Fortunata Kasege was just 22 years old and several months pregnant when she and her husband came to the United States from Tanzania in 1997. She was hoping to earn a college degree in journalism before returning home. Because she'd been ...
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Let's start with the word "robot." The idea behind the word "robot" grows from the ancient concept of the golem. A golem was an artificial person created by people. Frankly, the idea of a golem scared the bejeezus out of the ancients ...
Apple has acquired Topsy, a social analytics firm, for a rumoured $200m. The company specialises in crunching Twitter data, but Apple will not reveal its plans for the start-up. "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time time, and ...
Apple has won another chance to bid for an injunction against Samsung Phones by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a move that suggests the iPhone and iPad producer is "running scared" of Samsung, its main ...
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ICE cotton settled slightly lower this week, closing at 83.11 basis Z3. Growing cert stocks and lower YoY Chinese cotton imports in September prompted bearish headlines that, along with sagging technicals and ideas that the US crop may be ...
Analyst: existing solar tech to miss 'SunShot' goal 25 Sep 2013 Lux Research says that large corporations must partner with academia to innovate. PV adoption roadmap through 2030 The US Department of Energy's ambitious "SunShot" ...
A version of Google Glass for people who already wear glasses will arrive in a few months, the head of the Google project said Monday. "In the next few months we will release a version that will integrate into glasses. So if you are ...
Performance, Ride & Handling 4.5 Comfort & Interior 5 Quality & Design 5 Value & Features 3.5 Safety 5 Green 3 Eerie though it is, the Mercedes-Benz S-Class can see things before its driver. A total 28 cameras, radars and ...
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LED lighting has accomplished some great things since its introduction to the lighting market over the past few years. Sure LEDs were around before then, but the incandescent squeeze is what really prompted alternative forms of lighting to ...
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What does it take to shake the Chinese market? If stock turmoil in Shanghai and talk of bank default don't strike fear in the heart of the nation, images of a metropolis falling into a chasm will perhaps do the trick. An image from the ...
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Earlier this year, I wrote about how I considered the ICO's meagre £250,000 fine handed out to Sony for losing control of its servers and risking the theft of every man, woman and child's data on there as "a slap on the wrist". ...
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Structural monitoring is something which is the basic element of earthquake engineering. The department of seismology is working upon discovering the seismic and seismo-tectonic activity information. The seismology of engineering changes ...
Well-healed Australian investors, battered by political uncertainty and the ongoing aftershocks of the global financial crisis, are maintaining their faith in local shares, according to an exclusive survey of individuals with at least ...
Reusable plastic water bottles may be good for the environment, but a new study shows they might be bad for your health. There's a possibility that the chemical found in plastic water bottles, baby bottles and the lining of many food, ...
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should cap the participation of carriers AT&T and Verizon Wireless in upcoming spectrum auctions to ensure mobile competition going forward, representatives of consumer groups and smaller carriers ...
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