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F1 fan receives bionic hand from Mercedes team - Telegraph - 0 views

  • Matthew James, 14, who was born without his left hand, sent a cheeky letter to Ross Brawn, boss of F1 team Mercedes GP Petronas, asking for £35,000 to pay for a top-of-the range artificial limb.
  • But Mercedes where so touched by Matthew's ''intelligent and moving letter'' they agreed to help him and teamed up with firm Touch Bionics, who create and fit hi-tech artificial limbs.
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  • versatile
  • Touch Bionics also agreed to fit the hand and train Matthew at their state of the art facilities for free, which would have otherwise cost £25,000.
  • Matthew said: ''It is just amazing.
  • even fitted with Bluetooth technology to allow Matthew to hook up to a computer wirelessly to track the strength and speed of his movements.
  • chassis-style
  • congenital
  • prestigious
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katrina Sukumaran

Samsung's IPhone Killer Is Coming: Galaxy S II Due This Month | FoxNews.com - 0 views

  • Samsung Galaxy S II
  • to be the only real competition to the Apple iPhone.
  • can't get it in the United States-- yet.
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  • Samsung's
  • a date for the U.S. release
  • its hotly anticipated phone,
  • sold lavishly in foreign markets
  • r 5 million people worldwide
  • bought the flagship Android phone
  • 85 days it has been on the market
  • one sold every 1.5 seconds,
  • Samsung
  • "a major product announcement"
  • an invitation to journalists early Friday
  • Galaxy S II
  • Aug. 29.
  • Galaxy S II by name,
  • The Galaxy is coming.
  • "It isn't rocket science to understand that it's the Galaxy S II announcement,"
  • It isn't an overstatement to say that the Samsung Galaxy S II is the strongest competition the iPhone faces.
  • sports a 4.3-inch, 800x480 screen, a 1.2-GHz processor, fast 4G network connectivity, and a sleek, simple design evocative of the iPhone. By contrast, the Apple iPhone 4  has a 3.5-inch, 960x640 screen, a 1-GHz processor, and a slower, 3G connection.
  • Bigger and faster?
  • Though it hasn’t gone on sale yet in the U.S.
  • Galaxy S II are copious
  • obscene.
  • 24 days, the company sold 1 million units
  • The 2 million units sold in 42 days would fill two and a half soccer fields.
  • That's a lot of smartphones. But it's more than that: It's a lot of good smartphones,
  • "If the U.S. versions are anything like the international versions, these are going to be spectacular smartphones," he told FoxNews.com. Segan gave an international version of the phone an Editors' Choice award, calling it the finest Android smartphone available today.
  • Apple iPhone 5
  • he elephant in the room
  • he 3 million Galaxy S II phones sold in just over 50 days are as heavy as 100 elephants)
  • iPhone 5 is widely expected to be coming out in September, Segan noted.
  • And getting the right price could make all the difference for Samsung. "They don't want to be more expensive than the iPhone," Segan said.
  • But that 4G network connection may prove a major difference between the two. 
  • Unless Apple has made some sort of secret breakthrough, [the faster LTE network] might make a Verizon iPhone too thick and power-hungry for Apple's demands this year. Apple may skip it for now and wait for smaller and cooler chipsets," Segan noted.
  • That faster connection really pays off for anyone surfing a lot of complicated websites or viewing movies over Netflix, he said. 
  • But in the end, pricing, a final feature set and the design is all up to the carriers. "The mainstream price for a smartphone is $199 with contract," Segan noted. "We're all hoping for $199."
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Statue of Liberty to close for a year for renovations | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

  • 27.25m renovation that will make the interior safer
  • remain open and the statue itself will be mostly unobstructed from view, officials said in a statement.
  • October after the 125th anniversary of its dedication.
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  • stairwells
  • 2004 after a $20m security upgrade. The observation deck at the top of the crown was reopened on 4 July 2009.
  • 240 people visit each day. About 3.5 million people visit the monument every year.
  • history
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Na Young Kim

Flash Mobs: Is Technology to Blame? - International Business Times - 0 views

  • increase of violent "flash mobs"
  • United States
  • networks are only a tool
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  • networking are connecting people
  • groups of people -- primarily young people -- are using the tools at their disposal to wreak havoc.
  • social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, or through text message, BlackBerry Messenger or e-mail.
  • leaving one unconscious
  • broken jaw
  • June, some gangs attacked pedestrians and people leaving restaurants,
  • robbed train passengers.
  • stolen goods.
  • easy to blame technology
  • Not all flash mobs are violent
  • Twitter, texting or other means be illega
  • Chile earlier this summer
  • students amassed in Santiago's Plaza de la Ciudadanía
  • broke into a choreographed and costumed dance
  • educational system, which they say is currently rotten and dead
  • technology
  • made these events easier to organize,
  • also made them easier to stop
  • 7-Eleven
  • robbed
  • terrifying riots that rocked England
  • over 1,000 have been charged.
  • technology is indeed a double-edged sword.
  • four years in a juvenile cent
  • Jordan Blackshaw, 20, invited about 100 people to an event called "Smash Down in Northwich Town,"
  • h Facebook.
  • , 22, created a group called "The Worthington Riots."
  • Cleveland, Ohio thinks such measures are inappropriate and legally questionable.
  • The juveniles will face fines of upto $300.
  • anyone 17 or younger must be home by nine p.m.
  • 18 must be indoors by midnight
  • 13 must be off the streets by 10 p.m.
  • last weekend kept the streets of Philadelphia relatively quie
  • Philadelphia, Penn
Hanna Anderson

