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The Department of Energy said Wednesday that it had awarded I.B.M. a contract to build a supercomputer capable of 1,000 trillion calculations a second, using an array of 16,000 Cell processor chips that I.B.M. designed for the coming PlayStation 3 video game machine.

Babies are up to three times more likely to die soon after delivery if their mothers choose a Caesarean section rather than a normal birth, a big American study has shown.

The photosensor and intelligent driver divides the detected light into 32 levels. The device then selects the most appropriate image enhancement algorithm for each level, making the colors more lifelike.

The search giant announced that it's helped fix software bugs in the 2-decades-old Tesseract, an optical character recognition (OCR) engine originally built by HP Labs and retired in 1995 before the company released the code to the open-source community in recent months.

The quadruped duck was the result of a test in which a female patient with semantic dementia was asked to copy an image. [...] With a ten-second delay, she gave the duck a turkey-like head, a mouth and an eyebrow, and started to draw a third leg before remembering that the bird had only two. With a 60-second delay, the duck became a four-legged abstraction with a wild tail, a more pronounced eyebrow and a smile.

Angry users blasted the features in forums and public blogs as "creepy" and "too stalker-esque" -- even though all of the information displayed in the News Feeds is available elsewhere and no private information is being shared. [...] The outcry suggests the exhibitionism and voyeurism implied by participation in social networking sites has ill-defined but nonetheless real limits, and expectations of privacy have somehow survived the publishing free-for-all.

ITU granted Montenegro the 382 code which will be in use for the next six months parallel to the old 381 code it shared in its union with Serbia

The Bible found in his isolated hut contained dots, arrows and notations and investigators want to know if it is a code that will unlock other messages. [...] Any code-breaking will be done at an FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia.

She was diagnosed as being in a vegetative state, which meant even when she was awake, she was unresponsive. [...] By scanning her brain, they discovered she could understand spoken commands and even imagine playing tennis.