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...dial-up users were faculty and staff accessing the modem pool from their homes, Selsby said. Citing departmental policy, Selsby declined to reveal how much breathing room FAS IT would gain from cutting the service, but said the savings were “substantial.” Faster alternatives, such as DSL and cable modem, are now the standard, Selsby said, and FAS IT has sent notifications to every account that has used its dial-up service in the last six months. FAS IT administrators made the decision to cut the service earlier this summer, when all departments and units...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FAS IT To Disconnect Dial-Up Service | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...month leases (including free hydrogen fill-ups) for the FCX Clarity. "Knowing how to integrate these new technologies into existing lifestyles and then building new infrastructures to make it work is the trick," says Ellis. "It took a hundred years to create the gasoline infrastructure; this will be much faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zero-Emission Cars: A Battle Among Technologies | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

...youths. White matter is essentially the brain's wiring - the neural strands that connect the various gray-matter regions, where the actual nerve cells reside, that are otherwise independent of one another. Maturation of white matter is important because it increases the brain's processing speed; nerve impulses travel faster in mature white matter. (See pictures of a diverse group of American teens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Teen Brain: The More Mature, the More Reckless | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

...industry's brightest and most experienced engineers, paying them handsomely and letting them work on what is effectively the world's largest data-mining project. Just this month, Google unveiled a project it calls Caffeine, a massive overhaul of its back-end infrastructure that promises to create a faster, more accurate and more comprehensive search engine. "We aren't resting," says Gabriel Stricker, a Google spokesman. "We're continuing to innovate - I'M FEELING LUCKY is getting luckier all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Microsoft's Bing, or Anyone, Seriously Challenge Google? | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...construction - thanks to incoming Chinese, Russian and Indian investment - Iran predicts it will be self-sufficient in gasoline production by 2013. That seems a little optimistic, but further tough talk by the U.S. on a gas embargo may just help Iran reach its long-held goal a little faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pressuring Iran on Nukes: Would a Gas Embargo Help? | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

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