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Tiny Sensor Used In Smart Phones Could Create Urban Seismic Network

2013-10-01 10:57:11| wirelessdesignonline News Articles

A tiny chip used in smart phones to adjust the orientation of the screen could serve to create a real-time urban seismic network, easily increasing the amount of strong motion data collected during a large earthquake, according to a new study published by the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA).

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France to Follow Through on Tiny Google Fine

2013-09-30 23:41:30| TechNewsWorld

In France, data protection officials announced that they will impose sanctions against Google for the company's failure to stick to a three-month deadline to tweak its privacy policies. The fine stems from Google's melding of different privacy policies in Europe into a single policy that applies to all its platforms -- Gmail, YouTube, Google+ and so on.

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Tiny Plankton in the Oceans Could Have Big Impact

2013-09-28 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate News Network: Some of the most minute forms of marine life may have a significant effect both on more developed creatures and on the oceans' ability to absorb carbon dioxide. An international team of scientists has found that the smallest species of plankton thrive when levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main greenhouse gas from human sources, rise and increase the acidity of the oceans. Writing in Biogeosciences, a journal of the European Geosciences Union, they say this could knock the marine food web...

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