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Today at 11:59:44 - New research suggests that key Tory constituencies could suffer most from the Conservative policy on super-fast broadband.
Today at 11:20:33 - Reindeer have "switched off" their internal body clocks to survive dark winters and light summers in the Arctic.
Today at 10:20:31 - The race to get the UK online begins to gather pace
Today at 05:55:40 - The internet domain name dotcom celebrates its 25th anniversary as nearly 86 million active internet sites now use it.
13/03/2010 at 03:34:05 - Nasa Moon astronauts tell the BBC President Barack Obama's decision to cancel the US lunar programme is "catastrophic".
12/03/2010 at 18:20:13 - The waste fuel for your motor that won't cost a lot
12/03/2010 at 17:21:18 - How to get more out of Twitter
12/03/2010 at 17:21:04 - Hi-tech to stop gadgets being stolen
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Today at 14:12:56 - A soldier blinded by a grenade in Iraq today described how his life has been transformed by ground-breaking technology that enables him to "see" with his tongue.
Today at 09:45:19 - Letters that begin "Dear Sir/Madam" and references to "Mr and Mrs" are both remnants of "sexist thinking", according to psychologists.
Today at 00:00:01 - Struggling to hear someone properly mid-conversation during a noisy party or gathering may be something most of us have experienced at one time or another.
12/03/2010 at 00:00:01 - Scientists have read the minds of healthy volunteers using a brain scanner to detect what they were thinking. By placing the volunteers in the scanner after they had been shown three film clips, the ...
12/03/2010 at 00:00:01 - It weighs about 3lb, has the consistency and appearance of cold porridge and is famous for being the most complex object in the known universe. The human brain is more than an organ: it houses all our ...
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Today at 14:08:38 -
Digg fans have been given a glimpse of the new-look website at South by
Southwest
Today at 09:10:22 -
British-invented 'answer engine' wins two awards at South By Southwest, while
much-publicised Foursquare loses out to Gowalla in the mobile category
14/03/2010 at 10:32:56 -
Special homepage doodle shows a sheep curled up with her lamb.
12/03/2010 at 18:55:03 -
Google forced to apologise after its controversial Street View service
appeared to show a young child naked on Wimbledon Common.
12/03/2010 at 17:39:14 -
In Japan, Toshiba's answer to Apple TV looks set to be a hit
12/03/2010 at 17:20:38 -
Google Street View, which has now been expanded to cover more than 95 per cent
of Britain's roads, is being seen as a "service for burglars", according to
new research.
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Today at 13:26:02 - The popular news-sharing site Digg is getting an overhaul that will personalize results, dramatically expand content and, most importantly, make the site "wicked fast," according to its makers.
14/03/2010 at 04:11:01 - An Internet that gives people the information they want virtually as soon as it's created is getting closer, according to Internet professionals.
13/03/2010 at 04:11:02 - The company behind the Web browser Opera is weeks away from submitting it to Apple's iPhone store for approval, a spokesman said Friday.
13/03/2010 at 04:11:02 - It's so tiny, you can't see it with the naked eye.
12/03/2010 at 22:41:01 - They were 51 young men who met a grisly death far from home, their heads chopped off and their bodies thrown into a mass grave.
12/03/2010 at 17:56:05 - Stormy weather could be on the horizon for cloud computing as security experts warn not enough is being done to make sure one of the hottest IT trends is safe.
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Today at 11:29:14 - (Reuters) - Intermap Technologies Corp, a Canadian 3D digital mapping technology firm, said U.S. navigation device maker Garmin Ltd signed a three-year agreement for Intermap's NEXTMap technology.
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Today at 10:47:44 - TOKYO (Reuters) - Dell Inc, the world's third-largest PC maker, has filed a lawsuit against Sharp Corp, Hitachi Ltd, Toshiba Corp and two other companies for alleged price fixing of LCD displays.
