<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - chips</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/chips</link><description>Newsvine - chips</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 5 Mar 2013 18:39:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 07:35:41 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>St. Louis company wins suit over bowl-shaped chip</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Texas jury has sided with a St. Louis company in its fight with snack giant Frito-Lay over the right to produce bowl-shaped tortilla chips.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Salter]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jim Salter]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/05/17196177-st-louis-company-wins-suit-over-bowl-shaped-chip</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/05/17196177-st-louis-company-wins-suit-over-bowl-shaped-chip</guid><category>business</category><category>us</category><category>lawsuit</category><category>chips</category><category>tortilla-chips</category><pubDate>Tue, 5 Mar 2013 17:23:40 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Judge: School can move girl in ID-tracking case</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Texas school district can transfer a student who is citing religious reasons for her refusal to wear an identification card that is part of an electronic tracking system, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/08/16417991-judge-school-can-move-girl-in-id-tracking-case</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/08/16417991-judge-school-can-move-girl-in-id-tracking-case</guid><category>us</category><category>student</category><category>chips</category><category>tracking</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Tue, 8 Jan 2013 22:42:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>New Qualcomm chips promise phone video in ultra-HD</title>
<description><![CDATA[TV makers are trotting out sets with ultra-HD resolution at the International CES electronics trade show in Las Vegas this week.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Svensson]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Peter Svensson]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/07/16401938-new-qualcomm-chips-promise-phone-video-in-ultra-hd</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/07/16401938-new-qualcomm-chips-promise-phone-video-in-ultra-hd</guid><category>technology</category><category>us</category><category>show</category><category>chips</category><category>las-vegas</category><category>qualcomm</category><category>gadget</category><category>tec</category><category>international-ces</category><pubDate>Tue, 8 Jan 2013 02:48:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Judge weighs Texas school's tracking ID program</title>
<description><![CDATA[A federal judge is mulling whether a Texas high school that requires students to wear tracking badges can remove students who refuse to comply.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/16/15967475-judge-weighs-texas-schools-tracking-id-program</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/16/15967475-judge-weighs-texas-schools-tracking-id-program</guid><category>us</category><category>student</category><category>san-antonio</category><category>chips</category><category>us-news</category><category>tracking-chips</category><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:28:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Suit targets 'locator' chips in Texas student IDs</title>
<description><![CDATA[To 15-year-old Andrea Hernandez, the tracking microchip embedded in her student ID card is a "mark of the beast," sacrilege to her Christian faith &#8212; not to mention how it pinpoints her location, even in the school bathroom.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul J. Weber]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Paul J. Weber]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/27/15490027-suit-targets-locator-chips-in-texas-student-ids</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/27/15490027-suit-targets-locator-chips-in-texas-student-ids</guid><category>us</category><category>texas</category><category>student</category><category>kids</category><category>chips</category><category>tracking</category><category>us-news</category><category>tagged</category><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:43:42 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c149c52e-4270-4ea0-91cc-a64e66be72ae.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="263" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c149c52e-4270-4ea0-91cc-a64e66be72ae.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Oct. 1, 2012 photo, Kayla Saucedo, an 8th grader at Anson Jones Middle School, uses her new ID card to check out a book in the library in San Antonio, Texas. The San Antonio school district's website was hacked over the weekend to protest its policy requiring students to wear microchip-embedded cards tracking their every move on campus. A teenager purportedly working with the hacker group Anonymous said in an online statement that he took the site down because the Northside school district &quot;is stripping away the privacy of students in your school.&quot; All students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School are required to carry identification cards embedded with a microchip. They are tracked by the dozens of electronic readers installed in the schools' ceiling panels.  (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Bob Owen)   RUMBO DE SAN ANTONIO OUT; NO SALES    &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bdb5d960-b99d-4597-af36-77ce34e8571d.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="261" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bdb5d960-b99d-4597-af36-77ce34e8571d.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Oct. 1, 2012 photo, Kayla Saucedo, left, shows her ID badge to a fellow student at Anson Jones Middle School in San Antonio, Texas. The San Antonio school district's website was hacked over the weekend to protest its policy requiring students to wear microchip-embedded cards tracking their every move on campus. A teenager purportedly working with the hacker group Anonymous said in an online statement that he took the site down because the Northside school district &quot;is stripping away the privacy of students in your school.