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Murdoch planning to pull sites from Google index

(NECN: Ted McEnroe) - Media companies planning to put their websites behind "paywalls" and charging for their content have had a problem to wrestle with. "What do you do about Google?" The search engines being tons of traffic to sites, but if you let them see your content to index it, you have to make some part of it available for free.

Nobel-prize Russian physicist Vitaly Ginzburg dies

MOSCOW (AP) - Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel-prize winning Russian physicist and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died in Moscow. He was 93.

The Russian Academy of Sciences says Ginzburg died late Sunday of a cardiac arrest.

Ginsburg won the 2003 Nobel Prize in physics for his contribution to theories on superconductivity, the ability of some materials to conduct electricity without resistance.

In the early 1950s, Ginzburg was part of the Soviet government project to develop a hydrogen bomb.

Sci-Tech: Exercise and heart function

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(NECN) - We all know by now that exercise is good for your heart, but what exactly is it about exertion that gets your ticker pumping?

For the past couple of years, a group has been working with the Harvard athletics department to examine how athletic training affects heart function in young athletes.

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Joining NECN from the Museum of Science in Boston is Mass General cardiologist, Dr. Aaron Baggish.

Google Dashboard a win-win for your privacy, their profits

(NECN: Ted McEnroe) - How many Google accounts do you have? Whether you're like Mike Nikitas with 2, or like me, with, umm, 23, the new Google Dashboard is a great place to visit. The Dashboard brings the settings panels for each of your Google accounts into one place, making it easier for you to see where your personal information is shared.

Sci-Tech: Smart scalpel

(NECN) - In Sci-Tech Today, taking the guesswork out of surgery with the help of some new technology. Dr. Julia Sable joins NECN from the Museum of Science-Boston.

Dr. Sable explains the challenges for doctors operating on tumors, and a new technique aimed at improving the way surgeries are performed.

Goodbye ATM, hello PTM?

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(NECN) - The ATM revolutionized banking in the 1970s. Now, welcome the PTM -- the personal teller machine. It could be the next step in brining banking into the 21st century.

A Utah-based company called Ugenius is introducing a hybrid that combines an ATM and a teller.

Click here to read more from the Herald.

NECN's Mike Nikitas and Karen Swensen take a closer look at this and other stories making newspaper headlines today.

BBJ: Paying dinner bills via cell phone

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(NECN: Boston, Mass.) - A Massachusetts-based startup company allows restaurant customers to pay the check straight from their cell phone -- without having to flag down servers.

Click here to read more from the BBJ.

Lisa Van Der Pool of the Boston Business Journal joins NECN with more on this.

Lists feature renews Twitters networking power

(NECN: Ted McEnroe) - I have been checking out Twitter lists for a few days now - and come to at least one conclusion. Lists bring Twitter the massive unwieldy land of millions back to a manageable level, and makes it possible for people to once again use Twitter to discover new items and new people, something which had gotten lost in the spammy, massive Twittersphere.

In short, it may save the service from self-destruction. At least for me.

Harvard to buy power from Maine wind farm

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Harvard University has entered into a 15-year agreement to buy power and renewable energy certificates from a wind energy farm to be built in Maine.

Harvard officials announced Monday that Stetson Wind II facility near Danforth, Maine, expected to go online in the middle of next year, will eventually provide more than 10 percent of the university's electricity needs. Federal environmental regulators say that will make Harvard the largest purchaser of wind power by a university or college in New England.

Two European satellites blast off into orbit

(NECN/ESA) - The European Space Agency (ESA) launched two satellites on top of a Russian rocket in northern Russia on Monday.

The two satellites SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) and PROBA-2 ( Project for Onboard Autonomy) were launched from the Cosmodrome early on Monday morning from the city of Plesetsk.

Their function is to study planet Earth.

The SMOS spacecraft is to make the first global maps of the amount of moisture held in soils and of the quantity of salts dissolved in the oceans.

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