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Medicine

Submission + - Sherbrooke scientists have a new tool to target tumors. (patexia.com)

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ericjones12398 writes: "Researchers have devised a new type of radiation treatment — one that promises the holy grail of zero entry dose radiotherapy — by using very short bursts of high energy laser light. In this case, “very short” is an understatement, with pulses lasting femtoseconds – i.e. one-thousand-million-millionths of a second."
Network

Submission + - Pisces vs Tor: Improved onion routing using Facebook & social media validati (patexia.com)

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ericjones12398 writes: "Imagine a future where Facebook could actually help you become more anonymous online. Where the more people you connect with online, the safer you are. Where your vast social network acts as a cushion between you and malicious users. If the team behind Pisces has its way, this unlikely scenario could actually become a reality."
Privacy

Submission + - Recent online content controversies raise questions about online accountability (patexia.com)

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ericjones12398 writes: "The responsibility of third-party providers to police their own content has been a hot button issue of IP law for as long as there have been such providers. Copyright holders demand that their copyrights be enforced. Third-party media providers claim that it's not their job, or at least that they can't be reasonably expected to police every piece of content that gets uploaded."
Businesses

Submission + - Lenovo closes in as market share leader (patexia.com)

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ericjones12398 writes: "Lenovo’s 2011 annual report shows strong numbers and substantial growth as the Chinese company eyes international market share. As the world’s second largest and fastest growing PC company (14.9% market share), Lenovo looks poised to accumulate economies of scale in the global consumer electronics segments they deem ‘PC+’, or more specifically PCs, tablets, smartphones, and TVs. A number of recent acquisitions demonstrate that continued growth will come in the form of branching outside of their dominance in China, and they have the cash flow and strategy in place to do so."
Iphone

Submission + - Innovation is a dead horse at Apple (patexia.com)

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ericjones12398 writes: The iPhone 5 debuted this week, causing underwhelmed responses to the latest toy from Cupertino. As the first big iPhone release since the death of Steve Jobs, Apple was under a lot of pressure to wow their audience and the general public. The result? An iPhone 4S with a slightly larger screen, mostly, but also a little more juice under the hood, lighter weight and a longer battery life. The Internet quickly took to calling the device "the iPhone 4SS."

Submission + - Super-stretchy Harvard hydrogels perfect for robust biological applications. (patexia.com)

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ericjones12398 writes: "A new kind of gel from researchers at Harvard can be stretched up to twenty-one times its original length without breaking. The gel is a composite of two individual gel materials each of which alone is no stronger than Jell-O. When combined they synergize wonderfully to make a tough, elastic-like gel that holds promise as replacement cartilage."
Cellphones

Submission + - Obama's Justice Department seeks expansion of surveillance (patexia.com)

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ericjones12398 writes: "The Obama administration was elected on a promise of "hope and change." One area where the Obama administration has not differed much from its predecessor is on the subject of surveillance. Lawyers for the administration argued Tuesday that the American public has no expectation of privacy when it comes to mobile-phone location data."

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