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A University of Missouri professor has developed a "smart carpet" that monitors the movements of elderly persons and can detect the potential for a dangerous fall. The purpose of the flooring system is to help patients remain both independent and safe unobtrusively. With sensors under the carpet and...
Human rights groups are increasingly getting shut down by distributed denial of service and other cyberattacks, according to a report from Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The center reported that 280 independent media and human rights websites were hit by 140 attack...
Microsoft may unveil a version of its Windows operating system that runs on the ARM chip platform at the Consumer Electronics Show to be held in Las Vegas in Jan., according to anonymous sources who said the software will be tailored for battery-powered devices such as tablet computers and other han...
I wasn't quite sure what to think when I first heard Time magazine had named Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Person of the Year for 2010. As I've previously confessed, I have not joined the half a billion people who are making friends and playing virtual games on Facebook. I do realize, however, that any...
Microsoft launched an HTML5 laboratory for developers on Tuesday. The company intends the project to be a site where Redmond prototypes early and unstable Web standard specs from standards bodies such as the W3C and shares them with the developer community. One reason for establishing the lab could ...
Skills develop with practice and repetition. It's true of anything, from playing the piano to driving a car. In any endeavor, the way to get better is to practice. Attempt the activity again and again, learning from mistakes made along the way. "Practice makes perfect" -- that's not a way we usual...
The British government has joined China, Iran and Australia in seeking to actively restrict access to certain portions of the Internet. Communications officials have revealed plans to ask Internet service providers in the UK to restrict access to pornographic websites, especially for minors. Howeve...
A quantum mechanics experiment performed by physicists at the University of California in Santa Barbara has been honored by the journal Science as its Breakthrough of the Year. The researchers' work may shed light on just what actually gravity is, among other things. The team, led by Andrew Cleland,...
Another year is about over, and many of us are now given time to spend with our friends and families thinking back on the year that was and ahead to the year that will be. We have been and are defined by the choices we make, and often we can learn from the mistakes of others as well as their suc...
With Google's announcement Thursday of the Body Browser, online mapping technology finally caught up with the medical crew of "Fantastic Voyage," miniaturized in the 1966 sci-fi flick to enter a renowned scientist's bloodstream and save his brain from a life-threatening blood clot. A Chrome-OS drive...
The U.S. government is falling behind in making critical and productive investments in research related to networking and information technology. Federal agencies have used funds designated for direct pioneering research and development in NIT for alternative purposes, such as the creation of inform...
Things took an interesting turn in the aftermath of Cablegate, which saw 250,000 documents, many of them sensitive, put on the open Web by WikiLeaks. Julian Assange, the founder of the site, has been charged by Swedish police with a sex crime; the U.S. government is seeking to try Assange, who's cur...
At least partly reversing Bush Administration aversion to emergent exotic biological research, President Barack Obama's 13-member Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues Thursday issued 18 recommendations on synthetic biology -- life, designed and built in the laboratory. "Our major recommenda...
South Korea's LG Electronics on Thursday unveiled the LG Optimus 2X, a smartphone with a dual-core processor. This uses Nvidia's Tegra 2 processor, making for faster, smoother Web browsing and a better multitasking experience, LG said. The Optimus 2X will be released with Android 2.2; it will be upg...
Critics of Fox News' coverage of climate change issues were given a rich vein to mine in an email from a top editor to his staffers, which was made public recently. In the email dated Dec. 8 and made public Wednesday by Media Matters for America, Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon instr...
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