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New engine could change automobiles forever-> 0

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tekgoblin

on Friday April 08 2011, @07:57PM

tekgoblin writes "Researchers at the University of Michigan have come up with a new engine design that could change the transportation industry forever. This new engine requires requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. This new engine is called a wave-disk generator which also reduces emissions by up to 90%."
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Merck's Drug Propecia Causing Sexual Dysfunction 2

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zaxios

on Friday April 08 2011, @07:50PM

zaxios writes "Merck — the pharmaceutical giant previously featured on Slashdot for drawing up a 'hit list' of doctors that criticized its drug Vioxx, and creating a fake medical journal to endorse its products — is embroiled in a new scandal. USA Today is reporting on two new studies that show that Propecia, Merck's $250 million prescription medication for baldness, can make men irreversibly impotent. Lawsuits have been filed in the United States and Canada from men claiming to have permanently lost their sexual function after taking the drug. All this is reminiscent of Merck's difficulties with Vioxx, a once $2.5 billion a year drug withdrawn from the market in 2004, after a study showed it doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke in users. That led to a $4.85 billion settlement by Merck for personal injury claims."

Nokia overtaken by HTC; Moodies downrates.-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 08 2011, @05:23PM

An anonymous reader writes "HTC's market valuation has overtaken Nokia's for a time according to the Wall Street Journal which made HTC the third highest valued mobile company after Apple and Samsung. The article goes on to state that this shows the power of Android which may even end up dominating Nokia's current feature phone market. This news comes on the back of Nokia's downrating by Moodies together with a warning of more to come which will make the vast R&D spend Nokia needs for WP7 even more difficult to finance.

As we remember from the Nokia Microsoft deal, Nokia is allowed to customize WP7 in ways that HTC is not. HTC's position with Microsoft is clearly humiliating so a number of analysts have been asking if Microsoft's other partners are going to review their WP7 involvement."
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Wisconsin Vote Controversy and Microsoft Access-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 08 2011, @03:11PM

An anonymous reader writes "There a lot of analysis going on over a Wisconsin state judge election. Some additional votes were discovered, putting the conservative candidate ahead in a highly contested election. Conspiracy theories about on the left, with some finding implausible Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus' claim that there was a computer error involving forgetting to save in Microsoft Access that led to earlier announced vote totals being wrong. This has a lot for geeks to talk about, from how Microsoft Access works to the statistical analysis of voting to the poorly-run IT by Nickolaus."
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