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Remains of 10,000-year-old giant sloth found

Scientists have found bones in Brazil that belonged to a 20-foot-tall sloth that lived some 10,000 years ago.

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Erasable E-Paper Saves Trees, Cuts Costs

Electronic paper that runs through thermal printers but can be electrically erased and rewritten aims to make tree paper obsolete. The paper makes use of flexible plastic that retains printed text without batteries or moving parts.

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Shown here in an ornamental scroll, ITRI's e-paper, which can be produced in normal cut sheet formats too, indefinitely retains images printed on it thermally.

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A DNA Check Reveals Widespread Fish Mislabeling In Massachusetts

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Once filleted, it's easy to confuse one white-fleshed fish for another.

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Protein Creates Partition Between Bacteria and the Gut

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Cells that make up the intestinal wall form fingerlike projections (blue) and release antibacterial proteins that keep bacteria (green) at a distance.

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Privacy and Trust On Trial in 2012

Georgia Tech predicts that Internet privacy and trust will erode in 2012 due to a new era of sophisticated cyber-threats including search poisoning, peer-to-peer botnets, and rampant mobile-device breeches.

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enterprises in securing their computers, finding the optimal level of security balances cost of breeches versus cost of security measures.

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'Living Fossils' Just A Branch On Cycad Family Tree

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A cycad stands at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 19. The 300 "modern" cycad species burst onto the scene about 12 million years ago, though the lineage of cycads extends back 300 million years.

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McAfee Talks DeepSAFE, Intros Channel Initiatives

McAfee used its SecurityAlliance Partner Summit to showcase its first product co-developed with Intel -- DeepSAFE -- and to provide details about some new channel initiatives.

This week at the McAfee SecurityAlliance Partner Summit, the company finally rolled out its first product co-developed by its acquirer of nine months, Intel, and announced that it would be launching some new channel initiatives for partners while at the same time culling a number of inactive partners to better support the consistent producers.

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Artificial Leaf Turns Water Into Fuel

As free as a water lily floating on a lake, solar-panels coated with a new catalytic material can harvest hydrogen fuel from ordinary water with no wires attached.

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A flat panel module generates electricity with no wires attached, by virtue of built-in solar cells that split water into hydrogen fuel and oxygen.

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Herschel Finds Oceans of Water in Disk of Nearby Star

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This artist's concept illustrates an icy planet-forming disk around a young star called TW Hydrae, located about 175 light-years away in the Hydra, or Sea Serpent, constellation.

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Symantec Launches FileStore N8300 Network Attached Storage Appliance

With FileStore N8300, organizations can manage from within VMware vCenter Server or with a VMware View plug-in.

Storage management and backup solutions specialist Symantec announced enhancements to the FileStore N8300, the latest version of its clustered, network attached storage appliance, designed to help small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) build virtual environments and cloud storage, manage large volumes of data and control the costs of associated storage. Certified for VMware environments, FileStore N8300 is integrated with VMware vCenter Server. FileStore N8300 helps enable businesses to optimize storage costs associated with virtual machine sprawl and provision servers and virtual desktops through cloning and de-duplication of virtual machine images. FileStore N8300 5.7 is now available with prices starting at $50,000.