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09:36 • 15.05.13Blackberry expands BBM chat app to rivals"However, other players like Whatsapp will only drop their fees if they see BBM making major inroads into ...
16:54 • 14.05.13'Weight loss bacterium' foundResearch, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that a broth containing a single species of bacteria could dramatically alter the health of obese mice. It is thought ...
15:59 • 14.05.13Nokia unveil their latest weapon in the battle against Samsung and Apple“Although Nokia\\\'s Windows Phone sales have sequentially improved, reaching a volume of 5.1 million units, Nokia is yet to see high growth in the smartphone segment. Nokia\\\'s position in the ...
08:28 • 14.05.13Chris Hadfield and fellow astronauts return from ISSCanadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, Nasa's Tom Marshburn and Russian Roman Romanenko landed safely in Kazakhstan...
21:50 • 13.05.13Sony announces Xperia ZR smartphone“By combining Sony's leading camera technology with the highest level of water-resistance, you will never miss another moment…”
16:00 • 13.05.13Nokia unveils £65 budget phone with 48 days of standby battery lifeIt offers 17 hours of talk time, 56 hours of music playback and 48 days of standby time on 2G networks, the Finland based phone manufacturer says...
10:35 • 13.05.13Cafes ban Google glasses to protect customers' privacyThe move comes after it emerged people wearing Google Glass could be banned from American cinemas, casinos and even parks because owners don’t want filming there...
08:45 • 13.05.13WHO warns of new deadly virus"Of most concern... is the fact that the different clusters seen in multiple countries increasingly support the hypothesis that when there is close contact this novel coronavirus ...
17:01 • 12.05.13Climate change 'will make hundreds of millions homeless' – The GuardianThe prospect of Earth returning to these climatic conditions is causing major alarm. As temperatures rise, deserts will spread and life-sustaining ...
10:33 • 12.05.13World’s first operation of foetus saves baby at 21 weeksGonzalo Pardo Sanchez was suffering from congenital high airway obstruction syndrome - a rare condition which was preventing his lungs from expelling fluid through the trachea ...
16:25 • 11.05.13Emergency spacewalk aims to fix ISS ammonia leakAstronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are due to carry out a spacewalk to fix a leak of ammonia from its cooling system...
15:30 • 11.05.13Scientists call for action to tackle CO2 levelsDaily CO2 readings at a US government agency lab on Hawaii have topped 400 parts per million for the first time, BBC reports...
09:15 • 11.05.13Carbon dioxide passes symbolic markDaily measurements of CO2 at a US government agency lab on Hawaii have topped 400 parts per million for the first time...
13:25 • 10.05.13US government orders removal of Defcad 3D-gun designsThe order to remove the blueprints for the plastic gun comes after they were downloaded more than 100,000 times. The US State Department wrote to the gun's designer, Defense Distributed...
12:04 • 10.05.13Space station's cooling system leaking ammoniaThe crew spotted particles of ammonia drifting away from the laboratory on Thursday. Liquid ammonia is used to extract the heat that builds up in electronic systems ...