IBM announced today that nine hospitals across Russia have switched from paper-based medical systems to electronic medical records using IBM Lotus No...
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A Lufthansa Airbus A380 departs Frankfurt.
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Though I mostly write about cell phones at CNET, you may have noticed that I'm rat...
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The human brain is truly awesome.
A typical, healthy one houses some 200 billion nerve cells, which are connected to one another via hundreds of tril...
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The notion of erasing memories associated with painful or harmful pasts is not a new one. But it has remained just that: a notion.
Will erasing mem...
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A food delivery robot shows off the goods at a robot restaurant in Jinan, in China's Shandong Province (click to enlarge).
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Unreliable electricity and spotty internet access are a fact of life in many parts of the developing world&8212'and part of the reason the digital div...
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This is it. No, really. I know you might have been temporarily fooled two years ago when it seemed as if the Lost City of Atlantis had turned up on G...
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Let's just say it's a good thing this breakthrough didn't come around when I was in my early twenties, or I may have been tempted to spend a littl...
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Some people believe the future is something to look forward to. And, indeed, there is some evidence that, for a small number of people--especially t...
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Global Observer&39's first flight.
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When it comes to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), hydrogen is all the rage.
The fi...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--The crew of the shuttle Discovery, given a "Star Trek" send off by actor William Shatner, undocked from the International...
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The Remora 6000 being launched in Cyprus.
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An American-built remotely operated vehicle (ROV) has finally retriev...
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A shining example of crowdsourcing at work, Ushahidi is mobilizing citizens to report and map conflicts. The project began as a way for Kenyans to log...
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When consumers buy fair-trade products, it''s typically because they are motivated more by ethical considerations than by price&8212'which tends to be...
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University of Maryland biology student Judy Wexler sits in the Gamera. It doesn&39't look like a turtle.
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Since moving its not-for-profit venture online in 1995, New York-based Green Map System has made online maps of sustainable initiatives accessible to ...
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McDonald&39's shows off a touch-screen kiosk installed in France in 2009.
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"Welcome to McDonald's. My name is HAL 90...
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We at Springwise are always happy to chronicle the spread of a good idea, but never more so than when those doing the spreading are part of the Spring...
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Using a powerful new camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered what appears to be the most distant object ever observed, a sm...
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Micron Technology tomorrow is set to disclose a hybrid memory technology that it claims will boost performance 20-fold over the memory chips used in ...
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