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Windows 10 phones and tiny tablets won't get the desktop
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10 years ago
Prognostications about Microsoft killing the desktop in Windows 10 are coming truebut only for the smallest of tablets. New tablets with screens smaller than 8 inches will not ship with a...
Curiosity Mars rover back in the groove
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10 years ago
After some downtime to enable a software upgrade, the Curiosity rover on Mars has got straight back to work by drilling into a rock. The robot sunk the latest shallow mini-test hole in a...
Why do teens still smoke? On addiction, advertising, and the rise of e-cigarettes
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10 years ago
Why do teens still smoke? On addiction, advertising, and the rise of e-cigarettes U.S. teen smoking rates have dipped below 10 percent, but public health advocates worry that progress...
Bill Gates Concerns Over Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
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Isaac Asimov wrote, " I Robot" over 60 years ago, a cautionary tale of how artificial intelligence could dominate its human creators. Since then it has been the theme of many novels and movies...
Organ donors gave more than 2 million years of life to sick patients
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Organ donors gave more than 2 million years of life to sick patients Kidney transplant Spencer Weiner/Los Angeles Times UCLA surgeons prepare to do a kidney transplant. Organ...
Roald Dahl's saddest story: how vaccines could have saved his daughter's life
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10 years ago
Provided by Vox.com British author Roald Dahl is best known for his beloved, weird classic children's books Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , Matilda , and James and the Giant...
The Truth About Measles the Mainstream Media is Suppressing
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10 years ago
The Truth About Measles the Mainstream Media is Suppressing Current measles outbreaks in California are dominating mainstream media stories all across the U.S. at present. So it is time...
GOP senator: Let restaurants ‘opt out’ of handwashing after toilet to ‘reduce regulatory burden’
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10 years ago
GOP senator: Let restaurants opt out of handwashing after toilet to reduce regulatory burden This iframe is not allowed This iframe is not allowed Please keep this a peaceful...
The story of the ultrasecret A-12 Oxcart—father of the SR-71 Blackbird
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10 years ago
It may look like the SR-71 Blackbird, but this sleek flying beast is not the most famous supersonic spy plane ever created but its father, the A-12 Oxcart. In some ways, it was a better...
Man in vegetative state for 12 years wakes up to tell remarkable story
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Man in vegetative state for 12 years wakes up to tell remarkable storyWhen Martin Pistorius was 12-years-old, he came down with a strange illness that caused him to lose his ability to walk, talk...
"Spot" Is a Smaller (More Kickable) Version of Boston Dynamic's Big Dog
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10 years ago
We haven't seen much of Boston Dynamic's four-legged self-balancing Big Dog robot since it was last spotted hurling cinder blocks in a lab. And that's maybe because the company's robotic...
Hackers Can Take Control of Cars From 3,000 Miles Away
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10 years ago
By Chris Glorioso and Evan Stulberger With thousands of new cars and trucks equipped with factory-installed Wi-Fi, hackers have lots of new targets on the road. An I-Team investigation found it...
Everything we know about the Big Bang could be wrong
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10 years ago
Source Could the Big Bang theory be wrong? A proposed new model of the universe argues yes the universe has no origin point at all. In science, the theories with the most staying...
Meet The 5 Oldest People In The World And Learn Their Secrets To A Long Life
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Meet The 5 Oldest People In The World And Learn Their Secrets To A Long Life We can all agree that it's a great feat to live to be 100 -- but it's an even greater feat if you...
Plastic found to be accumulating in world oceans at alarming rate
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10 years ago
Plastic found to be accumulating in world oceans at alarming rate By Andrew Fazekas, Geekquinox (Reported by Yahoo News), February 12, 2015 Our oceans and beaches are drowning in...
‘Occupied Pleasures’ – Palestinian Resiliance in the Face of Occupation
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10 years ago
Occupied Pleasures Palestinian Resiliance in the Face of Occupation Yahoo News Hyatt (left) recently took a yoga lesson from a visiting American yoga instructor. She is now teaching...
The Dangers That Lie Beneath-- The Unseen Sides of Icebergs -- VIDEOS
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10 years ago
Icebergs are beautiful and at times, deadly, (i.e. the Titanic). What lies beneath the iceberg? We know that only a small portion floats to the top, and few of us have ever seen the portions of an...
Scientists find out why pot gives you the munchies
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10 years ago
Source Why does smoking marijuana give people the munchies? Researchers at Yale University got dozens of lab mice stoned in order to find out. Previous scientific studies (and anecdotal...
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