A man uses a New York City pay phone in 1997. Although millions of calls were made on the city's pay phones in 2011, the city is looking for new uses for the kiosks.
One is adding Wi-Fi. (Joe Tabacca / For The Times / July 11, 2012)
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Banana Genome Sequencing Gives a Boost to Pest-Plagued Fruit
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The common Cavendish dessert banana, left, is shown with the seed-filled wild variety that was used for genome sequencing. (Angelique D'Hont, CIRAD / July 11, 2012)
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Bananas are difficult to breed and are under attack from a host of diseases and other pests. The DNA data from a key species provide an important step in protecting the fruit.
Breeding a stronger, better banana is not for the weak-willed.
The plants are so sterile that scientists must mush up several acres' worth of fruit to get just a couple of hundred seeds to work with — and those seeds are so feeble they must be coaxed in the laboratory to form baby banana plants.
That's why tropical-fruit researchers were breaking out the banana daiquiris Wednesday to celebrate the sequencing of the banana genome by scientists in France.
If ever a plant needed biotechnology to help it, it's the banana, these scientists said.
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What DID Tuesday's Patch PATCH?
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Microsoft Patches a Critical Hole in XML Core Services
On its July Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released nine security updates to fix a total of 16 vulnerabilities in Windows (XP SP3 and later), Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Basic for Applications and Sharepoint Server. Three of the updates close critical holes, among them an XML Core Services vulnerability that has been actively exploited for over a month.
The hole allows malicious code to be executed – for example when users visit a specially crafted web page with Internet Explorer. However, the hole can also become a problem in connection with Office 2003 and 2007. The second "critical" update closes two holes in Internet Explorer 9 that can also lead to malware infections when surfing the internet.
The third update fixes a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Data Access Components, a program that is included in all currently supported versions of Windows (XP SP3 and later). The hole can lead to a buffer overflow on the heap and enable attackers to inject malicious code when this software accesses an object in memory that has been improperly initialised. Like the two IE holes, this vulnerability was privately reported to Microsoft; all three holes can be exploited remotely.
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