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Using bacteria as medical robots

Does the idea of turning bacteria into cancer-fighting robots sound like science fiction? Maybe today, but not in a near future. A researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a four-year grant of more than $1 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the feasibility of...

Tags: Mouse, Forbes, Bacteria, Salmonella, Mice, Robots, Hardware, Peripherals, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-02

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London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect prices

London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect pricesMicrosoft Technology at its finestSince Both NASDAQ and the London Stock Exchange were MS case studies about how great Windows is, guess Windows really is the POS we all thought it is.Funny how they never had these errors on previous systems and now with...

Tags: Investment, Operating systems, Web site, Microsoft Corp., London Stock Exchange Plc., stock, London Stock Exchange website, incorrect price, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Why does Safari stink?

I started my day with several calls from our Special Ed folks who suddenly couldn't access their student information portal (e-Sped). I could access it without problem, our Special Education administrators could access it, but several teachers and counselors were discovering (since this was the first student day back...

Tags: Apple Safari, Web Browsers, Portals, Desktops, Internet, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Mobile broadband modems (Gallery: 10 most annoying hardware headaches)

Mobile broadband modems (Gallery: 10 most annoying hardware headaches)This why I buildObviously I can't build my own peripherals, otherwise I would. And if there was a standard format for laptops I'd build those too. Because when you can pick and match the components you get a really stable...

Tags: Modems, hardware headach, Mobile broadband modem, mobile broadband, laptop computer, Gallery, hardware, modem, mobile

Discussion threads 2008-06-13

Photos: 'Tricorder' device developed at Purdue

It doesn't resemble the 'tricorder' from Star Trek but the Mini 11 can identify substances ranging from salmonella to cocaine.

Tags: Star Trek, substance, photograph

Image galleries 2007-02-28

U.N. delegates: English isn't good enough

U.N. delegates: English isn't good enoughhuh?"Divina Frau-Meigs, who teaches at the University of Paris III (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle), called for 'setting up a culture whereby you can use your own language, and that will be considered part of your human rights.'""human rights"?I would be nice to have DNS...

Tags: INTERNET, Linux, Domain names, Web browsers, character set

Discussion threads 2006-11-01

Extra passengers scheduled on Atlantis

NASA's Atlantis next mission, which is scheduled for August 27, not only will carry human astronauts to the International Space Station ISS, but several kinds of microbes. In "Microscopic Passengers To Hitch Ride On Space Shuttle," the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University writes that these microbes have been identified...

Tags: microbe, NASA, Fluid Processing Apparatus, Group Activation Pack

Blog posts 2006-08-25

Tracking food products with Internet

It seems that there is not a single day without a new threat about our food and our health: mad cow disease, genetically modified crops, and now avian flu. Would we feel safer if we knew for sure the geographic location of the products we eat? This is the goal...

Tags: EU-funded GeoTraceAgri, food, food product, geographical traceability, traceability

Blog posts 2006-02-12

Anatomy of a virus

No, I'm not talking about a computer virus here, but about a real one, the Epsilon 15, which attacks the bacterium Salmonella. By writing a few lines of computer code, biologists from Purdue University have found a way to control a high-resolution microscope. This led them to look inside a...

Tags: Epsilon 15, virus

Blog posts 2006-02-04