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E-book revolution: Breaking through in the digital age

2013-08-22 02:18:55| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

How to make money by publishing your own e-books.

Is Silicon Valley's youth movement really just age discrimination?

2013-08-20 13:13:34| InfoWorld: Top News

The alarming turn of events at one of Silicon Valley's stalwart, iconic companies leaves many older Silicon Valley techies with more evidence in support of a legitimate gripe: They're losing their jobs to younger people. Earlier this summer, Rowan Trollope, senior vice president and general manager of the collaboration technology group at Cisco Systems, told a crowd at a Commonwealth Club event in San Francisco that Cisco will hire 2,000 Millennials this year.

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The Age of Quantum Information Teleportation Dawns

2013-08-19 16:00:00| TechNewsWorld

Researchers at ETH Zurich have teleported information from one end of a superconducting circuit to another -- a distance of 6mm. The experiment has two unusual features: 1) It is the first time quantum teleportation was conducted over a circuit without the use of a powerful laser beam; and 2) the information was relayed making use of the laws of quantum physics rather than classical physics.

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West Antarctica warming during end of last ice age examined

2013-08-19 12:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environmental News Network: The Earth goes through natural cooling and warming trends, not to be confused with man's impact on climate. Ice Ages have occurred and waned. The pace of warming at the end of an ice age has been the subject of debate. It turns out that in Antarctica the pace of warming at the end of the last ice age was far from uniform. West Antarctica began emerging from the last ice age about 22,000 years ago well before other regions of Antarctica and the rest of the world, according to a team of scientists...

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