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Obama's Tech Panel Includes Google CEO, Microsoft Executive
President Barack Obama has named a technology panel and on Monday unveiled is included. Among the...
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Brown Fat Makes You Slimmer
A study in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that adults still have a type of fat that...
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Restless Legs Syndrome Associated with Obesity
Having too much belly fat appears to be an increasing risk even for developing restless legs...
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Want to Lose Weight? It’s All about Calories!
When it comes to losing weight everyone is an expert. Everyone, and here I mean women, knows at...
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Want to Lose Weight? Stick to Your Diet, Researchers Say
New research in this week’s issue of The New England Journal of Medicine reveals the secret...
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New Flu Vaccine Based on Human Antibodies May Come in Years
A new vaccine fighting several strains of the flu, including the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu,...
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Coffee “Addicts” May Have Lower Risk of Stroke
Drinking two or more cups of coffee per day appears to reduce the risk for stroke among women,...
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Charles Darwin's 200th Anniversary
February 12 marks the 200th birthday of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin and scientists and...
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Mass. Man Donates $100 M for AIDS Institute
On Wednesday, the Massachusetts General Hospital was donated $100 million to create an...
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Celebrating Black History Month
In February, the time has come to remember and honor the accomplishments of African Americans and...
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Higher Altitude Improves the Effects of Dialysis
Dialysis patients who live at higher altitude have more chances to survive for a longer...
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Human Error Causes Google Glitch
Saturday morning, a misplaced “/” rendered Google Incorporated’s malware...
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Google Error Flags Internet as Malware
On Saturday morning, for a period of almost an hour, Internet surfers who performed Google...
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Shy or Sociable? Your Genes May Decide Your Attitude in a Group
In a recent report conducted by researchers at Harvard and the University of California,...
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Surgeon’s Checklist Could Reduce Surgical Errors
A new study shows that surgeons who used a verbal checklist before, during and after the...
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Simple Checklist Reduces Risk of Accidental Deaths in Surgery
Wednesday, doctors reported that a simple checklist made out to confirm a patient’s name, the...
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New Obesity Treatment Discovered
One of the most widespread conditions in the United States is obesity. Except for being a...
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Milky Way Heavier, Spinning Faster
We’re spinning faster than ever thought, and we’re more likely than ever to...
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Vitamins Unable To Lower Cancer Risk
Beta carotene and vitamin C and E supplements failed in preventing cancer in women, the authors of...
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Vitamins C, E And Beta Carotene Don’t Prevent Cancer
New research shows that vitamin C and E supplements and beta carotene don't prevent cancer in...
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Research Shows No Benefit from Vitamin Supplements in Cancer Prevention
A new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, adds to other studies...
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Harvard Political Scientists Dies At The Age Of 81
Dr. Samuel Huntington, one of the nation's preeminent political scientists and a longstanding...
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"Clash of Civilizations" author Samuel Huntington dies at 81
Washington - Influential political scientist and former Harvard professor Samuel Phillips...
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Dark Energy And The Expansion Of The Universe
During a press conference today, NASA announced the fact that new measurements from the Chandra...
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Happiness Is Just Like the Flu: Contagious
A study
that monitored 4,700 over a period of 20 years found that a person’s
neighbours’ or...
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Study: Happiness Is Contagious
A study
published Friday in the British journal BMJ, authored by Dr. Nicholas A.
Christakis, a...
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New Harvard Research Investigates the Causes of Aging
Harvard Medical School scientists claim to have discovered a mechanism that may be the
universal...
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Genetic Screening for Diabetes No More Useful than Traditional Methods
Genetic testing to see someone’s predisposition to type 2 diabetes
is not significantly better...
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No Significant Difference between Genetic Testing, Traditional Methods in Predicting Type 2 Diabetes
The results of genetic testing for Type 2
diabetes are not significantly better than an assessment...
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US Chronically Ill Patients Complain More about Health Care
US
chronically ill patients often skip medical care due to high costs or medical
errors compared...
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World
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IBM, Harvard To Create Cheap, Efficient Solar Cells
Researchers from IBM and Harvard University are joining forces to create the World Community Grid...
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Happiness Is in the Air!
Happiness is in the air at least that is the conclusion of a
new study published in the British...
