Amazon upgrades popular Kindle e-reader
US online giant Amazon on Tuesday unveiled an improved version of its market-dominating Kindle e-reader.
Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 3, 2013
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Kodak says it has exited bankruptcy
Kodak's trip through bankruptcy is now a memory for the scrapbook.
Business
Sep 3, 2013
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Vodafone says 'fantastic' Verizon deal will strengthen strategy
Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao said Tuesday that the British mobile phone giant's $130-billion (99-billion-euro) Verizon Wireless deal would help strengthen its strategy, boost infrastructure investment and slash ...
Telecom
Sep 3, 2013
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The 'weakest link' in the aging proteome
Proteins are the chief actors in cells, carrying out the duties specified by information encoded in our genes. Most proteins live only two days or less, ensuring that those damaged by inevitable chemical modifications are ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 3, 2013
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NASA image: Fires in Bolivia Aug. 31, 2013
Fires burned throughout Bolivia in late August. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image on August 31, 2013.
Earth Sciences
Sep 3, 2013
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Scientists, practitioners, religious communities urge collaborative action to save our planet
Big global questions face us, among them: How will we feed a growing global population without ruining the soil and polluting freshwater? Or meet our burgeoning energy demands while curbing the greenhouse gas emissions that ...
Environment
Sep 3, 2013
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Iranian telegraph operator, first to propose earthquake early warning system
In 1909, an Iranian telegraph operator living in the remote desert town of Kerman noticed an unusual movement of the magnetic needle of his telegraph instrument. While other telegraph operators during the late 1800s and early ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 3, 2013
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Dark Energy Survey begins five-year mission to map southern sky in tremendous detail
Tonight, as the sun sinks below the horizon, the world's most powerful digital camera will once again turn its gleaming eye skyward. Tonight, and for hundreds of nights over the next five years, a team of physicists and astronomers ...
Astronomy
Sep 3, 2013
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Microsoft in bold, risky bet on mobile with Nokia deal
With its deal for Nokia's handset business, Microsoft is making a bold, risky bet to gain traction in the smartphone market after missing the tech sector's shift to mobile.
Business
Sep 3, 2013
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From birth to death in four days: Kiko now a remnant low
A lot of things happen over a holiday weekend, and while people in the United States were celebrating Labor Day weekend, the Eastern Pacific Ocean's Tropical Storm Kiko came and went. Satellite data captured Tropical Storm ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 3, 2013
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