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Bits Blog Are We Too Dependent on Apps? | | A new academic book tries to understand how technology influences and affects the way younger people relate to each other and how the public nature of interactions shapes their view of the world around them. |
Taseko Mines to challenge findings of environment threat | | (Reuters) - Taseko Mines Ltd said on Friday that it will challenge findings of a Canadian federal review panel, which said that the company's revised plan for a copper-gold mine in British Columbia poses significant threats to the environment. |
Gallery Faces Another Forgery Complaint | | A newly amended complaint against Knoedler Company challenges declarations by that gallery, now shuttered, that it did everything possible to fake artworks. |
Expedia quarterly profit beats; shares soar | | (Reuters) - Online travel agency Expedia Inc reported a third-quarter profit that beat Wall Street estimates and said business referrals from review site TripAdvisor Inc. have improved, sending its... |
Mountain mirrors to bring light to dark Norwegian town | | Oct. 22 - Three giant mirrors have been erected on a mountainside in Norway, to bring much needed sunlight to residents of a small town. The town is situated at the bottom of a narrow valley where the sun doesn't shine during the long Nordic winter, but its hoped the mirrors will change all that and bring its residents out of the shade and into the light. Jim Drury reports. |
Kerry sees signs Egypt moving back towards democracy | | CAIRO (Reuters) - A day before Egypt's deposed Islamist president goes on trial, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday expressed guarded optimism about a return to democracy in the country during a tour partly aimed at easing tensions with major Arab powers. |
No. 17 UCLA Rebounds With 45-23 Win Over Colorado | | UCLA nursed a hangover from consecutive high-profile losses until late in the first quarter, when Brett Hundley ignored the boos and threw a beautiful 76-yard touchdown pass to Devin Fuller right through the heart of the Colorado defense. |
Fisheries chief says some EU cod stocks facing collapse | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's fisheries chief proposed on Wednesday a cut of up to a third in the amount of cod the bloc's fishermen can catch next year, warning that stocks are at risk of collapse in some areas. |
UPDATE 2-FDA approves Roche leukemia drug Gazyva | | Nov 1 (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Friday approved Roche Holding AG's new drug for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who have not previously been treated for one of the most common forms of blood cancer. |
Graphene is creeping into your home | | Just under ten years ago, the Dutch-British physicist Andre Geim stumbled across a substance that would revolutionize the way we understand matter and win him and his colleague Kostya Novoselow the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics. It was graphene -- a one atom thin substance. The Professor of Physics at Manchester University talks to CNN about discovering the first ever 2-dimensional material. |
NSA denies Google, Yahoo hack | | The National Security Agency's director flatly denies reports the agency secretly broke into links connecting Google and Yahoo data centers. |
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