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Cyber Securiity - a trillion dollar industry
Post Date: 2012-09-23 05:30:39 by Tatarewicz
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For our edutainment today we’re sniffing out the solution to the latest teaser ad from the Oxford Club — Steve McDonald, one of their analysts, spins a long story about cybersecurity that reminds us of several other past ditigal security teasers. Not that there’s anything wrong with that — this is, by all accounts, one of the “great” growth industries — nations, companies and individuals are continuing to be targeted by everything from everyday spam to identity theft to actual cyber “break ins” and online theft of confidential or strategic information and malicious wounding attacks to take down systems. This much is pretty clear to anyone ...
BG-12 Reduces Relapses, Disease Activity in MS
Post Date: 2012-09-20 02:00:51 by Tatarewicz
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September 19, 2012 — Full results of two phase 3 trials evaluating the effect of oral BG-12 (dimethyl fumarate, Biogen Idec) in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) show the investigational agent reduced relapse rates, disease activity on imaging, and, in 1 trial, progression of disability. Full results of the Determination of the Efficacy and safety of oral Fumarate IN rElapsing-remitting MS (DEFINE) trial, and the Comparator and an Oral Fumarate in RRMS (CONFIRM) trial, are published in the September 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Both trials were funded by Biogen Idec. Gadolinium-enhancing lesions were also reduced significantly, as were new or enlarging ...
GPS shoes help you find your way home
Post Date: 2012-09-20 00:15:25 by Tatarewicz
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In the classic "Wizard of Oz" scene, Dorothy clicks the heels of her ruby slippers together saying, "There's no place like home. There's no place like home." This was the inspiration for British designer Dominic Wilcox's new GPS shoes that will actually help you find your way back home. The shoes are currently in the prototype stage, thanks to a commission by the Global Footprint project and some help from his friends at Stamp Shoes. Each shoe works wirelessly with the other to indicate GPS direction and proximity to the final destination. Programming your home location is as easy as plotting a point in the included software, then sending the info — ...
Northern chill produces Arctic ozone hole
Post Date: 2012-09-19 11:17:05 by farmfriend
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Northern chill produces Arctic ozone hole Genelle Weule ABC A prolonged cold spell in the northern hemisphere has caused the largest recorded drop in ozone over the Arctic, a new international study has found. While the area has seen severe depletion of ozone levels in the past, this is the first time it has occurred at such a magnitude to be considered an ozone hole, says study co-author Dr Michelle Santee from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Ozone depletion was about twice that in both 1996 and 2005 - and those were the previous record setting Arctic ozone loss years," says Santee. The findings, gathered from NASA satellite measurements of polar stratosphere cloud ...
NASA working on faster-than-light space travel, says warp drives are ‘plausible’
Post Date: 2012-09-19 11:14:44 by farmfriend
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NASA working on faster-than-light space travel, says warp drives are ‘plausible’ By Ed Oswald on September 19, 2012 at 8:54 am Trekkies rejoice: while real breakthroughs in warp drive design haven’t happened yet, we’re moving closer to making faster-than-light travel truly feasible. Researchers found that making adjustments to the design of a real-life warp drive first proposed by physicist Michael Alcubierre in 1994 significantly reduces the amount of energy required to power it. Alcubierre’s design called for an American football-shaped spacecraft with a flat ring attached to the ship. Space time would warp around it, accelerating the ship to as fast as 10 ...
Scientists grow drug for rare disease in corn
Post Date: 2012-09-19 06:05:22 by Tatarewicz
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LONDON, Sep. 18, 2012 (Reuters) — Scientists have grown a drug to treat a rare genetic disease inside corn plants, potentially offering a cheaper way to manufacture a treatment that currently costs hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for each patient. The move marks an advance for the emerging field of molecular farming, which could one day see complex biotech medicines being mass-produced in plants rather than factories. Researchers from Canada and Australia reported on Tuesday that they had created transgenic corn that could synthesize alpha-L-iduronidase, an enzyme used for a debilitating condition called mucopolysaccharidosis I (MPS I). The disease causes progressive ...
