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Biotech's Plans to Sustain Agriculture (preview)If environmental and economic sustainability is ultimately a matter of balancing the human race’s consumption and productivity, then the agricultural industry leans heavily on both sides of that scale. Its drain on the earth’s resources is enormous: it claims 70 percent of all freshwater taken by our species and more than 40 percent of the planet’s solid surface (nearly all the arable land), with attendant casualties in biodiversity. Yet modern agriculture is also the only reason we can produce enough food to nourish our population of 6.8 billion--a number slated to reach more than nine billion by midcentury. Keeping up with that steeply rising demand thus defines the challenge of sustainability not only for agriculture but for humanity. Agriculture depends on many technologies, but biotechnology might be the most influential among them. To find out how the industry perceives its prospects for raising both global crop productivity and sustainability,
Scientific American Monday, October 05, 2009Aging Discovery Yields Nobel PrizeAn anonymous reader writes This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to three
scientists who have solved a major problem in biology: how the chromosomes can be copied in a complete way during cell divisions and how they are protected against degradation. The Nobel Laureates have shown that the solution is to be found in the ends of the chromosomes, called the telomeres, and in an enzyme that forms them."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Slashdot Monday, October 05, 2009Google ads leak new iMac, Mac mini, and MacBook models arriving this weekA new report suggests a revised iMac, Mac mini, and MacBook models will arrive quite possibly this coming Tuesday, based on the genuine-
looking Google Ad Sense ads published on several localized Google homepages. The ads in question have been pitching the new Mac hardware for a short period of time before being taken down, suggesting a [...]
Geek.com Monday, October 05, 2009Microsoft's Ballmer says Web search buys unlikelyLondon (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp does not expect to make acquisitions to help
the company challenge Google Inc's dominance in the Internet search market, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told Reuters on Monday.
Reuters Monday, October 05, 2009Vonage releases calling app for iPhone, BlackBerryNew app, unavailable in Canada, offer discounted international phone calls
The Globe and Mail Monday, October 05, 2009Microsoft's Ballmer says search buys unlikelyCEO also says company is freezing R&D budget partly in order to preserve resources for fight with Google
The Globe and Mail Monday, October 05, 2009Technology Unemployment Rises in Q3The IT sector may be better off than others, but it continues to experience job loss levels not seen in six years. A number of reports and analyses confirm that
nearly every segment in technology has been affected by the recession. - Technology job loss has risen in the last quarter to 5 percent, says an article in GovInfoSecurity.com.
looking at data provided by the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, the article pegs technology job loss at the highest levels in roughly six years. Industry trade group TechAmer...
eWEEK Monday, October 05, 2009Wolfson takes hit after losing Apple contractScottish manufacturer Wolfson Microelectronics is projecting year-over-year financial declines for its fourth quarter, says the Financial Times. Revenue is expected to be between $33 and $34 million, flat relative to the second and third quarters of 2009, but down from $37.4 million in the fourth quarter of
2008. The trouble is attributed mainly to a broken relationship with Apple; while Wolfson chips are featured in the iPhone 3G, there are none to be found in the iPhone 3GS....
macnn.com Monday, October 05, 2009Microsoft's Eagle-Eyed LifeCam a Sharp Mix of Features, PriceWith high-definition video popping up everywhere, it's a wonder it has taken this long for the first 720p HD webcam to hit the market. It's Microsoft's LifeCam Cinema webcam, and not only is it a honey of a webcam, but at $79.95, it's nicely priced to boot. Installation of the camera requires three steps.
TechNewsWorld Monday, October 05, 2009Netgear intros 802.11n Wi-Fi router with LinuxNetgear this morning challenged Cisco in customizable routers with a new Linux-based RangeMax model. The WNR3500L has the same 802.11n Wi-Fi, gigabit Ethernet and USB device sharing as the regular WNR3500 but runs on an open-
source Linux platform and will take common unofficial router firmware like DD-WRT, OpenWRT and Tomato. These give it much more customization than the proprietary OS and can bring features that Netgear wouldn't introduce itself....
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