Twitter beefs up search function
Twitter said Friday it was upgrading its search functions to include "autocomplete" and spelling correction features.
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US court lifts Samsung phone ban, keeps tablet block
A US appeals court gave Samsung a temporary reprieve Friday on the sale of its Galaxy Nexus 7 smartphones while leaving intact a court ban on US sales of its tablet computers in a patent battle with Apple.
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Yahoo, Facebook settle patent dispute, ad alliance (Update 4)
Facebook and Yahoo have agreed to settle a patent dispute, averting a potentially lengthy battle over the technology running two of the Internet's most popular destinations.
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TRMM Satellite sees heavy rainfall in Tropical Storm Daniel's center
NASA's TRMM satellite revealed that Tropical Storm Daniel's most concentrated rainfall is occurring around the storm's center.
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Images in an instant: Suomi NPP begins direct broadcast
Real-time data that will be used in everything from weather forecasts to disaster response is now being beamed down to Earth from a cone-shaped appendage aboard the nation's newest Earth-observing satellite.
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Laos vows to address Mekong dam fears
Laos has pledged to stall construction of a controversial multi-billion dollar dam on the Mekong river until all its neighbours' environmental concerns have been answered, state media said Friday.
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China's Alibaba says zero tolerance on graft
Top Chinese e-commerce operator Alibaba said Friday it would not tolerate corruption, after a senior manager was detained on suspicion of taking bribes in the latest graft scandal to hit the company.
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Dogs may mourn as deeply as humans do
(HealthDay) -- Jon Tumilson's dog, Hawkeye, was an important part of his life.
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Belgian resorts riled over gloomy summer forecasts
Belgium's seaside resorts are threatening to sue a top weather site they say is dissuading tourists with coastal forecasts of a gloomy summer, the Belgian press reported Friday.
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Brain scanner, not joystick, is in human-robot future
(Phys.org) -- Talk about fMRI may not be entirely familiar to many people, but that could change with new events that are highlighting efforts to link up humans and machines. fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) is ...