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US In Year-Long Recession, Top Economic Arbiter Declares
Washington - The United States has been in a recession since December 2007, the country's official...
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Internet Companies And Human Rights Organizations Fight For Freedom Of Speech
In some states, censorship reaches frightening new standards. Just take into consideration the...
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PG Project Makes Available The Personal Genome Of Volunteers
The genomes of 10 people, volunteers in the
Harvard Medical School’s
Personal Genome Project,...
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Exposure To Air Pollution Harms Patients With Coronary Artery Disease
Exposure to traffic fumes increases the
risk of heart attack, or strokes and potentially fatal...
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Harvard No.1 University Says Latest US News List
According to the new U.S. News & World Report college rankings, Harvard University is not only...
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Obama's Kin to Burnish American Image at Convention
Washington - There are few things more American than basketball and "family...
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Unabomber Opposes Cabin Display at Washington Newseum
“Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski wrote a letter to a
three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals...
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Roy Huffington, Oilman and Philanthropist, dies at 90
Roy Huffington, an oilman and philanthropist who was an ambassador
to Austria, died Friday,
while...
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Texas: Prison Officials Stop Execution
Tuesday night, Charles Dean Hood, from Texas, should have been executed, but he got
lucky, as...
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Yale to Raise Enrollment by 15% - Biggest in Four Decades
Yale University, the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, has...
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Taiwan Elects President, Holds Referendum over U.N.
Taiwan’s next president, on which about Seventeen million eligible voters will decide...
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Another Freak Tornado Hits Arkansas, Midwest
After the freak tornados battered the surprising warm Midwest and wrecked numerous houses, another...
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Business
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The Settlement Between Facebook and ConnectU Involved $65 Million
The amount of money needed by Facebook for last year’s settlement...
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Facebook Just Turned Five Years Old
Social networking Web site Facebook is celebrating its fifth birthday today.
The company used the...
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Facebook Goes More Social Than Ever
Facebook is currently the Internet’s largest social networks, although it was opened just 4 years...
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Google Settles Copyright Lawsuits With Publishers And Authors
Google
Incorporated was reported to have been scheduled to pay $125 million in order
to settle...
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Facebook Executive Leaves The Company
Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of social-networking site, Facebook Inc., announced he would leave the...
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FCC vs. Comcast: Freedom Fighter vs. Grand Inquisitor?
The recent FCC decision to enforce action against Comcast over its network management policies...
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Facebook, MySpace Or Both?
The stats recently presented by the research company
ComScore show that Facebook’s popularity has...
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Bill Gates Prepares A New Chapter In His Life, Without Microsoft
Bill Gates is just one week away from his official
retirement announced for the 1st of July. He...
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Comcast Takes Another Damage Control Step
Comcast has taken another step to contain damage after coming under heavy fire for its interference...
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Comcast Denies Claims Of Network Discrimination
Comcast, the US
second-largest Internet provider, told the FCC in formal comments that its
policy...
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Delta COO Jim Whitehurst Resigned
Jim Whitehurst, the Chief Operating Officer of Delta Air Lines, Inc., who played a key role in...
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People
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Renee Zellweger Puts Her Fat Suit On
Being picked as the winner for the Woman of the Year award at the annual Hasty Pudding Awards,...
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John Updike Passed Away
John Updike, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction novels capturing the mood and emotions...
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Fellow Writers Remember Late US Novelist John Updike
Tributes to Pulitzer Prize winner John Updike, who died Tuesday after losing the battle with lung...
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The World Is Facing a Great Loss: John Updike
John Updike’s publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, announced that Updike, who lived in Beverly Farms,...
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Ann Romney, Fine After Surgery
Ann Romney, the wife of former governor Mitt Romney, has recently
announced that she has been...
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Michael Crichton, Author of Jurassic Park, Dies of Cancer at 66
Michael Crichton, aged 66, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday. According to the release issued by his...
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Jennifer Hudson Engaged to David Otunga
Jennifer Kate Hudson got engaged. The American actress, singer and model received the engagement...
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Peaches Geldof Marries Boyfriend Max Drummey in Las Vegas
Peaches Geldof and her boyfriend Max Drummey got married
yesterday in Las Vegas.
The two have...
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Conan O'Brien's Holy Stalker Pleads Guilty
A Boston catholic priest, who made headlines last year when he was arrested and charged with...
