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ALL DEALS 
March 20, 2019 Here are all the bulk deals from Tuesday’s session
Benchmark equity indices continued their winning run for the seventh consecutive session Tuesday closing at an over six-month high led by gains in index heavyweights like ITC, RIL and InfosysNSE 2.23 % amid positive domestic cues and sustained foreign fund inflow. The 30-share BSE Sensex touched a high of 38,396.06 before winding up at 38,363.47, recording a rise of […]
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HOME & GARDEN 
March 18, 2019 Are you ready for the home and garden show?
CALGARY (660 NEWS) – It’s often said that kitchens and bathrooms sell homes. You can learn about the latest trends and maybe how to declutter your house at the Calgary Home & Garden Show. Show manager Micheline Picot said they have more than 550 exhibitors. “All kinds of different renovators, vast experts, kitchen renovators. You can […]
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ALL DEALS 
March 17, 2019 Pi Day 2019: Free pizzas, pies, and all the best Pi Day deals
Happy Pi Day 2019! Today isn’t quite as special as Pi Day was four years ago, but it’s still March 14th, which is also written as 3/14. Three, one, and four are obviously the first three digits of the number pi (π), so March 14th is celebrated each year as Pi Day. Well, “celebrated” isn’t […]
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ELECTRONICS 
March 12, 2019 Mouser Electronics Sponsors 2019 Global Create the Future Design Contest
Mouser Electronics, Inc., the New Product Introduction (NPI) leader empowering innovation, is pleased to be a principal sponsor of the 17th Create the Future Design Contest, a challenge to engineers and students around the world to create the next great thing. Mouser, which has sponsored the contest for several years, is joined this year by valued […]
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COMPUTERS 
March 9, 2019 INSIDE THE HIGH-STAKES RACE TO MAKE QUANTUM COMPUTERS WORK
DEEP BENEATH THE Franco-Swiss border, the Large Hadron Collider is sleeping. But it won’t be quiet for long. Over the coming years, the world’s largest particle accelerator will be supercharged, increasing the number of proton collisions per second by a factor of two and a half. Once the work is complete in 2026, researchers hope to […]
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CLOTHING 
March 6, 2019 The Best Ethical Clothing Brands Out There
Vegan clothing—it’s a hot topic, but what does it even mean? Basically: Vegan clothing enthusiasts don’t wear any kind of clothing items that contain leather or animal skin, wool or animal hair, or fur, down, silk, or any other material that comes from or is tested on animals. A more comprehensive what-to-look-for list in on PETA’s website, but cotton, polyester, […]
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COMPUTERS 
February 27, 2019 Raspberry Pi: No longer the fastest $35 computer but still the best
The past year has produced a steady stream of single-board computers that surpass the specs of the flagship Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, some of which have also matched its rock-bottom $35 price tag. But getting hands-on with these boards reveals the specs sheet only tells half the story. Boot up one of these theoretically […]
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CLOTHING 
February 26, 2019 Why The Founders Of Gender-Free Clothing Company Stuzo Refuse To Sacrifice Who They Are
Uzo Ejikeme (left) and Stoney Michelli (right), founders of Stuzo clothing.MOLLY ADAMS “Clothes don’t have any organs last time we checked,” declare Stoney Michelli and Uzo Ejikeme on their company, Stuzo Clothing’s website. It’s why the married couple markets their clothing as gender free, with each piece designed for any and everyone who wishes to […]
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COMPUTERS 
February 17, 2019 Are computers finally able to understand the subtleties of language?
We are more comfortable with the idea of talking to machines than ever before. That is due mainly to the growing popularity of smart speakers and virtual assistants, such as Google Home, Amazon Echo and Apple’s Siri. Indeed, as they have proven capable of carrying out tasks such as playing music and setting alarms, we have been happy to ask them to do so. But […]
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ELECTRONICS 
February 11, 2019 Protect your electronics with $28 off the AmazonBasics 12-outlet UPS
The AmazonBasics 800VA 450W 12-outlet standby uninterruptible power supply is down to $51.99. It normally sells for around $80 and hasn’t dropped from that price since last year. If you’ve got a lot of devices, a home computer, or entertainment system, you should have it all plugged into a UPS like this. It helps protect your stuff […]
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COMPUTERS 
January 25, 2019 Photographing computers to show the art inside the black box
What computers mean to us depends largely on what we bring to them. Our expectations, our past experience, the dreams and myths that surround them, their physical characteristics—all these aspects resonate on multiple, often overlapping levels. One level is aesthetic. Many nonspecialists in the computer arts enjoy these machines for their visual appeal and curiosity. […]
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ELECTRONICS 
January 4, 2019 Is The Global Economy Half The Apple It Used To Be?
For the first firm to crack the trillion-dollar valuation ceiling, Apple’s performance is usually a bellwether of broader market confidence and conspicuous consumption among fawning technophiles. It should worry more than Apple investors that the usually reticent firm when it comes to company performance has warned the world of economic deceleration in “Greater China,” a […]