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Today at 10:31:25 - LONDON (Reuters) - British songwriters, composers and music publishers earned 623 million pounds ($944.8 million) in royalties in 2009, up 2.6 percent on 2008 and the first time the growth in digital ...
Today at 09:07:16 - SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China Mobile's 3G outlook will take center stage this week as China's three telecoms carriers begin to kick off quarterly results, with market focus on whether the nation's domina ...
Today at 08:06:46 - MUMBAI (Reuters) - Popular social-networking site Facebook will open an office in India, joining a long list of international firms that have looked to tap a skilled workforce that provides support se ...
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14/03/2010 at 00:00:26 - Do you know what your teenager is doing on the computer in their bedroom? What websites they are visiting and who they are poking on Facebook? American parents do. A raft of new technology designed to ...
11/03/2010 at 15:16:27 - Sony last night fired its opening shot in the battle to oust Nintendo's Wii from the world's living rooms with the announcement of a new motion control system for its high-definition games console, th ...
11/03/2010 at 12:33:06 - You're at work, on holiday, or halfway through a vital conversation about last night's television. Suddenly, you realise the phone's battery is about to run out. It's a very modern disaster, but one t ...
11/03/2010 at 00:01:00 - India is to embark on an ambitious scheme to provide all its 630,000 villages, no matter how remote, with broadband internet access.
10/03/2010 at 19:50:20 - Google is to broaden its assault on Microsoft's dominance of the market for business software by launching on online marketplace for other companies' enterprise products.
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12/03/2010 at 20:41:52 - Britain's science budget is to be protected as the sector is vital to the country's prosperity, says Lord Mandelson
05/03/2010 at 14:23:54 - It is clear now that 21st-century bioscience has not delivered clinical and other results as quickly as some optimists - or hype-merchants - had expected
23/02/2010 at 01:22:45 - Babies conceived using assisted reproductive technologies may suffer higher rates of obesity or diabetes than others because some of their genes function differently, says research
22/02/2010 at 18:43:35 - The National Health Service should stop funding homeopathy and the medicines regulator should no longer license its products, a group of MPs recommended. The Commons' science and technology committee ...
22/02/2010 at 01:29:57 - Science as a whole has suffered from recent attacks on climate research, admits the head of the senior US scientific body, and says researchers need to be more open about their findings
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11/03/2010 at 10:43:54 - One of the scourges of modern life may have been profoundly misunderstoodBEING fat is bad for you. On that, almost everyone agrees. It is just possible, though, that almost everyone is wrong. In fact, ...
11/03/2010 at 10:43:54 - Body, mind and genes all play a role in influencing the perception of painPAIN, unfortunately, is a horrible necessity of life. It protects people by alerting them to things that might injure them. Bu ...
11/03/2010 at 10:43:54 - Advances in brain-to-machine connectionsTHE possibility of operating a machine using thought control has long fascinated researchers. It would be the ultimate video-game controller, for one thing. On ...
11/03/2010 at 10:43:54 - Scouring blogs for useful information“I NOTICED that the doormat was at a slightly crooked angle. I reached down and moved the mat back into its correct place.” Thus began a recent entry o ...
04/03/2010 at 14:09:07 - You might think that measuring the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would be a priority. If you did think that, though, you would be wrongIN NEGOTIATIONS on nuclear weapons the preferred s ...
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Today at 13:24:14 - This extremely rare white Atlantic Puffin has stunned bird experts after it was spotted playing with its more common black friends off the British coast.
Today at 11:57:20 - Sexist thinking is still alive and well in what we write, according to psychologists.
Today at 11:54:05 - Pictured off the Western Antarctic Peninsula these colossal ice carvings have been whittled away by biting polar winds, freezing water and sub-zero temperatures.
Today at 08:18:23 - Scientist have long attributed the success of the honey bee to the division of labour within the hive. Now they have discovered a skill performed by a specialist bee.
13/03/2010 at 22:00:45 - Robert Winston on spears, flame throwers and fax machines (Or why the dark side of our ingenuity shows we're too clever by half).
