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An electronic nose can tell pears and apples apart
May 8, 2013 11:41 am | by EurekAlert! | CommentsSwedish and Spanish engineers have created a system of sensors that detects fruit odors more effectively than the human sense of smell. For now, the device can distinguish between the odorous compounds emitted by pears and apples. Researchers have created an electronic nose with 32 sensors...
Cyberattacks a growing irritant in US-China ties
May 8, 2013 11:24 am | by CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press | CommentsSigns are growing that the sustained surge in cyberattacks emanating from China is imperiling its relations with the U.S., lending urgency to fledgling efforts by both governments to engage on the issue. The Pentagon this week said China appeared to be cyberspying against the U.S. government...
Trulia buying Market Leader for more than $300M
May 8, 2013 7:39 am | by The Associated Press | CommentsReal estate website operator Trulia is buying real estate software provider Market Leader Inc. for more than $300 million in cash and stock. Market Leader teams up with real estate brokerages and franchisors to help their agents manage their leads and convert those leads into closings. Trulia...
Dow closes above 15,000 for first time; what next?
May 8, 2013 6:06 am | by BERNARD CONDON - AP Business Writers - Associated Press | CommentsThe Dow Jones industrial average closed above 15,000 for the first time Tuesday. An improving outlook for the economy and record corporate earnings are persuading investors to buy stocks. Federal Reserve stimulus is also helping. The Dow has gained 15 percent this year. It has more than doubled...
iPhone helps Deutsche Telekom US customer numbers
May 8, 2013 1:45 am | by The Associated Press | CommentsDeutsche Telekom says its net income rose 3.5 percent in the first quarter as the company saw smaller deductions for the depreciation of its U.S. business. Net profit was 564 million euros ($739 million), up from 545 million euros in the same quarter a year ago. The company said Wednesday it had...
Biomaterial Shows Promise for Type 1 Diabetes Treatment
May 8, 2013 12:00 am | by Georgia Institute of Technology | CommentsResearchers have made a significant first step with newly engineered biomaterials for cell transplantation that could help lead to a possible cure for Type 1 diabetes, which affects about 3 million Americans. ...
Microsoft extends search guarantee in Yahoo deal
May 7, 2013 9:09 pm | by The Associated Press | CommentsMicrosoft has extended a guarantee that provides Yahoo with financial protection as part of the two companies' Internet search partnership. An arrangement requiring Microsoft Corp. to pay Yahoo Inc. a minimum amount per search on Yahoo's website expired March 31. That had raised concerns Yahoo...
WebMD CEO Redmond steps down
May 7, 2013 6:37 pm | by The Associated Press | CommentsWebMD Health Corp. said Tuesday that CEO Cavan Redmond is leaving the company after less than a year on the job. Redmond is stepping down as CEO and from the board of directors effective immediately. David Schlanger, WebMD's head of strategic and corporate development, will take over as interim...
Internet firms say Syria goes offline again
May 7, 2013 6:22 pm | by BARBARA ORTUTAY - AP Technology Writer - Associated Press | CommentsSyria is experiencing an Internet outage similar to a two-day blackout late last fall, according to companies that monitor online traffic around the world. Jim Cowie, the chief technology officer at Renesys, said his firm saw Syria's networks go offline abruptly at 6:25 p.m. UTC (2:25 p.m. EDT)...
Funding clean-energy solutions
May 7, 2013 5:27 pm | by Massachusetts Institute of Technology | CommentsThe sixth annual MIT Clean Energy Prize (CEP) competition, held Monday night, awarded a total of $320,000 to five teams that have developed clean-energy startups and innovations. The contest, co-sponsored by Massachusetts utility NSTAR and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and open to teams from any American university, is the nation’s leading student-run energy business-plan competition. Past participants have gone on to raise a to...
CommVault says strong demand helps 4Q
May 7, 2013 3:27 pm | by The Associated Press | CommentsCommVault Systems Inc. reported Tuesday that its fiscal fourth-quarter profit soared thanks to major revenue gains by the data and information management software company. The OceanPort, N.J.-based company earned $17 million, or 35 cents per share, for the quarter that ended March 31. That...
Research in the news: Real-time brain feedback can help people overcome anxiety
May 7, 2013 2:34 pm | by Yale UniversityYale University | CommentsPeople provided with a real-time readout of activity in specific regions of their brains can learn to control that activity and lessen their anxiety, according to new findings published online in the journal Translational Psychiatry....
CSAIL graduate honored with ACM award
May 7, 2013 2:10 pm | by Massachusetts Institute of Technology | CommentsShyamnath Gollakota, an MIT graduate who completed his doctoral research in Professor Dina Katabi’s Networks@MIT research group at CSAIL, has won the 2012 Doctoral Dissertation Award presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Gollakota was honored for his work designing practical systems that transform wireless systems by embracing the phenomenon of interference and rendering it harmless.Instead of trying to hide the ...
Science Xplained: Ice cream chemistry
May 7, 2013 1:45 pm | by Yale UniversityYale University | CommentsAinissa Ramirez, associate professor of mechanical engineering, describes the science behind a tasty bit of chemistry — ice cream. She shows how to make ice cream using liquid nitrogen, which is as cold as the surface of Neptune, and describes why these cold temperatures makes ice cream, creamier. She demonstrates how our knowledge of how ice freezes can be applied to ice cream and avalanches....
Saurabh Amin to be chief scientist on multi-institutional NSF grant
May 7, 2013 1:21 pm | by Massachusetts Institute of Technology | CommentsAssistant Professor Saurabh Amin of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is the chief scientist and lead MIT principal investigator on a multi-institutional grant announced last week by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant is one of two awards totaling $14 million for research projects that are e...
