Medical researchers think specially tailored RNA sequences could turn off genes in patients’ cells to encourage wound healing or to kill tumor cells. Now researchers have developed a nanocoating for bandages that could deliver these fragile gene-silencing RNAs right where they’re needed (ACS Nano 2013, DOI:10.1021/nn401011n). The team h [...]
Bandages That Can Turn Off Genes Enco...
Medical researchers think specially tailored RNA sequences could turn off genes in patients’ cells to encourage wound healing or to kill tumor cells. Now researchers have developed a nanocoating for bandages that could deliver these fragile gene-silencing RNAs right where they’re needed (ACS Nano 2013, DOI:10.1021/nn401011n). The team h [...]
Intel’s Haswell will offer 50% ...
Intel’s upcoming family of Core processors, code-named Haswell, will offer 50 percent more battery life in laptops than did their “Ivy Bridge” predecessors, Intel said on Thursday.
Haswell chips were designed with laptops and tablets in mind, and the main focus was on lowering power consumption, said Rani Borkar, corporate vice president and [...]
Serpa Heads for the Google Glass plat...
Sherpa, a voice control app that promises a better experience than Apple’s Siri, plans to beat Google at its own game on Google Glass.
Sherpa CEO and co-founder Xabier Uribe-Etxebarria unveiled the company’s plans for the new app on Thursday in Spain, at the Sherpa Summit, an event with a lineup of speakers such as Mozilla CEO Mi [...]
AT&T adds new ‘administrat...
As if wireless bill prices are not enough to dish out monthly, here’s another penny sucker. If you’re an AT&T customer and you recently noticed an increase in your wireless bill as I did, you aren’t alone. As of May 1, 2013, the carrier began tacking on an administrative fee of $0.61 per line for all consumers currently under contr [...]
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More than a decade ago, at a vintage computer fair in Silicon Valley, Dag Spicer had an opportunity to buy an original Apple-1 for $2,000. He passed. Any regrets? Not really, he said.
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Samsung launches the all new “G...
Intensifying the price war in the fast-growing smartphone category in India, South Korean mobile handset maker Samsung Electronics today launched its cheapest Galaxy series phone ‘Star’ at a price of Rs 5,240.
‘Star’ is the cheapest device in Samsung’s Galaxy range and competes with the likes of Nokia’s As [...]
Partial bridge collapse sends vehicle...
Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a camping trip when a bridge before them disappeared in a “big puff of dust.”
“I hit the brakes and we went off,” Sligh told reporters from a hospital, adding he “saw the water approaching … you hold on as tight as you can.” [...]
NYPD Bronx Police Officer Accused of ...
It was the sort of discovery that is usually the mark of good police work: A Bronx detective came upon an online criminal enterprise that offered — for a low price — to hack into private e-mail accounts.
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TESLA Motors Repays DEPARTMENT OF ENE...
On the company website, the full statement reads:
“Tesla Motors announced that it has paid off the entire loan awarded to the company by the Department of Energy in 2010. In addition to payments made in 2012 and Q1 2013, today’s wire of almost half a billion dollars ($451.8M) repays the full loan facility with interest. Following this p [...]
Trump Tells Americans to Prepare For ...
The United States could soon become a large-scale Spain or Greece, teetering on the edge of financial ruin.
That’s according to Donald Trump, who painted a very ugly picture of where this country is headed. Trump made the comments during a recent appearance on Fox News’ “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.”
According to Trump, the United [...]
Samsung touts 10-Mil sales figures, n...
Samsung says it has sold more than 10 million Galaxy S4 smartphones to retailers and wireless operators less than a month after the handset’s debut, making it the company’s fastest selling smartphone to date.
In a press release Wednesday, the company noted that the GS4′s predecessor, the Galaxy S3, hit the 10 million mark i [...]
Japan’s plunge scares global ma...
Analysts said the sell-off reflected concerns that the Japanese rally had gone too far too fast. The Nikkei has surged by more than 70% over the last 12 months.
“The Japanese market is quite clearly overbought,” said Max King, an investment strategist and fund manager at Investec Asset Management. “It went a long way in a s [...]
Smarter google search? You Bet!
Google has updated the stable channel of its Chrome browser to version 27, delivering improved speed and the beginnings of a more conversational approach to search.
Google software engineer James Simonsen says the updated Chrome loads Web pages 5% faster than the last version.
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Twitter Upgrades Security With ‘...
Social Media Giant Twitter introduced login verification, which it says is “a form” of two-factor authentication intended to help users better secure their accounts.
Those who sign up for login verification will have to enter their normal password plus a six-digit code sent via text every time they sign into Twitter.com.
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Google Drive updates Android UI, adds...
Internet Mogul Google’s Drive cloud storage service has undergone a facelift for Android users, and is now capable of capturing a document by converting a photo of it to text.
The upgrades, announced today on the Google Drive blog page, also includes a cleaner user interface and Drive files are displayed in a “simple card-style,&# [...]
Apples Corp. attempts to use Decade-O...
Unable to compete, the Cupertino company claims that Google and Samsung stole features from SiriGiven that the massive Galaxy S IV doesn’t look too much like the much smaller 4-inch iPhone 5, Apple Inc. (AAPL) is having to turn to new and creative routes to try to convince federal judges and juries to ban its competitor’s flagship produ [...]
