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Angiotech Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Thursday it has launched a filter designed to prevent blockages in an artery that feeds the lungs.
Australia's communications minister has defended a proposed Internet blacklist as necessary to combat child pornography but admitted that at least one site had been wrongly blocked during trials.
A whistle-blower organization claims a secret list of Web sites that Australian authorities are proposing to ban includes such innocuous destinations as a dentist's office.
A proposed Internet filter dubbed the "Great Aussie Firewall" is promising to make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries.
Remember those sweltering summer days when the air was so muggy you could practically drink it? A new home appliance is promising to make that possible by converting outdoor air into nearly 13 quarts of fresh water every day.
National political conventions have become, in NBC's Brian Williams' words, "four-day infomercials." But it's not always clear the message is getting through.
Philip Morris USA, the nation's No. 1 tobacco company, said Monday it has ended test markets of Marlboro-branded cigarettes that use a high-technology filter.
A professor who developed an inexpensive, easy-to-make system for filtering arsenic from well water has won a $1 million engineering prize — and he plans to use most of the money to distribute the filters to needy communities around the world.
Rubber tyres, the kind that lie at the bottom of rivers and at the back of junkyards the world over, could be ideal water filters says an environmental engineer at Penn State university in the US.
Filtering works, Enex trial shows | Australian ITProblem is the Australian Government can't be trusted to run this as transparently as they are making out. Also making it mandatory would spell the death of the Internet in this country - people don't WANT to be told what they can and can't look at !
Tenn. Schools Lift Gay Web FilterTwo Tennessee school boards have been mandated to unblock online access to websites containing information about LGBT issues.
If you have been following the news in California, you have probably seen the recent move by cities and municipalities to ban old-fashioned salt-based water softeners.
Expedition Sets Sail to the Great Plastic VortexIt amazes me how many people are unaware of the problems in the Pacific with the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (or "Gyre").
Internet filter blocks education sites, but not pornAN INTERNET filter installed by the NSW education department gave students access to pornographic material - but blocked educational sites.
Frontline: China in the Red: roundtable: China and the InternetChina government monitors articles written against their interests
42 Sickened By Chemicals At Theme ParA filter pump malfunction in a water ride at southern Indiana's Holiday World caused fumes that sent 42 people to a hospital with breathing troubles.
Koogle: Orthodox Jews launch kosher search engineReligiously devout Jews barred by rabbis from surfing the Internet may now "Koogle" it on a new "kosher" search engine, the site manager said on Sunday.
In order to expedite the Newsvine Photography contest I have created a group on Flickr at The rules
Cancer Possible When You Bathe in Chlorine How aware are we, and what can we do? This may seem like a strange question, but how much do we really know about the effects of bathing in water with chlorine added by our municipalities?
PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic bottles have come to the forefront of our consciousness lately for two reasons – we are casually covering the surface of our planet with them in landfills even though it takes 700 years for them to start to decompose, and we are increasi …
Provigil - For Vigilant ProfessionalsWhen the American journalist David Plotz took Provigil, he said it should be given a slogan. Just as valium was marketed as "the housewife's little helper," he said this should be sold as "the boss' little helper." It makes you work better and harder than before. More Articles
Aussie net filtering scheme has serious security risks - The InquirerA REVEALING INTERVIEW with computer security techspert, Matthew Strahan, has brought to light disturbing potential problems with Australia's upcoming ISP-level censorship plan, including the facilitating of personal data interception and even bringing down the whole Australian In …
Army Science to Focus on 'Disruptive Technology'"At the Army Science Conference we are showcasing seven areas we believe will give rise to disruptive technologies for our Soldiers in the future," he said. "It is not just the individual areas themselves, but it is also the synergy that exists among these areas."
Linking gone wild: Yahoo's news software invited readers to browse photos of underage girlsIt wasn't what anyone expected to see while perusing a news article. But there, in the final paragraph of an online story about the call girl involved in the Eliot Spitzer scandal, Yahoo's automated system was inviting readers to browse through photos of underage girls.
Military Brainwave Binoculars - Innovation- msnbc.comthe Pentagon has awarded contracts to two defense firms to develop brainwave-aided binoculars.
Filterbrella Concept Umbrella: A Mobile Water Filter For The Wet DayThe Filterbrella has a canopy which is made of compostable polylactic acid plastic blends. This gives the Filterbrella its environment charm. The Filterbrella has a very innovative activated carbon filter in its hollow rod.
Older Brain Really May Be a Wiser BrainWhen older people can no longer remember names at a cocktail party, they tend to think that their brainpower is declining. But a growing number of studies suggest that this assumption is often wrong.
Here's the May music picks... enjoy! Robbers on High Street - The Fatalist Carolina Liar - I'm not over The Vibrants - First Move
Study finds increased fragmentation of TV news audiences along party linesTelevision news audiences are divided along party lines like never before, according to a new University of Georgia study that warns the trend may have damaging consequences for political discourse and democracy in America.... "Republicans have dramatically dropped news source …
Now I run to the first page blocked operator based on list provided by Finnish police. Actually I was not searching for child porn nor porn, but there was an article about blocking the page. Site's name means childporn.info.
EU Ranks Child Safety SoftwareParents eager to control what their children see online, and who they meet during their excursions into cyberspace, are spoilt for choice. Yet, although many are ready to pay the price if it makes their children safer, many are finding it hard to know who to trust.
The Plexiglas Computer Dust Solutionthis article gives a good explaination on the background of dust filters, dirt bags, and dust cabinets, covers, and enclosures. It concludes that a computer dust cabinet is needed for computers that are experienceing dust problems as opposed to a dirt bag.
Government Porn Filter to Slow Down the InternetAUSTRALIANS will be forced to contact their internet service provider to avoid having their access to the web restricted. The restrictions are planned by the Federal Government to give greater protection to children from online pornography and violent websites.
BBC NEWS | Health | Brain 'irrelevance filter' foundScientists believe they have located a new brain area essential for good memory - the "irrelevance filter". People who are good at remembering things, even with distractions, have more activity in the basal ganglia on brain scans, the Swedish team found.
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