&quot; All students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School are required to carry identification cards embedded with a microchip. They are tracked by the dozens of electronic readers installed in the schools' ceiling panels.  (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Bob Owen)   RUMBO DE SAN ANTONIO OUT; NO SALES    &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=01278084-92d9-424b-95f9-174cbfd4f910.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="261" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=01278084-92d9-424b-95f9-174cbfd4f910.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Oct. 1, Tira Starr, an 8th grader at Anson Jones Middle School, shows her ID badge as students change classes in San Antonio, Texas. The San Antonio school district's website was hacked over the weekend to protest its policy requiring students to wear microchip-embedded cards tracking their every move on campus. A teenager purportedly working with the hacker group Anonymous said in an online statement that he took the site down because the Northside school district &quot;is stripping away the privacy of students in your school.&quot; All students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School are required to carry identification cards embedded with a microchip. They are tracked by the dozens of electronic readers installed in the schools' ceiling panels.  (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Bob Owen)   RUMBO DE SAN ANTONIO OUT; NO SALES  &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9fef978a-fc5b-450e-b841-42b00d276fc9.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9fef978a-fc5b-450e-b841-42b00d276fc9.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Oct. 1, 2012 photo, a computer screen shows a detector chip that monitors student acitivities at Anson Jones Middle School  in San Antonio, Texas. The San Antonio school district's website was hacked over the weekend to protest its policy requiring students to wear microchip-embedded cards tracking their every move on campus. A teenager purportedly working with the hacker group Anonymous said in an online statement that he took the site down because the Northside school district &quot;is stripping away the privacy of students in your school.&quot; All students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School are required to carry identification cards embedded with a microchip. They are tracked by the dozens of electronic readers installed in the schools' ceiling panels.  (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Bob Owen)   RUMBO DE SAN ANTONIO OUT; NO SALES  &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>America: a patchwork of potato chip varieties</title>
<description><![CDATA[You say potato, I say pot-ah-toe ... chip. And that's just the start of it.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele Kayal]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Michele Kayal]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/08/13183311-america-a-patchwork-of-potato-chip-varieties</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/08/13183311-america-a-patchwork-of-potato-chip-varieties</guid><category>us</category><category>food</category><category>chips</category><category>us-news</category><category>regional</category><category>potato-chips</category><pubDate>Wed, 8 Aug 2012 17:14:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f495435f-8743-4080-a90b-c0f6f581854c.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f495435f-8743-4080-a90b-c0f6f581854c.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this image taken on July 30, 2012, from left, Poore Brothers Habanero, Route 11 Chips Chesapeake Crab, and Boulder Canyons Red Wine Vinegar, potato chips are shown in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=190c9397-4bb8-4854-b54c-befa8872bf96.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=190c9397-4bb8-4854-b54c-befa8872bf96.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this image taken on July 30, 2012, from left, Poore Brothers Habanero, Route 11 Chips Chesapeake Crab, and Boulder Canyons Red Wine Vinegar, potato chips are shown in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Sector Snap: Chipmaker, PC stocks fall</title>
<description><![CDATA[Shares of chipmakers and personal-computer manufacturers fell Friday amid worries about consumer and business spending in the U.S. and Europe.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/01/12011780-sector-snap-chipmaker-pc-stocks-fall</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/01/12011780-sector-snap-chipmaker-pc-stocks-fall</guid><category>business</category><category>us</category><category>chips</category><category>sector</category><category>pcs</category><category>snap</category><pubDate>Fri, 1 Jun 2012 19:46:32 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>First arrest of Nintendo flash cart seller sets precedent</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/30/11970325-first-arrest-of-nintendo-flash-cart-seller-sets-precedent</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/30/11970325-first-arrest-of-nintendo-flash-cart-seller-sets-precedent</guid><category>sellers</category><category>chips</category><category>consoles</category><category>carts</category><category>mod</category><category>pirated</category><category>unapproved</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>waging</category><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 23:57:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/394995-r4.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="240" width="320" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/394995-r4.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Nintendo has been waging war for years against sellers of mod chips and flash carts, which allow users to run pirated games and unapproved software on game consoles. But until this May, there were no actual arrests made.&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Intel launches first chips of new generation</title>
