Technology
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Collider smashes its first atoms
Two circulating beams have produced the first particle collisions in the world's biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), three days after it was restarted, scientists say.
ABC - November 24, 2009, 8:10 am -
Google buying display advertising startup
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Web search leader Google Inc said it is buying Silicon Valley display advertising technology startup Teracent, which expands its competition with display leader Yahoo Inc.
November 24, 2009, 7:26 am -
"Jail broken" iPhones vulnerable to new virus
BOSTON (Reuters) - Hackers have built a virus that attacks Apple Inc's iPhone by secretly taking control of the devices via their Internet connections, security experts said.
November 24, 2009, 7:09 am -
Grizzlies, polar bears breeding because of climate change
An Australian biologist says climate change is speeding up the creation of new species through the merging of habitats.
ABC - November 24, 2009, 7:06 am -
Gartner forecasts 2.8 percent growth in PC sales in 2009
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Worldwide sales of personal computers, which had been forecast to decline this year, will instead post modest gains, Gartner research group said Monday.
November 24, 2009, 5:51 am -
Google buying display ad startup Teracent
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Google is acquiring Web display advertising startup Teracent, the Internet giant announced on Monday.
November 24, 2009, 5:51 am -
"Big Bang" machine set to yield surprises
Scientists could begin garnering information on the origins of the universe in the coming months as the world's biggest particle collider starts moving to full power next year, a project leader said Monday.
November 24, 2009, 5:48 am -
Few US firms ready for workforce disruption: survey
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A survey published Monday of information technology managers at over 500 US-based companies has found that only about one in four has enabled more than half their workforce to work remotely.
November 24, 2009, 5:14 am -
Tweets or bleats? Tool measures importance on Twitter
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - You've got followers and post regularly, but ever wondered how popular you are on Twitter? An online tool that evaluates "tweets" can tell.
November 24, 2009, 12:04 am -
E-waste scheme needs work, experts say
Recycling experts are not optimistic about an agreement made by state and federal environment ministers to tackle Australia's electronic waste problem.
ABC - November 23, 2009, 5:08 pm -
Antarctic icesheet losing mass
A new study has found the east Antarctic icesheet, which sits behind Australia's Casey Station, has lost billions of tonnes of ice in the past three years.
ABC - November 23, 2009, 4:23 pm -
News Corp, Microsoft hold talks on Google: report
LONDON (AFP) - Microsoft has held talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp over a possible plan for the software giant to pay the media company to remove its news websites from Google, a report said Monday.
November 23, 2009, 12:41 pm -
Dolphin death mystery
A week after it was revealed six bottlenose dolphins died in the Swan River this year, it has come to light multiple dolphin deaths have also been occurring in the South-West.
ABC - November 23, 2009, 11:44 am -
Origin of Species found in British loo
A first edition of Charles Darwin's seminal book On the Origin of Species will be sold this week, after it was found in a family's toilet in southern Britain, an auction house says.
ABC - November 23, 2009, 11:27 am -
eBay apologizes for search glitch
Online auction giant eBay apologized Sunday for a technical glitch that caused a one-day crash of its website search functions it attributed to a surge in holiday shoppers.
November 23, 2009, 11:23 am -
eBay says fixes search glitch on website
NEW YORK (Reuters) - eBay Inc said on Sunday it had restored a search function on its website overnight Saturday after a glitch led to searches returning either limited or no results throughout the day.
November 23, 2009, 10:55 am -
Soviet Union's non-Communist astronaut dies age 83
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Soviet Union's only non-Communist astronaut, Konstantin Feoktistov, has died at the age of 83, Russia's space agency said on Sunday.
November 23, 2009, 4:35 am -
Dark ocean depths home to exotic, unknown life
OSLO (Reuters) - The permanent darkness of the ocean depths is home to a far greater range of animals, from luminous jellyfish to tubeworms that live off oil seeping from the seabed, than previously thought, scientists said on Sunday.
November 23, 2009, 4:12 am -
Houston, we have a baby
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Shuttle Atlantis astronaut Randy Bresnik awoke early on Sunday to a much-anticipated call that his new daughter had been born.
November 23, 2009, 1:02 am -
Delayed spacewalk ends successfully
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA astronauts completed a spacewalk on Saturday at the International Space Station that had been delayed after a false alarm woke the crews of the station and the visiting space shuttle Atlantis.
November 22, 2009, 8:22 am