LG Electronics unveils Optimus G smartphone to join top players
Post Date: 2012-09-19 02:09:12 by Tatarewicz
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SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- LG Electronics unveiled on Tuesday its new flagship smartphone Optimus G that was expected to help the second-tier smarphone maker join the group of top players such as Samsung Electronics and Apple. The South Korean mobile phone maker, which was once one of the first-tier players in the mobile phone industry, had suffered from heavy losses due to its belated response to the smartphone boom. LG's mobile communication (MC) division turned into the black in the first quarter of 2012 after posting losses for six straight quarters, but the business shifted once again into the red in the second quarter due to an increase in marketing costs. Over the past year, ...
German watchdog warns of Internet Explorer breach
Post Date: 2012-09-18 05:41:06 by Tatarewicz
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BERLIN (AP) — The German government agency overseeing IT-safety is warning of a security breach in Microsoft's Internet Explorer and recommending people use other browsers until the problem is fixed. The Federal Office for Information Security said in a statement late Monday the browser's "weak point is already being used for targeted attacks." It warns the code to attack computers running on Windows XP or Windows 7 operating systems through the browser is freely available online and might therefore spread rapidly. The agency says users of Internet Explorer versions 7, 8 or 9 should switch to alternative browsers until Microsoft updates its browser's security ...
New Gene Could Lead to Better Bug-Resistant Plants
Post Date: 2012-09-18 03:13:24 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2012) — The discovery of a new gene could lead to better bug-resistant plants. Research led by Michigan State University and appearing on the cover of this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrates that domestic tomatoes could re-learn a thing or two from their wild cousins. Long-term cultivation has led to tomato crops losing beneficial traits common to wild tomatoes. Anthony Schilmiller, MSU research assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, was able to identify a gene that is involved in one of these beneficial traits. Many tomato secrets are found in its hair. Trichomes, or hair-like protrusions, produce a ...
Predicting If Scientists Will Be Stars: New Formula Reveals If Young Scientists Will Have Brilliant Future
Post Date: 2012-09-15 04:03:42 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2012) — A medical school committee is weighing whether to hire a promising young neuroscientist. Will she have a brilliant future as a researcher, publish in top journals and nab abundant research funds? If only there were a crystal ball. Wait, now there is! A new Northwestern Medicine study published Sept. 13 in Nature offers the first formula that accurately predicts a young scientist's success up to 10 years into the future and could be useful for hiring and funding decisions. Currently, hiring decisions are made using the instincts and research of search committees. Universities are increasingly complementing this with a measure of the quality and ...
Global Warming Alarmists Seek More Power, Not Emissions Reductions
Post Date: 2012-09-15 00:48:48 by farmfriend
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Global Warming Alarmists Seek More Power, Not Emissions Reductions James Taylor, Contributor As U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to decline, one would think global warming alarmists would celebrate the ongoing achievement. Instead, alarmists are ramping up their vitriol. The alarmists’ increasing vitriol reveals that for many alarmists, the true goal is not a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, but instead a transfer of wealth and power from individuals to government. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that U.S. carbon dioxide emissions during the first quarter of 2012 were the lowest since 1992. With more and more U.S. power plants switching from coal to ...
Big Ag Directly Funded Anti-Organics Stanford Study: Report
Post Date: 2012-09-14 20:24:10 by farmfriend
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Big Ag Directly Funded Anti-Organics Stanford Study: Report Common Dreams staff A study released last week by Stanford scientists, which claims organic foods are no more healthy than non-organic foods, was funded by corporate agriculture and biotechnology giants, according to a new report by the Cornucopia Institute. "We were not one bit surprised to find that the agribusiness giant Cargill, the world’s largest agricultural business enterprise, and foundations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which have deep ties to agricultural chemical and biotechnology corporations like Monsanto, have donated millions to Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute, where some of the ...
