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Written by Frank Daly
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Friday, 25 April 2008 13:01 |
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Scientists have come up with a new way to improve on medical gauze used to stop bleeding. In certain situations trauma victims can bleed to death before they can be brought to hospital, and this is especially where the wounds are deep or in difficult areas such as in the neck or groin. Combat Gauze, named for its typical use, is a special gauze which is impregnated with nanoparticles which cause the blood to trigger clotting immediately and is a significant improvement on the regular medical gauze. Read more in Wired Magazine
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 April 2008 17:33 |
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Written by Frank Daly
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 21:24 |
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China now has 221 million internet users and has become the world's largest internet population, overtaking the USA in recent months. However the proportion to China's total population is just 16% which is below the world average. This leaves room for more significant user population growth. A major drawback for these users is censorship, which is widespread with filters, monitoring and removal of sensitive content. Read more on the Reuters site
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 April 2008 17:43 |
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Written by Frank Daly
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:28 |
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The cost of gene sequencing is reducing all the time and by 2015 new babies may have their complete DNA sequenced on birth. But this has major social implications as the film Gatacca explored. A new form of discrimination may emerge when potential employers and insurance companies get access to this information. No doubt there will be legislation preventing this, but once the information is available there is potential it will be abused. Other consequences include foetal testing with potential abortion requests if the screening shows future medical conditions, and once you open up that Pandora's box there's no knowing where it will end. Of course there are major benefits to be had from DNA sequencing such as identification of future problems and avoiding them, so no doubt there will be major scientific, ethical, political and religious debates ahead.
Charles Arthur's does not discuss all these issues in his article in the Guardian, but he does dicuss other benefits and the costs of DNA profiling. Read more about this issue in the Guardian
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 April 2008 17:44 |
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Written by Frank Daly
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 19:20 |
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 Filmaka.com is a new site for aspiring filmmakers all over the world. You can submit your high quality 3-minute short, have it evaluated, enter competitions to win funding to help make a feature film, a documentary or a TV comedy series.
Its the brainchild of Deepak Nayar, who was behind such films as “Buena Vista Social Club” and “Bend it Like Beckham,” and Sandy Grushow, the former chairman of Fox Television Entertainment Group.
The judges of the competition include directors Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, and Paul Schrader Read more on the Reuters site And visit the Filmaka.com site here.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 25 January 2009 20:22 |
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Written by Frank Daly
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 00:00 |
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 When Asus launched the Asus EEE PC 701 last year, it started a revolution: the Internet Appliance. Finally there was a very cheap, extremely light (less than 1Kg) and small laptop with great connectivity, solid state memory (no hard drive) and a very simple user interface, so simple in fact that the device was initially targeted at kids. But very soon everyone wanted one, (young and not so young) and it took me a month on a backorder list, to get one.
Now they’ve updated it using the same winning format but with a 9 inch screen rather than the original 7 inch screen (but the device is the same size and weight). They’ve also upgraded the internal solid state drive to 20 GB and made lots of other improvements, creating an even better ultra portable device. Read more on Trusted Reviews and then place your order because there’ll be millions queuing up to get one.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 03 May 2008 09:39 |
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Written by Frank Daly
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Monday, 07 April 2008 00:00 |
 Scientists at Cern, the particle physics centre, have developed a new technology, The Grid which could dramatically increase the speed of transfer and communications. Its currently being developed to capture the super high volume of data being generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator built to probe the origin of the universe. Re-purposing it to create parallel internet processing could revolutionize networking. Read more in the Times Online: |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 25 January 2009 20:22 |
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Written by Frank Daly
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 00:00 |
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 “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for” are words from a classic U2 song , and it seems to represent what drives millions of people who search on Google, Yahoo and other search engines, looking for information, ideas, other people, money, sex, music, images, videos, clothes, books and so much more. In many ways its like a record of thoughts of humanity, striving to find something we want, and mostly its what will make us happy or entertain us for a little while more. Google’s 2007 Top search list was: 1. iphone - The phone of all phones (more than 17 million pages in the results list)
2. webkinz - The kid’s stuffed animal that comes alive online in Webkinz World (6 million pages)
3. tmz - Entertainment news and celebrity gossip (780 thousand pages)
4. transformers - the movie about transforming robots (2.4 million pages)
5. youtube - hosts user created videos (32 million pages)
6. club penguin - a safe virtual world for kids to play, interact with friends (3.2 million pages)
7. myspace - social networking with forums, communities, videos and blogging (25 million pages)
8. heroes - hit TV show with super heroes (19 million pages)
9. facebook - another top social networking site (29 million pages)
10. anna nicole smith - a former Playmate of the Year and reality show host who died aged 39 (700 thousand pages) So to summarize what we’re all looking for:
A cool phone, Entertainment for kids and grown ups, social networking, and some racy pictures.
Or even more summarized:
Communication and entertainment The 2006 top list was quite different: bebo - social networking
myspace - social networking
world cup -soccer
metacafe - videos
radioblog - music and video downloads
wikipedia - encyclopedia
video
rebelde -teenages Mexican soap opera
mininova - movie download site
wiki -encyclopedia But when you summarize it, it still boils down to:
Communication and entertainment And since entertainment is a form of communication, ultimately we are searching for Communication and the picture on this post represents the ultimate communication tool.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 April 2008 18:00 |
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Written by Frank Daly
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Monday, 31 March 2008 00:00 |
It looks like space travel could become more affordable in the near future with the development of the Lynx space taxi. It will be able to fly from a standard airport up to 40 miles in space.giving the passenger a breathtaking view of the earth from space. However NASA defines space as 50 miles or higher so it will be debatable if it is actually a space flight, and even if it does become more affordable, that means that the very rich can afford it, as opposed to the super rich. For now it looks like mere mortals will have to keep their feet on the ground or perhaps fork out 3000 euro for a zero-gravity flight from Kennedy Space Centre. Read more in the Times Online |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 25 January 2009 20:22 |
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