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The crowdfunding website Kickstarter has become the launch point for a number of clever and useful smartphone accessories in the past two years. Now Portland-based photographer and design engineer Charles Waugh is using Kickstarter to raise funds for his own addition, the SlingShot smartphone video/photo stabilizer....(more)
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Two weeks ago, a patent filing by General Motors was uncovered that proposed using data collected from its OnStar service to tailor public advertisements to individual drivers. Like the billboards Tom Cruise encountered in Minority Report, the OnStar-linked ads would be tailored to passing motorists based...(more)
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Babies who are fed milk from their mothers' breasts gain less weight over their first year compared to babies fed milk -- breast or formula -- from a bottle, suggests a new study. The lead author said the difference may come...(more)
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Investment and pristine beaches have helped the island weather the global downturn.
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Art collectors, seeking more display space, rebuild their home with care.
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“Indie Game: The Movie” is a tenderly wrought portrait of four independent video game designers.
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“Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story” remembers the commando who died at Entebbe.
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A 26-year-old man was arrested Thursday for allegedly selling "junk" cars he didn't own to recycling companies, Atlanta police said.
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The Cobb County school board failed to agree on a 2012-13 budget Thursday night. The board previously approved a tentative $842 million general fund budget that sliced five days from the school calendar and cut 350 teaching positions, increasing average class sizes by two students across...(more)
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Press debate Germany's euro role
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Aid agencies warn rich nations not to 'pawn off' $22bn promised to developing countries as leaders meet at Camp DavidBarack Obama is to make a major speech in Washington on Friday announcing at least $3bn in private sector funding to tackle hunger in developing countries, mainly...(more)
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Billionaire who fought extradition from Canada for more than a decade has been jailed for life for smuggling and briberyA billionaire entrepreneur who symbolised the wild excesses of China's economic rise in the 1990s has been jailed for life on charges of smuggling and bribery.Lai Changxing's...(more)