Scientists Use Sound Waves to Levitate Liquids, Improve Pharmaceuticals
Post Date: 2012-09-14 05:57:41 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 13, 2012) — It's not a magic trick and it's not sleight of hand -- scientists really are using levitation to improve the drug development process, eventually yielding more effective pharmaceuticals with fewer side effects. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a way to use sound waves to levitate individual droplets of solutions containing different pharmaceuticals. While the connection between levitation and drug development may not be immediately apparent, a special relationship emerges at the molecular level. At the molecular level, pharmaceutical structures fall into one of two categories: ...
Neural Implant Recovers Ability to Make Decisions, Monkey Study Shows
Post Date: 2012-09-14 05:47:01 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2012) — Researchers have taken a key step towards recovering specific brain functions in sufferers of brain disease and injuries by successfully restoring the decision-making processes in monkeys. By placing a neural device onto the front part of the monkeys' brains, the researchers, from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre, University of Kentucky and University of Southern California, were able to recover, and even improve, the monkeys' ability to make decisions when their normal cognitive functioning was disrupted. The study, which has been published today (Sept. 14) in IOP Publishing's Journal of Neural Engineering, involved the use of a neural ...
Explainer: what is the electromagnetic spectrum?
Post Date: 2012-09-14 05:01:46 by Tatarewicz
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Everything in the Universe emits radiation, and the electromagnetic spectrum is a range of radiations with features in common, such as having electric and magnetic fields. Visible light forms part of the electromagnetic spectrum. So do emissions from TV and radio transmitters, mobile phones and the energy inside microwave ovens. The X-rays used in diagnostic imaging and the materials used in advanced positron emission tomography scanners (PET) also form part of this amazing range of radiations which share some features in common. Why electromagnetic? As the name implies, they have electric and magnetic fields associated with them. Although it is a bit complicated to demonstrate ...
Explosion on Jupiter spotted by amateur astronomers
Post Date: 2012-09-12 01:50:42 by farmfriend
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Explosion on Jupiter spotted by amateur astronomers By Tariq Malik Video link (SPACE.com) An apparent impact on Jupiter early Monday (Sept. 10) created a fireball on the planet so large and bright that amateur astronomers on Earth spotted the flash. The surprising impact on Jupiter was first reported by amateur astronomer Dan Peterson of Racine, Wisc., who was observing the largest planet in our solar system when the event occurred, according to the website Spaceweather.com, which tracks space weather and night sky events. "It was a bright flash that lasted only 1.5 - 2 seconds," Peterson told Spaceweather.com. Peterson used a Meade 12-inch LX200GPS telescope to observe the ...
'Quantum Teleportation' Beams Information Farther Than Ever Before
Post Date: 2012-09-08 07:18:49 by Tatarewicz
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The Optical Ground Station, run by the European Space Agency on the Canary Island of Tenerife, was used to receive photons in a quantum teleportation experiment reported in September 2012. Physicists have "teleported" quantum information farther than ever in a new study reported Wednesday (Sept. 5). This kind of teleportation isn't quite what Scotty was "beaming up" on television's Star Trek, but it does represent a kind of magic of its own. While Star Trek's teleporters transport people from place to place instantaneously, quantum teleportation sends information. A team of scientists from Austria, Canada and Germany have now beamed the quantum state of ...
Major Advances in Understanding the Regulation and Organization of the Human Genome
Post Date: 2012-09-06 04:58:40 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2012) — The National Human Genome Research Institute today announced the results of a five-year international study of the regulation and organization of the human genome. The project is named ENCODE, which stands for the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements. In conjunction with the release of those results, the Journal of Biological Chemistry has published a series of reviews that focus on several aspects of the findings. "The ENCODE project not only generated an enormous body of data about our genome, but it also analyzed many issues to better understand how the genome functions in different types of cells. These insights from integrative analyses are really ...
Spinach Power Gets a Big Boost: Reseachers Combine Spinach Protein With Silicon to Make Biohybrid Solar Cell
Post Date: 2012-09-05 03:25:49 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2012) — Spinach power has just gotten a big boost. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a way to combine the photosynthetic protein that converts light into electrochemical energy in spinach with silicon, the material used in solar cells, in a fashion that produces substantially more electrical current than has been reported by previous "biohybrid" solar cells. The research was reported online on Sep. 4 in the journal Advanced Materials and Vanderbilt has applied for a patent on the combination. "This combination produces current levels almost 1,000 times higher than we were able to achieve by ...
