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Nintendo DSi users get to share pictures on Facebook

Nintendo said Monday that it is updating DSi software to allow users to upload pictures from the camera-equipped handheld videogame devices to hot social-networking website Facebook.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

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Intel boosts Facebook users power for research

Intel unveiled a software program that lets Facebook users devote spare computer processing power to researching diseases or climate change.

Technology / Software

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Japanese electioneering tiptoes into Internet age

High-tech Japan is gearing up for elections, but you won't hear a tweet from Prime Minister Taro Aso or his main rivals.

Technology / Internet

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China disinfects town where plague killed 3rd man

(AP) -- Authorities killed rats and fleas on Tuesday as they disinfected a town sealed off after three people died of pneumonic plague in a remote farming town in northwestern China, according to the provincial health department.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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Missouri and Kansas are releasing alien insects to do battle with invasive plants

An alien plant species has invaded Missouri and is threatening to overrun crops and livestock pastures. To combat the scourge weed, officials are deliberately releasing two alien insect species to destroy its roots and seeds. ...

Biology / Ecology

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Use of a restraining device in the subacute phase after a stroke no better than rehabilitation alone

Restraining the use of some patients' unaffected upper limb during the subacute phase following stroke does not appear to generate greater improvements in motor impairment and capacity than standard rehabilitation alone, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Another fine monopoly rules sites on the Internet

A traveler booking a night at the Ft. Wayne Marriott hotel on Aug. 19-20 may get a surprise when checking prices online.

Technology / Internet

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