Tuesday, August 31, 2010

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Amazon Said to Discuss Online Movie, TV Service With Studios
Bloomberg
Amazon.com Inc. has approached media companies including Time Warner Inc. with plans to start an online video subscription service to rival Netflix Inc., said three people with knowledge of the talks. The service, sold for a monthly fee by the ...
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Apple expected to unveil iPod upgrades
San Jose Mercury News
By John Boudreau SAN JOSE -- Apple's iPod may live in the shadow of its splashier sibling devices -- the iPhone and iPad -- but the digital music player, expected to get upgrades today, is a key reason the Cupertino company got back its chic aura. ...
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IPCC's Rajendra Pachauri is damaging the world
Telegraph.co.uk
The IPCC's head should quit to avoid harming the global warming cause further, says Geoffrey Lean. By Geoffrey Lean Beware of winning the Nobel Peace Prize – for the world's highest accolade for the great and supposedly good, endowed by and named after ...
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Fox, ABC agree to 99-cent TV rentals
Apple Insider
By Josh Ong Apple has reached an agreement with both News Corp. and Walt Disney to allow 99-cent rentals of Fox and ABC TV shows through iTunes, according to a new report. Although some executives within the two media companies have reservations about ...
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Booster aces cold-temp test
Florida Today
BY JAMES DEAN • FLORIDA TODAY • September 1, 2010 CAPE CANAVERAL — Flame burst from a solid rocket motor's nozzle Tuesday morning, torching an already parched Utah hillside for 126 seconds and sending dark smoke billowing overhead. ...
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Report: Samsung's Galaxy tablet Verizon-bound
msnbc.com
By Daniel Ionescu Samsung will reportedly partner with Verizon Wireless on its recently announced Android-based Galaxy Tab tablet. The partnership, reported by BoyGeniusReport, is based on an alleged screenshot of Verizon's internal systems, ...
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Sprint Faces 4G Dilemma
Wall Street Journal
By JOANN S. LUBLIN And SPENCER E. ANTE Sprint Nextel Corp. has bet its future on offering speedy data services to mobile devices over a new high-speed, "4G" network and has joined with upstart Clearwire Corp. to build it. But Clearwire has a problem: ...
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Still No Earths, But Getting Closer - Science News
By scinews@sciencenews.org (Science News)
Two newly discovered planetary systems shed light on odds of forming terrestrial planets.
Latest Science News Features,... - http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/43539
CO2 Science
Vinther, B.M., Jones, P.D., Briffa, K.R., Clausen, H.B., Andersen, K.K., Dahl-Jensen, D. and Johnsen, S.J. 2010. Climatic signals in multiple highly resolved stable isotope records from Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews 29: 522-538. ...
New Content on CO2 Science - http://www.co2science.org/?q=http://www.evilaliv3.org/
Morality in Animals, Integrity in Science: Balcombe vs. Hauser ...
By Lee Charles Kelley
The language of dogs is first person plural. by Lee Charles Kelley. How a new scientific study will cause dogs to suffer. by Lee Charles Kelley. How Dogs Are Fetching the Latest Breakthroughs in Science by Lee Charles Kelley ...
Psychology Today Blogs - http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog
High-fat diet during puberty linked to breast cancer risk later in ...
By bjs
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Girls eating a high-fat diet during puberty, even those who do not become overweight or obese, may be at a greater risk of developing breast cancer later in life, according to Michigan State University researchers ...
Science Blog - http://scienceblog.com/
Letter from China: "Science Cop" Mugged : The New Yorker
By Evan Osnos
Writing about science is not usually this risky. On Sunday, barely two months after a science-and-technology editor at Caijing magazine with attacked by club-wielding assailants, another prominent Chinese science writer was mugged by a ...
The New Yorker Blog - http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/tny/


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Science News - The New York Times
Find breaking news, science news and multimedia on biology, space, the environment, health, NASA, weather, drugs, heart disease, cancer, AIDS, mental health ...
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Product News: Hard Candy Cases Claims Early Access to "iTouch 4G" Specs
The Mac Observer
Hard Candy Cases announced a case for Apple's iPod touch 4G, or the "iTouch 4G" as the company erroneously called it, claiming early access to the specs for the device, which hasn't actually been announced yet. Apple is expected to update the iPod ...
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Magid on tech: Clear calls from Berlin with Gmail Phone
San Jose Mercury News
By Larry Magid BERLIN -- A pair of new Gmail features is making life easier and cheaper for me as I work from my hotel room as I'm attending a Berlin technology trade show. Google's new Gmail Phone service is letting me make and receive calls from the ...