CPU Accelerator - wow
Post Date: 2012-09-02 22:01:12 by Lod
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Mz CPU Accelerator is an application that automatically changes the priority of the foreground window, by allocating more CPU power to the currently active application (program-game). Automatically de-allocates CPU priority when a new active application is selected. There is also a feature that gives you the power to manage the cores of your processor! These procedures, can lead to an enormous performance gain! Poster Comment:I've been using this on my old XP system all afternoon/evening and it is amazing. It's free, but I'll be donating to the author tomorrow.
Forget 3D. Your dream TV should be 4K
Post Date: 2012-09-02 02:13:55 by Tatarewicz
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The 3D-TV fad seems to be fading -- and giant, cinema-style 4K sets are the newest cutting-edge tech marvels destined for your living room. A truckload of new TVs, with screen resolutions four times greater than so-called full HD screens, are being unveiled at this week's IFA technology show in Berlin. The screens -- referred to as 4K or ultradefinition -- were among dozens of new gadgets on display for the 250,000 people who descended on Berlin's conference halls. The show features gear ranging from big-screen smartphones to self-stirring cookware, but the big buzz this year is about 4K. The first sets should be available for preorder this fall. There were still plenty of 3D ...
Scientists Successfully ‘Hack’ Brain To Obtain Private Data
Post Date: 2012-09-02 01:15:20 by Tatarewicz
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BERKELEY, Calif. (CBS Seattle) – It sounds like something out of the movie “Johnny Mnemonic,” but scientists have successfully been able to “hack” a brain with a device that’s easily available on the open market. Researchers from the University of California and University of Oxford in Geneva figured out a way to pluck sensitive information from a person’s head, such as PIN numbers and bank information. The scientists took an off-the-shelf Emotiv brain-computer interface, a device that costs around $299, which allows users to interact with their computers by thought. The scientists then sat their subjects in front of a computer screen and showed them ...
Faulty gene produces a protein that produces dummies
Post Date: 2012-09-01 04:55:42 by Tatarewicz
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Too Much Protein HUWE1 Causes Intellectual Disability ScienceDaily (Aug. 30, 2012) — Two to three percent of children are born with an intellectual disability. Possibly by a genetic defect, but in 80 percent of these cases, we do not know -- yet -- which genes are responsible. VIB researchers at KU Leuven show that increased production of the HUWE1 protein is the cause in some patients. "The fact that HUWE1 regulates the dose of several other proteins in the brains, has an important impact on the quest for new therapies. It would then be possible to intervene in these different proteins. Research into the role of HUWE1 has already started in the lab." Defects on the ...
Smallest Antenna Can Increase Wi-Fi Speed 200 Times
Post Date: 2012-08-31 02:59:16 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Aug. 28, 2012) — Researchers from A*STAR's Institute of Microelectronics (IME) have developed the first compact high performance silicon-based cavity-backed slot (CBS) antenna that operates at 135 GHz. The antenna demonstrated 30 times stronger signal transmission over on-chip antennas at 135 GHz. At just 1.6mm x 1.2mm, approximately the size of a sesame seed, it is the smallest silicon-based CBS antenna reported to date for ready integration with active circuits. IME's innovation will help realise a wireless communication system with very small form factor and almost two-thirds cheaper than a conventional CBS antenna. The antenna, in combination with other ...
No-Till Farming Helps Capture Snow and Soil Water
Post Date: 2012-08-31 02:30:07 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Aug. 30, 2012) — A smooth blanket of snow in the winter can help boost dryland crop productivity in the summer, and no-till management is one way to ensure that blanket coverage, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) research. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) soil scientist David Huggins conducted studies to determine how standing crop residues affect snow accumulation and soil water levels across entire fields. ARS is USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency, and this work supports the USDA priority of responding to climate change. Huggins, who works at the ARS Land Management and Water Conservation Research Unit in Pullman, Wash., ...
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