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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cablevision Systems Corp added more subscribers than expected in the second quarter and comments from its CEO suggested that the Dolan family may try to take the cable company private again, sending its shares up more than 11 percent.
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Scientists have developed “marathon mice” who can run for more than two hours non stop and cover almost a mile.
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“The existence of the Domain Name System (DNS) flaw, which could be used to redirect browsers to malicious sites, was revealed at the start of July…”
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The secrets of the worlds oldest calculating machine are revealed today, showing that it had dials to mark the timing of eclipses and the Olympic games. Ever since the spectacular bronze device was discovered in 1900, it was found to be have existed long before the birth of Christ and was one of the wonders of the ancient world.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has invested in a first round of financing for ngmoco, a publisher of games for Apple Inc’s iPhone.
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Atlantic molly fish go for less fertile females if another male is present, in a bid to trick the other male into choosing a poorer-quality mate
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain could give all computer games cinema-style age ratings to protect children from increasingly realistic and violent titles, the government said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Inc posted a small quarterly profit after more than a year of disappointing results, as it sold more mobile phones than expected due to strength in North America, sending its shares up 13 percent.
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“Live Search now has a new image with hotspots to Live Search features.”
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LONDON (Reuters) - For the Olympic movement, the digital revolution is armed with a double-edged sword — it has lured the younger generation away from sport but could open up the Olympic experience to a far wider audience.
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Today’s solar cells ignore the 50% of the Sun’s energy that reaches Earth as infrared light, but cells made from the new material could harness that too
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Emerging out of thin air, it has already surpassed solar and wind as the largest cleantech industry. Carbon credits were worth a staggering $63 billion in 2007 and $59 billion in the first half of 2008 alone.
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A University of Chicago psychologist explores the dangers of loneliness, and how it can lead humans to a miserable life and even an early grave.
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Meet the Martin Jetpack, a contraption unveiled at a US air show yesterday. It is a real-life version of the toy we all fantasised about as children (and some of us as adults)
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