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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare but fatal disease in humans. For the first time, the presence of infectivity in the blood of patients affected by sporadic and the new variant of CJD has been established by scie...

(University of California - San Francisco) UC San Francisco's Global Health Group has received a $15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a pioneering effort to help nearly three dozen countries eli...

Sony has taken the wraps off a USB flash drive aimed at smartphones and tablets. In the days of the cloud, Sony thinks users still want to use hardware to transfer media between devices. The "2-in-1 flash drive" has a US...

Nikon Japan has issued a product advisory concerning the CF-DC6 Semi Soft Case for the Nikon Df digital SLR camera.

You are looking at a horse sleeping in the womb, during the 85th day of gestation. It's an extraordinary photo taken by an extraordinary photographer--Tim Flach. The image is weirdly beautiful, almost magical. A peaceful...

There are typically two main problems when it comes to building pillow forts: structural integrity, and a lack of building materials. And both of those issues are solved with these wonderful engineered cushions called Sq...

Along with Apple, Samsung is one of only two companies to consistently make money selling smartphones. Bloomberg reports, however, that Samsung is getting antsy about keeping its margins high amid slowing growth and is m...

The Les Paul Foundation awarded Little Kids Rock with a grant that will power music education initiatives in public schools over the next year. To further the partnership, the foundation’s Executive Director Michael Br...

Over the past few days a number of Yahoo Mail users have complained about not being able to access the email service. The company didn’t say anything, so it wasn’t known for sure exactly what was causing the problem....

wiredmikey writes "Business for Switzerland's 55 data centers is booming. They benefit from the Swiss reputation for security and stability, and some predict the nation already famous for its super-safe banks will soon a...

Researchers are developing a new kind of geothermal power plant that will lock away unwanted carbon dioxide (CO2) underground--and use it as a tool to boost electric power generation by at least 10 times compared to exis...

While it's difficult to fully disconnect from work as we head home for the day, a paper published today provides some insight into how our personal thinking styles and values can affect how we manage the stress of work.

Ron Williams, a veteran Associated Press technology manager who began his career with AP as a teenager maintaining the teletype machines in the Atlanta bureau, died Thursday. He was 63.

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Wow, Yahoo just can’t catch a break. Yahoo’s photo-sharing service Flickr went down this morning, in a brief outage that appears to have started around 11 AM ET, lasting for over an hour. The first report of the site...

Rebuilding the mainframe using industry standard components is the name of the game with converged infrastructure systems. NetApp offered some insight into the history of trend and an update on FlexPod.

The European Union's top legal advisor ruled on Thursday that laws requiring communications providers to retain all data, even to combat crime, are incompatible with fundamental rights. Advocate General Pedro Cruz Villal...

Part of Steve Jobs’ genius was his ability to find just the right words to explain why whatever Apple product he was unveiling was so “insanely great” you had to rush out and buy it at that very moment. Outgoing…...

Just last week we heard the rumors that Samsung could be thinking of launching 8-inch and 10-inch tablets that featured Super AMOLED displays. This would be a change in Samsung's typical lineup where their tablet display...

While EA and DICE probably launched and developed Battlefield 4 with the best intentions, there have been multiple reports of bugs plaguing the game, and in some instances causing it to crash. While a patch for the PlayS...

The Leuven-based VIB researchers have revealed a mechanism that explains why the anti-tumor activity of specific immune cells called macrophages is suppressed during tumor growth. They have also demonstrated that blockin...

Forrester predicts India's tech spending next year will be driven by a strong customer focus.