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Submission + - Researchers invent inkjet that prints out skin (geek.com)

Submitted by shougyin
shougyin writes: If you’ve ever seen the lesser-known Sam Raimi movie Darkman, you probably remember that the plot involved the main character, Dr. Westlake, trying to figure out a way to “print” liquid skin to help burn victims. Westlake never did figure out how to keep the synthetic skin from destabilizing past the 98 minute mark, but luckily, Wake Forest Instititute for Regenerative Medicine researchers seem to have mastered it, showing off their amazing skin printer that uses living cells instead of ink.
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Submission + - How Google is Solving its Book Problem (theatlantic.com)

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Pickens writes: "Alexis Madrigal writes in the Atlantic that Google's famous PageRank algorithm can't be deployed to search through the 15 million books that Google has already scanned because books don't link to each other in the way that webpages do. Instead Google's new book search algorithm called "Rich Results" looks at word frequency, how closely your query matches the title of a book, web search frequency, recent book sales, the number of libraries that hold the title, how often an older book has been reprinted, and 100 other signals. "There is less data about books than web pages, but there is more structure to it, and there's less spam to contend with," writes Madrigal. Yet the focus on optimizing an experience from vast amounts of data remains. "You want it to have the standard Google quality as much as possible," says Matthew Gray, lead software engineer for Google Books. "[You want it to be] a merger of relevance and utility based on all these things.""

Comment Didn't this guy prove it was the molten inards? (Score 1) 333

by BradyB (#28330291) Attached to: Ocean Currents Proposed As Cause of Magnetic Field

This link to an article on NPR, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90947943, was also in a short show on the Science Channel about magnetic fields. So, I think that the reader should not state that there is no evidence that the molten inards of the Earth are not the probable cause of our magnetosphere.
Transportation

Submission + - http://litlurl.net/1947

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Nissan has introduced a new subcompact called the Caliente. Caliente It supposedly will include a screen in the ceiling of the car to watch movies on and view photos and maps. Is going to be powered by a new hybrid engine that gets 300hp. The Caliente is geared toward the younger crowd as it features sleek lines and one mean looking grill. Hopefully it won't suck as bad as the Ford Fiesta. Fiesta

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