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Paris Hilton Honored With Harvard Lampoon’s ‘Woman Of The Year’
On Wednesday, former hotel heiress Paris Hilton was officially honored with the "Woman of the...
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Paris Hilton Harvard Lampoon’s ‘Woman of the Year’
Paris Hilton will be receiving the award for the “Woman of
the Year” named so by Harvard Lampoon...
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Al Gore III Pleads Guilty And He Is Sentenced To Drug Rehab
Albert Arnold Gore III, the son of the former US Vice
President Al Gore, pleaded guilty Monday to...
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Bill Gates Receives Honorary Degree from Harvard
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University and bravely pursued his dreams....
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Science
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New Flu Vaccine Based On Human Antibodies May Come In Years
A new vaccine fighting several strains of the flu, including the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu,...
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Cleaner Air Equals Longer Life
The battle against pollution has been one of the biggest concerns over the past two decades. And...
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Newer Antipsychotics Double Heart Risks
The latest generation of antipsychotic drugs appears to be twice as likely to cause sudden...
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Researchers Find Simple Checklist To Be Really Useful For Surgical Teams
Researchers have just announced on Tuesday that a few simple steps may help doctors and nurses from...
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Study: Google Searches - The Silent Carbon Dioxide Producers
Google searchers could count among the most popular activities in the world at this moment;...
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Non-Profit Group Seeking Nationwide Ban On Cell Phone Use While Driving
The National Safety Council is supporting a ban on cell phone use while driving across the United...
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Milky Way on Collision Course With Andromeda Galaxy
Since Aristotle’s first theory on the Milky Way to present times, there’s still...
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We Actually Live in a Super Milky Way!
The fact that the Milky Way is much smaller than the Andromeda Galaxy, which is our nearest...
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Milky Way Heavier, Spinning Faster, Heading For Collision
We’re spinning faster than ever thought, and we’re more likely than ever to...
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Studies Show That the Universe Is Expanding
Recent observation on the Universe made astronomers believe that the Universe is indeed expanding...
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Shedding Some Light on Dark Energy
Some while ago, when scientists began talking about the hypothetical “dark energy” filling the...
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The Dark Energy Is In Charge With the Expansion of the Universe
During a press conference today, NASA announced the fact that new measurements from the Chandra...
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Upset? Call a Friend Near You!
Happiness seems to be transmitted through social networks, almost like a germ is spread through...
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Study Says Happiness Is Contagious
A study
published Friday in the British journal BMJ, authored by Dr. Nicholas A.
Christakis, a...
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Harvard Scientists Unravel The Secret Of Aging
As we get older, our health becomes our worst enemy. What’s
the secret of living a longer healthy...
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Penn State Scientists Untangle Woolly Mammoth Genetic Code
Penn State University scientists are to first to untangle the genetic code of an extinct animal,...
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Study: Vitamin C, E Supplements Fail To Reduce Cancer Risk
A series of studies have lately shown that vitamins don’t reduce
cancer risk. Just two weeks ago,...
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First Snaps of Distant Solar System Released by NASA
Recently,
two teams of astronomers that managed to capture the first images of
planets that are...
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Nearby Solar System Strongly Resembles Our Own
It appears that a nearby solar system closely resembles our own solar system, raising the...
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Harvard Gene Project Posts DNA Data Of 10 Volunteers Online
Hoping to give medical research a big push forward, the Harvard University Medical School made the...
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European Scientists Find New Source Of Stem Cells
European researchers made a huge step in stem cell research
by converting cells from human...
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Martin Chalfie, Roger Tsien - US scientists
Washington - Martin Chalfie, a professor of biological sciences at Columbia University in New York,...
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Ig Nobel Prize Winners Know How To Make Potato Chips Sound Fresher
Each year, around the time when the Nobel Prize recipients
are announced, the Ig Nobel Prize...
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Update: Stem Cells Research Could Become Safer
Researchers took one more step toward so-called regenerative
medicine by developing a safer way of...
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New Ancient Ant Species Found
Mr. Christian Rabeling, a graduate student at the University
of Texas at Austin, is the man...
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Virtual Telescope Takes Closer Look At Milky Way's Central Black Hole
Astronomers at the MIT Haystack Observatory, in
collaboration with a team of international...
