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Cigarettes: Harmful to the Environment, Not Just to Your Health
2014-05-08 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Cigarettes are universally known to be a health hazard, but the nasty habit of lighting up is harmful to more than just your body. Large-scale littering of cigarette filters, used butts, packaging and matches is also detrimental to the environment, and researchers behind a review article in the journal Current Environmental Health Reports are rallying to establish policy measures to lessen the impact of smoking-related litter. Thomas Novotny of the San Diego State University and Elli Slaughter...
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IBM demonstrates next-gen phase-change memory thats up to 275 times faster than your SSD
2014-05-08 15:15:32| Extremetech
IBM's new Project Theseus shows promise and may be capable of replacing NAND altogether in the long term. Vastly higher performance and better write endurance could make this technology the next big thing in storage -- provided someone agrees to manufacture it.
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OpenWorm, the first complete simulation of an entire organism, is coming to your web browser
2014-05-07 19:21:12| Extremetech
Its stated goal of the new OpenWorm kickstarter project is nothing less than to simulate the entire c. elegans organism down to level of each individual cell. Like other crowdsourced initiatives, anyone can get involved, and looking at what they have accomplished so far, perhaps everyone should.
These Unreal Engine 4 tech demos will make your jaw drop
2014-05-07 16:30:33| Extremetech
There's a lot of competition these days with the likes of Unity and CryEngine, so the team at Epic Games had to double down to make Unreal Engine 4 a force to be reckoned with. As these outstanding tech demos show, we all stand to benefit from the growing market for third-party engines.
Google and Amazon are going to be your mailmen
2014-05-07 15:58:56| Air Courier - Topix.net
In the online shopping world of endless options, seamless search and easy e-payments, the delivery of the item to your door remains the one tangible part of a virtual experience.
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