On the third day of the 2007 Taipei IT Month in Taiwan yesterday, notebook computers and desktop computers built with AMD’s Phenom processor and Intel Penryn processor openly battled for the consumer-market after each company launched their quad core processors. Intel with partners like Acer, Genuine, ASUS, and Lenovo promoted their desktops with Core...
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The Government Accountability Office’s Forensic Audits and Special Investigations team, which was created in 2005 as an interdisciplinary team consisting of investigators, auditors, and analysts, conducts covert tests at the request of the Congress to identify vulnerabilities and internal control weaknesses at executive branch agencies. These vulnerabilities and internal control weaknesses include those that...
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Author’s note: A previous version of this article was first published several years ago in the publication of the Atlanta Writing Resource Center. The many changes in our technologically oriented society have led some to doubt the value of a liberal arts education and the literary skills it builds — but it has in...
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EXPERIMENTAL NEW TREATMENT FOR PROSTATE CANCER Prostate cancer, which occurs most commonly in older men, is, in many ways, analogous to breast cancer in women. In the majority of cases, there is an important hormonal link in the development, progression and treatment of both of these cancers. In 2007, an estimated 219,000 new cases...
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In November 2005, the Department of Homeland Security established the Secure Border Initiative (SBI), a multiyear, multibillion dollar program to secure U.S. borders. One element of SBI is SBInet — the U.S. Customs and Border Protection program responsible for developing a comprehensive border protection system through a mix of security infrastructure (e.g., fencing), and...
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A Chinese national who lives in Connecticut has been indicted by a San Diego federal grand jury for conspiring to purchase and export military-grade accelerometers used in “smart bombs” and missiles from the United States to the People’s Republic of China. Qing Li, 36, of Stamford, Conn., is charged with attempting to buy and...
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The People’s Republic of China today launched its first moon orbiter as part of the country’s lunar exploration program. At 18:00 hours local time (10:00 UTC) the rocket Chang’e 1 lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China. The name of the probe refers to the Chinese goddess of the moon. The...
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Wikinews reporters interviewed Sue Gardner, an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, the project that runs Wikipedia and several other projects, including Wikinews. Before coming to Wikimedia, she ran CBC.CA, the website of Canada’s national public broadcaster. She was also a radio and television journalist for 10 years. Interview Matt: Hi Sue, could you explain...
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Scientists have announced that the largest radio telescope array in the world, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is to be built in either Africa or Australia and will be composed of thousands of antenna arrays that will be capable of detecting the first galaxies and stars formed in our universe. The control center for...
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According to reports, American biologist Craig Venter is going to announce that he has created the first ever “artificial life form” on earth at the J. Craig Venter Institute, a U.S. laboratory and research center, using synthetic chromosomes made from chemicals. The Guardian Unlimited reports that Venter may announce the historical discovery on Monday,...
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According to reports, American biologist Craig Venter is going to announce that he has created the first ever “artificial life form” on earth at the J. Craig Venter Institute, a U.S. laboratory and research center, using synthetic chromosomes made from chemicals. The Guardian Unlimited reports that Venter may announce the historical discovery on Monday,...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP (The following article is based on a report received by the National Association of Chiefs of Police Public Information Office.) In general, a fusion center is a collaborative effort to detect, prevent, investigate, and respond to criminal and terrorist activity. Recognizing that fusion centers are a mechanism for information sharing,...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP The Department of Homeland Security’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) is responsible for addressing the threat of nuclear smuggling. Radiation detection portal monitors are key elements in our national defenses against such threats. DHS has sponsored testing to develop new monitors, known as advanced spectroscopic portal (ASP) monitors. In June...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP United States immigration and State Department officials fear that their newly developed, high-tech visas are being sold on the Mexican black market. The US government hoped the newly designed visas would help in curtailing rampant illegal immigration at the Mexican border, but investigators believe many of them are being bought...
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Microsoft launched BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with the great RFID technologies in Taiwan at September 11 (Taipei Time). And Microsoft Taiwan held a launch seminar with “Pulse the Operations with the Communication of Enterprises” topic and invited hardware and software companies introducing the integration between RFID, SOA, and EDI with BizTalk Server 2006 R2....
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On the last day of the RoboBusiness Conference in Boston, something wonderful happened. Institute of Robotics in Scandinavia (iRobis – Contact) introduced robotic imagination. I don’t mean imaginative robot designs. I mean; robots that imagine. And by imagine, I don’t mean simply creating images in a simulator. I mean imagination as part of reasoning...
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