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: Internal External Defibrillator; By Duncan Graham-Rowe
Wednesday, November 26, 2008; A new device may offer a safer way to jump-start ailing hearts.

: Modeling Brain Blasts; By Brittany Sauser
Tuesday, November 25, 2008; A computer simulation reveals how blast waves reverberate around a soldier's helmet.

: Color Quantum-Dot Displays; By Prachi Patel-Predd
Tuesday, November 25, 2008; A new way to print quantum dots could lead to brighter, more power-efficient displays.

: Memristors Make Chips Cheaper; By Kate Greene
Tuesday, November 25, 2008; The first hybrid memristor-transistor chip could be cheaper and more energy efficient.

Computing Blogs

Augmented Reality Comes to Mobile Phones: By Brittany Sauser and Will Knight | 11/20/2008 | 0 Comments
The Nostradamus Attack: By Erica Naone | 11/17/2008 | 2 Comments
Microsoft Adds SecondLight to its 'Surface': By Kate Greene | 10/31/2008 | 0 Comments
A Robot Music Instructor: By Kristina Grifantini | 10/30/2008 | 2 Comments
Biomedical Robots Galore: By Kristina Grifantini | 10/27/2008 | 0 Comments
How NASA's Next Mars Rover Will Land: By Brittany Sauser | 10/23/2008 | 0 Comments
Looking Ahead: By Erica Naone | 09/25/2008 | 3 Comments
What the Experts Said about E-voting: By TR Editors | 09/25/2008 | 1 Comments
Craig Mundie's Keynote: By TR Editors | 09/25/2008 | 0 Comments
What Do Wheelchairs and Video Games Have in Common?: By Kristina Grifantini | 09/24/2008 | 0 Comments

News from Around the Web

Spectrum Bridge closes $7.4M for radio spectrum auctions: 11/25/2008 | via venturebeat.com; Radio spectrum marketplace Spectrum Bridge just brought in a $7.38 million tranche of an anticipated $8.15 million second-round of financing. Espirito Santo Ventures, Milcom Technologies, Telecommunications Development Fund and True Ventures contributed. The Lake Mary, ...

Cell jammers still illegal, but may come to state prisons: 11/24/2008 | via arstechnica.com; In the US, cell phone jammers can only legally be used by federal law enforcement agencies. But a move is afoot to expand their use ...

Facebook Wins Judgment Against Spammer: 11/24/2008 | via nytimes.com; Facebook has a won $873 million judgment against a Canadian man who bombarded the popular online hangout with sexually explicit ''spam'' messages.

A Whale of an Opportunity: 11/24/2008 | via techcrunchit.com; If Twitter wants to make money, it needs to do to others what they've been trying to do to Twitter. That is, extend its lead ...

Study: time kids spend online not wasted after all: 11/20/2008 | via arstechnica.com; A large survey of studies that explore the use of the Internet by children in the second decade of their lives find that, in general, ...

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