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New Prenatal Blood Tests Can Identify Paternity of an Eight Week Fetus

An interesting story in the New York Times today explores the ease with which noninvasive prenatal diagnostics can now determine paternity, even when the pregnancy...

Gigapixel camera catches the smallest details

A camera made from off-the-shelf electronics can take snapshots of one billion pixels each — about one thousand times larger than images taken by conventional...

European trade committee votes to reject piracy treaty

Many regard it as the deathblow for the controversial treaty because the trade committee formally recommends how to vote to the wider parliament.   The...

Apple ordered to pay damages to Samsung by Dutch court

The court said that Apple had infringed a patent held by Samsung relating to the way phones and tablet PCs connect to the internet.  ...

Healthy forests key for green growth

But the report’s authors said that nations needed to do more to ensure the right policies are in place if forests are to meet their...

Look out Pandora: Spotify brings free radio to iPhone and iPad

Streaming music startup Spotify has added a Pandora-like radio service to its iOS applications, finally giving free Spotify users in the U.S. a reason to...

Google Offers brings its daily deals to the iPhone

Google has launched a new stand-alone iPhone app for its Offers daily deals service, the company announced today in a blog post.   While Google...

NASA, FAA to cooperate on commercial space regulation

Launching stuff into space is hard enough: you really don’t need to be fighting through gigantic piles of red tape while doing so. NASA and...

FBI and DEA Warn That IPv6 May Be Too Damn Anonymous

IPv6 has been around for quite some time at this point, but as we get closer and closer to moving the internet over to the...

DOE study says that 80 percent of US power could come from renewable energy by 2050

A study from the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has found that today’s renewable energy technologies could supply up to 80 percent...