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Microsoft shows off its new multi touch operating system

Gadgets & Tech – At the All Things Digital conference in San Diego, Bill Gates announced that new forms of communication and interaction with the computer will be used to replace the traditional mouse and keyboard, and gave a demonstration of its new operating system.With touch inputs the new system allows users enlarge and shrink photos, trace routes on maps, pain

Submitted and Voted for on May 29, 2008 08:30am

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The first sequencing of a woman DNA

Health & Fitness – In their journey of better understanding the DNA, Dutch scientists from Leiden University Medical Center have completed the first sequencing of a woman DNA. The encoded DNA belongs to one of their female researchers, clinical geneticist Marjolein Kriek.

Submitted and Voted for on May 28, 2008 08:10am

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Phoenix is in the far north of Mars

Science – Good news from NASA: it seems that the Phoenix, the space ship sent to help research some aspects from Mars has reached its destination and landed safely. Now Phoenix is in the far north of Mars and is gathering samples of the soil and also breathtaking pictures of the arctic planet.

Submitted and Voted for on May 27, 2008 07:46am

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Chances to be hit by asteroids greater than expected

Science – Until recently it was though that the chances for big space rocks to hit Earth are about 1 at a million, but a recent study lead by a Columbia University geophysicist named Dallas Abbott indicates that those odds may not be correct.

Submitted and Voted for on May 26, 2008 05:27am

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Faster Internet one step away

Gadgets & Tech – Today, the fastest Internet is the broadband provided through fiber-optic lines. This type of connection is now up to 10 times faster than broadband by cable lines. But a new Internet generation is on the way since it is estimated that with just some updates broadband via fiber-optic lines could become up to 100 times faster.

Submitted and Voted for on May 24, 2008 08:28am

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Israel will Create a Medical Drone to Evacuate the Wounded

Health & Fitness – Israeli defense companies along with some respected scientist are developing a drone that will be capable of flying over the battlefield at about 10 000 feet(1km) altitude only with 1 medic on board, retrieve the injured soldiers and then fly away with 150 knots(277km/h) to safety.

Submitted and Voted for on May 23, 2008 05:17am

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An Older Brain is Really Wiser than a Young One

Gadgets & Tech – It is often believed that old people forget things like names, dates and so on and you couldn't be more right, it's true. Older brains have a 13% chance only in the USA to decay and suffer from Alzheimer's disease.

Submitted and Voted for on May 22, 2008 11:00am

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Google launched Google Health

Health & Fitness – Google Health was launched on Monday and it's service allowing users to upload and share medical information about their health and others.Patients can this way share experiences with other people, see how people with the same problems reacted to some treatment, or they can share their health information with doctors and receive a proper medical tr

Submitted and Voted for on May 21, 2008 05:28am

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Engineers have designed the self-repairing aircraft

Gadgets & Tech – The self-repairing technique is based on a simple principal: the aircraft has a vascular network, somehow similar to the circulatory systems of animals or plants, so when a bruise of crack in the body of the airplane appears, the resin compose inside the artificial vessels will bleed out, repairing the crack.

Submitted and Voted for on May 20, 2008 04:57am

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Web 2.0 is not bulletproof

Gadgets & Tech – It seems that Web2.0 technologies have caused problems for sites such as Google, TechCrunch, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Salesforce.com.Many of those web pages have sent blank pages, and are vulnerable to outages. Problems that occurred and the lack of many start-ups adequate infrastructure and stable code gave us reasons to believe that Web 2.0 is unrel

Submitted and Voted for on May 18, 2008 04:00pm

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New research on black holes shakes Einstein's theories

Science – In its theory of relativity Einstein claims that black holes are so powerful that they can bend space and time, and they've condensed so much matter and energy into a single point that they could suck in forever anything nearby, including light. The problem with this idea is that in comes against the quantum principal which states that information

Submitted and Voted for on May 18, 2008 02:15am

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Could the China earthquake have been predicted?

Gadgets & Tech – On the afternoon of the May 12, 2008, a terrible earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale hit a mountainous region in Western China inhabited by 15 million people. The worst earthquake that hit China in the last three decades has caused major life loss but according to locals, the disaster could have been avoided, if the authorities would have

Submitted and Voted for on May 16, 2008 05:21am

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Bill Gates wants to turn walls into computers

Gadgets & Tech – In the CEO meeting on Wednesday, Bill Gates presented a prototype technology that is supposed to turn any wall into a computer.The prototype is called TouchWall, measures 4 foot by 6 foot and it is a multi-touch system you can manipulate with your own hands.

Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 07:52am

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Will Phoenix Mars Lander Survive the Landing?

Science – Last week we announced you that the small spacecraft called the Phoenix Mars Lander is scajualed to land on Mars this month, 25 May. More news about the mission is being revealed just as we speak and one of new things we found is that there are a number of rovers and spacecrafts that were sent before in this region of Mars but failed to land and we

Submitted and Voted for on May 14, 2008 06:06am

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New research show microbes are smart

Health & Fitness – You can say a live form is smart when it can, based on some present clues predict what will happen in the future. Intelligence is often associated with the brain and neuronal system, but new research has shown that single cell organism Ã;¢ââ;;¬" like bacteria also have the ability

Submitted and Voted for on May 13, 2008 04:00am