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12/03/2010 at 09:20:04 - Security forces say they have caught the masterminds behind a computer virus which hijacked the machines of more than 13 million users worldwide.
12/03/2010 at 00:20:02 - The Tories have promised to roll out superfast broadband to most of the country as part of a strategy to make the UK a hotbed of technological talent.
11/03/2010 at 15:20:02 - MSN has launched a new video-on-demand service which will allow viewers in the UK to watch more than 1,000 hours of popular TV shows.
11/03/2010 at 00:20:02 - A person's nose, not their eyes, may be the best way of verifying their identity, a group of British scientists believe.
10/03/2010 at 00:20:02 - Rumours that Twitter will launch search-based advertising are gathering pace in cyberspace.
10/03/2010 at 00:20:02 - Sony claims it has fixed a bug in the PlayStation 3 which crashed millions of consoles for 24 hours.
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11/03/2010 at 18:43:11 - A restaurant in Santa Monica, California faces criminal charges after being accused of selling sushi made from whale meat, the sale of which is strictly banned in the United States, prosecutors said. ...
11/03/2010 at 18:43:11 - Manoranjan "Mano" Misra, an Indian American professor known for turning coffee grounds and chicken feathers into fuel, been honoured as the 2010 Regents` Researcher by the Nevada System of Higher Educ ...
11/03/2010 at 18:43:11 - A new study has tracked the mysterious cosmic `dark flow` to twice the distance originally reported in the Universe.
11/03/2010 at 18:43:11 - Life on Earth may have been kick-
started by meteorites which bombarded our planet four billion
years ago, a new study has suggested.
11/03/2010 at 18:43:11 - The investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time - the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries ...
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Today at 14:48:00 -
As oxygen-deprived waters increase, they emit more greenhouse gases into atmosphere.
Today at 00:44:03 - Iowa State researchers are working on creating high tech networks of underground sensors that could be buried throughout a farmer's field to supply the farmer with constant feedback on soil moisture a ...
Today at 00:44:03 - Brain scans of young, aggressive bullies suggest they may actually enjoy seeing others in pain, according to a new University of Chicago study.
Today at 00:44:03 - Georgetown University researcher studies subset of bottlenose dolphin that uses marine sponges as a tool to hunt for food.
Today at 00:44:03 - Researchers at the University of Central Florida are teaming up with the Virtual Reality Medical Center to immerse stroke survivors in a virtual game-world that is full of flying insects with the goal ...
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Today at 14:23:39 - AP - "FUTURE FRIENDLY" — Procter & Gamble, the world's largest consumer products company, will put more of its marketing muscle behind environmental efforts and conservation education.
Today at 14:20:22 - Reuters - Safety investigators have found no evidence so far to support or disprove a California motorist's claim his Toyota Motor Corp Prius sped out of control on its own, and cautioned the case may ...
Today at 14:09:11 - AP - In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.
Today at 14:08:41 - AP - Getting people to pay for news online at this point would be "like trying to force butterflies back into their cocoons," a new consumer survey suggests.
Today at 13:58:10 - AP - Pegasystems said Monday it will buy Chordiant Software for $161.5 million.
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Today at 14:03:26 - Japan was accused of scare tactics at world talks on wildlife protection on Monday as it campaigned against a proposal to curb trade in bluefin tuna, the succulent sushi delicacy.
Today at 01:48:07 - More than 3,000 fish are being released for breeding at a reservoir at Chewton near Castlemaine.
14/03/2010 at 22:03:07 - A north Queensland cane farm is leading the way in new and innovative farming practices.
13/03/2010 at 21:48:05 - Two United States astronauts have criticised president Barack Obama's shelving of American lunar missions.
13/03/2010 at 04:18:09 - Researchers in Perth are building a database of skeletons to help identify bodies more quickly and accurately.
