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ZURICH (AP) -- Switzerland's top technology institute says a U.S. chemist has resigned as head of research after scientific data were found to have been manipulated....

Using bacteria and inositol phosphate, a chemical analogue of a cheap waste material from plants, researchers have recovered uranium from the polluted waters from uranium mines. The same technology can also be used to clean up nuclear waste.

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Barence writes 'PC Pro has benchmarked the first Intel Core i7 processors for laptops. The chips mark the debut of Intel's Turbo Boost technology, which ramps up the speed of the working cores if two or more cores are sitting unused. For the quad-core i7-820QM, this can take the stock speed of 1.73GHz up to a maximum of 3.06GHz. The 2D benchmarks show comparable performance to Core 2 Extreme chips running at 2.53GHz. Power consumption and processor temperature is dramatically lower, which should lead to significant improvements in laptop battery life.' of this story at Slashdot.

DXG Technology comes back with its new high definition all-weather camcorder in the form of the DXG-125VR. Made of a sturdy rubber case, this rugged camcorder can withstand bumps and drops, and has the capability to capture both full 1280 x 720 resolution HD video at 30fps as well as 3-megapixel digital still images (interpolated [...]

The founders of Skype have alleged its trade secrets were stolen to help facilitate its sale by its current owner, eBay, in a move which could scupper the $2bn (£1.2bn) deal.The legal action follows another filed earlier this week by Skype's founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, accusing eBay and a group of potential investors of technology theft.The legal action targets Index Ventures and one of its partners, Michelangelo Volpi. Acrimony between Skype's founders and Volpi, a former high-flyer at Cisco Systems has been building for some time.Volpi served on Skype's board and the pair of entrepreneurs recruited him to head another company they founded, the Web TV venture Joost.The founders alleged in yesterday's lawsuit that Volpi misappropriated confidential information as he moved from Joost to Index Ventures, and helped to orchestrate its bid for Skype. 'Volpi has maliciously and willfully breached his fiduciary duties,' Zennstrom and Friis said in their complaint.Volpi was no

The founders of Skype have alleged its trade secrets were stolen to help facilitate its sale by its current owner, eBay, in a move which could scupper the $2bn (£1.2bn) deal.The legal action follows another filed earlier this week by Skype's founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, accusing eBay and a group of potential investors of technology theft.The legal action targets Index Ventures and one of its partners, Michelangelo Volpi. Acrimony between Skype's founders and Volpi, a former high-flyer at Cisco Systems has been building for some time.Volpi served on Skype's board and the pair of entrepreneurs recruited him to head another company they founded, the Web TV venture Joost.The founders alleged in yesterday's lawsuit that Volpi misappropriated confidential information as he moved from Joost to Index Ventures, and helped to orchestrate its bid for Skype. 'Volpi has maliciously and willfully breached his fiduciary duties,' Zennstrom and Friis said in their complaint.Volpi was no