Technology that adds intelligence to computers poses a far more serious threat to jobs than low-wage countries, a research firm said Friday.
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Smart Systems Threaten More Jobs Than Outsourcing
June 27th, 2004 at 11:54 pm » Comments (0)
Painkillers Slow Healing
June 27th, 2004 at 11:41 pm » Comments (0)
Anti-inflammatory drugs commonly used to relieve pain after shoulder surgery may impair healing, new animal research suggests.
Making Virtual Reality Work
June 27th, 2004 at 11:28 pm » Comments (0)
Virtual reality showed itself to be a not-ready-for-prime-time technology when it debuted in the 1980s. As Stephen Ellis, head of the Advanced Displays and Spatial Perception Laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center, explains in a recent agency analysis of VR, “Helmets and their optics were too heavy. Computers were too slow. Touch-feedback systems often didn’t […]
Mission to the Depths of the Arctic Ocean
June 27th, 2004 at 11:23 pm » Comments (0)
An international project to explore the Arctic Ocean is expected to discover thousands of new species of marine animals that have been cut off from the rest of the world.
