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Submission + - Chrome Becomes World's No. 2 Browser (ibtimes.com) 1

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redletterdave

on Thursday December 01, 2011 @02:14PM

redletterdave writes: "Google Chrome has eclipsed Mozilla's Firefox browser as the world's second most popular Web browser and now only trailsMicrosoft's Internet Explorer,according to StatCounter.Chrome's worldwide market share is pegged at about 25.7 percent, while Firefox's market share is estimated to be roughly 25.2 percent. Internet Explorer still clearly dominates the market with 40.6 percent of the global share. Similar to the way Safari gets a boost from the iPhone and iPad, Chrome can reach even more people if it became available on Android devices, which sources say is "very likely.""

Submission + - What You Eat Affects Your Genes (discovermagazine.com)

Submitted by purkinje on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @03:08PM

purkinje writes: Tiny bits of genetic material, called microRNAs, can make their way from the food you eat into your blood stream, and change how your genes are expressed, according to a new study. A team of Chinese scientists found tiny bits of white rice microRNA floating around in people's blood after a meal. When they looked at what was happening on a cellular level, they found that the microRNAs were changing gene expression, decreasing levels of a receptor that filters out LDL (bad) cholesterol. When the scientists gave mice both rice and a chemical to block the microRNAs, their levels of that receptor returned to normal---showing that the microRNAs weren't just swimming through the blood stream, but acting on genes in the animals' cells.

Submission + - Passcodes prove predicatable (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @08:04AM

mikejuk writes: Research reveals something we all suspected but couldn't prove — in a four digit pin the most popular first digit is one, the most popular second digit is two. Entropy only really kicks in on the third and fourth digits. What is more looking at the frequencies of four digit groups just 10 different passcodes would be enough to unlock one in seven iPhones!

Comment Eliot Spitzer & spam - extreme solution (Score 1) 263

by bkasanoff on Thursday December 18, 2003 @06:41PM (#7758444) Attached to: New York Spam Ring Lawsuits

Woke up this morning, read about Spitzer's suit against spammers, and wrote about one (radical) solution to this problem. The story is called Time-Starved, and it's online at www.nowpossible.com

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