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New Technology to Prevent DVD Theft |
 ...DVDs are soon to be protected by a new technology that aims towards preventing theft. The DVD disks are unplayable until the cash register activates them. The new technology represents a small chip (smaller than a pin's head) which is placed onto the disc together with a thin coating. The latter blocks a DVD player, not allowing it to read the necessary information stored on the disk.
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Second Smallest Country on Earth is Disappearing |
 ...urces to sell to the world. The main industries are fishing and tourism. Human waste and trash used to turn into gas has become a major problem for Tuvalu. It will take several decades to accommodate new technology into local environment. However, soon Tuvalu may be called the first nation of environmental refugees.
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New Tool to Link Web 2.0 and Search |
 ...A Pittsburgh search software private enterprise that creates and markets software products for improving web and enterprise search, Vivisimo Inc., launched a new technology, which is able to provide connection between Web 2.0 concepts, including social networking, and enterprise search. Thus, the new technology could help companies to exploit their corporate collective knowledge.
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4D Ultrasounds Challenge Abortion Laws |
 ...imiting the time of late-term abortions in the US and the UK to 18 weeks instead of 24 . Many doctors consider the foetus to be able to feel pain and have behavioral capacities by this period.
The new technology would become the best argument to prove the personhood of the foetus at earlier stages of development. Traditional 2D images were mostly readable by doctors while more advanced 3D images could produce still b... |
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The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away |
 ...ed their researches to genetics. Their researches have brought them to breaking discoveries concerning embryonic stem cells and ways of recombining the DNA code in mammals. These discoveries led to a new technology, named gene targeting in mice. This technology is applied in many areas of biomedicine, which encompasses basic experiments, researches and development of therapies.
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Flash Memory Will Soon Become Obsolete |
 ...tionally used for storage, when electrodes were moving between ions, in a new method nanoionics move the ions themselves, which enables to switch the resistance of electrodes from high to low.
The new technology is expected to be used in commercial products in about 18 months. Such companies as Micron Technology, Samsung, Sony and IBM are already interested in using this technology.
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Apple Introduces the Multi-Touch Touchpad with the New MacBook Air |
 ...dly finger movements for such operations as copying and pasting. The multi-touch technology is predicted to be widely used with new applications and games. It is also known that Apple plans using the new technology with the upcoming models of traditional MacBooks. However it is not known whether it would be possible upgrading the current MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks to be able to use these new technologies. The multi... |
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Innovative Cell-Based Sensors to Detect Danger Immediately |
 ...p new sensors that will use sensory capabilities of biological cells to sense the danger.
The study conducted at University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering is aimed at creating new technology that will incorporate biological cells on a microchip. The small sensors will be only a few millimeters in size, being faster and more precise than today's biochemical detectors.
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L.A. Plans to Recycle Waste Water for Drinking |
 ...nts. People will be encouraged to switch to low water-consuming washing machines and urged to water lawns and wash vehicles at certain time and in certain amounts.
It is also expected to introduce new technology for water conservation in homes and businesses. This includes waterless urinals, weather-sensitive sprinkler systems and porous parking lot paving to filter water into groundwater supplies.
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Japanese to Create New Generation Wearable Gadgets |
 ... on a digital music player by simply rolling his eyes. In addition, whenever he wanted to apply fast-forward function he just tweaked his eyes twice to the right.
According to the researchers, the new technology will make it possible for the mobile phone cameras to read bar codes for receiving data and download music when a person just looks at the codes. Mr. Fukumoto presented a wearable cell phone that has the shape ... |
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New Technologies Show the Complex Structure of the Brain |
 ...e help of such diffusion estimations scientists are able to observe the wires, building a meticulous image of the brain's connectivity.
In the field of medicine, specialists are starting to use the new technology in order to observe the brain before such surgeries as tumor removal. They map the brain to avoid vital fiber tracts.
Together with other researchers, Wedeen used the diffusion imaging for a clearer understan... |
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Japanese Temple Offers High-Tech Grave |
 ...llion yen, which is somewhere between $18,000 and $27,000. The developers of a high-tech multi-storey vault managed to cut these costs three times and now more people are looking forward to apply the new technology.
For instance, a 79-year-old Shinya Shimada is now paying his respect to the ancestors by visiting a contemporary vault, instead of a traditional one.
"Initially, I was a bit uncomfortable with a high-t... |
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