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High-precision weigh-in for W boson means fewer hiding places for Higgs
Feb 25th
Fermilab’s Tevatron particle collider may have shut down last year, but it left behind massive amounts of data for scientists to sift through—physicists I’ve talked to suggest that papers should keep flowing at the same pace as when it was running for well over a year. Thursday, the CDF detector team released a new estimate of the mass of the W boson, derived from Tevatron data, that provides the most precise value for this particle yet.
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High-precision weigh-in for W boson means fewer hiding places for Higgs
Iron-based superconductors respond well to pressure
Feb 23rd
Superconductivity—the ability of certain materials to conduct electricity with no resistance—continues to be one of the most challenging fields in materials science. On the one hand, the effect appears reliably in a number of materials, although only at very low temperatures
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Iron-based superconductors respond well to pressure
Apple’s latest sandboxing deadline delay signals moving goalpost for devs
Feb 23rd
Apple has given developers yet another few months to implement application sandboxing for OS X apps, a security feature brought over from iOS: the deadline is now June 1, 2012. While the intent of sandboxing is to prevent hacked apps from taking over a user’s system, however, the sandbox design inherently limits functionality that users and developers have come to expect on the desktop
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Apple’s latest sandboxing deadline delay signals moving goalpost for devs
A flag no more: Microsoft unveils new Windows logo
Feb 18th
The multicolored Windows flag is no more. Windows 8 will do away with the wavy Windows logo that Microsoft has used in one form or another for the last 20 years, and replace it with a logo that’s, well, a window .
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A flag no more: Microsoft unveils new Windows logo
Boom to bust: THQ’s "revolutionary" uDraw now filling warehouse shelves
Feb 3rd
Back in the long-ago days of the 2010 holiday season, it looked like THQ had a hit on its hands with its out-of-left-field uDraw Game Tablet, a slate-like controller that used a stylus to let players draw on the TV. The company sold 1.7 million of them to Wii owners by early 2011, beating expectations and leading some to speculate that the uDraw might be the biggest game control revolution this side of the Kinect.
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Boom to bust: THQ’s “revolutionary” uDraw now filling warehouse shelves
Microsoft’s new/old Windows Phone update policy keeps customers in the dark
Jan 9th
Microsoft has published a new Windows Phone update, build 8107, to resolve a problem where the soft keyboard sometimes disappears, leaving users no way to type anything on the phone.
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Microsoft’s new/old Windows Phone update policy keeps customers in the dark
What’s the best age to win a Nobel Prize?
Nov 11th
When you think of a prize-winning scientist, do you picture a young genius bursting with creativity and new ideas, or an older, more seasoned researcher that has been slaving away at the bench for decades? It turns out both images are pretty accurate.
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What’s the best age to win a Nobel Prize?
Fox News successfully creates climate confusion, but only among conservatives
Nov 9th
A while back, a memo surfaced that reportedly came from a Fox News executive, in which he directed his staff to always present opposing views on something we can essentially regard as a fact: our planet has been getting warmer .
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Fox News successfully creates climate confusion, but only among conservatives
Will Ultrabooks rule the Windows notebook market in a few years?
Nov 9th
Research firm IHS iSuppli is predicting that Ultrabooks will account for 43 percent of worldwide notebook PC shipments by 2015, despite the fact that Windows-centric ultra-thin PCs are just now starting to arrive on the market. This year, Ultrabooks will account for just 2 percent of global shipments, iSuppli says. That is from just a smattering of devices from the likes of ASUS and Toshiba.
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Gamers create recipes for protein-folding algorithms
Nov 8th
Chemically, the proteins that run most of a cell’s functions are little more than a string of amino acids. Their ability to perform structural and catalytic functions is primarily dependent upon the fact that, when in solution, that string adopts a complex, three-dimensional shape
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Gamers create recipes for protein-folding algorithms
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