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Microsoft Touts Home Entertainment at CES Keynote
Focusing on the success of an enhanced Windows 7 and home entertainment enhancements, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer makes it clear in his CES keynote that Apple's iPhone hasn't killed off Windows. He outlines plans to connect the "three screens" through which people experience media today (TV, PC and mobile devices).
 Firefox 2 launched
Version 2.0 of the alternative web browser Firefox, has now been launched for public download. The latest browser has many of the features of version 7 of that other browser, including a pop-up blocker, safer surfing, virus protection, tabbed browsing, and better handling of newsfeeds. One thing it will hopefully lack is the never-ending release [...] CNN/Money Special Report: Oil Crunch 2005
Information on oil and gas production and refineries in the Gulf of Mexico, gas prices in the U.S. in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the use of emergency oil reserves, fuel-efficient cars, and related matters. Predicting Seabed Response To Climate Change
Scientists have produced the first preliminary predictions of the potential impact of climate change on the Australian seabed. Surgeons With Video Game Skill Appear To Perform Better In Simulated S
In a study involving 12 surgeons and 21 surgical residents, video game skill was correlated with laparoscopic surgery skill as assessed during a simulated surgery skills course, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Low Heart Rate Variability In Depressed Patients Contributes To High M
Scientists have known for years that depression increases the risk of dying in the months after a heart attack, but they haven't understood how depression raises that risk. Now, behavioral medicine specialists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, report in the Archives of Internal Medicine that abnormal heart rate variability is partially responsible for depression's effects in heart patients. Is The Inability To Express Emotions Hereditary?
The inability to express emotions (alexithymia) is thought to be hereditary. While the results of this twins study suggested a moderate influence of shared environmental factors, the results are in concordance with the general finding that environmental influences on most psychological traits are primarily of the nonshared rather than the shared type. Of mice and memory: 'Working memory' of mice can be improved
Mice trained to improve their working memory become more intelligent, suggesting that similar improvements in working memory might help human beings enhance their brain power, according to new research. Women, space travel and infection: Bed-rest study investigates female
A bed-rest study with female participants will help scientists understand changes to the immune response and decreased resistance to infection in space. Super-size Deposits Of Frozen Carbon In Arctic Could Worsen Climate Ch
The vast amount of carbon stored in the Arctic and boreal regions of the world is more than double that previously estimated, according to a new study. The new estimate is over 1.5 trillion tons of frozen carbon, about twice as much carbon as contained in the atmosphere.
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