12/03/2010 at 02:18:07 - The State Emergency Service (SES) says it will complete all repair jobs from last Saturday's freak hail storm by this weekend.
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Today at 13:14:46 - Ex-Sun man Tim Bray has joined Google and started as he means to go on, with a blistering attack on the iPhone.
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Today at 12:19:32 - Apple is so determined that its users shouldn't touch its batteries that it's promising a free replacement iPad to anyone whose machine won't hold a charge.
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Today at 10:11:03 - China has told Google's partners in the country that they should have a backup plan in case Google shuts its services down.
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Today at 09:41:18 - The Hubble Space Telescope is the unlikely star of a new Imax film, eclipsing even its narrator, Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Today at 09:06:56 - New York artist Nathan Sawaya has built a five-foot-tall Blackberry Tour 9360 phone from Lego.
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Today at 12:44:05 - Journalism Project's Annual Assessment Shows Most Would Abandon Their Preferred News Sites if Fees Imposed
Today at 01:59:04 - The growing popularity of environmentally-friendly homes that save money has many homeowners jumping on the "green" bandwagon. Ben Tracy reports.
Today at 00:29:04 - Ford's Parent-Conrtrolled "MyKey" is Designed to Control Speed Limit Observation and Seat Belt Wearing
Today at 00:29:04 - National Poll Finds 39 Percent Regret Some Online Activity; Expert Shares Ways to Keep Kids Safe on the Web
Today at 00:29:04 - CNET's Natali Del Conte Gives Top Cell Picks for Keeping Communication Open as School Starts
Today at 00:29:04 - CNET's Natali Del Conte Gives Her Picks for the Season's Best Education Gadgets for Kids
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Today at 11:31:42 - Search engine giant Google looks certain to cease operations in China as talks between the two parties over censorship issues appear to have broken down.
The relationship between Google and t ...
Today at 11:02:31 - E3 will be mere months after the DS XL hit UK stores, but Nintendo looks primed to unleash an updated DS at the gaming expo nonetheless. Rumours abound that a true sequel to the DSi and XL (which were ...
Today at 10:22:20 - Gran Turismo 5 has appeared as a 'featured product' on the US PlayStation Move website which could suggest that Sony's motion control device will work with the hotly anticipated PS3 game.
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Today at 09:45:03 - Serving up the latest, breaking news from the tech-filled Twitter airwaves. Enjoy your morning cuppa and catch up with what has been going on in the world of tech.
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14/03/2010 at 13:24:23 - Sony has claimed that it’s new motion controller for the PlayStation, the Move, is accurate enough to play RTS games such as StarCraft.
RTS games usually require the precision of a mouse to c ...
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Today at 07:38:26 - AUSSIES living in units may be left without free-to-air TV once analog technology gets the boot.
Today at 04:07:13 - AUSTRALIANS living in high-rise and multi-dwelling units could get left behind in the switch to digital.
14/03/2010 at 23:27:01 - BOSSES are reportedly worried after estimates show thousands are using rival company's gadget.
14/03/2010 at 21:45:55 - THE US is following Australia in bid to get superfast broadband into homes within next 10 years.
13/03/2010 at 23:49:05 - GOOGLE draw up plans for dismantling Chinese search engine over censorship concerns.
13/03/2010 at 03:25:38 - A PUBLIC broadcaster is blowing tens of thousands to send staff to learn how to sign up to Facebook.
12/03/2010 at 00:26:22 - AN IPHONE app that erases embarrassing texts after they've been sent is now in Australia.
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14/03/2010 at 19:45:51 - IBM New Zealand is expanding its range of service offerings to include mobile managed services.
“Mobile phones are now an essential part of every integrated technology environment, so this is an ...
11/03/2010 at 23:55:48 -
I know, I know, I promised on Twitter to ask Buzz Aldrin “Were all the moon landings faked, or just the first one?”
And after his talk at Planet2010 - slick, good humoured, fascinating - ...
