Technology/Science
Samsung to Pay Apple Roughly $120M for Three Infringed Patents
A U.S. jury on Monday left the total damages Samsung Electronics Co Ltd must pay Apple Inc. unchanged at $119.6 million, after additional deliberations in a trial where the South Korean smartphone ...
‘Boom or Bust’ Tornado Seasons Baffle Meteorologists
Something strange is happening with tornadoes lately in the United States and it's baffling meteorologists. It's either unusually quiet or deadly active. Until the latest outbreak in late April, the ...
Strong Garage Doors Save Roofs, Shelters Save Lives in Tornadoes: Research
Lightweight garage doors can be the weak link that allows high winds and pressure changes into a home during a tornado, according to a study of tornado damage by researchers from The University of ...
New Drugs Target Asbestos-Linked Cancer; Japan Faces ‘Asbestos Tsunami’
Heather Von St. James, 45, remembers her father, a demolition worker, coming home covered in dust and dirt. Still, she'd hug him each night and, sometimes, put on his coat and shoes to play. Thirty ...
CDC Reports First U.S. Case of Deadly MERS Infection from Middle East
A deadly virus from the Middle East has been found in the U.S. for the first time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today. The patient, an American health-care provider who ...
Five Things About Google’s Self-Driving Cars
The director of Google's self-driving car project wrote in a blog post Monday that development of the technology has entered a new stage: trying to master driving on city streets. Many times more ...
Now Mastering City Streets: Google’s Self-Driving Cars
Google says its self-driving cars are motoring along: they can navigate freeways comfortably, albeit with a driver ready to take control. But city driving—with its obstacle course of stray walkers, ...
An Employer’s Guide to Securing Data in the Mobile Device Age
Do you remember when Palm introduced its revolutionary products back in 1997? Life then was simpler when it came to protecting corporate information on mobile devices, such as the PalmPilots and ...