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Framed for child SENSORED - by a PC virus By JORDAN ROBERTSON ap technology writer Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child SENSORED ography. Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses - the malicious programs better known for swiping your credit card numbers. In this twist, it's your ...

BEIJING, Oct 31 – Chinese scientist Qian Xuesen, widely considered the father of the country’s nuclear missile and space programme, has died at the age of 98, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday. Qian, who name is also spelled Tsien Hsue-shen, was born in eastern China but went to the United States in 1935 to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then the California ...

WASHINGTON - A Senate plan to tackle global warming would add about $100 a year to the energy costs for a typical American household, according to an analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency. The analysis released late Friday by the office of ...

Bio-IT World | Using a new technique, researchers revealed the first complete view of the 3-D structure of the genome and the way chromosomes arrange themselves in the nucleus. The work was done by scientists at Harvard University, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and published in Science .

BOSTON, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- A tooth containing valuable DNA information was extracted from the head of a 4,000-year-old mummy's head, scientists in Boston said.

As part of the Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series on Nature and the Environment, Dr. Kerry Emanuel, a professor of Atmospheric Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presented the audience with a sober look at global warming. "I want to give them [the audience] a feeling for the science of global warming and climactic change," Emanuel said after the lecture.

The University of Massachusetts Medical Center reports it has landed $6 million from the National Institutes of Health for research on RNA interference technology, associated with insulin resistance and inflammation linked to type 2 diabetes.

Is your sexuality being unmasked on Facebook? Possibly, say two Massachusetts Institute of Technology students in an experiment that's anything but fabulous.

TYNGSBORO - Spinning flywheels have been used for centuries for jobs from making pottery to running steam engines. Now the ancient tool has been given a new job by a Massachusetts...

( Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) MIT researchers have developed designs for a new kind of coal-burning power plant, called a pressurized oxy-fuel combustion system, whose carbon-dioxide emissions are concentrated and pressurized so that they can be injected into deep geological formations. This system is a way to reduce the energy penalty that all carbon-capture systems for power plants ...

National Grida s research shows that 16% of gas demand in its service area could be met through renewable gas New white paper shows that renewable gas is a real and viable option that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help build a sustainable energy future Investment in renewable gas networks can create jobs and play a significant role to ...

Alisha Beaulieu, 17, with her phone at North Shore Mall in Massachusetts last week, could get coupons, sale alerts, and even make a purchase with it.

Prof. Boleslaw Mikolajczak, 64, of Dartmouth, died July 22, 2010. Prof. Mikolajczak was born June 30, 1946 in Poznan, Poland to Maria and Walenty Mikolajczak.

Cronin, a Massachusetts College of Art and Design alum, launched BandsInTown with partner Phil Sergi in 2007.

India has unveiled a $35 iPad-style computer aimed at students. While the prototype device looks like an iPad, it's just a fourteenth of the cost.

In Massachusetts automakers and repair shops are squaring off over the future of fixing cars.

The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Washington DC hosted a reception for Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Masdar Institute.

Philip Jaurigue keeps his eye trained on the horizon at Sabre Systems Inc., the Warminster company he founded on a shoestring more than two decades ago.

London, July 25 : Technology allows the superimposition of a historic photo on an up-to-date snap of the same scene. But this new pic must be clicked from the same spot and the same zoom level or else the combined image looks disjointed.

Berkshire County has a good-looking head shot, with Mount Greylock and the Taconic mountain range at its crown and Gilded Age mansions near its nape.

Saturday July 24, 2010 By Jenn Smith Berkshire Eagle Staff Berkshire County has a good-looking head shot, with Mount Greylock and the

Americans will change their commuting ways -- sooner than you may think.

“I miss my best friend,” said 17-year-old Taryn Spagna, who was referring to her father, John, who is currently deployed in Iraq.

NEW YORK, July 24 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they are looking at a new approach to treating Alzheimer's disease with a protein thought to extend lifespan in laboratory animals. Alzheimer's disease - Protein - Health - Research - Alzheimer

Middletown Company Designed The Technology Being Used To Aim Relief Wells In The Gulf When BP announced last week that the first of its relief wells was just 4 feet from the casing of its blown-out well a mile down in the Gulf of Mexico, Ralph Spinnler had particular reason to smile.

( Rochester Institute of Technology ) Rochester Institute of Technology scientist Don Figer is developing detector technology funded by NASA's Technology Development for Exoplanet Missions Program and designed to directly image and characterize exoplanets. The two-year funded project will result in a detector array that can withstand the radiation in space, count individual photons or light ...

