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5 years ago+23 23 0South Korea rules pre-installed phone bloatware must be deletable
New guidelines will require the industry to allow smartphone users the option to delete unnecessary pre-loaded applications, to rectify unreasonable practices and reduce inconvenience.
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5 years ago+36 36 0 x 1Google Gives Wikimedia Millions—Plus Machine Learning Tools
When the tech giant helps Wikipedia, it’s also helping itself.
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Expression
5 years ago+37 37 0 x 1Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos. That’s a Problem for Video Game Developers.
Sports video games strive for realism by closely replicating real-life players, but digitally reproducing their tattoos has led to court fights over ownership rights.
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5 years ago+15 15 0Best news bloopers of 2018
It's that time again.
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5 years ago+24 24 0Russia seizes Ukrainian naval ships
Ukraine is set to declare martial law after saying six crew members were hurt in the naval incident.
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Analysis
5 years ago+30 30 0 x 1Opinion | How Loneliness Is Tearing America Apart
When people have a hole in their life, they often fill it with angry politics.
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5 years ago+14 14 0Bitcoin sinks to new 13-month low
Bitcoin slumped to a new 13-month low on Monday, with the biggest cryptocurrency...
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6 years ago+25 25 0Your Kid’s Apps Are Crammed With Ads
In a new study of the most downloaded apps for children ages 5 and younger, researchers found advertising in almost all of them.
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6 years ago+35 35 0 x 1Air pollution is the ‘new tobacco’, warns WHO head
Exclusive: Simple act of breathing is killing 7 million people a year and harming billions more, but ‘a smog of complacency pervades the planet’, says Dr Tedros Adhanom
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6 years ago+18 18 0'To Kill a Mockingbird' Named America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS Survey
Harper Lee's 1960 book is a coming-of-age story set in the south, with themes of racism and injustice.
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Analysis
6 years ago+26 26 0 x 1Why Kodak Died and Fujifilm Thrived: A Tale of Two Film Companies
The Kodak moment is gone, but today Fujifilm thrives after a massive reorganization. Here is a detailed analysis based on firsthand accounts from top
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6 years ago+32 32 0 x 1Not exercising worse for your health than smoking, diabetes and heart disease
Being unfit should be treated as a disease that has a prescription, called exercise, the study's author said.
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6 years ago+29 29 0 x 1Facebook fake review factories uncovered by Which? investigation
Firms paying refunds to buyers who write five-star reviews on Amazon, consumer group says
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6 years ago+26 26 0New material could up efficiency of concentrated solar power
Could allow us to generate electricity using supercritical carbon dioxide.
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6 years ago+15 15 0Hundreds of Roman gold coins found in basement of old theater
Archaeologists are studying a valuable trove of old Roman coins found on the site of a former theater in northern Italy.
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6 years ago+24 24 0The art and science of being on hold
Not content to let customers sit back and enjoy some light jazz, companies have turned hold music into a marketing exercise.
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6 years ago+46 46 0 x 1Cubans cheer as internet goes nationwide for a day
Cuba's government said it provided free internet to the Communist-run island's more than 5 million cellphone users on Tuesday, in an eight-hour test before it launches sales of the service.
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6 years ago+25 25 0 x 1Growers Are Beaming Over The Success Of Lasers To Stave Off Thieving Birds
Laser beams that sweep erratically across crops have shown promise in protecting harvests from loss caused by birds. But researchers are still studying whether the beams may harm the animals' retinas.
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6 years ago+32 32 0 x 1Inside the Very Big, Very Controversial Business of Dog Cloning
Barbra Streisand is not alone. At a South Korean laboratory, a once-disgraced doctor is replicating hundreds of deceased pets for the rich and famous. It’s made for more than a few questions of bioethics.
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Expression
6 years ago+12 13 1Face Tattoos Go Mainstream
Post Malone and Justin Bieber are the most visible examples of how ink has crossed a new line.