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GOP Caught With Fingers in the Twitter Jar
2014-11-18 21:20:43| TechNewsWorld
The Republican Party and at least two outside political-spending groups reportedly used anonymous Twitter accounts to share internal polling data in the months leading up to this year's midterm elections. One of the accounts was named after the fictional West Wing character Bruno Gianelli, who attempted to fund campaigns with possibly unethical cash.
How The 'Black Fingers Of Death' Can Help Defeat Climate Change
2014-09-09 16:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: This small city on the Wasatch Front south of Salt Lake City seems an unlikely locale for what could turn out to be an important battle against climate change. But here, in a modest building housing the U.S. Forest Services Shrub Sciences Laboratory, research ecologist Susan Meyer and her colleagues are working laboriously to defeat a tenacious alien plant, cheatgrass, once dubbed the invader that won the West. If they succeed and a broad effort is launched to restore millions of acres of degraded...
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MIT upgrades human hand with two extra robot fingers. But why stop there?
2014-07-18 17:00:04| Extremetech
While the human hand, with four fingers and opposable thumb, is pretty darn awesome, it still falls woefully short when it comes to some tasks -- such as opening a soda bottle or peeling a banana. MIT, which is obviously a firm believer that we can and should enhance humans as far as physically possible, has a solution: a wrist-mounted robot that gives you two extra fingers. With the so-called "7 Finger Robot" equipped, you can both grasp a soda bottle and turn the cap at the same time. According to the MIT engineer who led the project, Harry Asada, some users might even begin to perceive the robotic helping fingers as part of their body -- like a tool you have been using for a long time, you feel the robot as an extension of your hand.
Biotech Showcasea Program Speakers Have Their Fingers on the Pulse of Biotech
2013-12-18 22:19:56| Biotech - Topix.net
Biotech Showcasea investor and partnering conference returns to San Francisco for the sixth year.
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Ontario Teachers fund acquiring Burton's Biscuit Co., maker of Cadbury Fingers
2013-11-18 18:37:53| Grocery - Topix.net
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Burton's Biscuit Co., a U.K. company with about 2,000 employees The sellers include Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and funds managed by Apollo Global Management, LLC .
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