My mom loves to vacuum. She shops for vacuums like most people shop for cars. She does her research and takes a test drive before she buys. Mom even had a Roomba robot vacuum for a while, but I haven't seen her use it in ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 17, 2016
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Sean Parker stood in front of a whiteboard at Napster's dingy offices in San Mateo, Calif., and mapped out a hoped-for future for the besieged music file-sharing service.
Business
Apr 17, 2016
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When Apple launched its first iPad Pro last fall, I was skeptical of the jumbo-sized device.
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 17, 2016
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A symposium on space this past week was abuzz with talk of a new golden age of space travel.
Space Exploration
Apr 17, 2016
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Computers may trounce humans at games like chess and Go, but there's one game we've still got a lock on: quantum physics. Scientists who had people play an online video game that mimicked a troublesome quantum mechanical ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 17, 2016
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When Google wanted people to know it was serious about virtual reality two years ago, it sent software developers attending its I/O conference home with Google Cardboard - a cheap, build-it-yourself VR headset that developers ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 17, 2016
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Scientists say they have only a vague idea of how many oysters cover the reefs in the Chesapeake Bay, and can't say how many can be harvested safely each year without threatening the future of an already decimated population.
Environment
Apr 17, 2016
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is far from done making waves in cosmic discoveries. Up next: Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 a billion miles beyond Pluto.
Space Exploration
Apr 17, 2016
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When the first few sycamores began dying in Aldrich Park at the at the University of California, Irvine, in late 2014, the victims numbered in the dozens. But over the next several months, hundreds of cottonwood, native willow, ...
Ecology
Apr 17, 2016
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Last fall, 30-year-old Luo Rong quit his $30,000-a-year engineering job in Shanghai, moved back to his mountaintop village of Jade Peak with his wife and newborn baby and opened a shop with a big orange and green sign out ...
Business
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