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Patients find “cloud” technology a faster, more efficient way to store and distribute their medical images than current options, according to preliminary findings.

A control algorithm inspired by human memory may increase wind turbine efficiency while requiring less computational power than other control methods.

The hacktivist group Anonymous has denied allegations that it is behind the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against The Pirate Bay. Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay remains down and out.

So, the OEMs make money from installing crapware onto PCs, and now Microsoft is making money removing it. Makes you realize why more and more people are buying Apple hardware.

Google revamps its search engine in an attempt to offer instant answers to search questions with a new function, the Knowledge Graph.

Passengers flying Virgin Atlantic from London to New York will soon be able to make in-flight phone calls using personal devices.

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. - Nathaniel S. Borenstein