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  • Soon 3D-printed food for astronauts in space

    3D food printer for astronauts to create custom meals on the fly. With support from Nasa, the firm, Systems and Materials Research Corp of Austin, intends to design, build and test a food printer that can work in space. "This project is to demonstrate we can create and change the nutrition of the food and be able to print it in a low-gravity environment," the company's research ...

  • iGate We reacted swiftly and appropriately

    Phaneesh Murthy , has defended its actions even as more details emerged about the circumstances under which Murthy was sacked. "Immediately after being informed of the relationship, iGate's board of directors reacted swiftly and ...

  • Yahoo acquires online gaming platform

    Yahoo pressed on with its shopping spree on Thursday with the acquisition of a start-up that powers games played on smartphones, tablets, consoles or personal computers. Word that Yahoo has bought Northern ...

  • Google in talks to buy start-up Waze for about $1 billion Report

    Google is considering buying Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze, which may lead to a bidding war with Facebook, Bloomberg news reported, citing people familiar with the ...

  • A breath of salty air for patients with cystic fibrosis

    (Credit: Cambridge Consultants) In a seemingly random but nevertheless important discovery, scientists watching surfers with cystic fibrosis in Australia several years ...


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The Fire Within (Le feu follet) [DVD]

The Fire Within (Le feu follet) [DVD]

While Louis Malle is often associated with the French New Wave, largely because of the young age at which he made his first feature (he was in his early 20s) and the time period when he started making films (the late 1950s), he was always just outside that movement. Unlike Truffaut, G ... ...

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  • UK Gas Hours From Running Out in March

    Britain came within six hours of running out of natural gas in March, according to a senior energy official, highlighting the risk of supply shortages amid declining domestic production and a growing reliance on imports. "We really only had six hours' worth of gas left in storage as a buffer," said Rob Hastings, director of energy and infrastructure at the Crown Estate, the ...

  • Amazon Kindle Fire HD to reach 170 countries

    Amazon on Thursday announced it is expanding sales of its Kindle tablet computers to "over 170 countries and territories around the world," and its Appstore in nearly 200 countries. The move steps up the offensive of Amazon against rivals like Apple and Google in the market for tablets and content sold for the devices. "Kindle Fire HD is the number one best-selling item in the ...

  • New iPhone 5 ad celebrates Generation Me-Me-Me La-La-La

    Having shown in a previous ad how everyone wants to photograph everything with their iPhone, a new Apple ad shows everyone navigating the world, while listening to their own ...

  • Nokia files new suits in patent fight with HTC says reports

    Nokia files a federal lawsuit, as well as a second complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission, against the Taiwanese handset maker, according to ...

  • Google under scanner in US Source

    WASHINGTON: US regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google, the top player in Web display advertising, breaks antitrust law in how it handles some advertising sales, a source told Reuters. The source said that it was unlikely that the Federal Trade Commission had sent out civil investigative demands in relation to the probe, which would be the sign of a formal ...

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