A Google researcher and an MIT computer science grad student are working together to develop new software that will make it easier to move data between smartphones and PCs, a new report revealed. The software, dubbed Deep Shot, was demonstrated at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held last month. It takes advantage of the way that web applications use the URI (Universal Resource Identifier) to describe their stat…
…17;” The ongoing crisis at the stricken, decades-old Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear facility in Japan has focused attention on the safety of plants elsewhere in the world; it prompted the NRC to look at U.S. reactors, and a report is due in July. But the factor of aging goes far beyond the issues posed by the disaster at Fukushima. Commercial nuclear reactors in the United States were designed and licensed for 40 years. When the first ones were…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The government on Friday added formaldehyde, a substance found in plastics and other commonly used products, to a list of known carcinogens and warned that the chemical styrene might cause cancer. In a report prepared for the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), scientists warned that people with higher exposure to formaldehyde were more at risk for nasopharyngeal cancer, myeloid leukemia and ot…
WASHINGTON – Forty years after the explosive leak of the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study chronicling deception and misadventure in U.S. conduct of the Vietnam War, the report is coming out in its entirety on Monday. The 7,000-page report was the WikiLeaks disclosure of its time, a sensational breach of government confidentiality that shook Richard Nixon’s presidency and prompted a Supreme Court fight that advanced press freedom….
Despite an exponential growth in the popularity of mobile and Smartphone devices, consumers are yet to embrace the concept of mobile shopping with arms wide open, a new report claims. The report by the Cambridge, MA based market research company Forrester Research was the outcome of an in-depth study of the rising Smartphone and mobile devices market, and the prevalence of that growth when it comes to mobile shopping. The report by Forr…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration is leading a global effort to establish “shadow” Internet and cellphone systems to help dissidents undermine authoritarian governments, the New York Times reported on Sunday. The effort has quickened since former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s government shut down the country’s Internet in the last days of his rule, said the Times report, which cited planning documents,…