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Apple Drops WikiLeaks App

Apple Inc has joined a growing number of U.S. companies that have severed ties with WikiLeaks, removing an application from its online store that gave users access to the controversial website's con...


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HPV Vaccine Approved For Anal Cancer

There's a new tool in the fight against anal cancer. Gardasil, the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine approved in 2006 to prevent cervical cancer got the green light by the Food and Drug Administrat...


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Nokia Apple Patent Row Escalates

Nokia has extended its legal action against Apple by filing 13 more patent infringement claims. Nokia's latest legal move involved filing claims in courts in the UK, Germany and Holland. The cla...


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Hybrid Cars Cannot Be Silent

Silent hybrid vehicles soon may be a thing of the past. Auto safety regulators would be required to set minimum sound levels for hybrid and electric vehicles under a bill approved by the House. B...


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Acupuncture To Treat "Lazy Eye"

Sticking acupuncture needles into points on the body classically associated with vision in Chinese medicine could prove to be an alternative to bothersome patches or drops for older children with a ...


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Sharp considering building new LCD line

Japan's Sharp Corp is considering expanding capacity at a factory for small to mid-sized liquid-crystal display panels, two industry sources told Reuters. The news came after the Nikkei business d...


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Listeria Warning To Cancer Patients

Advice for pregnant women on avoiding soft cheeses and certain other foods should be extended to cancer patients, according to public health experts. Research by the Health Protection Agency found...


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Clue To Brain Power Of Fighter Pilots

Fighter pilots may owe their ability to perform under pressure to the way their brains are wired-up, scans suggest. The study found differences in the white matter and connections of the brain's r...


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Possible HIV Infection Cure Reported

Researchers in Germany are reporting that they may have cured a man of HIV infection. If true, that would represent a scientific advance, but not necessarily a treatment advance, said researchers fa...


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Voyager Near Solar System's Edge

Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, has reached a new milestone in its quest to leave the Solar System. Now 17.4bn km (10.8bn miles) from home, the veteran probe has detected a dist...


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Thailand To Launch '100%-Helmet-Use'

Thailand's Ministry of Public Health plans to launch a "100-percent-helmet-use" campaign next year, aimed at encouraging motocyclists and pillion riders to put on crash helmets for their safety, rep...


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UK Team Claims Antarctic Record

A British expedition to Antarctica says it has succeeded in establishing a new record - the fastest land crossing of the southernmost continent. The Moon Regan Transantarctic Expedition said the 1...


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Hospital Bugs Hit Poor Nations

The fight against malaria and TB in the developing world should not obscure the problems poor countries face with hospital infections, experts say. A team led by World Health Organization research...


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Apple iPads With Built-In Camera Soon

Apple Inc is working on a smaller iPad tablet with built-in cameras that could ship early next year, according to manufacturers in Asia. The launch of a new, smaller iPad would expand the iPhone a...


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Unemployment In Thailand Expected To Drop

The Kasikorn Research Center(KRC) has made a forecast that the unemployment rate in Thailand is likely to drop by 1-1.1 per cent in 2011, Thai News Agency (TNA) reported. According to the KRC, th...


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Proton Gives Full Support To Lotus F1 Race

Proton Holdings Berhad will give full support to subsidiary company Group Lotus Plc in the 2011 Formula 1 (F1) race. Chairman Datuk Seri Mohd Nadzmi Mohd Salleh said Group Lotus chief executive d...


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Music Helps Ventilator Patients

Playing music to hospital patients on ventilators helps them to breathe more easily, findings show. Experts at the Cochrane Library say music could be better than drugs to calm patients during for...


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Suicide Car Bomber Rams Hospital

A suicide bomber has rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a hospital, killing 11 people in north-west Pakistan, say police. Nearly 20 people were injured by the blast in the Shia Muslim-dominat...


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Pro-Wikileaks Activists Abandon Amazon Attack

Pro-Wikileak activists have abandoned plans to bring down the website of online retailer Amazon, and switched back to targeting PayPal. The group Anonymous had pledged to attack the site at 1600 G...


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NASA Sold Computers With Important Data

NASA failed to delete sensitive data on computers and hard drives before selling the equipment as part of its plan to end the Space Shuttle program, an audit released on shows. NASA is getting rid...


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Ex-WikiLeaks Staff To Launch Rival Site

A group of former WikiLeaks collaborators who quit the project are to launch a new campaigning site next week to protest against its founder, a Swedish newspaper said. Respected daily Dagens Nyhe...


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Facebook Boss In Giveaway Pledge

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has become one of the latest billionaires to pledge to give away the majority of his wealth. He is one of 17 new people to support a group, founded by Bill Gat...


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Tokyo Business People Sleep Less Than Peers

New York may be known as the city that never sleeps, but Tokyo business people get less time in the sack than their New York peers -- and also those in Paris, Stockholm and Shanghai. According to ...


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Android Phones Choking Wireless Network

Users of Google's Android phones, such as Samsung's Galaxy S, use more data services than those with other smartphones, threatening to choke wireless network capacity, an industry study showed. Th...


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Google Unveils Chrome OS Notebook

Google has delayed a much anticipated branded laptop powered by its Chrome operating system until next year. Instead of a Chrome OS device for general release, Google announced a pilot programme a...


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Google To Launch e-book Store

Google hopes to write itself a substantial chapter in the digital books story with the launch of its own store. Google eBooks, formerly known as Google Editions, launches in the US on 6 December. ...


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Cellphones Link To Child Misbehavior

Researchers studying the health effects of cellphones say they have found evidence that when pregnant women use them regularly, their children are more likely to have behavioral problems. The stud...


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Russian Satellites Fail To Enter Orbit

Three Russian satellites have failed to enter orbit after they were launched on a rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Russian aerospace experts said the satellites and the upper sta...


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Facebook Redesigns Profile Page

Facebook is redesigning the profile pages of its 500 million-plus users to make it more of a reflection of their real lives and emphasize one of the site's most popular features, photos. Facebook...


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Giant Panda Breeding Breakthrough In China

A critical breakthrough has been made in efforts to save the giant panda, one that could kick-start attempts to reintroduce the animals to the wild. Conservationists say they have perfected the di...


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