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Cheap iPhone to Earn Billions; Sprint Gets Win Phone 8; Pebble Smartwatch Ships Soon
2013-01-10 17:37:47| PC Magazine HDTVs Product Guide
Topping tech headlines Wednesday, analyst Gene Munster expects a cheaper off-contract iPhone to cost close to $199 and earn Apple $6.5 billion this year, Sprint announced that it will begin selling Windows Phone 8 devices, and the Pebble Smartwatch will finally begin shipping later this month.
Replacing Prison Terms with Drug Abuse Treatment Could Save Billions in Criminal Justice Costs
2013-01-10 06:17:20| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Sending drug abusers to community-based treatment programs rather than prison could help reduce crime and save the criminal justice system billions of dollars, according to a new study by researchers at RTI International and Temple University.
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Billions of Earthlike Planets Found in Milky Way
2013-01-07 23:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Tens of billions of Earthlike worlds are strewn across the Milky Way, many of them circling stars very much like our own sun, astronomers said today. Earlier research suggested that rocky planets might be much more abundant around small stars than sunlike ones. (Also see "New 'Super Earth' Found at Right Distance for Life.") But a fresh analysis of data from NASA's Kepler mission, which launched in 2009, suggests this is not the case, according to new research presented at the annual meeting...
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The other blue planet: What Mars mightve looked like, billions of years ago
2013-01-04 14:06:20| Extremetech
A long time ago, Mars wasn't the barren lump of rock and dust that it is today. Evidence gathered by rovers and satellites such as Curiosity and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbitersuggests that, billions of years ago, the Red Planet was once covered in lakes and oceans, and that it had a thicker atmosphere. It may have even supported life. Any water and life is now gone, but once upon a time, Mars might've looked a lot like Earth
Big Oil's Billions in Tax Perks Survive Fiscal Cliff Deal
2013-01-03 17:31:06| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Everything was supposed to be "on the table" in the crafting of deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff.
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