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Submission + - Oracle Sues Google for Infringing Java Patents (perens.com)

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Bruce Perens

on Thursday August 12, 2010 @08:48PM

Bruce Perens writes: "Oracle has brought a lawsuit against Google claiming that Google has infringed patents on the Java Language, presumably in Android. We don't have the text of the lawsuit yet. But there's a patent grant that should allow Google to use Java royalty-free. Has Google failed to meet the terms of the grant?"

Cellphone Radiation May Protect Brain From Alzheimers 254

Posted by kdawson on Thursday January 07, 2010 @02:43PM from the i-forget-why dept.

We've discussed cellphones and cancer many times. Here's a new angle: reader olddotter sends in a Reuters article suggesting that cellphone radiation may protect the brain from Alzheimer's disease. "At the end of that time, they found cellphone exposure erased a build-up of beta amyloid, a protein that serves as a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. The Alzheimer's mice showed improvement and had reversal of their brain pathology..."

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