While the dosage and duration are still unclear, an analysis of studies covering nearly 15,000 people has confirmed suggestions that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin offer some protection against Alzheimer’s disease.
Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder that greatly compromises a person’s ability to carry out daily activities.
Alzheimer’s affects the part of the brain [...]

A breakthrough haptic technology has allowed the sensation of touch to be transmitted over the Internet.
Within five years, people may use the technology, developed by engineers from the University of Buffalo, to “feel” what it is like to be a sports star, a surgeon or a musician.
The technology — known as a “haptic” interface [...]

The New York Times is running a story about a new development at Amazon – they plan to assemble “a searchable online archive with the texts of tens of thousands of books of nonfiction.” Users would only be able to read a certain portion of the text from any one book, but it sounds promising [...]

Carl Amos, an inventor in Atlanta, anticipates a return to the cash economy but without the computer-generated visual effects. Mr. Amos recently patented a way to pay for online transactions with bills and coins rather than credit or banking cards.
“In upwards of three-quarters of the world, most money transactions are cash only,” said Mr. Amos, [...]

The arrival of Google five years ago served as a kind of upgrade for the entire Web. Searching for information went from a sluggish, unreliable process to something you could do with genuine confidence. If it was online somewhere, Google and its ingenious PageRank system would find what you were looking for—and more often than [...]