Six Ways to Stop the Terminator Robots

A new book, "Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong", considers options for ensuring that robots don't take over the world and subjugate or destroy the human race, a popular concept in science fiction....

81% of US Adults Use the Web: Harris Poll

A new Harris poll finds that 4 out of 5 adults in the US are now using the internet; in 1995 it was about 1 out of 10. " In 1995, when The Harris Poll� began measuring online activity, less than 18 million...

Coma Victim Roused by Magnets: TMS Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Patient in a coma woke up and has partially recovered after exposure to magnetic fields. "A US patient who was left in a coma after a severe road accident regained the ability to speak after repeated exposure to a magnetic field. The patient, Josh Villa, had not been expected...

Polar bear photo database created

Anyone who has taken nice close-ups of polar bears in the wild is being asked to contribute their photos to the online polar bear research database put together by biologists from the University of Central...

Chandrayaan-1 gets back to work

" A day after landing India’s first probe instrument on the surface of the moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was on Saturday getting ready to activate eight other scientific instruments on board the country’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft,...

Talk to Your Cell Phone and Get Answers

Google and Apple iPhone have teamed up to provide a new free service; you'll be able to ask your phone virtually any question (factual questions and directions are expected common uses) and artificial intelligence will interpret your words and flash the results onto your...

The Coming White-Space Wireless Revolution

Existing technology combined with venture capital and the recent FCC decision to open up the unused TV broadcast frequencies known as white-spaces for use by other types of devices means high-speed internet will be available on mobile devices and in previously unreachable...

Caring and Community are in Our Genes

Purple America is closer to the reality of human beings and behavior than the red and blue maps the corporate media present. Republicans, Democrats, independents and third parties have more in common than we do...

AIDS Patient Is Reported Cured

Bone Marrow Transplant Cured AIDS Patient BERLIN — A man suffering from AIDS, not knowing that he had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than 10 years appears to have been cured of the disease after...

Current warming sharpest climate change in 5,000 years: study

"This NASA image received in February 2006 shows the calving front, or break-off point into the ocean, of Helheim Glacier""Research on Arctic and North Atlantic ecosystems shows the recent warming trend counts...

The Success of the iPhone and The Doubts About RIM

According to a study done by J.D. Power and Associates the iPhone ranks the highest among "business wireless Smartphone users."

Obama 'to reverse Bush decisions'

Bush rushing to issue midnight exec orders Mr Obama's team is scrutinising Mr Bush's executive orders US President-elect Barack Obama will seek to...

Tricked-Out Inflatable House Provides "Instant Survival"

"SAN FRANCISCO — In tough circumstances, sometimes all you need is hope, but other times you need a blow-up survival shelter featuring a bed, a couch, freeze-dried food, a 50-gallon water bladder, a first-aid...

Chandrayaan successfully orbiting the moon

After a successful launch this is the icing on the cake for Indian Lunar Mission. ISRO has managed to place Chandrayaan in the Lunar mission. It is noteworthy that India has joined a select league of nationa like...

Sexual Foreplay Overrated

A survey of over 2,300 women has come to the conclusion that foreplay as an aid to orgasm has little or no significance. It also reveals that intercourse for Europeans is on average about 16.2 minutes whilst...

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