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New XBox 360 controller changes with the flick of a wrist
VentureBeat
Microsoft is clearly not above the complaints of gamers, as it unveiled a new controller for its XBox 360 that does away with the oft-maligned "disc" directional pad. The new controller sports a method of changing the traditional disk-like directional ...
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UN Climate Panel Looking at 'Second-Best Scenarios'
FOXNews
AP Photo/Gurinder Osan UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) head Rajendra Pachauri looks on at a press conference in New Delhi, India. OSLO – The UN panel of climate scientists will look at the costs of "second best" ways of fighting ...
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HP to Work With Hynix on New Computer Memory Chips
New York Times
By JOHN MARKOFF SAN FRANCISCO — Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday that it would commercialize a new computer memory technology with Hynix, the South Korean chip maker. Hynix's agreement to build computer memories using a technology HP scientists developed ...
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Samsung Galaxy Tab vs. the iPad: The Tablet Battle Begins
PC World
Samsung's Galaxy Tab, a 7-inch Android slate, is set to debut this Thursday. While we've been hearing about the rush of Android tablets for some time now, the Galaxy Tab is arguably the first high-end Android tablet to hit the market and thus the first ...
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NASA tests most powerful booster rocket ever
AFP
WASHINGTON — NASA and aerospace company ATK Aerospace Systems successfully tested Tuesday the most powerful solid-fuel rocket engine ever, even though its future in the space program remains in doubt. A huge roar and massive flames accompanied the ...
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Has Digg Dug its Own Grave?
PC World
Some people just don't like change. Less than a week after Digg released version 4 of its social news-sharing site, fans have rebelled, flooding Digg with links from a rival sharing site, staging a "Quit Digg Day," and prophesying a major drop-off in ...
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Verizon Uses VMware for Enterprise Cloud Service
PC World
By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Verizon Business is tapping into the popularity of VMware technology with a cloud computing service designed to let customers easily move workloads between their own infrastructure and Verizon's cloud. With the new service, ...
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Guardian science blogs | john hawks weblog
By John Hawks
You would not know it from general media coverage but, on the web, science is alive with remarkable debate. According to the Pew Research Centre, science accounts for 10% of all stories on blogs but only 1% of the stories in mainstream ...
john hawks weblog - http://johnhawks.net/
Science with soul sells | Gene Expression | Discover Magazine
Blog | Vivienne Raper who analyzed the Wikio Top 100 Science Blogs left a comment below:I'm now curious to find out why there are no 'popular' blogs in certain s.
Discover Magazine | rsslist - http://discovermagazine.com/2009/oct/10-where-does-sex-live-in-brain-from-top-to-bottom
Electrified Cotton Filter Soaked in Nanotech Cheaply and Quickly ...
By Clay Dillow
Download Our iPhone App. Stay up to date on the latest news of the future of science and technology from your iPhone with full articles, images and offline viewing. Follow Us On Twitter. Featuring every article from the magazine and ...
Popular Science - New Technology,... - http://www.popsci.com/
MythBusters Looking To Tackle The Science of Video Games
By Michael McWhertor
MythBusters, the science-fact television show that started life on the Discovery Channel, has put hundreds of rumors, myths and adages to the test. In the future, they will be tackling the fact and fiction of video games.
Kotaku: pc, atom'xml - http://kotaku.com/tag/pc/atomxmltxgtl
Knight Science Journalism Tracker » Blog Archive » UCSC Science ...
By Charlie Petit
He sent us this year's edition of the annual end-of-term magazine Science Notes that his flocks turn out. Illus is solid and imaginative – the product of students at the science illustration program at Cal State University – Monterey ...
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Gmail promo for Priority Inbox creeps out Chrome users
Computerworld
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Chrome users yesterday bombarded Google's Gmail support forum with complaints about music suddenly playing in the background when they reached their inboxes. Some feared that their machines had been infected with malware ...
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Bite-sized iPod Nano evidence grows
msnbc.com
By Jared Newman Apple may be losing its knack for keeping secrets, as rumors of a tiny, square-shaped iPod Nano become more convincing by the day. If the rumors are correct, Apple's next iPod Nano will have a 1.2-by-1.2-inch screen, a 30-pin dock ...
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Microsoft unveils new Xbox 360 controller
CNET
by Don Reisinger Microsoft plans to release a new Xbox 360 controller in November that features a transforming D-pad, the company announced Tuesday. The first difference users will find with the new wireless controller is its design. ...
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US Seeks Stay on Judge's Stem-Cell Ruling
Wall Street Journal
By BRENT KENDALL WASHINGTON—The Justice Department Tuesday asked a US judge to temporarily stay his ruling last week that blocked the federal government from funding research involving human embryonic stem cells. The surprise ruling was a blow to the ...