<description><![CDATA[Intel Corp. said Monday that PCs with chips from its new generation of processors, featuring a revolutionary design, will be available this week.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Svensson]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Peter Svensson]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/23/11353900-intel-launches-first-chips-of-new-generation</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/23/11353900-intel-launches-first-chips-of-new-generation</guid><category>technology</category><category>us</category><category>new</category><category>intel</category><category>chips</category><category>tec</category><category>new-chips</category><pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:01:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Colombia 'milestone' as jungle captives freed</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/03/10995731-colombia-milestone-as-jungle-captives-freed</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/03/10995731-colombia-milestone-as-jungle-captives-freed</guid><category>camps</category><category>rebels</category><category>chips</category><category>hostages</category><category>freed</category><category>jungle</category><category>farc</category><category>bargaining</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><pubDate>Tue, 3 Apr 2012 08:41:43 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120403-world-farc-released-wave-130a.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="290" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120403-world-farc-released-wave-130a.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Colombia's FARC rebels freed 10 hostages held in jungle prison camps for more than a decade on Monday, the last of a group used as bargaining chips to pressure the government.&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Stocks cut earlier losses, close mixed</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/29/10926083-stocks-cut-earlier-losses-close-mixed</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/29/10926083-stocks-cut-earlier-losses-close-mixed</guid><category>stocks</category><category>chase</category><category>money</category><category>chips</category><category>managers</category><category>mixed</category><category>rallying</category><category>gains</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:08:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Locator chips keep track of students in Brazil</title>
<description><![CDATA[Grade-school students in a northeastern Brazilian city are using uniforms embedded with locator chips that help alert parents if they're cutting classes, the city's education secretary said Thursday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stan Lehman]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Stan Lehman]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/22/10813413-locator-chips-keep-track-of-students-in-brazil</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/22/10813413-locator-chips-keep-track-of-students-in-brazil</guid><category>brazil</category><category>chips</category><category>world-news</category><category>uniforms</category><category>lt</category><category>chips-in</category><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:03:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Kellogg spending $2.7 billion cash on Pringles</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/15/10415423-kellogg-spending-27-billion-cash-on-pringles</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/15/10415423-kellogg-spending-27-billion-cash-on-pringles</guid><category>business</category><category>procter</category><category>chips</category><category>gamble</category><category>pringles</category><category>msnbccom</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>clearall</category><category>stylemargin</category><pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:34:24 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120215_pringles_blog.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="274" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120215_pringles_blog.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;By msnbc.com news services Kellogg said on Wednesday it plans to buy the Pringles chips business from Procter &amp; Gamble for $2.7 billion in cash. The companies expect to complete the deal in summer of 2012.&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>EPA: Low asbestos in wood chips from Libby, Mont.</title>
<description><![CDATA[Test results from huge piles of wood chips that were being sold from a Montana Superfund site for use in landscaping show they contain some asbestos, but at levels so low federal officials said they posed no danger to humans.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Brown]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Matthew Brown]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/13/10150759-epa-low-asbestos-in-wood-chips-from-libby-mont</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/13/10150759-epa-low-asbestos-in-wood-chips-from-libby-mont</guid><category>us</category><category>town</category><category>chips</category><category>us-news</category><category>asbestos</category><category>wood-chips</category><category>montana-superfund</category><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:16:43 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/763aeb8c-1c33-4d9c-8be9-d665ea693b9d.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="193" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/763aeb8c-1c33-4d9c-8be9-d665ea693b9d.jpg" width="120" height="58" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this file photo taken  Feb. 17, 2010, the town of Libby, Mont., is shown.Test results from huge piles of woodchips that were being sold from a Montana Superfund site for use in landscaping show they contain minimal levels of asbestos, according to a report Friday Jan. 13, 2012.The findings appear to offer a rare bit of relief for this town of Libby, where widespread asbestos contamination has killed an estimated 400 people.(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/bdf14764-c1f6-4bec-b15e-94978b4ea7d6.