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Search Information Will Go Private |
...Google, announced that the servers won't keep the information on the users' searches forever.
Until recent times, Google kept the search information linked with certain computers around the world. However from now on the system will make this information anonymous after 18 to 24 months.
According to Nicole Wong, deputy general counsel at Google, the company made this decision after numerous complaints from various I... |
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New Software Developed to Convert Speech into Avatars |
...nicating. The words spoken by the speaker will be converted into animated characters seen on recipient's screen.
Later it is planned that program will be sold to be installed on personal computer. However, there is still a lot of work to be done to perfect the program so it could hit the markets. Researchers say that in spite of the fact that software is quite effective in translating speech into sign language, the stu... |
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New Tool to Link Web 2.0 and Search |
... the collective intelligence of the enterprise."
Tool's new version also supports social networking. It includes workers' profiles, these profiles being created from various repositories and then showed as a mashup application that includes contact information and certain biographical information. The services provided by the new tool also include an executive dashboard that illustrates a map of hot topics that are bei... |
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The Choice of Social Network Linked to Race, Ethnicity and Education |
...The latest study shows that one's choice of social network is largely related to person's race, ethnicity and parent's education, at least for students. It is also suggested that students from different backgrounds do not usually socialize with each other.
Eszter Hargittai of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University in Illinois surveyed more than 1,000 first year students from the University of Illi... |
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The End of Windows is Close, So is the Beginning of Midori |
...cuments of the software company, which characterize the technology, Software Development Times unveiled new details of Midori in addition to the one that has been already known.
"If you think about how an operating system is loaded, it's loaded onto a hard disk physically located on that machine. The operating system is tied very tightly to that hardware" said Dave Austin, European director of products at Citrix.
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Japanese to Create New Generation Wearable Gadgets |
... Japan's predominant mobile phone operator, NTT DoCoMo, is currently developing a number of technologies to create "wearable" gadgets. The most impressive technologies that are being tested include: rolling your eyes to increase the volume on a portable music player and tapping fingers in order to switch on a DVD player.
According to Masaaki Fukumoto, executive research engineer at NTT DoCoMo, the technology linked wit... |
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Women Happiness Wears off with the Age |
...d with their family lives and finances than women. Both men and women see happy marriage as their life goal in early adulthood with nine out of ten people of both genders pointing out to this factor. However, overall satisfaction for men and women will be different depending on the realization of this goal.
On average, men were found to be the most unhappy during their 20's, and this was the time, when most were single a... |
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Cosmetic Surgery is Hazardous for Health and Economic Well-being |
| ...American cosmetics, feature phthalates.
Despite the fact that no governmental reviews has found any phthalate hazardous as used in products manufactured for the general public, a number of studies showed that phthalates caused damage in liver and reproductive system in animals.
The YWCA joint the makers of a new documentary called "America the Beautiful", in order to warn the 2.5 million women and girls that the assoc... |
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U.S. to Place its Antiballistic Missile Defense System in Britain |
...ing of the U.S. antiballistic missile defense system on the territory of the United Kingdom. Before that the United States thought of setting its system on the lands of the Czech Republic and Poland. However, its initiative was met with furious objections from the Russian Federation, despite the fact that the U.S. said its defense system was to be installed to fight against Iran and not to aim towards Russia.
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Tragic Human Error Lead to Transplantation of HIV-positive Organs |
...edical records that she tested negative for the virus.
The chief of Careggi hospital, Edoardo Majno, confessed that there has been a tragic human error. Doctors mentioned that the woman, although being HIV-positive, didn't know she was infected with the virus and after her death, caused by a brain hemorrhage, her relatives were not against donating her organs to the people who were in need.
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DNA research approaches the origins of human beings |
...on voluntary basis.
Scott Woodward, one of John Hopkins University researches emphasizes that a person's DNA holds an enormous amount of information to discover, including the origins of all human beings.
As geographic location once became a major factor to entail differences in genetic record, this study can reveal the unknown realities of human existence.
Admittedly, Africa is the place where all human beings orig... |
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Happiness Might Appear Before Fortunate Events Occur, Study Says |
... harmonious long-lasting marriage are disposed to feel happy long before the marriage occurred. Otherwise, this evidence was not observed among those who got divorced, for instance.
Thus the study shows that not only our flexibility to life's ups and downs plays an important role for our subjective feeling of happiness. The innate individual differences are claimed to overpower personal ability to adaptation. ... |
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Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming |
... the summit is to consolidate for appeal to policy makers. The latest Congress debates held in Washington, where Bush administration was criticized for inadequate response to global warming danger, showed that there is a necessity for scientific appeal to policy makers. Thus a new committee was called to deal with the issue.
The exploration of both poles will draw the latest technology, including robots and satellites... |
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Chemical Found in Cosmetics, Soaps and Lubricants is Hazardous for Men |
...hlhut stated that phthalates should definitely be in the list of chemicals that require a careful study.
It is worth mentioning that phthalates have been actively used for more than half a century. However, only now did scientist start thinking about the possible health problems to which the chemical might lead. Studies made on animals showed that phthalates consistently depress the levels of testosterone. Recently, whi... |
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Pills Against Insomnia Cause Sleepwalking |
...Ambien and Lunest are often prescribed sleeping pills. These pills, however, cause the most strange side effects. The Food and Drug Administration reported yesterday such strange behavior as eating or driving while asleep.
These reports have provoked the F.D.E. to order the drug makers to make certain fliers for such sleeping drugs, where patients could read detailed instructions on how to use them.
The investigation of... |
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