High-Performance $20 Artificial Knee Could Help Thousands in Developing Countries

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Windows Vista with SP2 RTM Slipstreamed/Integrated DVD ISO Image (BT Download)

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Microsoft has finalized the Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, which has been RTMed as version 6.0.6002.18005. The standalone setup installers of both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP2 have been leaked for free download. For Windows users who want to install a fresh and clean [...]

Low-energy LEDs make debut

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NEW YORK – Renaissance Lighting has developed a range of low-energy LED lights that are much brighter and more efficient than ever before.

Its new, all white solid-state LED downlight fixtures have two and a half times more lumens per watt (efficacy) than previous generations, and are available in a downlight format.

The white downlights are available in a full range of white light color temperatures (2700K – 4100K) and use Constructive Occlusion technology, which gives a highly efficient light with uniform, glare-free and bright light output.

Methods found to hack quantum cryptography

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Panda introduces cloud-based free antivirus

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The program uses Panda’s proprietary cloud computing technology, which they call Collective Intelligence, to detect viruses, malware, rootkits, and heuristics. It takes advantage of “millions of users,” according to Panda, to identify new malware almost in real time. Panda says that Collective Intelligence can classify new malware in under six minutes, and that it handles more than 50,000 new samples per day. The Cloud Antivirus works by classifying threats into executables that must be scanned immediately, and non-executables that are checked at a lower priority–usually when the computer is idle.

In exchange for using consumer data to build the Collective Intelligence database, Panda decided to offer the Panda Cloud Antivirus for free, said Pedro Bustamante, senior research adviser at Panda Security.

Google crashes Wolfram Alpha debut party

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Wolfram Research founder Stephen Wolfram publicly debuted his company’s forthcoming online “computational knowledge engine” Tuesday–but search Goliath Google launched a service of its own that bears significant resemblance.

Moscow Zombie Walk 2009 – photos

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The £19 anti-wrinkle cream that actually works

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Two years ago, Boots produced a wrinkle cream so effective that stores sold out in a day.

On Thursday, when its latest product hits the shelves, the high street chemist sets out to show customers it has done it again.

Aimed at mature skin with more wrinkles than its sister lotion, No7 Protect & Perfect Intense Beauty Serum is said to be twice as good as normal moisturisers at plumping up the skin and smoothing away wrinkles.

And Boots is offering proof. A year-long study at Manchester University found that 70 per cent of those who used the £19.75 cream for a year had fewer, finer lines, the British Journal of Dermatology reported.
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Following last year’s report on BBC’s Horizons that the Boots serum actually did help regenerate the skin’s elasticity, the cream sold out in minutes and queues formed with customers vying for pots. Sales soared to two every ten seconds