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="382" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/bdf14764-c1f6-4bec-b15e-94978b4ea7d6.jpg" width="120" height="161" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this April 28, 2011 photo, landscaper Allen Olsen stands in his nursery in Libby, Mont., where he has used bark and wood chip potentially contaminated with lethal asbestos. Test results from huge piles of woodchips, similar to Olsen's, that were being sold from a Montana Superfund site for use in landscaping show they contain minimal levels of asbestos, according to a report Friday Jan. 13, 2012. The findings appear to offer a rare bit of relief for the town of Libby, where widespread asbestos contamination has killed an estimated 400 people.(AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/aeb6b00e-4401-418c-852a-77bd6a384201.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="265" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/aeb6b00e-4401-418c-852a-77bd6a384201.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this April 28, 2011 photo, D.C. Orr, a city councilman in Libby, Mont., stands in the middle of a storage area, where bark and wood chips contaminated with undetermined levels of lethal asbestos were stored.  Test results from huge piles of woodchips that were being sold from a Montana Superfund site for use in landscaping show they contain minimal levels of asbestos, according to a report Friday Jan. 13, 2012.The findings appear to offer a rare bit of relief for this town of Libby, where widespread asbestos contamination has killed an estimated 400 people. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/9b5b48b6-f466-4098-968f-00d1dedd9b99.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="249" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/9b5b48b6-f466-4098-968f-00d1dedd9b99.jpg" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this April 28, 2011 photo, D.C. Orr, a city councilman in Libby, Mont., stands atop a large hill of bark and wood chips contaminated with undetermined levels of lethal asbestos in the town. Test results from huge piles of woodchips that were being sold from a Montana Superfund site for use in landscaping show they contain minimal levels of asbestos, according to a report Friday Jan. 13, 2012.The findings appear to offer a rare bit of relief for this town of Libby, where widespread asbestos contamination has killed an estimated 400 people.(AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Solar-powered processor a glimpse of the future?</title>
<description><![CDATA[A solar cell the size of a stamp. That's all Intel Corp. researchers needed to power a computer processor that could hold a tantalizing vision for the low-power chips of the future.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Robertson]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jordan Robertson]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/14/7763934-solar-powered-processor-a-glimpse-of-the-future</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/14/7763934-solar-powered-processor-a-glimpse-of-the-future</guid><category>technology</category><category>us</category><category>chips</category><category>solar</category><category>powered</category><category>tec</category><category>solar-powered</category><category>techbit</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:36:49 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Low asbestos levels in wood chips in Libby, Mont.</title>
<description><![CDATA[Initial test results show only low levels of asbestos contamination in piles of wood chips and bark that were widely used for landscaping in a northwest Montana town where hundreds of people have died from asbestos exposure, federal regulators said Thursday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Brown]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Matthew Brown]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/01/7558046-low-asbestos-levels-in-wood-chips-in-libby-mont</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/01/7558046-low-asbestos-levels-in-wood-chips-in-libby-mont</guid><category>us</category><category>town</category><category>chips</category><category>us-news</category><category>asbestos</category><category>wood-chips</category><pubDate>Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:53:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>IBM pursues chips that behave like brains</title>
<description><![CDATA[Computers, like humans, can learn. But when Google tries to fill in your search box based only on a few keystrokes, or your iPhone predicts words as you type a text message, it's only a narrow mimicry of what the human brain is capable.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Robertson]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jordan Robertson]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/18/7403873-ibm-pursues-chips-that-behave-like-brains</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/18/7403873-ibm-pursues-chips-that-behave-like-brains</guid><category>technology</category><category>us</category><category>chips</category><category>brain</category><category>ibm</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:40:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Firm: Apple surpasses HP as largest buyer of chips</title>
<description><![CDATA[Driven by the success of the iPhone and iPad, Apple Inc. has become the world's largest buyer of chips for computers and phones, a research firm said Wednesday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Svensson]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Peter Svensson]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/08/6814210-firm-apple-surpasses-hp-as-largest-buyer-of-chips</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/08/6814210-firm-apple-surpasses-hp-as-largest-buyer-of-chips</guid><category>technology</category><category>us</category><category>apple</category><category>chips</category><category>tec</category><pubDate>Wed, 8 Jun 2011 19:20:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>7 'healthy' foods that are making you fat</title>
