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News As T-Mobile and Sprint continue to pursue regulatory approval for their proposed $26 billion merger, the nation's third and fourth-largest carriers on Wednesday announced a promise to create jobs by building five ne...

(University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) Acinic cell carcinoma is the third most common malignant form of salivary gland cancer. These tumors are similar to normal salivary gland tissue and occur most frequently in the parotid...

News AT&T lost 267,000 DirecTV Now subscribers in the fourth quarter, a figure executives said was impacted by low value, high churn customers leaving the service as promotional pricing ended. Staff Author: Bevin Fletche...

News A team of researchers from Lehigh University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lebanon Valley College and Corning Inc. has demonstrated, for the first time, that crystals manufactured by lasers within a glass matrix m...

News Time spent watching streaming video increased 89 percent globally in 2018, with live events like the midterm election fueling the biggest viewing spikes in the U.S., according to new data from Conviva. Staff Author:...

News Mississippi's 25 electrical cooperatives can now offer high-speed internet service Wednesday as Gov. Phil Bryant signed a law that immediately gives them that legal authority. Contributed Author: Jeff Amy, Associate...

News Apple says Facebook can no longer distribute an app that paid users, including teenagers, to extensively track their phone and web use. Contributed Author: Associated Press Topics: Apps

News Results released Tuesday revealed the magnitude of the iPhone slump -- a 15 percent drop in revenue from the previous year. That decline in Apple's most profitable product caused Apple's total earnings for the Octob...

(American Heart Association) E-cigarette smokers may have higher odds of stroke, heart attack and coronary heart disease.

The brain of a fruit fly is captured here using a new, large-scale 3-D imaging technique developed by a multi-institutional group of researchers led by MIT and Harvard University. The method is shockingly fast, and milli...

News A team of researchers led by RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland), have developed a new treatment for the particularly difficult-to-treat bone infection, osteomyelitis... Contributed Author: Royal College of ...

News Water molecules distort the electrical resistance of graphene, but a team of European researchers has discovered that when this two-dimensional material is integrated with the metal of a circuit, contact resistance....

Product Announcement TE Connectivity (TE) now offers M8M12 cable assemblies for applications such as sensors, robotics and production equipment, where extreme temperatures and harsh environments are likely to be encounte...

News Once snow and ice blanket the road, the dangers of driving skyrocket. "Once you have cars driving, the dynamics of the ice and snow change [because of the movement of the vehicles], and in a place such... Staff Auth...

News Imagine those times when you're having a conversation, and no matter what the other person says, you have to ask them to repeat it at least three times before you can finally hear them. Hearing loss affects 15%... S...

News Ryan Cotterell of Johns Hopkins' University was named the first Facebook fellow, chosen from more than 800 applicants. Cotterell joins 13 other PhD students granted the esteemed award, each of them chosen for... Sta...

News As consumers flock toward online shopping, a host of personal information is stored electronically, oftentimes in the cloud. Researchers at the University of Missouri (MU) are continually trying to safeguard... Staf...

News Levy, who joined the CS department in 2018 as an assistant professor after earning his doctorate from Stanford, is interested in distributed systems, operating systems, security, privacy, and programming languages, ...

News Optical fibers enable the internet, and they are practically everywhere: underground and beneath the oceans. Fibers can do more than just carry information: they are also fantastic sensors... Contributed Author: Bar...

News Small tweaks in component ratios generate electronically different layers from the same material to create transparent transistors. Worldwide demand is growing for transparent... Contributed Author: King Abdullah Un...

News Sick of having to plug in your phone every night? Help might be on the way. New research at the University of Kansas could provide longer-lasting batteries for most consumer... Contributed Author: University of Kans...

News Imagine a world where smartphones, laptops, wearables, and other electronics are powered without batteries. Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have taken a step in that direction... Contributed Author: Rob Matheson,...