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For those who study earthquakes, one major challenge has been trying to understand all the physics of a fault -- both during an earthquake and at times of "rest" -- in order to know more about how a particular region may behave in the future. Now, researchers have developed the first computer model of an earthquake-producing fault segment that reproduces the available observations of both the fault's seismic and aseismic behavior.

All over the country, millions of Americans still live behind dams or levees, and if these were to fail and unleash catastrophic flooding, as some did in New Orleans in 2005, property and life might once again pay the price. Now there is some remarkable software to help swiftly predict how the water will spread.

Promising the business a cloud delivered within your own data center, and then failing to provide basic functionality of a cloud, will just make future initiatives and interactions even harder.

Accenture prepares to grow its global workforce at a rapid pace this year as it signs on for more collaboration with Salesforce.

Parents will now be able to control their child's mobile phone thanks to a SIM card remotely managed from a computer.

UK bookseller Waterstones plans to sell Amazon's Kindle e-book reader and other Kindle digital services.

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