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Stem Cell Research Breakthrough Reported By Project A.L.S.
Scientists from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), while working alongside colleagues from...
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Scientists Re-Create Fully Functional Human Blood Vessels In Mice
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US Researchers Identify Autism Genes Heightening Hope for Cure
A genetic research on more than 100 families prone to autism
by Harvard researchers shed new light...
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Serotonin Imbalance May Be Responsible for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
A study by Italian researchers may offer the answer to sudden infant death syndrome, the third...
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Technology
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Facebook reaches milestone: 200 million users
San Francisco - Five years after it was founded in a Harvard dorm room, the online social...
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Facebook – Five Years and 150 Million Users Later
Five years ago, social networking sites were just beginning to emerge and gain popularity. Now,...
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Google’s Error Draws Attention on Some Important Questions
The Google, “human error”-caused glitch which practically broke the Internet for about...
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Court Allows Webcast For RIAA&Tenenbaum Lawsuit
Amazing as it seems, internet users worldwide will have the opportunity on Thursday to see a...
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Google Denies Accusations About CO2 Emissions
A recent research by Harvard University physicist, Alex Wissner-Gross, seemed to reveal...
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Google Book Search Has Now Magazine Content
Google’s project to scan and digitize books has from now on
a new addition: magazines.
The new...
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Internet Companies and Human Rights Organizations Fight for Freedom of Speech
In some states, censorship reaches frightening new standards. Just take into consideration the...
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Facebook Executive Leaves the Company
Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of social-networking site, Facebook Inc., announced he would leave the...
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Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz Leaves To Start Own Company
Along with Facebook’s current CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin
Moskovitz founded the social networking...
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Aaron Sorkin Exchanges White House Staff for the Facebook Network
Creator of successful productions, such as “The West Wing”
and “A Few Good Men,” screenwriter...
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Georgia Is Still Searching For Its Cyber-Attacker
The confrontations between Russia and Georgia have been set
on more than one dimension, as before...
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Three Of Five FCC Commissioners Want Comcast Punished For Throttling
Three of the five FCC commissioners allegedly voted to punish Comcast for throttling Internet...
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Medpedia, The Online Collaborative Project On Health
Almost everyone who uses the Internet surely knows about
Wikipedia, the largest online...
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Update: FCC Says Comcast Must Stop Bandwidth Throttling
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said that he wants Comcast to stop its...
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Bill Gates Gives Up Microsoft for Philanthropy Foundation
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corp., a Harvard
drop-out, one of the world’s richest men and...
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Hackers At Harvard! University Admits Security Breach
Once they put their mind into
it, hackers are perfectly capable of breaking even the most ‘secure’...
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Study Warns: Heart Defibrillators Vulnerable To Hacker Attacks
U.S. researchers unveiled on Wednesday
that even humans can be vulnerable to hacker attacks. How...
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Comcast Criticized over Net Limiting, Seat Warming and Nonsense
A simple test by the AP last October has found that Comcast appears to interfere with the...
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Internet Safety Task Force To Protect Teens From Online Attacks
Internet and children, that is
truly something we should be concerned about, as more online...
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Comcast Limits Both P2P File Sharing And Seats To FCC Hearing?
Comcast Corp. denied accusations
of unfair treatment towards its users through limiting...
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First Amendment Challenged: Wikileaks Shut by Ca. Judge
A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the shutdown of an anonymous whistleblower site,...
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Sears Web Site Breaks Customer Privacy Policy
Antispyware researchers alleged
that Sears has been violating the privacy policies of its...
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Chinese Web Censorship Takes Effect January 31
Chinese authorities announced
that the broadcasting of Internet videos will be limited to sites...
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Apple and ThinkSecret.com Reached Settlement
Apple and Nicholas M. Ciarelli,
the young man behind the popular Apple rumors web site...
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Facebook Apologizes for Tracking Ads Snafu
As it turns out, Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally realized what everybody else understood...
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Facebook’s Founder Sues An Online Magazine over Privacy Charge
Ironically or not, Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg’s
privacy was violated by a minor...
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Politics 2.0, Facebook Teams Up With ABC News
Clearly, there are a lot of things happening lately on
Facebook. After earlier this month, the...
