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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Telecom Firms Back Standard Phone Charger in Europe

June 30, 2009 – 12:30 pm

Telecom Firms Back Standard Phone Charger in Europe
         

Under the agreement, the next generation of mobile phones would use a standard micro-U.S.B. socket to ensure compatibility.

         

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When hammering, women nail it

June 30, 2009 – 6:10 am

Angela Roddenberry, 22, hammers a nail at the Habitat for Humanity Women's Build in Brooksville, Fla.Women are more accurate at pounding nails, a new study finds. At least in the light.

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Jackson’s death unleashes online scams

June 30, 2009 – 5:04 am

Minutes after any big celebrity dies, Internet swindlers get to work. Michael Jackson’s death was no different, and security experts say the fraud artists are just getting started.

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These moves are all in the head

June 30, 2009 – 4:32 am

Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command.

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Cosmic Log: How dinosaurs chewed

June 30, 2009 – 3:06 am

An analysis of tooth scratches on fossilized teeth reveals how duck-billed dinosaurs ate — and hints at what they ate as well.Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: An analysis of tooth scratches on fossilized teeth reveals how duck-billed dinosaurs ate — and hints at what they ate as well.

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Debate rages on humans’ closest relative

June 30, 2009 – 2:50 am

Based on physical, behavioral and fossil data, a team of scientists argues that orangutans, and not chimps, are humans' closest animal relatives.Everybody knows that humans’ closest animal relatives are chimpanzees. At least, that’s been the accepted wisdom among scientists for more than 30 years. But now two biologists are arguing that orangutans, not chimps, are our closest cousins.

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New NASA astronauts will never fly shuttle

June 30, 2009 – 2:08 am

Meet NASA's new 2009 astronaut class, starting on the top row from left; Serena Aunon, Jeanette Epps, Jack Fischer; in the middle row from left, Michael Hopkins, Kjell Lindgren, Kathleen (Kate) Rubins, and in the bottomrow from left, Scott Tingle, Mark Vande Hei, Gregory (Reid) Wiseman.NASA on Monday unveiled the nine Americans making up its newest class of astronaut candidates, a group that will never fly on the space shuttle.

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High court won’t block remote storage DVR

June 30, 2009 – 1:04 am

The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it rejected an appeal by film studios and television networks of a ruling allowing a new digital video recorder service by New York cable operator Cablevision Systems Corp.

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Comcast rolls out wireless Web

June 30, 2009 – 12:34 am

Comcast Corp, the largest U.S. cable operator, said on Monday it is introducing a wireless service for subscribers to access the Web beyond their homes anywhere within the United States.

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Lasers to seek, but not destroy, subs

June 29, 2009 – 11:49 pm

Lasers could help the U.S. Navy locate enemy submarines without destroying them.Shooting laser beams at a submarine won’t destroy it, but new technology being tested by the U.S. Navy could help find enemy subs.

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