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Daily archive Aug 7, 2012

Why we know less than you think about effects of cell phone radiation

A report released on Tuesday by the General Accounting Office called on the U.S. government to review its standards for setting safe levels of cell phone radiation. The report had been requested by several members of Congress, Read More →

E-reading notes: Amazon, Kno and e-textbooks, plus more

It's just shaping up to be an all-Amazon day. • Amazon.com is invading the college-textbook-rental market, the only part of the textbook market it had left to cover, reports GeekWire. The giant online retailer — and now, social games Read More →

New players, sort of: Amazon creates games studio; Facebook rolls out gambling in the U.K.

We're talking gaming. And platforms. • Move over, Zynga, Amazon has launched a Facebook game — created by its very own gaming studio. Expect "Living Classics" to be just the first of many games from the new Read More →

Quoted: on bill to require cell-phone radiation labels

"It took decades for scientists to be able to say for sure that smoking caused cancer. ... While we wait for scientists to sort out the health effects of cell phone radiation, we must allow consumers to have enough information Read More →

Off topic: Less-angry birds, stand-in convicts, surname maps, community stock exchange, 34-year wait for The Who concert

Making birds less angry by messing with their birdbrains. Do the crime, hire somebody else to do the time. Mapping surnames in London. (Via Not Exactly Rocket Science. Also, GMSV previously linked to a Read More →
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