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uTorrent Reaches Milestone With 2.0 Release
uTorrent for Windows saw its first public release in September 2005 and soon became the most widely used BitTorrent applications. The client is used by more than 50 million users worldwide and this number continues to rise. Today, uTorrent version 2.0 was officially released.
Continue reading »FDA using weak clinical studies to approve cardiac implants
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for approving drugs for medical uses, and the agency has developed a set of expectations for using results from randomized clinical studies to determine (with varying degrees of success) whether a drug is safe and effective. But advances in materials science and miniaturization have led to an explosion in the use of medical implants, which do everything from acting as a replacement for balky knees to restarting arrhythmic hearts. Two new evaluations of the clinical studies used during the implant approval process suggests that the approval process for implants isn’t nearly as rigorous as it might be.
Continue reading »uTorrent Users Double to 52 Million in a Year
Earlier this year several publications claimed that P2P and BitTorrent were dying because of the increased popularity of streaming sites. In reality, BitTorrent is about to close a record year in terms of traffic and usage. The misleading reports all based their conclusions on data supplied by a network-management firm, which showed that of all Internet traffic, the percentage consumed by P2P has slowly declined.
Continue reading »Cocaine – legal in New Zealand
You can buy Cocaine in New Zealand without getting arrested. It’s a ‘dietary supplement’ and it’s “Like Red Bull or Rockstar Energy Drinks x10!!” – boasts the pusher who, according to FoodWeek , states in a New Zealand outdoor ad »»» Warning: This message is for people who are too stupid to recognize the obvious. This product does not contain the drug cocaine (duh).
Continue reading »Cisco leaps into hosted email, social networking
Lands on partners’ toes Cisco has thrown down the gauntlet at new rivals and old partners alike on Monday, in a barrage of collaboration product debuts and updates, including a hosted email service and foray into enterprise social networking.…
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