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Private browsing means browsing the web without leaving "tracks," such as cookies, history, cache data, etc., etc. This has been popularly called "porn mode." Only Safari currently supports this feature; it was pulled from Firefox 3 (there is, however, an add-on called Stealther some use).

Let's hope Steve Jobs isn't making promises he can't keep. Earlier I wrote that, in one of the short, brief emails that sometimes respond to questions made directly to Jobs, the 3G connection problems many have been seeing were acknowledged, and a fix was promised.

We are working on some bugs which affect around 2% of the iPhones shipped, and hope to have a software update soon. Steve

Now, according to further reports, a similar promise was made with regards to the crashing bug which has hit the 2.0 software; many non-default apps crash almost immediately and return to the home screen.

Tetra-Amido Macrocyclic Ligands (TAMLs) are environmentally friendly catalysts with a host of applications for reducing and cleaning up pollutants, and a prime example of "green chemistry."

After losing out in the battle to define the high-definition successor of the DVD, Toshiba Corp. has turned its attention to the next best thing: the DVD.

And no, they didn't mean make it faster with faster hardware. I wrote earlier about Microsoft's new Windows 7 blog, and in their second blog post, Microsoft (specifically, Steve Sinofsky) wrote about the myriad of comments and suggestions for Windows 7 they've received since the blog went live. And what caught their eye?

A newly discovered " minor planet " with an elongated orbit around the Sun may help explain the origin of comets, researchers said on Monday.

It's been a bad few weeks for Apple. MobileMe issues, iPhone 3G connectivity problems, and on Tuesday Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) reported that two new reports of minor fires due to suspected iPod nano battery overheating occurred in Tokyo this month.

Let the battle commence.

Round two of the summer's smartphone war was joined this past Saturday when the first Blackberry Bolds went on sale in the U.K.

Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the human visual system processes sound and helps us see.

Is this it? Is this it? Today Apple quietly released an upgrade for the iPhone, 2.0.2. Typical of such releases, there's no discussion of what's really been fixed, aside from a vague reference to "bug fixes."

Biological clocks are the body's complex network of internal oscillators that regulate daily activity/rest cycles and other important aspects of physiology, including body temperature, heart rate and food intake. Besides sleep disorders, research in this field may eventually help treat the negative effects of shift work, aging and jet lag.

The rumored Sept.17th announcement of the HTC Dream keeps getting more and more solid, as the new device has received FCC approval.

Since Toshiba lost the high-definition optical drive war earlier this year, many have wondered how soon it would offer a Blu-ray player of its own. The answer, at least for now, is "not anytime soon."

Assuming Cote Collaborative is correct, Apple sold 3 million iPhone 3Gs in the first month, and assuming that we believe a report indicating that a MacRumors reader received an email from Steve Jobs saying the following:

We are working on some bugs which affect around 2% of the iPhones shipped, and hope to have a software update soon. Steve

then the iPhone's 3G connectivity problem affects about 60,000 phones.

Lured by state subsidies and buoyed by high oil prices, the wind industry has arrived in force in upstate New York, promising to bring jobs, tax revenue and cutting-edge energy to the long-struggling region. But in town after town, some residents say, the companies have delivered something else: an epidemic of corruption and intimidation, as they rush to acquire enough land to make the wind farms a reality.

A new systematic analysis of the relationship between the neoplastic and developmental transcriptome provides an outline of trends in cancer gene expression. The research, published recently in Genome Biology, describes how cancers can be divided into three groups distinguished by disparate developmental signatures.

An Associated Press review of accredited forensic science programs in the United States found about 75 percent of graduates are women, an increase from about 64 percent in 2000.

Women say they were drawn to forensic science by strong role models, a desire to help people and stability that's often lacking in other scientific careers.

There's something definitely wrong with the iPhone's 3G reception. The evidence is undeniable, and as it's scattered across the globe, it sure can't be completely blamed on AT&T, much as we might want to.

Algae are tiny biological factories that use photosynthesis to transform carbon dioxide and sunlight into energy so efficiently that they can double their weight several times a day, producing oil in the process — 30 times more oil per acre than soybeans, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

All animals, plants and bacteria run the risk of being infected by specific viruses. For humans, such viruses include the flu virus, for the tobacco plant this is the tobacco mosaic virus and for the intestinal bacterium E. coli this is the enterobacteria phage lambda.