Lenovo to release ThinkPad laptop with 2 LCD screens – “Lenovo Group Ltd. today announced the release of a ThinkPad laptop that takes the “desktop replacement” category of notebook PCs to a new level…”

US Tech Firms Team to Juice Up Electric Car Batteries – “A collection of over a dozen U.S. technology companies are collectively asking the government to help subsidize the development of the domestic lithium ion battery industry. Such batteries could hold the key to future automotive innovations; however, most manufacturing currently happens overseas, where battery makers often receive government help. The alliance of firms hopes to level the playing field…”

Remind a man of love and his behavior changes in minutes – “The results? Men who had been primed to think of love were three times more likely to help out a “damsel in distress” than men who were primed to think about their favorite music. Only 13 percent of the music-primed men gave money compared to 38 percent of the love-primed guys…”

Apple iPhone driving WiFi revolution in UK and US – “In November, 8% of ad requests in the UK were on WiFi networks, this was up from 4% of requests in August…”

Curse of the fish that time forgot: Believed to be extinct for 65million years – it returned with chilling consequences – “It was while she was sorting through the sharks, starfish, sponges and rattail fishes that she noticed a blue fin sticking up from beneath the pile…”

Why Apple Won’t Allow Adobe Flash on iPhone? – “Although Adobe says it is working on a version of its popular Flash player for the iPhone, Apple is unlikely ever to permit it to appear in the handset’s App Store, no matter how much customers want it…”

Synergy shares keyboard and mouse across multiple systems – “Synergy lets you configure one of the systems as a server (the one to which the keyboard and mouse that you want to share are connected), and any number of other systems as clients. On the server, you describe where each screen is in relation to all of its neighbors. Then, as you move the mouse to the edge of one monitor that borders another, focus shifts to that monitor (and the system attached to it)…”

Digital Pandemics: Program Tracks Disease Using Avatars for Every American – “Soon, every single American will have a digital avatar—and we’re not talking about Second Life characters. Researchers at Virginia Tech are building a nationwide computer simulation that will include 300 million synthetic individuals with true-to-life characteristics taken from U.S. Census data. The researchers say there are many uses for the simulation, from predicting the spread of infectious diseases to tracking fads and modeling traffic flow…”

IBM Scientists Develop World’s Fastest Graphene Transistor – “Researchers today announced that they demonstrated the operation of graphene field-effect transistors at GHz frequencies, and achieved the highest frequencies reported so far using this novel non-silicon electronic material…”

9 Strong Reasons To Eat Slowly – “The most prominent benefit of eating slowly is reduced intake of food and, therefore, weight loss, which has its own health benefits like lowering blood pressure or arthritis prevention. Other positive moments of slow eating include…”

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