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...computers are racist" video went viral, with almost 2 million views, and HP, naturally, was quick to respond. "Everything we do is focused on ensuring that we provide a high-quality experience for all our customers, who are ethnically diverse and live and work around the world," HP's lead social-media strategist Tony Welch wrote on a company blog within a week of the video's posting. "We are working with our partners to learn more." The post linked to instructions on adjusting the camera settings, something both Consumer Reports and Laptop Magazine tested successfully in Web videos they...
...significance of the current paper, says GFDL's Morris Bender, the lead author, is that it simulates the statistics of the most severe future hurricanes - something previous studies couldn't do because of an inability to accurately reproduce a hurricane's structure. A new modeling approach used in this week's study remedies that problem, he says, and suggests that Category 4 and 5 storms will become relatively more common by 2100 - with the important caveat that the change will not become clearly detectable until the second half of the century. The locus of the biggest increase, continues Bender...
Before talking about the results, the authors emphasize that they are not making an actual forecast. Their study is more of a thought experiment that includes a long list of necessary oversimplifications. "We're not projecting changes in population, property values, building codes or zoning regulations," says lead author Ross Hoffman of Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc., a private firm that does climate and ocean modeling, among other things, for companies and government agencies. "We're simply asking, If nothing else changed but sea level, what would the effect be on property damage...
Members of the Harvard Republican Club and the Harvard Democrats have spent the last few weeks making phone calls and volunteering for campaigns in the lead-up to Tuesday’s election, in which Brown defeated Coakley to fill the Senate seat formerly held by liberal Senator Edward M. Kennedy...
Scientists have long figured out that sleep loss impairs memory formation and negatively impacts performance, but previous research had not investigated how short-term sleep deprivation interacts with chronic sleep loss, according to Daniel A. Cohen, a neurology instructor at Harvard Medical School and the lead author of the paper...