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Nokia to cut 4,000 jobs worldwide

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Nokia is almost Finish(ed), due to its stubbornness to switch to Android, is now set to cut 4,000 jobs worldwide by the end of 2012. Mobile phone maker Nokia to cut 4,000 jobs worldwide from its 65,000-strong workforce, including 700 in the UK Nokia, once indisputably the world’s largest mobile phone company, will lay off 4,000 people worldwide by the end of next year as it attempts to cut costs... 

Apple Sued Over iPad and iPhone Location Tracking Issue

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Data extracted from an iPhone location file. An article published by the Guardian about the fact that both iPad 3G and iPhone keep track of their user’s whereabouts sparked an outcry amongst iOS users. After the issue went all the way to Washington, with a slew of senators and Congressmen demanding answers from Apple, civil lawsuits are now pouring in. According to a Bloomberg report, a couple of... 

The iPhone is recording your movements wherever you go

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Click on the image to enlarge it It’s not just the iPhone 4 that records your movements, but all iPhones updated to iOS 4+. Two security researchers in the UK have uncovered a disturbing truth. It appears iPhone 4’s everywhere have been tracking their users movements with startling accuracy (unbeknownst to the users) and what is more, the ease at which this information can be deciphered... 

Mobile phones powered by the mind take hands-free to a new level

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(Brain) cell phone: Researchers in California have created a way to place a call on a mobile phone using just your thoughts. It seems even dialling a mobile number is becoming too time consuming for our fast-paced time precious society. But researchers in America have come up with a solution – a mobile phone which uses the power of thought to make a call – and you do not have to lift a... 

China Takes Up Key British National Party Energy Policy

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FLiBe, a molten salt reactor coolant. Far-sighted economic super-power China has announced that it is going to address the looming global energy shortfall by building a safer, cleaner, and ultimately cheaper network of nuclear reactors based on thorium molten salt technology. The extensive development and use of this ultra-safe alternative to uranium-based nuclear power was adopted as British National... 

U.S. Sends Radiation-Resistant Robots to Help Japan

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According to an article published by Forbes the American government has sent an unknown number of BigDog robots developed by Boston Dynamics to help the Japanese government in their attempt to stop a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima power plant. “The United States government has dispatched an elite squad of radiation-hardened robots to reinforce overwhelmed emergency working battling the relentless... 

China 'to overtake US on science' in two years

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China's surge in progress could soon overwhelm the US, say experts. China is on course to overtake the US in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 – far earlier than expected. That is the conclusion of a major new study by the Royal Society, the UK’s national science academy. The country that invented the compass, gunpowder, paper and printing is set for a globally important comeback. An... 

Scientists unveil the world's smallest computer that is just a 1 Millimetre square

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World's smallest computer system: At just one square millimetre in size, the tiny device is a pressure monitor that is implanted in a person's eye Scientists have created the world’s smallest computer system to help treat glaucoma patients. At just one square millimetre in size, the tiny device is a pressure monitor that is implanted in a person’s eye. It may be small but it packs... 

Apple CEO Steve Jobs diagnosed with Cancer, has just 6 weeks to live

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Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs has terminal pancreatic cancer and may live for just six more weeks, a media report said Thursday. The 55-year-old Jobs in January announced that at his request, the board of directors granted him a medical leave of absence so that he could focus on his health. Since then, employees have said Jobs can still be seen at the company’s headquarters in California... 

Nokia Windows Phone 7 concept revealed

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Look what we’ve found! This is the first image you’ll see anywhere of the early fruit of Microsoft and Nokia’s budding new partnership. We have it on good authority that the technicolor phones on show are conceptual devices produced by the two companies. You shouldn’t, therefore, go jumping to conclusions about retail hardware just yet, but hearts should be warmed by the familiarity... 

British scientists 'invent artificial petrol' that could cost just 90p per Gallon

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Petrol price relief? Stephen Voller, chief executive of Cella Energy said he is confident the new fuel will work in existing cars. Artificial petrol that costs 19p per litre could be on forecourts in as little as three years. British scientists are refining the recipe for a hydrogen-based fuel that will run in existing cars and engines at the fraction of the cost of conventional petrol. With hydrogen... 

China's new Stealth Fighter may use US Technology

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In this March 28, 1999 file photo, Yugoslav army experts check the wreckage of a downed American F-117 aircraft, in the village of Budjanovci, 30 miles northwest of Belgrade. Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority — and some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come from the U.S. itself. Balkan... 

How to save a Wet Cell Phone

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Can’t work your iPhone with your winter gloves on? Got a scratched DVD that’s skipping? Or how about a work PC that signs you out the moment you step away from your desk? The MacGyver-approved answer may be hiding in your junk drawer. In this week’s episode of Upgrade Your Life, Yahoo! News’s Becky Worley delivers some simple, everyday solutions for what might appear to be... 

Is the Apple iPhone 5 set to spy on people?

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Apple who are the creators of the soon to be iPhone 5 has recently applied for patents which are to say the least of it controversial. These patents will be applied to things like your iPhone 5 and iPad as well as your Apple Mac computer. What does this do? This patent will be able to identify you and actually will be able to spy on you and even record your voice, take photos of where you are... 

Universal phone charger just months away as mobile firms back micro-USB design

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Waste: A universal phone charger will be available on all new handsets within months after the EC this week released technical specs for a standard design. The days of frantically searching for the correct mobile phone charger are finally set to end with the release of a universal charger compatible with almost all new handsets. The European Commission this week released technical specifications for... 
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