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Foursquare, MTV to reward STD checkups with badge
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — You can "check in" to restaurants and bars, so how about health clinics while you get tested for sexually transmitted diseases? Foursquare, the phone application for telling friends and strangers where you are, is offering a special virtual ...
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First "official" pictures of the T-Mobile G2
Unwired View
By Vlad Bobleanta on 31 Aug 10 One of the most rumored and leaked smartphones of the past few months has to be T-Mobile's G2, previously known by its codename HTC Vision. The Vision turned out to be the successor to the T-Mobile G1, the first Android ...
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Palm Releases WebOS 2 Details
PC World
After some initial uncertainty about the future of WebOS immediately after the Palm-HP merger, it's looking more and more like WebOS has a real future ahead of it. Pre-Central reports on a number of details about WebOS 2.0, the next major version of ...
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AutoCAD returns to the Mac, mobile app offered
CNET
by Lance Whitney Autodesk announced Tuesday the launch of AutoCAD for Mac, a new version of its popular design and engineering tool that will run natively on Mac OS X. AutoCAD for Mac will offer many of the features familiar to users of the software ...
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Reforms urged for UN climate panel
USA Today
Scientists reviewing the acclaimed, but beleaguered, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recommended major changes Monday in the way it is run but stopped short of calling for the ouster of its leader, Rajendra Pachauri. ...
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Samsung to Launch Media Hub, Android Device on Sept. 16
PC Magazine
Samsung on Tuesday sent out an invitation for a Sept. 16 event, which will feature the introduction of its Media Hub service and a new Android-powered device. Samsung's Media Hub is its custom movie-and-video store for Galaxy S phones, which include ...
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RIM's Agreement With India Is Likely to Foreshadow Wider Government Access
Bloomberg
By Ketaki Gokhale - Tue Aug 31 13:20:14 GMT 2010 Research In Motion Ltd.'s concession in giving Indian authorities access to BlackBerry e-mail and instant-messenger correspondence means it's likely to do the same for other governments, analysts said. ...
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Google attempts to clean up Gmail inboxes
USA Today
Google calls it Priority Inbox, a new system that lets Google computers decide what's really important, sorting the good e-mail on top and the boring stuff lower down. In a blog post explaining the new feature, Google engineer Doug Aberdeen calls ...
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USA Today
Samsung's Galaxy Tablet Is Verizon-bound, Report Says
PC World
Samsung will partner with Verizon Wireless on its upcoming Android-based Galaxy Tab tablet, according to reports. Samsung will reportedly partner with Verizon Wireless on its recently announced Android-based Galaxy Tab tablet. ...
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Apple May Unveil New IPod, TV Show Rental Service at Annual ITunes Event
Bloomberg
By Adam Satariano - Tue Aug 31 14:13:21 GMT 2010 Apple Inc., hosting an annual event devoted to music and media tomorrow, may introduce a revamped iTunes site, an upgraded iPod and push deeper into consumers' living rooms with a new TV set-top box that ...
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Report recommends UN climate panel shakeup
Register
By Andrew Orlowski • Get more from this author An enquiry into the UN's climate panel, the IPCC, has recommended administrative changes, including a full-time chief executive. It found the IPCC had "assigned high confidence to statements for which ...
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AutoCAD for Mac codenamed Sledgehammer (Source: Apple Insider)
DailyTech
One of the biggest issues with Mac computers for many users is that the software options are not as robust as they are on Windows machines. When it comes to professional occupations like engineering, the lack of software like AutoCAD was a deal breaker ...
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DailyTech
Xbox Live price hike set for November
Christian Science Monitor
Xbox Live members will face higher fees starting this fall – and predictably, not everyone is impressed. Xbox Live members have been given a last minute chance to get a discount on yearly rates, before Microsoft jacks them up in November. ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Virgin America will begin flying to Mexico in December
USA Today
By Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY Virgin America will begin flying to the Mexican resort destinations of Los Cabos and Cancun, the carrier announced this morning. Virgin America's Los Cabos service will begin Dec. 16, with the carrier operating five weekly ...
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USA Today
Rupert Murdoch may be swing vote in Apple's 99 cent TV rental pitch
Apple Insider
By Sam Oliver While most in the TV industry are opposed to Apple's proposed plan for 99 cent episode rentals, its efforts could be saved by News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch's drive to save the newspaper industry, according to a new report. ...
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Annual Review of Computer Science
Computer Science. JOURNAL CONTENT. JOURNAL HOME · LATEST VOLUME · VOLUME SELECTOR · MOST CITED REVIEWS · MOST DOWNLOADED REVIEWS · CURRENT EDITORIAL ...
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Google to relieve e-mail overload
BBC News
By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley Google has updated Gmail with a feature that aims to reduce information overload in e-mail inboxes. Called priority inbox it automatically grades e-mail into four categories: important, ...
