But even this bad news might bring with it some good. The technique in the thinking-cap experiments, known as transcranial magnetic stimulation, also seems to be helpful in treating depression.
Mirroring the way savants are both brilliant and mentally not quite there (remind you of any techies you know?), the thinking cap’s scientific milliners use tiny [...]
“All GM brands are candidates to receive this technology,” said Cole.
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Click on the image to see photos of what is said to be the production version of the plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt.
General Motors at its centennial celebration in Detroit on Tuesday is expected to showcase the Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid electric
car that carries the [...]
And that leaves the last device I used: an
Apple iPhone.
After driving through nine Southern states and crossing innumerable borders, Road Trip 2008 has come to an end.
At one point while I was on the base, my host and I were driving around trying to find something, both of us clutching our iPhones. I looked down [...]
GoDaddy, the world’s leading domain name registrar, is inaccessible in China, writes Moonlight Blog. Possible reasons? Efforts to prevent people from registering Olympic winners’ names, or the hope that Chinese users will register domains in China.
The current blocking may be related to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. China’s sport authority has banned the issuing of [...]
Who’s next?
In April, Motorola posted a quarterly loss of $194 million. Weeks earlier, under pressure from investors such as Icahn, the struggling company announced that it would split into two publicly traded companies, one handling handsets and accessories, and the other taking on wireless broadband networks and enterprise-level communications services.
The doors of the cell phone [...]
Meanwhile, at Time Warner Cable, which Time Warner spun off in May, revenues are up 7 percent, seeing a decline only in television pay-per-view revenue. An additional 214,000 people have subscribed to its “triple play” offering of cable TV, broadband Internet, and telephone service, CEO Glenn Britt said in a release.
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We’ve clearly heard a very resounding theme: GPL is not the right license from a community perspective because of the implications that it brings to redistribution, especially as it relates to building Web applications and how they are incorporated and downloaded by a Web server…This was a clear indication that our license didn’t match our [...]
Vivek Kundra took a leave of absence from his position as federal CIO last week after an FBI raid of the District of Columbia’s office of the chief technology officer. The FBI raid coincided with the arrest of two individuals charged with conspiracy to commit bribery, including one man who worked in the government office [...]
The extra release candidate addresses some lingering issues on the
Mac OS X operating system. The changes are internal.
Mozilla on Wednesday released Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3. Windows and Linux users won’t likely feel a thing; the new browser is considered stable on those platforms.
Updated at 12:30 p.m. PDT on Wednesday with links to the [...]
• Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineLand rightly pointed out to The New York Times that while the number of people using search book services is relatively small, it’s an influential lot with researchers and librarians and other earlier adopters. Don’t underestimate the prestige factor.
Reading through Nadella’s blog post, this much is clear: Microsoft wants [...]
