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Cool graphs, read the entire story here: http://www.kirainet.com/english/the-least-religious-countries/

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Source: http://www.slashgear.com/lite-on-blu-ray-drive-reads-ps3-discs-1711213.php

Source: engadget

Source: BBCNews

Scientists have been able to take control of flies’ brains to make females behave just like males.

Researchers genetically modified the insects so that a group of brain cells that control sexual behaviour could be “switched on” by a pulse of light.

Source: NewSciencetistTech

Graphene, a material made from flat sheets of carbon in a honeycomb arrangement is a leading contender. A team at the University of Manchester, UK, have now used it to make some of the smallest transistors ever. Devices only 1 nm across that contain just a few carbons rings.

Previous graphene transistors were significantly bigger – ribbons 10 nm across and many times longer.

Source: http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20080418/150688/

Rohm Co Ltd and the Research Center for Photovoltaics of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have announced that they have succeeded in prototyping a CIGS (Cu-In-Ga-Se) image sensor that has approximately 100 times the sensitivity of CCD, CMOS and other Si-based image sensors.

They have confirmed that their sensor can recognize images in environments as dark as 0.001lx, which is difficult for existing Si image sensors, they said. As the new image sensor can also recognize images with light in the near infrared zone, expected applications include automotive cameras, monitoring cameras, iris and vein authentication, which must support image sensing under lighting conditions ranging from bright to dark.

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Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=313

$18.000 for the device, and $180 for 300GB disks

Pretty interesting blog from a company currently installing a submarine telecommunications cable between Australia and Guam:

http://www.pipeinternational.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=65 

How to Load People on Trains in Japan - The most amazing bloopers are here

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Source: AnimeNewsNetwork

* Entire article by ANN. Please click the source for more.

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party* and its coalition partner, the New Komeito Party, are preparing legislation that will make possession of child pornography illegal for the first time in the country. The tentatively planned legislation does not ban so-called “virtual” child pornography — material such as some manga, anime, and games that explicitly depict fictional children. A committee of party members, specifically assembled to address the issues, met for the first time last Thursday. The committee members also met with Thomas Schieffer, American ambassador to Tokyo, this week. The Japanese government actions were prompted by Schieffer’s recent statements that compared Japan’s lack of a possession ban to the laws in the other Group of Eight (G-8) countries besides Russia.

The Japanese branch of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is leading the campaign to include virtual child pornography in the new proposed legislative ban. The Japanese government issued the results of a controversial poll on the issue last October. The United States passed the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 that addressed virtual child pornography, but it was struck down in 2002 for being overly broad. Clauses of America’s PROTECT Act of 2003 were designed with the earlier court ruling in mind, but the constitutionality of this new act is also being challenged in court.

There are already laws passed in 1999 and 2004 that ban the production and sale — but not possession — of child pornography in Japan. According to Japan’s Ministry of Justice, there were 25 cases of child pornography indictments in 1999, 214 in 2003, and 585 in 2006.

* Despite its name’s connotations in other languages, the Liberal Democratic Party is the main conservative faction in Japanese politics.

Source: BBCNews

A breakthrough in technology could see the memory capacity of storage devices increase by 150,000 times, Glasgow University researchers claimed.

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