Inconspicuous “little brown balls” in the ocean have helped settle a long-standing debate about the…
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How hedgehogs live the town life
Female hedgehogs prefer gardens of semi-detached and terraced houses, finds the first study of how…
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Apple’s Jobs says iPad idea came before iPhone (AP)
AP – Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs shared a secret with his audience at a…
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Apple chief says Foxconn ‘not a sweatshop’ (AFP)
AFP – Apple chief executive Steve Jobs defended conditions at Taiwan-based Foxconn, an iPhone-linked electronics…
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China iPhone plant workers to get 30 percent raise (Reuters)
Reuters – Production line workers at iPhone maker Foxconn’s southern China manufacturing hub will get…
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Nintendo to cut Japan prices of main DS models (Reuters)
Reuters – Japan’s Nintendo Co said on Wednesday it will cut the domestic prices of…
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Cancer information on Wikipedia is accurate, but not very readable, study finds
It is a commonly held that information on Wikipedia should not be trusted, since it…
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Software developers tackle child grooming on the net
Four out of five children can’t tell when they are talking to an adult posing…
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ICU infection rates not a good measure of mortality risk, researchers find
ICU-acquired infection rates are not an indication of patients’ mortality risk, according to researchers, undermining…
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No relaxing for cancer cells
Many tumor cells would not be viable due to aberrant chromosome distribution if they had…