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The Federal Communications Commission Asked to Check on Comcast
In the recent weeks another
scandal has hit the virtual world of the Internet. It has all started...
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Facebox Discloses Profile Details To Public Search
The famous social networking site Facebox makes a dangerous move towards openness/ privacy...
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Facebook Founder Accused of IP Theft
Mark Zuckerberg, everyone’s favorite Web 2.0 child prodigy, is being confronted with intellectual...
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Health
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Psoriasis May Lead to Diabetes and High Blood Pressure
A new study published in the April edition of the journal Archives of Dermatology concludes that...
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Drinking coffee could lower stroke risk for women
Boston/Berlin - Women who enjoy drinking coffee may be lowering their risk of suffering a stroke,...
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Brown Fat May Help People Fight Obesity
How many times have you heard your friends complaining of being fat? Or how many times you wished...
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Belly Fat Tied to Increased Risk for Restless Legs Syndrome
Excess fat around the waistline has long been blamed for increasing the risk of heart disease,...
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Polypill Could Dramatically Reduce Heart Disease Risk One Day
A new five-in-one “polypil” could reduce the risk of heart attack one day, according...
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Rapid Weight Gain in Early Infancy Predisposes to Childhood Obesity
I am sure every mommy is happy to see her baby has a good appetite. Even more, they don’t...
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Adoption of Electronic Medical Records Going Slow in US Hospitals
According to a survey published online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine, only 9...
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Eat Less Red or Processed Meat! Live Longer!
Eating too much red meat might put you at risk of dying early from cancer, heart disease and...
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Three out of Four Emergency Response Recruits Is either Overweight or Obese
A study by researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Harvard...
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Religious Cancer Patients More Likely to Get Aggressive End-of-Life Care
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association notes that religious...
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It’s All About Calories
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center...
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If You Want to Lose Weight, Count Your Calories
Wednesday, the largest-ever controlled study of weight-loss methods was published in the...
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Any Diet Is Good for Losing Weight as long as You Stick to It!
Losing weight has always been a problem for overweight and obese people. There are so many books,...
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Diabetes during Pregnancy Doubles the Risk for Postpartum Depression
Many studies have shown that some women are at increased risk of experiencing depression during...
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Scientists Make Astonishing Breakthrough in the Flight against Flu
Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in...
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Women Who Enjoy Coffee Have Lower Stroke Risk
Women who enjoy coffee on daily basis have a lower risk of stroke, according to a study to be...
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$100 million Gift for AIDS Institute
AIDS researchers hailed a $100 million gift from a Cambridge technology magnate that will create an...
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Can Animal Eggs Be Used to Create Embryonic Stem Cells?
A new study shows that animal eggs are not capable of reprogramming human DNA in the right way to...
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Stem Cell Research Moves Forward
As President Barack Obama is expected to lift federal restrictions on the field of stem cell...
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Genetics Has the Answer to Popularity
It's no surprise that there's a gene in congeniality. Apparently, how easy you make friends...
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Genes Determine How Popular One Can Actually Become
According to a new study by researchers in the U.S., your popularity and social skills may weigh...
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Genes May Give You A Hint On Your Popularity
Have you ever wondered what makes you popular or not? Apparently, the genes you inherited from...
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Reduced Air Pollution Adds Years To Your Life
Pollution has always been thought to reduce survival due to its noxious effects on people’s...
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Checklists Might Reduce Risks During And After The Surgery
Simple checklists before, during and after the surgery might reduce the number of surgery-related...
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Newer Antipsychotics Pose Heart Risk
The findings of a new study add to the growing number of studies criticizing the class of newer...
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Researchers Find Simple Steps To Be Really Useful For Surgical Teams
Researchers have just announced on Tuesday that a few simple steps may help doctors and nurses from...
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In Vitro Fertilization Treatments, an Option to Reconsider for Women Under 35
A new study raises hopes for young couples who decide to choose in vitro fertilization. In the...
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Newer Antipsychotics Increase Heart Risk
The latest generation of antipsychotic drugs appears to be twice as likely to cause sudden...
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Surgeon’s Checklist May Reduce Surgical Errors
A new study shows that surgeons who used a verbal checklist before, during and after the...
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Two Existing Drugs May Help Obese People Lose Weight
Two drugs already approved by the Food and Drug Administration together with hormone leptin may...
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