bednarz writes "U.S. companies are locating more of their R&D operations overseas, and Asian countries are rapidly increasing investments in their own science and technology economies, the National Science Board said in a report released this week. The number of overseas researchers employed by U.S. multinationals nearly doubled from 138,000 in 2004 to 267,000 in 2009, for example. On the education front, the U.S. accounts for just 4% of undergraduate engineering degrees awarded globally, compared to China (34%), Japan (5%), and India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand (17% collectively). 'The low U.S. share of global engineering degrees in recent years is striking; well above half of all such degrees are awarded in Asia,' NSB said in its report."

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Hårfina sprickor har hittats i vingarna på två superjumboplan av Airbusmodell A380 - men tillverkaren hävdar bestämt att det inte ska äventyra flygsäkerheten med världens största trafikflygplan.

Ett 100-tal personer har förts till sjukhus sedan ett kemiexperiment på ett universitet i tyska Dresden gått galet, enligt räddningstjänsten i Dresden.

Hela veckan har upprörda rumäner demonstrerat för att visa sitt missnöje med landets regering.

zacharye writes "Federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down notorious file-sharing site Megaupload.com and charged the service's founder with violating piracy laws. The Associated Press broke the story on Thursday, reporting that the indictment accuses Megaupload.com's owner with costing copyright holders including record labels and movie studios more than $500 million in lost revenue."

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Perl based solution for controlled network access

Perl extension for using the cfitsio library

A class to communicate with sockets

ZeroMQ-based event messaging system.

A naive custom RIPv2 daemon

Major new release of Ergonis’s typing expansion utility brings scripting support to text snippets along with a plethora of new features, enhancements, and fixes. (€24.99 new, free update, 4.4 MB)

 

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Skälen för och emot Juholts framtid som S-ledare.

ananyo writes "A Scottish intelligence study that began 80 years ago has borne new fruit. Researchers have tracked down the study's surviving participants — who joined the study when they were 11 years old — to estimate the role that our genes have in maintaining intelligence through to old age. After conducting fresh intelligence tests on the surviving participants, the researchers tested the DNA samples they had collected for the presence of more than half a million common genetic variants, each affecting only a single letter in the DNA sequence of the genome. The team then calculated whether these variants were associated with cognitive stability — how well intelligence had been maintained over time. The sample size of 2,000 people was too small to grant the statistical power needed to track down individual genetic signatures associated with cognitive stability. But it was enough to estimate how much genetics contributes to cognitive ageing. The team found that these variants accounted for nearly one-quarter of the differences in cognitive stability."

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Omkring 800 människor marscherade genom Moskva i dag på treårsdagen av mordet på människorättsadvokaten Stanislav Markelov och journalisten Anastasia Baburova 2009.