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Paper: Federal law needed to safeguard 'digital afterlives'
September 27, 2012 8:54 am | by Eurekalert! | News | CommentsFederal law ought to play a stronger role in regulating social networking sites by allowing users to determine what happens to their "digital afterlives," says a recently published paper by a University of Illinois expert in intellectual property law. Allowing social networking sites to set their own policies regarding the content associated with the accounts of deceased users does
Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing's centenary
September 27, 2012 8:50 am | by EurekAlert! | News | CommentsAn artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like than half the humans it competed against. The competition was sponsored by 2K Games and was set inside the virtual world of "Unreal Tournament 2004,"
NYC auction offers 125 meteorites for sale
September 27, 2012 8:48 am | by ULA ILNYTZKY Associated Press | News | CommentsA New York City auction will offer 125 meteorites for sale, including a large chunk of the moon and a 179-pound iron cosmic rock that evokes Edvard Munch's iconic painting "The Scream." The sale, one of the largest of its kind, is being held by the Dallas-based Heritage Auctions on Oct. 14.
Digi adds data visualization tools and alarms…
September 27, 2012 8:00 am | by Digi International | News | CommentsDigi adds data visualization tools and alarms management features to iDigi Device Cloud...
DC Building Power Asia 2012 to be Hosted in Shanghai: Call For Papers Issued
September 27, 2012 3:00 am | by PowerPulse.net | News | CommentsAn Announcement and Call for Papers has been issued for the Fourth-Annual DC Building Power Asia conference (DCBPA \'12) to be held in December in Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China. Building on the success......
Mr. Sexy Back tries to bring Myspace back
September 26, 2012 5:27 pm | by BARBARA ORTUTAY - AP Technology Writer - Associated Press | News | Comments"Who am I to say I want you back? When you were never mine to give away." Those are the opening lines of a song that accompanies a "New Myspace" promotional video. The once-mighty social network is trying to stage yet another comeback with the help of Justin Timberlake. The new site, for which...
Switch provides linearity of 115 dBm IIP2
September 26, 2012 4:08 pm | Product Releases | CommentsPeregrine Semiconductor Corporation announced the expansion of its high-linearity, low insertion loss RF switch family with the availability of the HaRP technology-enhanced SPDT PE42422 RF switch. The new switch provides linearity of 115 dBm IIP2, and 70 dBm IIP3; low insertion loss of 0.4 dB @ 3 GHz, and high isolation of 28 dB @ 3 GHz...
Ultra-broadband directional coupler covers 1.0 GHz to 50.0 GHz
September 26, 2012 3:55 pm | Product Releases | CommentsKRYTAR announces a new directional coupler offering high performance over the ultra-broadband frequency range of 1.0 to 50.0 GHz, in a single, compact and lightweight package. KRYTAR’s new directional coupler expands its family of superior performance products offering ultra-broadband coverage in compact packages.
IBM Argentina lays off hundreds due to labor costs
September 26, 2012 3:13 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A union for workers at IBM Argentina says the company has initiated a plan to lay off 500 workers in the next few months. Asked for comment Wednesday, the company sent a statement to The Associated Press saying only that "change is constant in the technology...
Yahoo gives new CFO big raise to leave his old job
September 26, 2012 2:23 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsYahoo's new chief financial officer is getting a big raise to join the struggling Internet company. Ken Goldman, who will become Yahoo's CFO next month, is starting out with an annual salary of $600,000 and could earn a bonus of up to $540,000, according to documents filed Wednesday. He is also...
DC-DC converters deliver a regulated 12V output at 240 Watts
September 26, 2012 1:31 pm | Murata Power Solutions Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsMurata Power Solutions announced the RBE series of fully isolated DC-DC converters, designed for a broad range of applications including 12 VDC intermediate bus architectures or distributed power-based applications used in servers, wireless base-stations, data storage, telecom switches and networking equipment.
Singing in the brain
September 26, 2012 1:09 pm | by EurekAlert! | News | CommentsWhat does anger sound like? What music does sorrow imply? Human emotion is being given a new soundtrack thanks to an exciting new collaboration between art and neuroscience. Concordia University researcher Erin Gee is taking feelings to a new level by tapping directly into the human brain, delivering music powered purely by the human body and its emotions.
Widespread use of digital "wallets" to take time: Canada panel
September 26, 2012 1:02 pm | by Cameron French, Reuters | News | CommentsCanadian banks and telecom providers are scrambling to introduce smartphone digital "wallets," but the dream of completely abandoning the traditional billfold in favor of a smartphone is likely several years away, according to speakers at an e-commerce conference in Toronto on Tuesday.
China solar groups reject illegal subsidy complaint
September 26, 2012 1:01 pm | News | CommentsYingli Green Energy and Trina Solar, two of China's largest solar equipment makers, rejected on Wednesday allegations by a group of European solar panel companies that Chinese rivals are benefiting from illegal subsidies. In a complaint to the European Commission on Tuesday, the EU ProSun group said Chinese solar companies benefited from very low interest rates thanks to government policy.
New Audi wagon: Off-road not so much
September 26, 2012 12:51 pm | by ANN M. JOB - For The Associated Press - Associated Press | News | CommentsSome seven years after it left American shores, the Audi allroad returns as a more fuel efficient and quicker wagon with proper German road manners and toned-down off-road capability. The air suspension and heavy weight are gone. So are the thirsty V-6 and V-8. Instead, the new-for-2013 Audi...
