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Researchers Use Google's Search Algorithms To Fight Cancer 52

Posted by samzenpus
from the searching-for-a-cure dept.
MatthewVD writes "German scientists have modified Google's PageRank algorithm to scan tumors and learn more about how cancers progress. PageRank orders results based on how other web pages are connected to them via hyperlinks; the modified algorithm, NetRank, scans how genes and proteins in a cell are similarly connected through a network of interactions with their neighbors. This approach could also yield new therapies to help combat tumors."
Communications

Data Center Raid About Unpaid Telco Fees 174

Posted by timothy
from the that's-what-they-want-you-to-believe dept.
craig writes "CBS11 News reports that the raid on Core IP networks is in the result of an investigation into unpaid telco access fees paid by CLECs and VoIP carriers to terminate calls on their networks. They also report that this raid is linked to the March 12th raid on Crydon Technology's datacenter, which also hosted VOIP providers. Anyone in the telco business will tell you access fees to other carriers are a total mess and lots of carriers have unpaid balances out there. It gives you the feeling that the FBI is acting as a collection agency for AT&T and Verizon."

Comment: Re:Only Meta-Data was damaged (Score 1) 231

by danamania (#26100633) Attached to: Data Recovered From DVD Leads To Conviction, 24-Year Sentence

And it's not a problem when that happens. The blank section is error-corrected around, and the disc works fine.

Here's one I did, with a huge oily fingerprint purposely put on a DVD before recording, it was burned, and the 'shadow' of the fingerprint shows up as a huge unburnt patch after the original print has been wiped off.

The disc worked fine afterwards, and worked fine for quite a while until I lost it.

Handhelds

Apple buys PowerPC manufacturer PA Semi.->

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Cheeseburger Melbourne Fun Underground
Cheeseburger Melbourne Fun Underground writes "Just one day before Appel reports quarterly earnings, Forbes reports that Apple has snapped up super-efficient PowerPC chip maker P.A. Semi. Founded in 2003, P.A. Semi has one flagship product, the PA6T-1682, a 2.0GHz 64 bit dual-core PowerPC based system on a chip that consumes just between 5 and 13 Watts. Apple had once been in talks with P.A. Semi regarding replacement PowerPC CPUs for their ailing PowerBook line, but those talks petered out after the switch to Intel. Forbes speculates that P.A. Semi's products may be used in the iPhone and iPod, but an efficient but powerful system on a chip using such low power may be more suited to a future cooler-running and smaller MacBook Air."
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United States

57 mpg? That's so 20 years ago 6

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maclizard
maclizard writes "I wish my car got 57 miles to the gallon.

From the article:
'The CRX HF got an Environmental Protection Agency-estimated 57 mpg gallon in highway driving. Today, the most fuel-efficient non-hybrid Civic you can buy gets an EPA-estimated 34 mpg on the highway. Even today's Honda Civic Hybrid can't match it, achieving EPA-estimated highway mileage of just 45 mpg. The Toyota Prius, today's fuel mileage champ, gets 46 mpg on the highway.'"
Unix

Journal: OpenBSD: GPL violator?

Journal by slashdot_commentator

Michael Buesch, lead developer of the Linux driver for Broadcom's wifi chipset (bcm43xx), stumbled across copied code in the OpenBSD's bcw driver earlier this week. The problem is that the bcm43xx linux driver uses a GPL license. OpenBSD inadvertently makes that linux code available to be used in a proprietary manner, by virtue of its BSD license (and not giving proper attribution where due).

Entropy isn't what it used to be.