11/03/2010 at 17:50:30 - “If I ever get killed in a suspicious car accident, make sure you check out those guys at Southern Cross Cable,' Rod Drury told NBR last year.
And that was when the Xero boss was merely making a ...
11/03/2010 at 02:40:50 - Kordia chief executive Geoff Hunt - whose mission to build a second cable across the Tasman has been ignored by the present government - seems to have found a partner in the new venture launched this ...
11/03/2010 at 02:13:15 - A resurgent Nasdaq has helped the geek crowd regain its mojo on Forbes’ annual list of the world’s richest people.
Top of the heap is Mexican telecommunications monopolist Carlos Slim, who ...
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14/03/2010 at 19:12:05 - He always wanted to be an entrepreneur. But Amit Basu did not know he would earn his bread by providing people help to tackle their phobia and counselling on pre- and post-marital issues, lifestyle ma ...
14/03/2010 at 19:11:28 - If you thought that the Union Budget 2010 would increase the cost for purchasing and downloading a software or an application from the internet, then you thought wrong.
14/03/2010 at 19:10:41 - Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS), the countrys largest software exporter by revenues, will be finalising its wage and recruitment plans shortly, said companys chief financial officer and execut ...
14/03/2010 at 19:09:18 - A low price tag always gets our attention. So, when Infibeam.com launched its e-reader Pi at nearly half the price of Amazons Kindle, it not only made headlines but also drew our interest.
14/03/2010 at 19:06:38 - Companies scramble to score on all three screens that matter today TV, computer and mobile.
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14/03/2010 at 09:03:28 - The fleet of new small cars at this year's Geneva motor show confirms a growing trend towards downsizing in the global motor industry.
09/03/2010 at 20:30:00 - In Switzerland a majority of those over 65 years old do not use the internet, with many citing fears over technology use and the effort needed to learn about the web.
03/03/2010 at 13:04:00 - BSE, bird flu, foot and mouth, bluetongue, swine flu - it's been an active decade for animal diseases and Swiss authorities are now preparing for the next wave.
02/03/2010 at 07:39:00 - On holidays men are more likely to get malaria and sexually transmitted diseases whereas women suffer from stomach problems, Swiss research has found.
22/02/2010 at 16:32:00 - The timing of recent attempts to cast doubt over global warming is not accidental, according to top climatologist Martin Beniston.
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12/03/2010 at 07:01:50 -
The sudden takedown of an Internet provider thought to be helping spread one
of the most promiscuous pieces of malicious software out there appears to
have cut off criminals from potentially mi ...
12/03/2010 at 06:44:22 -
Scientists have read the minds of healthy volunteers using a brain scanner to
detect what they were thinking.
12/03/2010 at 06:42:28 -
Virgin Media is to take its fibre cables above ground for the first time in a
move that could bring superfast broadband to one million homes in
hard-to-reach rural areas.
11/03/2010 at 04:11:34 -
Rory McIlroy shares top billing with Tiger Woods on the latest version of the
world number one's top-selling video game.
10/03/2010 at 07:08:53 -
Catch-up television over the internet has proved hugely popular in the UK,
with the BBC's iPlayer leading the way, but most households are limited to
watching on a computer screen.
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12/03/2010 at 03:00:00 - Telco Vodafone Hungary has become the biggest single sponsor of the Marathon Effort For SOTE II (a fund-raising exercise which will see two local expats run almost six marathons in six days across the ...
26/02/2010 at 01:00:00 - "Week by week, cybercriminals dress one of their infamous creations in a different costume, VirusBuster's experts report. The malware Trojan.FraudLoad has been distributed in e-mail messages pretendin ...
25/02/2010 at 04:00:00 - "The number of active mobile subscriptions grew 19,000 to 10.95 million in January, the communications authority NHH announced. The number subscriptions per 100 stood at 118.2 at the end of January, b ...
