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ScienceShot: Feet Are a Treat for Fungi

Scientists find large diversity of the microbes on our tootsies

4 hours ago from Science Now

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Twitter tightens security after high-profile breaches

Twitter said Wednesday it was stepping up its security measures for the popular messaging service following a series of high-profile breaches by hackers hitting media organizations and others.

1 hours ago from Phys.org

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Infant tooth reveals Neanderthal breastfeeding habits

Chemicals in primate teeth reveal transition to solid food.

3 hours ago from Nature News

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GIF inventor Steve Wilhite says it should be pronounced 'jif'

The inventor of the Gif file has revealed that the world has been mispronouncing his creation.

10 hours ago from The Independent

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Amazon plans intersecting biospheres for Seattle campus headquarters

If Apple can have a "spaceship," then Amazon can have a biodome. Although the company isn't creating a totally self-contained ecosystem so its employees never have to leave work, documents filed ...

16 hours ago from Gizmag

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HTC Can't Staunch The Flow Of Departing Senior Talent As Internal Turmoil Prevails

A brain drain at a big tech company is never a good thing, and when a lot of that departing talent consists of high-level execs moving on in rapid succession it's bound to look like curtains ...

3 hours ago from TechCrunch

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Teenagers 'burdened' by Facebook are turning to Twitter says new study

A new report from the Pew Research Centre in America has shown that teenagers "have waning enthusiasm" for Facebook, and that social-networks are increasingly seen as a burden.

9 hours ago from The Independent

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Jennifer Lopez to open cellphone stores

NEW YORK (AP) -- "Jenny from the Block" wants the block to buy Verizon phones from her....

15 minutes ago from AP

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German software giant SAP to hire people with autism

German software giant SAP said on Tuesday it intended to employ hundreds of people globally with autism as software testers and programmers over the next seven years.

Tue 21 May 13 from Phys.org

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Amazon sets up system to trade on fan fiction

Kindle Worlds' setup lets everyone win: fanficcers, authors, and Amazon.

2 hours ago from Arstechnica

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