Apple's 'Completely Different' Mac On its Way? What to Expect? - 0 views

  • macotakara.jp says the device is a new product and the company will be giving the device a new name
  • preparing project to release new Mac line-up which is absolutely different from current products until end of this year,
  • new Mac line seems to be a clearly different product from current ones,
Mojo joanne

Mozilla Firefox 6 review - PC Advisor - 0 views

  • It was only a couple of months ago that we reviewed Mozilla’s Firefox 5 web browser, which came hot on the heels of our Firefox 4 review
  • Firefox 6. It’s hard to keep up with these rapid-fire web browser updates.
  • Firefox updates used to creep out under small incremental version numbers, such as 3.6.4
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  • There are more than a thousand changes under the hood of the latest version of Firefox.
  • Google's Chrome web browser isn't much better - already reaching version 10
  • Ancient browser Microsoft Interner Explorer has only recently  staggered to version 9
  • Firefox 6 isn’t a minor upgrade
  • only a few of these changes provide worthwhile reasons for upgrading to the newest release of the browser.
  • Firefox 6 speed increases The first reason to upgrade to Firefox 6 is speed, although that point is debatable.
katrina Sukumaran

iPhone 5 rumors continue: Sharing Samsung Galaxy S II release date? - 0 views

  • iPhone 5 could launch on October 7th or 14th.
  • unofficial Apple blog
  • Apple is preparing to launch the iPhone 5 in October 7th or the 14th depending on the supply.
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  • upcoming Apple smartphone
  • , T-Mobile’s Samsung Hercules
  • The leak said October 26th. 
  • Samsung Galaxy S II
  • iPhone 5 will arrive in October
  • better under the hood specification
  • Apple delayed the launch of the iPhone 5 to take advantage of the so-called Thanksgiving and Christmas shopping rush.
  • more powerful back and front cameras.
  • next-generation Apple smartphone.
  • based in Asia.
  • supply of the units from Apple’s manufacturing partners
  • also added that Apple is still internally “debating” on either the September 29th or the 30th preorder date, but the latter seems more likely.
  • much-anticipated smartphones this year.
  • iPhone 5
  • expected by the end of September
  • iPhone 5
  • new A5 chip, the dual-core dedicated processor of the computer company, as well as bigger RAM, 8-megapixel rear camera, a non-VGA front-facing camera and could sport a new design. The new iPhone 5 is also the expected device to launch with iOS 5 out of the box.
  • iPhone 5′s design is “curvier”
  • f Samsung Mobile
  • Android OEM
  • launch a “defensive” strategy against the iPhone 5 by launching the company’s most popular Android smartphone to date
  • Samsung Galaxy S II.
  • Galaxy S II was heralded this week, claiming that the Samsung Hercules, or the Samsung Galaxy S II variant for the US carrier T-Mobile.
  • AT&T, Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless
  • also expected to sell the Samsung Galaxy S II,
  • Other Android devices that are also expected to arrive by Thanksgiving are the HTC Vigor, Motorola Droid Bionic and the new Nexus smartphone from Google.
  • Android “team” compete against the iPhone 5? I
  • Android smartphone that could possibly steal some of the iPhone 5 customers?
Andy Chen

Shark Attacks Shock Russian East - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Shark Attacks Shock Russian East
  • MOSCOW — When a young man lost both his arms this week in the waters off Russia’s east coast, officials and residents initially had trouble believing what had happened. But a day later, when a teenager’s legs were ripped up in the same waters, all doubt vanished.
  • a man-eating shark
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  • coastal Primorsky Krai, along the Sea of Japan.
  • Large sharks have been sighted in the region only rarely, scientists said, and attacks until now were unheard of.
  • The first victim, a 25-year-old computer programmer, had been out for an evening swim with his wife on Wednesday at a popular vacation spot near Russia’s border with North Korea.
  • “It was only about 300 feet,” Ms. Udovenko said, according to the Interfax news agency. “About halfway there, Denis noticed something in the water and screamed, ‘Swim faster, it’s a shark.’ ”
  • Late on Thursday, the Russian news media reported a third attack, citing local residents, though officials did not immediately confirm it.
  • Witnesses gave varying descriptions of the shark, putting its size at 6 to 12 feet long. After reviewing the accounts, several scientists said they believed it was probably a great white.
  • That body of water is home to seals and other shark prey, but not in sufficient densities to sustain large sharks. A hungry great white, lacking its typical prey, Dr. Astakhov said, “could certainly have attacked a human.
  • Another draw for a great white might be water temperature. The waters in the region have been several degrees higher than normal, making a more attractive environment for great whites, according to Mr. Zgurovsky.
  • Russians’ blasé attitude toward danger is a source of national pride, and despite the ban on swimming, local news media reported Thursday that beachgoers continued to take to the water.
vy Nguyen

When did copyright start globally - 0 views

  • Modern copyright is based on the Statute of Anne, 1709, but international copyright agreements stem from the Berne Convention, 1886.
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