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Researcher Claims Magnets Can Affect Blood Viscosity

Staff — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:42:00 +0000

BuzzSkyline writes “A few minutes in a high magnetic field (1.3 Tesla) is enough to thin blood by 30%, potentially leading to a new drug-free therapy to prevent heart attacks. The powerful field causes blood cells to line up in chains that flow much more easily than randomly-scattered individual cells, according to research scheduled to appear this month in the journal Physical Review E.” I can’t help thinking of Penn & Teller’s look at magnets-as-medicine, though at least the idea here described sounds testable and doesn’t rely on the power of suggestion.

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Lodsys Sues 7 iPhone Devs Over Patent Infringement Claims

Staff — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:19:00 +0000

Dachannien writes “Patently-O and Ars Technica report that Lodsys has filed suit [here's the complaint] in the Eastern District of Texas against seven iPhone developers, asserting that the defendants are infringing two patents. Apple had previously indicated their belief that all iPhone developers are protected by a licensing agreement that Apple had made with the patents’ former assignee, Intellectual Ventures. But Lodsys insists that the defendants are nonetheless liable for infringement. Still an open question is whether Apple will go beyond the mailing of strongly worded letters in defending third-party iPhone devs.”

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AMD Opens Israeli R&D Center, Hints At ARM Link

Staff — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:56:00 +0000

siliconbits writes “We’ve learnt that AMD will open a new research and development center in Israel in the Tel-Aviv area, one which will be built around Graphic Remedy, the small startup they purchased in September 2010 and which specialises in development tools for heterogeneous computing and 3D graphics. Although the chip company hasn’t published any press releases yet, the news is a clear indication that AMD sees its future (and its survival) in a more fragmented market where x86 is no longer the dominating platform.”

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Linux Video Tutorials From 1995

Staff — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:38:00 +0000

An anonymous reader writes “Given that this year marks the 20th Anniversary of the Linux kernel, it is hardly surprising that anyone digging into their media collection might pull out something interesting, such as video tutorials on how to install early version of now popular distributions, like Slackware or Red Hat”

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AC/DC Music Attracts Great White Sharks

Staff — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:33:00 +0000

bazzalunatic writes “It turns out great white sharks can be lured underwater to cages by playing hits from AC/DC — specifically ‘Shook me all night long’. Matt Waller, a shark diving tour operator in Australia, has found this curious fact. But it’s not just any song, as the sharks weren’t attracted by other tunes. Matt suspects the sharks are attracted to the low frequencies found in AC/DC’s music. One wonders if they’ll be turned off by Celine Dion music — a new type of shark repellent perhaps?”

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Google WebRTC: Can It Replace Skype?

Staff — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:58:00 +0000

mikejuk writes “Google WebRTC, all open source, is part of the web revolution that allows one browser to talk directly to another without the need for a server getting involved. WebRTC is an API that used the new P2P web API to allow developers to implement audio and video communications using direct P2P links between browsers. This really is a game changer.”
And, while this feature doesn’t seem to have gotten a lot of attention so far, Google Voice can call landline and cell phones for a small fee, just like Skype.

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Anatomy of a Privacy Nightmare

Staff — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:17:00 +0000

itwbennett writes “Gennette Cordova knows first-hand how impossible it is to erase yourself from the Internet. The 21-year-old college student was the hapless recipient of a photo of a Congressman Anthony Weiner bulging in his boxers. Ms. Cordova then ‘watched in sheer disbelief as my name, age, location, links to any social networking site I’ve ever used, my old phone numbers and pictures have been passed along from stranger to stranger.’ She then tried to remove her personal information from the web, one social network at a time. But the fact is, ‘until a site’s Webmaster removes the offending content, it will remain accessible via search engines like Google,’ says blogger Dan Tynan.”

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Book Review — JavaScript: the Definitive Guide, 6th Edition

Staff — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:36:00 +0000

coder4hire writes “Released during the early days of the Web, in 1995, JavaScript has come a long way: Initially a client-side scripting language typically (mis)used for decorative effects, it is now an essential part of countless major websites. Its increasing capabilities and popularity are due to several factors, including the development of libraries that resolve earlier stumbling blocks that held the language back (such as inconsistencies among the implementations in different vendors’ browsers). JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, authored by David Flanagan, was first published just one year later, in 1996, with several significant updates made since then.”
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‘Worms From Hell’ Unearth Possibilities For Extraterrestrial Life

Staff — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:12:00 +0000

an anonymously submitted article says, “For the first time, scientists have found complex,
multi-celled creatures living a mile and more below the planet’s surface, raising new possibilities about the spread of life on Earth and potential subsurface life on other planets and moons.”
More from the article: “The research is likely to trigger scientific challenges and cause some controversy because it places far more complex life in an environment where researchers have generally held it should not, or even cannot, exist.”

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Embed a Video, Go To Jail?

Staff — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:31:00 +0000

An anonymous reader writes “A few weeks ago, Slashdot had a post about the new bill in Congress to make streaming infringing videos a felony, punishable by up to 5 years in jail if just 10 people watch the video. As more details come out, the bill keeps looking worse and worse, as it appears that the definitions used in the bill would mean that merely embedding or linking to an infringing YouTube video could put you on the hook for jail time. Obviously, supporters of the bill insist that’s not who will be targeted with this bill, but just the fact that they could be should be worrisome enough. We’ve seen other laws “misused” in the past.”

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