Local Residents Graduate from Stonehill College EASTON, MA -- The following local residents recently graduated from Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts:

For decades, some university endowments, pension funds and other big investors have put part of their money to work in the woods. They've bought large tracts of timberland, viewing them as an asset class separate from stocks, bonds and other forms of real... Asset allocation - Diversification - Investing - Mutual fund - Business

When Mark Leach took the helm of the Southeastern Center of Contemporary Art in 2008, he smelled mildew and saw stains on carpeted floors. Now 18 months later, a $1.8 million redo, a new roof, climate-control system, floors and a fresh coat of paint have made SECCA far more inviting.

The district includes University Circle, Tremont and Ohio City, but Hough, Glenville and Slavic Village make it the poorerst in the county.

A $71.6 million plan by the White House and Beacon Hill to expand broadband Internet access in Western Massachusetts is a shot in the arm for the Westborough-based Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and the region’s high-tech industry, officials said. White House - Broadband Internet access - Western Massachusetts - United States - High tech

The state’s commissioner of elementary and secondary education recommended yesterday that Massachusetts replace its highly regarded academic standards for English and math with a uniform set of national standards that could lead to major changes in standardized testing. Standardized test - Education - Massachusetts - English language - Secondary education

The state’s commissioner of elementary and secondary education recommended yesterday that Massachusetts replace its highly regarded academic standards for English and math with a uniform set of national standards that could lead to major changes in standardized testing. Standardized test - Education - Massachusetts - Secondary education - Organizations

At least 60,000 people pack Hersheypark and Hersheypark Stadium on summer nights when both venues are full. On those occasions, this small plot of Derry Twp. is turned into the biggest city in Pennsylvania between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

GlobalWare Solutions and LifeSpan Technology Recycling® Team to Provide Profitable, Environmentally Sound End-of-Life Technology Solution. Don’t throw that computer in the landfill. [PR.com]

"There is an orderly liquidation of equity positions by traders who are taking risk units off the table,a said Kevin Caron, a market strategist at Stifel Nicolaus & Co.

PCWorld.com is upgrading some back-end systems. Some site features, such as user registration, may be temporarily unavailable.

Delahunt, a Massachusetts Democrat, introduced a bill on Thursday that would rewrite the ground rules for Internet and mail order sales by eliminating the option for many Americans to shop over the Internet without paying state sales taxes.t Read the whole story: CNET News Get HuffPost Technology On Twitter , Facebook , and Google Buzz ! Know ...

Lester Thurow, a professor of management and economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology s Sloan School of Management, believes that recessions and crisis are natural in capitalist economies.

If you're a Civil War buff, or even an amateur historian, you no doubt know the history of the battle for Gettysburg.

Why not keep the Java Bus at the top of "the Week in Review" for one more week? The bus travelled to Washingon, DC and then on to Charlottesville, VA this past week.

The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance recognized the outstanding work of four collegiate biomedical engineering teams during the Medical Design Excellence Awards ceremony at the Medical Design & Manufacturing East exposition in New York City this month.

Anish Mukherjee and Debarghya Sarkar. Two Calcutta boys have made a place for themselves in the sky at a time when the city's favourite stars are falling off the World Cup horizon.

These days, he's researching the genetic basis for human IQ. Zhao is 17. Centuries after it led the world in technological prowess - think gunpowder, irrigation and the printed word - China has returned into the ranks of the great powers in science.

Technology companies are suffering some of the US stock market's biggest losses, sending the Nasdaq-100 Index to the longest losing streak in its 25-year history.

How do you know if someone is lying to you? What, exactly, are you supposed to look for?

The Massachusetts Port Authority has updated its Web site so it's easier to find airport and ship information.

The Massachusetts Port Authority has updated its Web site so it's easier to find airport and ship information. Massachusetts Port Authority - Logan International Airport - Business and Economy - Massport - United States

BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts Port Authority has updated its Web site so it's easier to find airport and ship information. The $720,000, two-year project upgraded all aspects of Massport 's site, including information about Logan International Airport and the Port of Boston.

July 4, 2010 Reinhart and Rogoff Did Their Homework (800 Years of It) by Catherine Rampell (July 2, 2010) THE advertisement warns of speculative financial bubbles. It mocks a group of gullible Frenchmen seduced into a silly, 18th-century investment scheme, noting that the modern shareholder, armed with superior information, can avoid the pitfalls of the [...]