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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Firefox for Android gets it mostly right (video)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Report reveals U.S. nuclear plant safety issues]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As Japan grapples with a nuclear reactor crisis in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami, many in the U.S. have been wondering about the safety of nuclear power plants closer to home. In a well-timed report issued yesterday, the Union of Concerned Scientists examines a number of incidents and &quot;near-misses&quot; at plants in the United States in 2010 and gives the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission mixed reviews on its role as the nation's nuclear safety inspector.The timing of the report is also significant as it coincided with President Obama's announcement yesterday that he has asked the NRC to perform a comprehensive review of the safety of all nuclear plants in the U.S.The UCS report looked specifically at 14 special inspections that the NRC conducted and documented last year in response to safety problems, security concerns, and other issues at different nuclear plants. Though the group commended the NRC for its positive actions in certain incidents, it also found that the agency tolerated known safety problems in other cases.As one of several positive examples of the NRC's effectiveness, the UCS cited the agency's reaction to an incident at the Oconee nuclear plant in South Carolina. After fixing a problem with a crucial safety value at its Unit 1 reactor, the owner didn't feel the need to test the same components at Units 2 and 3 despite the NRC's insistence. But the agency refused to budge.&quot;NRC inspectors persistently challenged lame excuse after lame excuse until the company finally agreed to test the other two units,&quot; the report noted. &quot;When it did so, their systems failed, and NRC inspectors ensured that the company corrected the problems.&quot;But the report highlighted several examples where it felt the NRC failed to act in the public's interest.In one case at the Peach Bottom nuclear facility in Pennsylvania, workers at the plant were required to periodically test the control rods, which are used to control chain reactions. To circumvent regulations that would have forced a plant shutdown, workers slowed down the control rod testing, said the report. Inspectors from the NRC knew about both the problem with the rods and the plant's attempts to skirt past the testing, according to the UCS, but failed to respond properly.The UCS did acknowledge that its review of the 14 incidents in question were just a cross-section and didn't necessarily represent the NRC's &quot;best and worst actions&quot; of last year.&quot;Instead, the examples highlight patterns of NRC behavior that contributed to these outcomes,&quot; the report said. &quot;The positive examples clearly show that the NRC can be an effective regulator. The negative examples attest that the agency still has work to do to become the regulator of nuclear power that the public deserves.&quot;In response to the UCS's findings, a spokesman for the NRC told CNET that the agency has not yet had a chance to review the report, but it did issue the following statement:&quot;We can say that the NRC's current Reactor Oversight Process has been in place since April 2000 and has worked effectively to gauge the performance of U.S. nuclear power plants. It does so through a combination of Performance Indicators, such as the number of unplanned shutdowns, and NRC inspection findings. If the NRC observes any indications of declining performance, the agency can ratchet up its oversight to ensure issues are being addressed in a timely manner. The NRC does not hesitate to increase its level of scrutiny wherever and whenever that is warranted.&quot; The NRC said further: &quot;It is important to note that many of these issues were caught by NRC inspectors who are at the plants on a daily basis. This is a cataloguing of NRC actions on things either found by us or brought to us by the operator.&quot;The report itself is the first in a new annual series from the UCS to look at safety-related issues at nuclear power plants and examine the NRC's effectiveness in addressing them. Formed more than 40 years ago with nuclear power plant safety its initial focus, the UCS is a nonprofit alliance with over 250,000 members, including physicists, biologists, teachers, students, and business people.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Despite state censorship, China&'s Internet population crosses 450 million]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The number of Internet users in China has surpassed 450 million people, a senior official of the country announced in a press conference this morning. The country is now the world&amp;'s largest Internet market: The United States has only 310 million users.That number represents an increase of 30% in Internet users from last year, boosting the country&amp;'s Internetpenetrationto around 34 percent &amp;8212' suggesting there&amp;'s much more room to grow.While the impact of the Internet has been increasingly prevalent in the country, the Chinese government has been infamous in policing the country&amp;'s access to various content. Just over the last year, authorities have shut down 60,000 sites, deleted 350 million instances of pornographic content, investigated 2,200 criminal cases, and convicted 1,300 people.Wang Chen, the country&amp;'s head of State Council Information Office, believes that their policies have &amp;''made the Internet environment much cleaner than before,&amp;'' and says the country has no plan of backing down.Over the last year, Internet giants Facebook and Google have made news over terms of their operations in China. Back in January, Google reiterated on its Chinese policy after it believed authorities from the country had hacked into Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists, stating that it would no longer censor its search results as per Chinese law.Facebook, on the other hand, is currently blocked in the country after it was said to have been used as a tool to instigate riots. CEO Mark Zuckerbergrecently met with leading Chinese technology executives and has been actively advocating his desire to get Facebook into the country on good terms.&amp;''Before we do anything there, I&amp;'m personally spending a lot of time studying it and figuring out what I think the right thing to do is. It&amp;'s such an important part of the world. I mean, how can you connect the world if you leave out China&amp;'s population of more than one billion people,&amp;'' Zuckerberg told the Wall Street Journal.Facebook&amp;'s opportunity in the country mirrors that of many startups in the United States. For anyone seeking to serve the world, a 450 million opportunity is hard to ignore &amp;8212' but equally hard to serve. Twitter, like Facebook, is also banned in the country, as are Foursquare, Plurk, Technorati, and Blogger.(Picture Credit: SEOMoz)Previous Story: Image Space Media raises extra $1M to turn photos into cold, hard cashPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: censorship, China, Chinese Internet, Internet, statisticsCompanies: Facebook, Google, TwitterPeople: Wang Chen          Tags: censorship, China, Chinese Internet, Internet, statisticsCompanies: Facebook, Google, TwitterPeople: Wang ChenSid Yadav is a contributor to VentureBeat. He currently studies computer science and psychology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He is also the creator of Memiary, a micro-diary utility. You can reach him at sidyadav@gmail.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @sidyadav.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft gives LCDs the power to see with Surface 2.0]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft&amp;'s Surface touchscreen technology for large displays has lost a lot of bulk in its newest iteration, and in the process it has also given LCDs the power to see with its new PixelSense technology.Unlike the bulky original Surface, which required a large cabinet to house cameras, the new version looks no thicker than a traditional LCD display. Microsoft&amp;'s new PixelSense technology allows the new Surface displays to see without the need for a camera. It can recognize fingers, hands and other objects pressed directly onto the screen &amp;8212' a Microsoft representative showed how it can recognize text written onto a piece of paper.Microsoft worked together with Samsung to deliver the new version of Surface, which will be available as the &amp;''Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft Surface&amp;''. The company lists Red Bull and the Royal Bank of Canada as early adopters of the new technology, and it will also be available in Microsoft&amp;'s retail stores.The new Surface can be mounted on walls, instead of being something you look down on like the previous version. The Royal Bank of Canada will be using the displays to read forms that are mailed to its customers. With the new form factor, there are vastly more potential uses for Surface.Microsoft says the Samsung SUR40 will be available in 23 countries worldwide later this year. There&amp;'s no word on pricing yet, but I suspect it will be cheaper than the original Surface, which is currently available for $12,500 to commercial buyers.Previous Story: Electric car startup Coda raises $76 million towards pre-IPO goalPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: CES, CES 2011, LCDs, Samsung SUR40, Surface, touchscreensCompanies: Microsoft, SamsungPeople: steve ballmer          Tags: CES, CES 2011, LCDs, Samsung SUR40, Surface, touchscreensCompanies: Microsoft, SamsungPeople: steve ballmerDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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