<description><![CDATA[Think veggie chips are more virtuous than potato chips? And that turkey burgers have less fat than those made from ground beef? Think again. Many foods that seem healthy are actually fat traps in disguise. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keri Glassman, R.D.]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Keri Glassman, R.D.]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/24/6708440-7-healthy-foods-that-are-making-you-fat</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/24/6708440-7-healthy-foods-that-are-making-you-fat</guid><category>diet</category><category>health</category><category>sugar</category><category>chips</category><category>fat</category><category>veggie</category><category>calories</category><category>grams</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>today-health</category><pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 14:33:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/110523-pretzelshmed-4p.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/110523-pretzelshmed-4p.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;frozen yougurt ice cream&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>For computer chip builders, only one way to go: Up</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the race to build a faster computer chip, there is literally nowhere to go but up. Today's chip surfaces are packed with the tiniest electronic switches the laws of physics allow, but Intel Corp. says it is blowing past those limits with a breakthrough, three-dimensional transistor design it revealed Wednesday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Robertson]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jordan Robertson]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/04/6583974-for-computer-chip-builders-only-one-way-to-go-up</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/04/6583974-for-computer-chip-builders-only-one-way-to-go-up</guid><category>technology</category><category>us</category><category>intel</category><category>chips</category><category>tec</category><category>faster</category><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2011 16:30:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/98d025a7-53ba-48ad-9e00-cf2c43f2aecd.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="292" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/98d025a7-53ba-48ad-9e00-cf2c43f2aecd.jpg" width="120" height="88" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A reporter watches a video showing an image of an Intel 3-D Tri-Gate transistor at an Intel announcement in San Francisco, Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Intel Corp. said Wednesday that it has redesigned the electronic switches on its chips so that computers can keep getting cheaper and more powerful. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/65f83d40-d9a8-4739-a780-7f5569e34732.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="240" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/65f83d40-d9a8-4739-a780-7f5569e34732.jpg" width="120" height="72" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A reporter watches a video of Intel Senior Fellow Mark Bohr holding up a 3-D Tri-Gate transistor at an Intel announcement in San Francisco, Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Intel Corp. said Wednesday that it has redesigned the electronic switches on its chips so that computers can keep getting cheaper and more powerful. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/4f065aa4-5110-43f8-993c-433861326ad5.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="250" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/4f065aa4-5110-43f8-993c-433861326ad5.jpg" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Dadi Perlmutter, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Intel Architecture Group, speaks at an Intel announcement in San Francisco, Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Intel Corp. said Wednesday that it has redesigned the electronic switches on its chips so that computers can keep getting cheaper and more powerful. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/63c484d4-1c99-4c3f-95d8-04dc45b41342.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="254" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/63c484d4-1c99-4c3f-95d8-04dc45b41342.jpg" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Intel Senior Fellow Mark Bohr speaks at an Intel announcement in San Francisco, Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Intel Corp. said Wednesday that it has redesigned the electronic switches on its chips so that computers can keep getting cheaper and more powerful. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/004f6fe6-76c9-4a20-acd3-ed312a253f6c.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/004f6fe6-76c9-4a20-acd3-ed312a253f6c.jpg" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Dadi Perlmutter, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Intel Architecture Group, speaks at an Intel announcement in San Francisco, Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Intel Corp. said Wednesday that it has redesigned the electronic switches on its chips so that computers can keep getting cheaper and more powerful. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>'CHiPs' star gets probation for securities fraud</title>
<description><![CDATA[An actor who starred as one of two California highway officers in the 1970s TV series "CHiPs" was sentenced Friday to serve three years probation for conspiring to commit securities fraud.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Suzette Laboy]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Suzette Laboy]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/28/5939454-chips-star-gets-probation-for-securities-fraud</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/28/5939454-chips-star-gets-probation-for-securities-fraud</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>us</category><category>chips</category><category>sentencing</category><category>star</category><category>erik-estrada</category><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:58:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/7ea406f2-7b40-4c4f-b47b-6fbd15a53fec.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="329" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/7ea406f2-7b40-4c4f-b47b-6fbd15a53fec.jpg" width="120" height="187" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Sept. 29, 1981 file photo originally released by NBC, actor Larry Wilcox is shown on the set of  NBC television series Chips in Burbank, Calif. Wilcox has been sentenced to 3 years probation on a securities fraud conviction. The Securities and Exchange Commission said the 63-year-old Wilcox was involved in one of several kickback operations run by more than a dozen small-company stock promoters. (AP Photo/NBC, file)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/81322fbe-511c-4ab4-879b-167dedffafd3.