12/02/2010 at 03:00:00 - "Bredolab, a malicious program which last flooded the net in mid-December, seems to have launched a new offensive, VirusBuster warned. The Hungary-based specialist of computer security is one of the f ...
11/02/2010 at 04:00:00 - "Hungary's mobile carrier Pannon has set ambitious goals in its 2009 earnings report published on Wednesday.
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10/03/2010 at 07:24:25 - Satyam Computer Services, in its new incarnation, `Mahindra Satyam,' still faces the aftermath of what happened on January 7, 2009, when its chairman B Ramalinga Raju confessed to orchestrating India ...
10/03/2010 at 05:10:58 - The US will start accepting the applications for H-1B visas, most sought after by Indians, from April one for the fiscal 2011.
10/03/2010 at 04:49:38 - The proposed multi-year contract between TCS and the UK government for administering its employment savings trust has evoked adverse comments from some British websites.
10/03/2010 at 04:48:55 - LG Electronics Inc, the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker, launched a smartphone based on Google's Android operating system in South Korea, as it seeks to boost its relatively weak smartphone line-ups.
09/03/2010 at 10:43:31 - Almost six months after its international launch, LG GD 510 has come to India.
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05/03/2010 at 11:10:00 - Travelling by the Delhi Metro? With Google's new service you can now get on-the-go information about schedules, routes, prices and commute times
05/03/2010 at 06:35:00 - How are browser speeds increased and how preciptible is this speed difference to the end users?
03/03/2010 at 17:31:00 - The project, a collaboration between the Delhi government and the Survey of India, aims to create a comprehensive 3-dimensional GIS for Delhi
03/03/2010 at 12:38:00 - A Delta IV rocket will carry the satellite to its orbit around 22,000 miles (35,406 kilometers) above the Earth's surface
03/03/2010 at 05:28:00 - Apple said HTC has infringed on 20 of its patents covering aspects of the iPhone's user interface and hardware
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10/02/2010 at 13:05:48 -
The Czech Republic's first and only science centre has recently
celebrated its first birthday. Techmania, based in the western industrial
city of Plzen, has already demonstrated its pulling power bas ...
09/02/2010 at 16:16:23 - Dr. Helena Illnerová is a biochemist, and one of the top minds in the Czech Republic. She is involved in practically every major academic committee there is in the country, from the council of the Nat ...
09/02/2010 at 14:53:55 - The Institute of Experimental Medicine in Prague has made a potentially very important breakthrough in treating spinal cord injuries. Using stem cells on paralysed rats, the team has managed to heal a ...
03/02/2010 at 14:46:00 - Czech scientists working in Mozambique have discovered a new species of fish that inhabits the rain pools of the savannah. Types of tiny killifish are found in many parts of the world, but what is uni ...
28/01/2010 at 15:43:24 -
As of Tuesday, the Czech Republic boasts new air navigation technology that
will give the country's aviation an edge over neighboring Germany and
Poland. The newly acquired 3D tower simulator is capa ...
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06/01/2010 at 12:29:00 - The US Hubble Space Telescope has captured the earliest image yet of the universe, just 600 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was just a toddler. Scientists released the photo today ...
06/01/2010 at 11:08:00 - On Tuesday, Google took the wraps off what may be the worst-kept secret on the Internet: a brand-new cell phone, designed by Google and made by HTC, called the Nexus One.
06/01/2010 at 09:18:00 - Google has also jumped on the phone bandwagon. It has now launched its own mobile phone, Nexus One. This phone joins about 20 other mobile devices that already run on Android, the mobile operating sys ...
31/12/2009 at 11:20:00 - What caused Wednesday's fire at one of India's best-protected and most-renowned nuclear centres? Originally, a short circuit was suspected to have caused the accident. But now, it turns out that one o ...
17/12/2009 at 07:48:00 - Athena Gurno thought her allergies were acting up when she started coughing in early October. But within days, Gurno, the 30-year-old mother of a young girl, was in a Seattle hospital, close to death ...
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