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Having a virtual copy of a patient's blood in a computer would be a boon to researchers and doctors. They could examine a simulated heart attack caused by blood clotting in a diseased coronary artery and see if a drug like aspirin would be effective in reducing the size of such a clot.

Just as a terrestrial globe cannot be flattened without distorting the distances, it seemed impossible to visualize abstract mathematical objects called flat tori in ordinary three-dimensional space. However, a team of mathematicians and computer scientists has succeeded in constructing and visually representing an image of a flat torus in three-dimensional space. This is a smooth fractal, halfway between fractals and ordinary surfaces.

At least one-third of small businesses in a Symantec study pointed to data backup as a big consideration for their move to the cloud, echoing other research.

Given the high level of technical complexity of these tech industry intellectual property trials, are jurors selected off the street really equipped to understand all of the intricacies?

Yahoo tries to attract search queries via a new service which offers visual webpage previews rather than lists of links

In New York, 60,000 ultra-orthodox Jews rallied to discuss the dangers of the web - as protesters urged them to look closer to home for causes of bad behaviour.

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as ‘lines produced’ but as ‘lines spent.’ - Edsger Dijkstra

Simplicity, carried to the extreme, becomes elegance. - Jon Franklin