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Mercer Consulting’s annual roundup of the global cities with the best quality of life is here, and Zurich once again comes out on top. The best place in the U.S.? Honolulu at No. 28.
New York, London, and Paris are internationally renowned cities...
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The problem with to-do lists and schedules is that you need to fill them out. Now, a new generation of free online schedulers promises to end that drudgery. These new Web applications use natural-language processing to interpret spoken commands and...
Four billion years ago, modern cells were absent on our still-young planet. The simple protocells that are thought to have given rise to Earth’s earliest life forms were plentiful, but likely no more than a bit of genetic material surrounded by a...
A UFO had a mid-air collision with a fighter jet over central Europe, a leaked report has revealed.
Defence chiefs are investigating claims that the Romanian MIG 21 fighter plane was struck by ’strange objects’.
The official report says...
A video clip showing an attractive blonde in her underwear gyrating along to Nintendo’s Wii Fit game has been watched nearly TWO MILLION times.The woman, Lauren Bernat, 25, was unaware she was being filmed secretly by her marketing executive...
Boxee, a start-up that will launch a test version of the service on Monday, has plans to enable users to transfer their digital content from computers to their TVs and eventually turn the TV set into a
A Kansas man was shot in the head with a nail gun – but only realised a two inch tack was embedded in his skull after a friend pointed it out.
George Chandler, of Shawnee, said his friend Phil Kern was using the gun on garden decking when the accident...
IBM announced the completion of a one-petaflop supercomputer that runs Red Hat Linux. Twice as fast as the previous record-setter, the IBM Blue Gene, the Roadrunner uses a hybrid design that combines 6,948 dual-core AMD Opteron chips with 12,960 Cell...
After her birth, the piglet refused to join her brothers and sisters as they splashed in the muck because she suffers with mysophobia - a fear of dirt.But now the pig has overcome her fears with a pair of green boots made of rubber - which have been...
In the world of underwater robots, this is a team of pioneers. While most ocean robots require periodic communication with scientist or satellite intermediaries to share information, these can work cooperatively communicating only with each other.
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