What are you eating? Mobile app can tell you
Gatorade drinkers wondering about the calcium pantothenate in their favorite sports drink won't have to guess much longer.
Software
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Brazil proposes South American broadband network
Brazil on Tuesday proposed the creation of a fiber optic broadband connection network linking all South American countries to bring down the cost of Internet and cellular phone access.
Telecom
Nov 29, 2011
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A smarter way to make ultraviolet light beams
Existing coherent ultraviolet light sources are power hungry, bulky and expensive. University of Michigan researchers have found a better way to build compact ultraviolet sources with low power consumption that could improve ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 29, 2011
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Minneapolis as a tech center? Start-ups say yes
Ten of the top 20 most visited websites are based in California, with the remainder in New York, Washington and Georgia.
Business
Nov 29, 2011
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Piracy vs. an open Internet
To avoid the reach of U.S. copyright laws, numerous online pirates have set up shop in countries less willing or able to enforce intellectual property rights. Policymakers agree that these "rogue" sites pose a real problem ...
Internet
Nov 29, 2011
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UI engineers conduct residential soils study, one of few such US studies ever done
University of Iowa engineers have published their findings from a study of residential soils in the city of Cedar Rapids, making it one of only a few such U.S. urban soil studies ever conducted.
Environment
Nov 29, 2011
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AT&T in last-minute bid to save T-Mobile deal: report
Telecom giant AT&T is making a last-minute bid to save its $39-billion (29-billion-euro) purchase of T-Mobile from being slapped down by US regulators, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
Telecom
Nov 29, 2011
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Guided rockets hit fast-moving boat targets in test
A weapon prototype developed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) successfully hit two high-speed boat targets during recent testing in Point Mugu, Calif.
Engineering
Nov 29, 2011
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Imperfections may improve graphene sensors
Although they found that graphene makes very good chemical sensors, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have discovered an unexpected "twist"—that the sensors are better when the graphene is ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 29, 2011
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Cybercrime against businesses 'explodes'
More than one in three companies say that in 2011 they have been victims of fraud, a report said on Tuesday, with reports of cybercrime targeting businesses around the world skyrocketing.
Internet
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