that the public could use performance information to make a choice regarding their health care providers and this will actually lead to a better quality of health care in general, but Martin Marshall and Vin McLoughlin from The Health Foundation, seem to think otherwise.The two believe that the choice pa... |
26 November 2010
04:53 GMT |
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During sleep, your brain can learn a new piece of information and even store it for later, so that it pops up when you need it, found a new study carried out by researchers at the University of York and Harvard Medical School.The team also discovered that sleep helps people remember new words easier and allows them t... |
2 November 2010
07:23 GMT |
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Patients about to undergo cancer surgery, understand the procedure and its risks much better if they are presented to them on an interactive media, concluded researchers from the University of Melbourne, Australia.The researchers randomly chose 40 patients due to undergo radical prostatectomy and divided them into tw... |
5 October 2010
09:11 GMT |
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The upstream players of the oil and gas industry need an easier and more compact computing environment to prevent them struggling with information overload, concluded a new study carried out by Microsoft Corporation and Accenture.The results released today at the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Annual Technical... |
20 September 2010
04:47 GMT |
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A Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis physics faculty member is establishing a network of quantum information laboratories, in China.“In the beginning was the Word” (John 1:1) is one of the world's most known sentences.Without wanting to distort its wide accepted meaning, if the “... |
31 August 2010
03:21 GMT |
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Emulating the way the human brain solves complex problems has been a long-standing goal in the field of electronics, and an international collaboration of scientists may have just set the foundation for doing just that. Usually, in digital computers, circuits that process information are static. This does not happen ... |
26 April 2010
05:20 GMT |
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We can safely say now that the world of today is a lot different than it was a century ago. This is especially true when it comes to information sources, and also the amount of data available to all people. In the past, publications such as the New York Times and the Encyclopedia Britannica were setting the norm when... |
18 February 2010
03:23 GMT |
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There is an old stereotype saying that men prefer not asking strangers for directions while driving, even if they are spinning in circles. A new scientific study appears to show that the same thing holds true for when men shop as well, as they are highly unlikely to ask for counsel or opinions from store staff. On th... |
27 January 2010
04:49 GMT |
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Texas A&M University Physics Professor Jairo Sinova believes that he may have discovered a novel way of keeping laptop temperatures low, while also giving information technology a new and unique twist. According to the expert, the instances in which your laptop is simply too hot to sit on your lap may soon become... |
30 October 2009
06:50 GMT |
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Since computers first appeared, they have been expanding their performances at a very fast rate, each new generation exceeding the previous by a mile, in terms of what it can do. Some 40 years ago, Intel Co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on microchips would double every two years, as th... |
10 October 2009
03:03 GMT |
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A few years ago, a very small number of patients visiting their physicians had questions of their own after a consult, when they asked doctors about diseases they read about online. Now, such behavior is not at all uncommon, with many people searching for diagnostics and other answers online themselves. A new researc... |
1 September 2009
20:31 GMT |
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Updates issued by Apple almost always come with additional information posted on the Mac maker’s website, under the Support tab. This area is known as the “Support section,” where Mac users get detailed information on everything about their Apple products, including Macs, iPods, the iPhone, the soft... |
21 August 2009
06:06 GMT |
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Nokia has announced today that the pilot phase of its Life Tools service in Maharashtra, India shows that subscribers are rather enjoying what the company offers them, and that the service will become commercially available in the country in the first half of the ongoing year. According to the Finnish mobile phone ma... |
8 April 2009
07:02 GMT |
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For quite some time now, behavior experts have suspected that people who are exposed to too many choices finally end up selecting a thing they are familiar with, especially if money is involved. This is more than obvious in restaurants with very large menus, where they tend to order only the thing they know from the ... |
24 March 2009
07:29 GMT |
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The fight against international terrorism is not just one that is to be carried on the battlefield, a new study conducted by Israeli researchers says. Rather, information warfare is at the forefront of the struggle, as the support or critics of the general population, in any country, can be won or lost very easily th... |
18 March 2009
11:19 GMT |
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The popular online encyclopedia, featuring millions of articles on the most diverse topics, in more than 250 languages, should not be regarded as an authority in drugs and therapies, a new study, published in the December 2008 issue of Annals of Pharmacotherapy, finds. The research was led by Dr. Kevin A. Clauson, at... |
25 November 2008
02:26 GMT |
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Eleven people that are believed to have conspired in the largest hack and identity theft in history had been charged. According to the authorities, some of the numerous counts the men were charged with are conspiracy, computer intrusion, fraud and identity theft. The nationality of ten out of the 11 defendants has be... |
