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Today at one of the hottest conferences around, the Book Industry Study Group (sarcasm), a Google manager, Chris Palma, announced at a panel that Google was going to begin selling digital books. The panel was dubbed “The book on Google: Is the Future of Publishing In the Cloud?” Google Books has toyed with the idea for a while as it allowed searching for books and provided some open-source books, but now, they’re going directly into selling them. (more…) Related posts on TFTS: Copia eBook Reader Platform To Compete With Amazon [Copia To Focus On Social Networking, Multiple Readers] iPhone OS 4.0 iBooks Application for iPhone Unveiled [eBooks to be Available on iPhone & iPod touch too Thanks to New iPhone iBooks App] Scribd.com To Take On Amazon [Scribd CEO Confrims Document Sharing Site Will Sell eBooks To Kindle Users] Google Introducing Google Apps Marketplace [Google Expanding To Offer "App Store" Experience To Web Apps, Iteration On Android Marketplace] Apple’s iPad & Other eReaders/Tablets to Bring the End of Publishing Unless They Don’t [Are Publishers Really Scared of eBook Readers Like the iPad & the Kindle?] Google Explains Google Nexus One Sales Failure & Upcoming Mobile Strategy [Google Not Interested in Nexus One Sales, Money or Fame; Likes Android Market & Baseball Instead] © TFTS – Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities , 2010

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Google Launching Bookstore This Summer [Google Gets Into Amazon, iBooks Game With eBook Store, For Android?]

Scientists at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center have identified a key molecular mechanism in breast cancer that enables tumor cells to spread to adjacent or distant parts of the body in a process called metastasis. This finding opens the way to new lines of research aimed at developing treatments for metastatic breast cancer.

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Key mechanism identified in metastatic breast cancer

The brains of problem gamblers react more intensely to “near misses” than casual gamblers, possibly spurring them on to play more, according to new research in the May 5 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The researchers found the brain region that responds to rewards by delivering a dose of the chemical dopamine was especially active in these individuals.

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Problem gamblers provoked by ‘near misses’ to gamble more

(PhysOrg.com) — NASA’s Terra satellite flew over the Deepwater Horizon rig’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, May 1 and captured a natural-color image of the slick from space. The oil slick resulted from an accident at the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Image: NASA Satellite Imagery Keeping Eye on the Gulf Oil Spill

Children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis who received the antibiotic azithromycin did not experience improved lung function, compared to patients who received placebo, according to a study in the May 5 issue of JAMA.

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Use of antibiotic by children with cystic fibrosis does not result in improved lung function

Get the Viewsonic 22″ HD 1080p LCD Monitor with VGA cable and Speakers for $299 – $130 instant discount- $20 rebate = $149 at PC Mall. The Acer monitor features a 22-inch screen with HD widescreen 1920 x 1080 WUXGA resolution, 5ms response time, and 16,000:1 dynamic contrast. Integrated speakers in a stylish, slim-bezel design provide multimedia enjoyment.

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Viewsonic 22" HD 1080p LCD Monitor $149 at PC Mall

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and death rates will surge in China by up to 73 percent by 2030, due to aging, smoking, high blood pressure and other risk factors, according to research reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal.

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By 2030, cardiovascular disease and death rates will surge in China

There’s a trick here, I just can’t quite figure it out. Ordinary cameras, for centuries now since the very first experiments in optics, have relied on organizing lenses in sequence to recreate an image.

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“Omni-focus” camera can focus on near and far objects simultaneously

Who knew classic “that guy” Elias Koteas (Casey Jones from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles !) would have so many fun stories about sitting next to athletes on flights? At last night’s reading of Speak Truth to Power: Voices Beyond the Dark , a benefit for Habitat for Humanity that also featured Meryl Streep, Viggo Mortensen, Julianne Moore, Alfred Molina, and Marcia Gay Harden, we got Koteas to spill the beans on his recent in-flight run-in with Reggie Jackson.

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Party Lines Slideshow: Elias Koteas, Meryl Streep, Viggo Mortensen, and More at Speak Truth to Power

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 4 May 2010 at 22:04:00 Search firm takes on Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Apple Google is planning to launch its Editions e-book service this summer, according to reports in The Wall Street Journal. Chris Palma, manager for strategic development at Google, is quoted as…

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Google Editions e-book store to launch in June

If you’ve already read Jerry Saltz’s review of the Met’s Picasso show — with its huge trove of the non-cubist works that book-ended the great artist’s career — see the art captured here, on video, as New York ’s critic conducts a tour of the exhibit. And if you haven’t read the review, for shame , watch the video and whet your appetite for Saltz’s explanation of why works that even the museum’s curator finds lacking are, in fact, great

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Jerry Saltz Takes You Through the Met’s Massive Picasso Show

OK, so, Gareth may not like it, but this video of Honda’s prototype U3-X omni-wheeled personal vehicle my brother just sent me is rather more persuasive than the shaky hand-cam footage of nervous American riders Gar posted back in 2009. Although I agree the butt-pads are kind of creepy

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Honda’s answer to Segway looks a lot like Serge

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 4 May 2010 at 21:56:00 Mobile sales halted after espionage and sabotage claims The Indian government has banned local firms from buying Chinese mobile networking hardware after fears of a plague of embedded malware….

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India bans Chinese networking kit over security fears

Watching the new opening credits of this last season of The Hills (a new episode premieres tonight) as Natasha Bedingfield wails about feeling the rain on your skin, we’re struck by a new and slightly jarring sight: Juxtaposed with current images of each character (Heidi, Lo, Audrina, and Kristin) is a faux -grainy video clip of each of them from earlier in the show’s four-year run.

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Why The Hills’ Opening Credits Are Both Creepy and Cruel

You might expect a smaller manufacturer like Eurocom to accidentally leak unannounced computer parts, but not a Triple-A manufacturer like Acer. The Taiwanese tech giant has broken the NDA regarding some triple-core processors from AMD coming soon to their mobile computers. (more…) Related posts on TFTS:

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Acer Leaks Mobile AMD Three-Core Processors [New Acer Laptop Listings Reveal Tri-Core Phenom X3 Chips Coming To Notebooks]

Looks like Sony now offers extended warranties for the PS3 and PSP . It’s not free, of course, but it’s not like the prices outrageous either, with prices ranging from $30 to $60. Not too much to digest here: a one-year PSP warranty is $30, while a two-year warranty is $40

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I’m building an Arduino-controlled Nerf sentry gun. Rather than build it and present the finished project all at once, I’m going to chronicle the build here on Make: Online. The first step was to add wiring and a two-wire connector to control the trigger circuit.

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Arduino Nerf sentry gun build: wiring the trigger

Good news! Bret Michaels was released from the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix today and is expected to make a full recovery after suffering a brain hemorrhage a few weeks back . [ WP ] Read more posts by Amos Barshad Filed Under: bret micheals , music , tv

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Bret Michaels Is Out of the Hospital

I don’t etch circuit boards very often, so I can’t really justify purchasing or even storing much specialized equipment for it. Once in a while, though, I do need to produce a batch of boards, and having something as simple as an automatic agitator for the etchant tank can make the job much easier

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The 5-minute circuit board agitator, or, making temporary tools

The video is for fellow Austinite Bob Schneider, the song is “40 Dogs (Like Romeo and Juliet),” and, in case you were wondering (we were), Schneider is 45 and Dennings is 23. [ IFC ] Read more posts by Edith Zimmerman Filed Under: music , bob schneider , clickables , kat dennings , movies , robert rodriguez , video

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Robert Rodriguez Directs Kat Dennings in a New Music Video