TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese electronics conglomerate Toshiba Corp posted a better-than-expected 178 percent rise in quarterly operating profit on Tuesday, boosted by strong overseas profits in the firm's
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The digital camera industry has been on a nostalgic kick as of late, replicating the rugged aesthetics and feel of shooters dating back to the late 1930s
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Google is determined to take down Youtube-mp3.org, a site that rips downloadable mp3 files from streaming YouTube videos. Philip Matesanz, the site's 21-year-old owner, has collected 1.2 million signatures in protest against the action. Will his petition move the search giant?
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"I am a post-colleged age male who raped several girls through use of correction, alcohol, and other tactics over a course of 3 years." Thus begins the comment of an anonymous Reddit user submitted three days ago as part of a massive Reddit thread dealing with sexual assault, born out of one Redditor's question: "Reddit's had a few threads about sexual assault victims, but are there any redditors from the other side of the story?
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Apple consumers could perhaps see the debut of both the new iPhone and an iPad Mini come September.
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Embeddable contact lenses make for a world where augmented reality is inescapable.
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Digg v1 will launch this week after a six-week sprint to rebuild the site from scratch. Here’s a first glimpse.
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Hacker Tavis Ormandy has discovered a serious vulnerability in a well-known PC game DRM system.
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But amid all the bluster over the origins of e-mail, one man holds a claim that resonates well beyond the rest. Ray Tomlinson is the reason your e-mail address includes an ‘@’ symbol.
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In a court case kicking off today in San Jose, Apple is tackling Samsung over software and hardware patent infringements in an attempt to win over $2.5 billion in damages.
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Microsoft on Monday announced new keyboards and mice optimized for tablets and laptops running the Windows 8 operating system.
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These people influence everything.
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Popular music is a key cultural expression that has captured listeners' attention for ages. Many of the structural regularities underlying musical discourse are yet to be discovered and, accordingly, their historical evolution remains formally unknown. Here we unveil a number of patterns and metrics characterizing the generic usage of primary musical facets such as pitch, timbre, and loudness in contemporary western popular music. Many of these patterns and metrics have been consistently stable for a period of more than fifty years. However, we prove important changes or trends related to the
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There are a lot of us who want to create an infographic, but do not know where or how to even begin. It can almost seem like a giant jigsaw puzzle of information floating around in our heads with no place to put it.
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