6 September 2008
07:40 GMT |
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Computers have become an indispensable tool in our every day work. Some of us may see this modern tool as an object that only makes our life easier but, still, there are some of us who are really interested in it and, consequently, who would like to know a bit more about it. In order to find out almost all there is t... |
31 July 2008
12:23 GMT |
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In the 1970s Stephen Hawking showed that singularities, and therefore black holes, can exist in our space-time continuum. He also revealed that although black holes radiate mass and energy in the surrounding medium through the event horizon, information falling into a black hole would be lost forever, meaning that ma... |
15 May 2008
04:38 GMT |
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If there is one thing people want more than everything else, it is immortality. As we very well know, it is impossible to achieve such great things, but the virtual worlds crafted by great designers and lead developers allow us to get as close as possible to the real thing. This was just one of the reasons Eidos and ... |
24 March 2008
21:06 GMT |
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You can't transfer much information with a photon, we've learned that from our experience with today's existing optic communication devices. If a single photon of light is manipulated in a classical way, then photons are not too different from electrons in the matter of information transfer, except may... |
24 March 2008
06:15 GMT |
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While most of the components of a typical computer system are not affected in any measurable way by their age, providing that they had spent their life in good conditions, there are still some systems that are based on mechanical components that are prone to a host of problems and critical failures. Among the still m... |
29 February 2008
07:35 GMT |
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Quantum tunneling represents a quantum mechanics phenomenon, which allows a given particle to violate certain classical mechanics principles. For example, in order to extract an electron from the atom, one must contribute with an input of energy equal to or higher than that of the respective electron. However, quantu... |
26 January 2008
06:35 GMT |
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Since there's a lot of information flying around about new projects regarding various handsets, it's Palm's turn to spread a rumor. Well, if we follow the trail, we'll actually see that the officials from Palm were not those to release the new gossip, but some people who have a lot of free time an... |
18 December 2007
09:29 GMT |
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The path Google is walking on is a tricky one, the Internet users are still fresh after the Facebook problem that they've seen escalate and, eventually, come to a very abrupt ending with the CEO of the social network apologizing. Perhaps this might not be the best moment to push forward the "Google Profiles" ide... |
17 December 2007
14:46 GMT |
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Some unusual things are going on over at Sony Ericsson with a Polish website publishing information regarding a smartphone, although there is no picture available. Nobody has ever heard of this R380e and it sounds pretty unusual and unlikely to actually be real.The specifications appeared on the Sony Ericsson's ... |
15 November 2007
10:03 GMT |
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People's taste for using brute force and showing off power has not changed from the Medieval times, and torture has remained more or less similar over time, and even less effective. And despite the fact that the champion of democracy states it does not use torture on political prisoners, leaked photos tell anoth... |
20 October 2007
05:01 GMT |
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Magnetic audio and video tapes and their use as evidence in court have been highly contested because field specialists could tamper with the original to include or exclude critical information that could decide the outcome of the trial.A new technology developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology ... |
24 July 2007
10:25 GMT |
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Motorola has recently launched an interactive Web site for people who are on the road and need to benefit from information for their journey at all times. The site is especially designed for being used on mobile phones and be accessible no matter where the user might be at a certain moment.Motorola hopes that more t... |
17 July 2007
09:15 GMT |
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The building block of quantum computers is the qubit, a unit of quantum information that can be made up of either atoms or photons. Atoms have a long coherence time, so they're used as "stationary" qubits, the nodes of the network, while photons are the "flying" cubits, the quantum channels connecting the nodes... |
12 July 2007
11:06 GMT |
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Hollywood movies are full of monsters, bad guys, aliens and mythological creatures, which make the good guys look better after saving the world, or at least some damsel in distress. While some depictions are scientifically documented, some of them are just plain impossible and could only exist in people's imagi... |
26 May 2007
09:01 GMT |
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Would one day our computers be swarming with bacteria?This could happen as some researchers focused on DNA - believed to be the oldest storage medium found in nature - as the ultimate in permanent data storage.Now researchers have reported progress in employing DNA to store text, images, music and other digital data ... |
19 March 2007
05:29 GMT |
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The copyright lawsuits filed against YouTube are well known so I guess a new lawsuit is not able to amaze somebody that likes to stay informed about the video service. This time, it is somehow different. Magnolia Pictures, a film studio that produced Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, demanded a US Court to order ... |
8 March 2007
05:29 GMT |
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