Facebook, Google and Amazon too big? Why that question keeps coming up
For more than a decade now, our love affair with three high-profile tech companies has been torrid.
Business
Sep 25, 2017
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Satya Nadella aims to make Microsoft mighty - and mindful
Satya Nadella, the Microsoft CEO who kept the company relevant as its primary PC software business faded, could write a book about the challenges he faced.
Business
Sep 25, 2017
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Researchers aim to improve gut health of livestock animals
Researchers at the University of Delaware are looking into what causes that gut feeling in livestock animals such as cows and chickens.
Plants & Animals
Sep 25, 2017
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Google weaves touch controls into Levi Strauss jacket
Levi Strauss this week begins selling a denim jacket with touch controls woven into the fabric in the first fashion offering stitched from a collaboration with Google.
Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 25, 2017
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Penguin-mounted video captures gastronomic close encounters of the gelatinous kind
Footage from penguin-mounted mini video recorders shows four species of penguin eating jellyfish and other gelatinous animals of the open ocean, a food source penguins were not previously believed to partake of, scientists ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 25, 2017
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Uber wields new weapon in fight with London: diplomacy
In past skirmishes with local regulators, Uber's playbook under co-founder and now-ousted CEO Travis Kalanick was simple: fight.
Business
Sep 25, 2017
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Trump directs Ed secretary to prioritize computer science
President Donald Trump has directed the education secretary to prioritize science and technology education and to spend at least $200 million annually on competitive grants so schools can broaden access to computer science ...
Other
Sep 25, 2017
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The wind sublimates snowflakes in Antarctica
Researchers have observed and characterized a weather process that was not previously known to occur in Antarctica's coastal regions. It turns out that the katabatic winds that blow from the interior to the margins of the ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 25, 2017
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Researchers explain the mechanism of asexual reproduction in flatworms
Freshwater planarians, found around the world and commonly known as "flatworms," are famous for their regenerative prowess. Through a process called "fission," planarians can reproduce asexually by simply tearing themselves ...
General Physics
Sep 25, 2017
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Creative use of noise brings bio-inspired electronic improvement
In conventional electronics, a great deal of effort is devoted to eliminating stochastic resonance (SR)—the annoying hiss that generally hinders the detection of weak signals and degrades overall device performance. But, ...
General Physics
Sep 25, 2017
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