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="329" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/81322fbe-511c-4ab4-879b-167dedffafd3.jpg" width="120" height="187" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Sept. 29, 1981 file photo originally released by NBC, actor Larry Wilcox is shown on the set of  NBC television series Chips in Burbank, Calif. Wilcox has been sentenced to 3 years probation on a securities fraud conviction. The Securities and Exchange Commission said the 63-year-old Wilcox was involved in one of several kickback operations run by more than a dozen small-company stock promoters. (AP Photo/NBC, file)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/3cda8d6e-7cc1-4410-9c04-3566aacea0cc.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="452" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/3cda8d6e-7cc1-4410-9c04-3566aacea0cc.jpg" width="120" height="136" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this April 12, 1978 file photo, Erik Estrada, left, and his partner Larry Wilcox pose in their California Highway patrol uniforms during a break from shooting their TV series, Chips in Los Angeles. A federal judge in Fort Lauderdale on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011, sentenced Wilcox to three years probation on a securities fraud conviction, and also ordered Wilcox to serve 500 hours of community service. (AP Photo, File) NO SALES&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Microsoft developing Windows for phone chips</title>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Corp. confirmed Wednesday that it is developing a version of its main Windows operating system that will run on cell phone chips, providing an alternative for the first time in many years to the chips based on Intel technology.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Svensson]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Peter Svensson]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/05/5772404-microsoft-developing-windows-for-phone-chips</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/05/5772404-microsoft-developing-windows-for-phone-chips</guid><category>technology</category><category>us</category><category>show</category><category>microsoft</category><category>chips</category><category>gadget</category><category>tec</category><pubDate>Wed, 5 Jan 2011 21:39:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>New computer chips help PCs compete with tablets</title>
<description><![CDATA[Semiconductor companies are whipping up a new generation of chips to bring richer video and better battery life to personal computers and help them hold off threats from tablets and increasingly powerful smart phones.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Robertson]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jordan Robertson]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/04/5765396-new-computer-chips-help-pcs-compete-with-tablets</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/04/5765396-new-computer-chips-help-pcs-compete-with-tablets</guid><category>technology</category><category>us</category><category>show</category><category>future</category><category>chips</category><category>gadget</category><category>tec</category><category>of-chips</category><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2011 21:39:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/ce4175c6-ef7f-484a-9a15-7a71681fef9e.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="336" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/ce4175c6-ef7f-484a-9a15-7a71681fef9e.jpg" width="120" height="183" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2010 file photo, Intel CEO Paul Otellini gives the keynote address at a conference in San Francisco. Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., whose processors are the brains of PCs, are both unveiling significant changes to their chips designs at this weeks International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/e00c54e6-e6d7-4fed-9c93-94c037c64695.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="372" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/e00c54e6-e6d7-4fed-9c93-94c037c64695.jpg" width="120" height="165" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2009 file photo, an Advance Micro Devices (AMD) logo is shown on a computer at Best Buy in Mountain View, Calif. Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., whose processors are the brains of PCs, are both unveiling significant changes to their chips designs at this weeks International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.  (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>SEC charges 'CHiPs' actor of securities fraud</title>
<description><![CDATA[Federal regulators have accused the actor who played a California highway officer in the 1970s TV series "CHiPs" of securities fraud.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/07/5253222-sec-charges-chips-actor-of-securities-fraud</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/07/5253222-sec-charges-chips-actor-of-securities-fraud</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>business</category><category>us</category><category>sec</category><category>charged</category><category>chips</category><category>actor</category><pubDate>Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:46:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Sector Snap: Chip stocks rise</title>
<description><![CDATA[Shares of chip makers rose Wednesday including three of the biggest &#8212; Intel Corp., Texas Instruments Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. &#8212; after a Stifel Nicolaus analyst resumed coverage of the companies.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/05/12/4273807-sector-snap-chip-stocks-rise</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/05/12/4273807-sector-snap-chip-stocks-rise</guid><category>business</category><category>us</category><category>chips</category><category>texas-instruments</category><category>sector</category><category>advanced-micro-devices</category><category>snap</category><category>stifel-nicolaus</category><pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 19:19:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>