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Google Earth Comes To The iPhone,
And It's Awesome
Washington Post Oct. 27, 2008
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Google has released a free custom
Google Earth application for the
iPhone/iPod Touch, and it's
stunning. You're able to tilt the
device to adjust your view when
browsing mountainous terrain, use
the "My Location" feature to
instantly jump right to where you
are, and look for information on
cities, places and businesses.
Google has also...
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'Digital dark age' may doom some
data
PhysOrg.com Oct. 27, 2008
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A looming "digital dark age" that
originates from the mass of data
spawned by our ever-growing
information economy -- at last
count, 369 exabytes (quintillion)
worth of data -- will result from
ever-shifting platforms and file
formats, and degraded media, says
Jerome P. McDonough, assistant
professor in the Graduate School of
Library and...
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Azure: Can Microsoft Meld Windows
with the Web?
BusinessWeek Oct. 28, 2008
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Microsoft's Windows Azure operating
system, unveiled Monday, could give
companies greater flexibility in
using Windows, letting them run some
programs on their own computer
networks, extend their existing
programs to the Web, or allow
Microsoft to serve other tasks more
effectively from its own massive
data centers. For example, Microsoft...
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Virtual worlds set for second
coming
Silicon.com Oct. 27, 2008
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Experts agree that virtual worlds
have a big future for business
collaboration and as a new channel
for conducting business, despite
factors holding back virtual worlds,
including poor proprietary front-end
interfaces, difficult sign-up
processes, limited bandwidth, and
processing power needed on users'
computers....
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Mimicking Body Biosensors
Technology Review October 28, 2008
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University of California, Irvine
and Tokyo Institute of Technology
biochemists have developed a
technique called molecular
imprinting that may make artificial
antibodies just as effective as the
real thing. This method involves
taking a target molecule and placing
it in a solution containing the
building blocks of a polymer
antibody. The...
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Fuel-Cell Power-Up
Technology Review November/December 2008
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A team headed by MIT
chemical-engineering professor Paula
Hammond has developed a polymer
membrane that increases the energy
output of methanol fuel cells by 50
percent by reducing permeability
(leakage of methanol). It could make
this technology suitable as a
lighter, longer-­lasting, and
more environmentally friendly
alternative to...
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Virtual touchpad lets you scroll in
thin air
New ScientistTech Oct. 27, 2008
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Microsoft researchers have
developed SideSight, a system using
infrared sensors to allow you to
control a phone by movement of
fingers in the space around it to
select, scroll, drag, rotate, and
change the size of images on the...
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Red LEDs could make anti-ageing
device
NewScientist.Tech Oct. 28, 2008
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Powerful red LEDs aimed at the skin
around the eyes for 90 seconds daily
for 10 months significantly reduced
wrinkles by altering the
interactions between water and
elastic proteins in the skin,
University of Ulm researchers have
found....
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Nuclear-powered passenger aircraft
'to transport millions' says expert
Times Online Oct. 27, 2008
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Nuclear-powered aircraft will be
transporting millions of passengers
around the world beyond 2050, says
Ian Poll, Professor of Aerospace
Engineering at Cranfield university,
and head of technology for the U.K.
government-funded Omega project.
Poll is calling for a big research
program to help the aviation
industry convert from fossil fuels
to...
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