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+ - New results indicate that particle discovered at CERN is a Higgs boson->

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An anonymous reader writes "Geneva, 14 March 2013. At the Moriond Conference today, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) presented preliminary new results that further elucidate the particle discovered last year. Having analysed two and a half times more data than was available for the discovery announcement in July, they find that the new particle is looking more and more like a Higgs boson, the particle linked to the mechanism that gives mass to elementary particles. It remains an open question, however, whether this is the Higgs boson of the Standard Model of particle physics, or possibly the lightest of several bosons predicted in some theories that go beyond the Standard Model. Finding the answer to this question will take time."
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Comment: Re:Move than Apple and Microsoft Absolutely (Score 1, Troll) 587

by ClosedEyesSeeing (#42962207) Attached to: Sony Announces the PS4

Except there are not many more.

Well, there are a few more...

- Having your network breached (and not telling your users until a week later) followed by a 24 day service outage.
- Breaching Weird Al Yankovic's contract and not distributing settlement funds.
- Suing an actor because he did commercials for someone else too.

I'd say by mega-corporation standards... they are just as sleazy as the rest.

Government

+ - Anonymous releases 1.7GB of hacked DOJ emails-> 1

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An anonymous reader writes "Today we are releaseing 1.7GB of data that used to belong to the United States Bureau of Justice, until now. Within the booty you may find lots of shiny things such as internal emails, and the entire database dump. We Lulzed as they took the website down after being owned, clearly showing they were scared of what inevitably happened."
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Networking

+ - Groups launch $200M gigabit-per-second broadband project->

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alphadogg writes "An Ohio startup company has raised $200 million to fund gigabit-per-second broadband projects in six university communities across the U.S., the company announced Wednesday. Gigabit Squared will work with the University Community Next Generation Innovation Project (Gig.U), a coalition of 30 universities focused on improved broadband, to select six communities in which to build the ultra-fast broadband networks, they said. The two organizations will select winning communities between November and the first quarter of 2013, Mark Ansboury, president of Gigabit Squared, said. The new project comes at an important time, when many commercial broadband providers have stopped deploying next-generation networks, said Blair Levin, executive director of Gig.U and lead author of the FCC's 2010 national broadband plan."
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The Military

+ - Interview With Bioethicist Jonathan Moreno About Military Neuroscience ->

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pigrabbitbear writes "Who’s driving a lot of neuro research? The military. Much of it is health related, like figuring out how to make prosthetics work more seamlessly and helping diagnose brain injuries. But the military’s involvement highlights the basic ethical quandary of neurological development: When our brains pretty much define who we are, what happens when you start adding tech in there? And what happens when you take it away?

Jonathan Moreno is quite possibly the top bioethicist in the country, and along with Michael Tennison, recently penned a fascinating essay on the role and ethics of using neuroscience for national security. He also recently updated his book Mind Wars, a seminal look into the military’s work with the brain. In this interview he discusses brain implants, drones, and what will happen when military tech hits the civilian world."
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Cloud

+ - Ariba Acquired by SAP for $4.3 B->

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TheNextCorner writes "SAP will purchase cloud-networking vendor Ariba for roughly $4.3 billion, a move widely seen as giving SAP additional muscle with regard to business-cloud offerings.
SAP believes the acquisition will allow it to bake cloud-based collaboration into its current products. Ariba’s network connects thousands of companies, and enables and automates billions of dollars in commerce transactions and collaborations."
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