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SNAPSHOT-Indian policy highlights on Tuesday, Aug 31
Reuters
Aug 31 (Reuters) - Following are statements from Indian policymakers as well as the latest news and scheduled events. * India's economy is on track to grow 8.5 percent in the current fiscal year to end-March, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on ...
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Google scoops up fifth company this month
Reuters
By Nancy Gohring at IDG News Service\Seattle Bureau Google has made its fifth acquisition since the start of August, this time scooping up SocialDeck, a company that develops games that people can play against friends using iPhones, BlackBerry devices, ...
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Facebook - now with added MySpace updates
The Guardian
Last week it was the refreshed design and improved navigation with just a suggestion of Facebookishness. This week - ahead of being completely gutted and reborn in the Autumn - MySpace's strategy for competing with Facebook appears to be 'if you can't ...
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Galaxy S Smartphones Top 1M Units Shipped
InternetNews.com
Samsung said it has shipped more than 1 million Galaxy S smartphones, roughly six weeks after they were released to carriers and consumers. By Larry Barrett: More stories by this author: Success has come quickly for Samsung's line of Android-powered ...
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Apple iPad Waiting Time Slashed To 24 Hours
ITProPortal
Apple fans who order the iPad online will receive the 'magical' device within 24 hours of placing the order according to an update on the company's website. Earlier, customers had to wait for at least 7 to 10 business days after ordering their iPads ...
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Intel Again Seeks To Use Acquisitions To Expand In Wireless
Wall Street Journal
By Shara Tibken Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Intel Corp.'s (INTC) $1.4 billion acquisition of Infineon Technologies AG's (IFNNY, IFX.XE) wireless unit marks another step by the chip maker to expand in the wireless device market, ...
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Google Set to Unveil "Priority Inbox" for Gmail
ABC News
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Google is set to unveil a new feature to its Gmail service that aims to separate a user's important emails from the ones that do not get read often. The new feature called "Priority Inbox" will help users focus on messages that ...
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Report: Climate science panel needs change at top
Washington Post
Scientists reviewing the UN's international climate change panel called Monday for a major overhaul in the way it is run, but they stopped short of calling for ousting its current leader. The independent review of the UN climate panel puts new pressure ...
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BlackBerry ban in India delayed
CNN
By the CNN Wire Staff New Delhi, India (CNN) -- India's ban on BlackBerry services, which was expected to begin Tuesday, has been delayed pending a 60-day security test. The country's home affairs department announced the delay Monday. ...
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IPad Dictionary App Terminology Comes to the IPhone
PC World
By David Dahlquist, Macworld Agile Tortoise's dictionary app, Terminology, enjoyed success on the iPad, at one point hitting the number one spot on the iPad Reference charts and placing twenty-fifth on the overall iPad Top 100 Paid Apps. Now, ...
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Autodesk Will Reintroduce Its AutoCAD Design Software for Macs
New York Times
By MIGUEL HELFT SAN FRANCISCO — When it comes to Apple products, the iPad and the iPhone get all the headlines. But in recent years, the company's Macintosh line of computers has enjoyed a remarkable revival that has been vital to Apple's emergence as ...
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Monday, August 30, 2010

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Blogs5 new results for science
 
Big Eats From A 12000-year-old Burial - Science News
By scinews@sciencenews.org (Science News)
Communal feasting may have existed prior to farming's invention.
Latest Science News Features,... - http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/43539
Science Fiction University | TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History
By Greg
"Science Fiction University" is a fun new feature over at io9 which goes through some sci-fi basics. Even if you think you're well beyond an introductory 'course' on science fiction, it's worth checking some of them out as they may ...
TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History - http://www.dailygrail.com/
UNH researchers develop improved tool for cycling fitness ...
By bjs
DURHAM, NH -- For competitive bicyclists with goals -- whether competing in the Tour de France or aiming for the podium at a local race -- faster cycling comes from training regimens based on various zones of exercise intensity.
Science Blog - http://scienceblog.com/
Knight Science Journalism Tracker » Blog Archive » Lots of quick ...
By Charlie Petit
Notably, among the accounts that do not do much to note that the underlying science is fine is the one at Fox news. Reporter Kaplan asserts that the IAC "did not spend its time analyzing the accuracy of climate models and climate ...
Knight Science Journalism Tracker - http://ksjtracker.mit.edu/
Is Science on the Gulf Oil Spill Skewed? | Deep Sea News
By Dr. M
Newsweek has a great write up about how independent scientific queries into the Gulf of Mexico are being squashed. Only are few scientists were able to benefit.
Deep Sea News - http://deepseanews.com/


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