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Hye Rin Bae

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

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F1 fan receives bionic hand form Mercedes team

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  • 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.
  • prosthetic
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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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Na Young Kim

IE team pokes fun at rapid-release Firefox 6 | Deep Tech - CNET News - 0 views

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rapid-release IE firefox

shared by Na Young Kim on 23 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • IE team pokes fun at rapid-release Firefox 6
  • congratulate Mozilla on shipping Firefox 6,
  • Microsoft sent a mere cupcake
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  • new versions of Firefox arrive more frequently
  • new cake arrived last week to Mozilla
  • n shipment of Firefox 6.
  • la, posted a photo of the cake on Flickr
  • IE--was poking fun at the new release
  • sent the diminutive cake.
  • r shipping Firefox 3 in 2008
  • "Congratulations on shipping. Love, the IE Team."
  • ave an early taste
  • t arrived three months after Firefox 4
  • received a cupcake.
katrina Sukumaran

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

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samsung S II Galaxy iPhone

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  • 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

Climate change driving species out of habitats much faster than expected | Environment ... - 0 views

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Climate change driving species out of habitats much faster than expected

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  • Climate change driving species out of habitats much faster than expected
  • Once heard only rarely outside the north Kent marshes, the loud voice of the Cetti's warbler is now delighting a whole new set of listeners, from the isle of Anglesey to the banks of the Humber. The bird has moved 150 kilometres further north within the UK in the last 40 years, in response to the changing climate.
  • Chris Thomas, professor of conservation biology at York University and leader of the project, said: "These changes are equivalent to animals and plants shifting away from the equator at around 20 centimetres per hour, for every hour of the day, for every day of the year.
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  • een expected to move – along with some other butterfly species – northwards into Scotland. But populations of the butterfly have declined, because its normal habitats have been lost. And while Cetti's warbler – a small brown bird that belies its loud song – moved northwards, the Cirl bunting moved south within the UK by 120km, a victim of intensified agriculture.
  • The research team analysed data from a variety of studies, most of them from Europe and North America, finding more than 2,000 examples of how animal and plant species have adapted by moving their habitat.
  • One example is the high brown fritillary butterfly, which in the UK might have b
  • going on for the last 40 years and is set to continue for at least the rest of this century. "
  • Birds and butterflies may tend to be more mobile, but mammals, reptiles, spiders, insects and all sorts of invertebrates were also tracked.
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