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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Amazon backtracks on Kindle text-to-speech

February 28, 2009 – 8:06 am

Amazon.com Inc. changed course Friday and said it would allow copyright holders to decide whether they will permit their works to be read aloud using the second-generation Kindle electronic reader’s new text-to-speech feature.

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Court: Va. man owns 1776 copy of Declaration

February 28, 2009 – 6:23 am

This rare 1776 copy of the Declaration of Independence belongs to a Virginia technology entrepreneur, not the state of Maine, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled Friday.A rare 1776 copy of the Declaration of Independence belongs to a Virginia technology entrepreneur, not the state of Maine, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled Friday.

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Cosmic Log: Join the next galaxy quest

February 28, 2009 – 5:27 am

The Galaxy Zoo and its 200,000 participants have pushed citizen science to new heights, and now they're taking their galaxy quest to the next level.Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: The Galaxy Zoo and its 200,000 participants have pushed citizen science to new heights, and now they’re taking their galaxy quest to the next level.

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Wheelchair arm controlled by thought alone

February 28, 2009 – 4:41 am

A new wheelchair-mounted robotic arm is controlled by reading a particular brain wave called P300. The person in the wheelchair looks at directional arrows flashing across a small screen. When the arrow points in the direction that they want to go, their brain lights up on the EEG, and the wheelchair or robotic arm moves accordingly.A wheelchair-mounted robotic arm controlled by thought alone has been created by scientists at the University of South Florida.

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Fossil of 10 million-year-old bird found in Peru

February 28, 2009 – 2:56 am

Palaeontologist Mario Urbina displays the cranium of a bird from the Pelagormithidae family at Peru's Natural History Museum in Lima. Paleontologists working in Peru have found a fossil from a bird that lived 10 million years ago, scientists said on Friday after returning from the dig site on the country’s desert coast.

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Synthetic life form grows in Florida lab

February 28, 2009 – 1:24 am

 Researchers in a Florida laboratory are working with the most asic building blocks of life to try and understand how biology first arose on Earth — and how it might appear on other planets. When NASA began thinking about missions to look for life beyond Earth, it realized it had a problem: how to recognize life if it were found.

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3,000-year-old papyrus fragments found

February 28, 2009 – 12:23 am

For 100 years, archaeologists have been trying to piece together fragments to this 3,000-year-old document, written on a papyrus stem. The Egyptian document enumerates all the Egyptian kings and when they ruled. Newly found fragments to the document should help in piecing together the puzzle. Some newly recovered papyrus fragments may finally help solve a century-old puzzle, shedding new light on ancient Egyptian history.

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Specialist Oracle Training Centre celebrates first year anniversary

February 27, 2009 – 11:32 pm

Europe?s only Oracle Projects consultancy rejoices at training centre success

27 February, 2009: Projected Consulting, a leading provider of consultancy and training services for Oracle Enterprise Project Management applications and Europe?s only speci…

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Don’t miss Moon and Venus converge tonight

February 27, 2009 – 11:28 pm

The scene about two hours after sunset from near Phoenix, Arizona on Friday, Feb. 27, 2009. It has been a superb winter for viewing the queen of the planets, Venus.  February marks the pinnacle of its evening visibility as it stands like a sequined showgirl nearly halfway up in the western sky at sunset. 

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Puerto Rico to ship pesky monkeys to Iraq

February 27, 2009 – 10:59 pm

An Iraqi youth gestures towards a chimpanzee at the monkey enclosure in the Zawraa Park and Zoo, the largest park in the capital Baghdad. Puerto Rico will ship about a dozen patas monkeys to the zoon in upcoming weeks.Puerto Rico has found an unlikely solution to ease its surplus of pesky wild monkeys: ship them to Iraq.

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