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HOME & GARDEN 
August 6, 2016 A Gardener’s Favourite Ingredient: Accidental Flowers
Photo Credit:The Washington Post The best thing about cultivating a vegetable and herb garden – no matter how small – might just be the flowers. I don’t mean the flowers you planted to add decoration, or even the ones you are growing specifically because of their edibility, such as nasturtiums. I mean the bonus flowers, […]
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COMPUTERS 
August 2, 2016 Three Great Projects Using a Raspberry Pi 3 for the Summer
HIGHLIGHTS A Raspberry Pi is a computer the size of a credit card. You can use this low-cost device to hack together cool projects. We put together a media centre, game console, and smart assistant. The Raspberry Pi sounds like a dessert for math lovers but it’s really a computer the size of a credit […]
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COMPUTERS 
August 2, 2016 Hardware as a Service: HP Gets Ready to Lease Computers to Businesses
HIGHLIGHTS HP to offer hardware products on lease as PC demand weakens Will monitor its device’s health and offer replacements accordingly Promises to ensure that all data is wiped-off post device’s use HP Inc., the second largest PC-maker in the world after Lenovo, on Thursday said that it will start offering computers and other hardware […]
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COMPUTERS 
August 2, 2016 What to Wear to Work? Soon, a Tiny Computer
The wearable technology startups that get attention make products a Silicon Valley executive or journalist might use – fitness trackers, virtual-reality gaming headsets, jewelry that delivers text-message alerts. It’s lifestyle stuff. But wearable development in the near future depends on more workaday equipment. Call them work-wearables: computers worn on the body that help get the […]
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COMPUTERS 
August 2, 2016 How a Computer Helped a Paralysed Chimp Walk Again
In a first, Japanese researchers have rehabilitated a paralysed chimpanzee through interaction with computers and touch screens. The case of Reo, a male chimpanzee that learned to walk again after being paralysed due to illness, shows how much can be done to rehabilitate animals injured in captivity, said lead author Yoko Sakuraba of Kyoto University. […]
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NEWS 
July 27, 2016 Trai to Launch App to Keep a Check on Your Mobile Internet Speed
HIGHLIGHTS The ‘MySpeed App’ could be downloaded from ‘msewa’ app store It is likely to be launched on 5th of July Trai also defined minimum Internet speed being delivered to consumers Telecom regulator Trai on Friday said it will launch a mobile application which will help a consumer to measure Internet speed on his smartphone […]
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NEWS 
July 27, 2016 Pinterest’s Shopping Bag Creates a Single Checkout for Shopping Across Sites
HIGHLIGHTS The feature will let users shop from multiple sites with one checkout Update will roll out first to Android and Web, and then iOS Retailers have to support the new ‘buy’ pins to enable the feature Sharing site Pinterest will now allow you to shop from various websites and checkout with a single transaction […]
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COMPUTERS 
July 12, 2016 Three Great Projects Using a Raspberry Pi 3 for the Summer
HIGHLIGHTS A Raspberry Pi is a computer the size of a credit card. You can use this low-cost device to hack together cool projects. We put together a media centre, game console, and smart assistant. The Raspberry Pi sounds like a dessert for math lovers but it’s really a computer the size of a credit […]
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COMPUTERS 
July 12, 2016 Hardware as a Service: HP Gets Ready to Lease Computers to Businesses
HIGHLIGHTS HP to offer hardware products on lease as PC demand weakens Will monitor its device’s health and offer replacements accordingly Promises to ensure that all data is wiped-off post device’s use HP Inc., the second largest PC-maker in the world after Lenovo, on Thursday said that it will start offering computers and other hardware […]
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COMPUTERS 
July 12, 2016 What to Wear to Work? Soon, a Tiny Computer
The wearable technology startups that get attention make products a Silicon Valley executive or journalist might use – fitness trackers, virtual-reality gaming headsets, jewelry that delivers text-message alerts. It’s lifestyle stuff. But wearable development in the near future depends on more workaday equipment. Call them work-wearables: computers worn on the body that help get the […]
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COMPUTERS 
July 12, 2016 How a Computer Helped a Paralysed Chimp Walk Again
‘ In a first, Japanese researchers have rehabilitated a paralysed chimpanzee through interaction with computers and touch screens. The case of Reo, a male chimpanzee that learned to walk again after being paralysed due to illness, shows how much can be done to rehabilitate animals injured in captivity, said lead author Yoko Sakuraba of Kyoto […]
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ELECTRONICS 
July 8, 2016 Hardware as a Service: HP Gets Ready to Lease Computers to Businesses
HIGHLIGHTS HP to offer hardware products on lease as PC demand weakens Will monitor its device’s health and offer replacements accordingly Promises to ensure that all data is wiped-off post device’s use HP Inc., the second largest PC-maker in the world after Lenovo, on Thursday said that it will start offering computers and other hardware […]
