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Warhol-Velvet Underground lawsuit settled in NY
May 30, 2013 8:38 am | by The Associated Press | CommentsA legal fight between the legendary rock band The Velvet Underground and the Andy Warhol Foundation is over. Court papers made public on Wednesday said that a lawsuit brought by the band had been settled. The terms weren't disclosed. The Velvet Underground sued last year after the foundation...
Research in the News: Yale scientists peer into a cell in real time
May 30, 2013 8:01 am | by Yale UniversityYale University | CommentsA dream of scientists has been to visualize details of structures within our cells in real time, a breakthrough that would greatly aid in the study of their function. However, even the best of current microscopes can take minutes to recreate images of the internal machinery of cells at a usable resolution....
EMC boosts buyback, declares dividend
May 30, 2013 7:59 am | by The Associated Press | CommentsEMC Corp. will ramp up its stock buyback program sharply and begin paying a quarterly cash dividend. Shares rose more than 3 percent in premarket trading. EMC buyback authorization was expanded from $1 billion for 2013, to $6 billion over the three-year period ending Dec. 31, 2015. The data...
White Sands builds 'enemy tanks' on budget
May 30, 2013 12:00 am | by U.S. Army | CommentsA target system has gotten an upgrade at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., to become a more accurate, flexible threat representation for use in future training and testing missions in place of real vehicles....
Motorola: 1st US-assembled smartphones coming
May 29, 2013 8:02 pm | by WILL WEISSERT - Associated Press - Associated Press | CommentsCellphone pioneer Motorola is opening a Texas manufacturing facility that will produce the first smartphone ever assembled in the U.S. Motorola Mobility announced Wednesday it will produce its new flagship device, Moto X, in Texas and create 2,000 jobs. The factory will be owned and run by...
Roku raises $60M from Hearst, News Corp, others
May 29, 2013 5:27 pm | by The Associated Press | CommentsRoku Inc., the streaming video device maker, said Wednesday that it has raised $60 million in its sixth round of funding. Media giant Hearst Corp. and an unnamed institutional investor joined existing backers such as News Corp. and its subsidiary British Sky Broadcasting in the round. Roku's...
Iran's approaching vote brings receding Web access
May 29, 2013 3:44 pm | by NASSER KARIMI and BRIAN MURPHY, Associated Press | CommentsFrom a computer keyboard in London, an Iranian emigre plays the role of counselor, social media guru and all-around adviser for Internet users back home seeking ways around the cyber-blocks set up by authorities in Tehran. These have been busy days. His Twitter account - which goes under the handle of Nariman Gharib - registers a steady stream of calls for help from Iran....
Ivory Coast techies elect new 'Web Mayor'
May 29, 2013 3:09 pm | by ROBBIE COREY-BOULET, Associated Press | CommentsA 22-year-old who lives with his parents is the new mayor of Ivory Coast's largest city, at least according to the West African nation's active community of self-described Internet geeks. Abidjan's budding network of bloggers, strategists, designers and Web entrepreneurs organized a separate vote for "Web Mayor," in late April days after Ivorians went to the polls for local elections.
An electrical switch for magnetism
May 29, 2013 11:42 am | by Massachusetts Institute of Technology | CommentsResearchers at MIT have developed a new way of controlling the motion of magnetic domains — the key technology in magnetic memory systems, such as a computer’s hard disk. The new approach requires little power to write and no power to maintain the stored information, and could lead to a new generation of extremely low-power data storage.The new approach controls magnetism by applying a voltage, rather than a magnetic field...
Asia stocks post muted gains on improving US data
May 29, 2013 10:59 am | by PAMELA SAMPSON, AP Business Writer | CommentsRising U.S. consumer confidence and home prices painted a picture of a rebounding economy, helping Asian stock markets to post muted gains Wednesday. Wall Street resumed its record-breaking rally on Tuesday after the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller survey found that U.S. home prices rose 10.9 percent in March, the most since April 2006.
US defense programs target of China cyber threat
May 29, 2013 10:58 am | by LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press | CommentsNew revelations that China used cyberattacks to access data from nearly 40 U.S. weapons programs and almost 30 other defense technologies have increased pressure on American leaders to take more strident action against Beijing to stem the persistent breaches.
Australian lawmaker confirms China hacked spy base
May 29, 2013 10:53 am | by ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press | CommentsChinese hackers stole the blueprints of Australia's new spy agency headquarters years ago and the breach has been dealt with since then, an opposition lawmaker said Wednesday in the first confirmation of media reports. "These events did take place some time ago," senior opposition lawmaker George Brandis told Sky News television...
Ancient cousin of Triceratops highlights turnover among horned dinosaurs
May 29, 2013 10:52 am | by Yale UniversityYale University | CommentsThe earliest known cousin of Triceratops and Torosaurus — the best-known horned dinosaurs — has been identified based on fossils from north central Montana, further underscoring the diversity of large, plant-eating horned dinosaurs among the fauna of western North America 66 to 80 million years ago....
Tightest job market ever for China's college grads
May 29, 2013 10:47 am | by DIDI TANG, Associated Press | CommentsWhile the job market in China is still much better than in many other parts of the world, 2013 is being billed locally as the worst for young graduates. A record number of them — about 7 million — are leaving universities and graduate schools to seek their first employment at a time when companies are hiring fewer people.
How computers can learn better
May 29, 2013 12:00 am | by Massachusetts Institute of Technology | CommentsReinforcement learning is a technique, common in computer science, in which a computer system learns how best to solve some problem through trial-and-error. Classic applications of reinforcement learning involve problems as diverse as robot navigation, network administration and automated surveillance.
