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Vikings try to take Tiree
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The story continues with the Norsemen landing and the ba ...

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Microsoft Excel supports two different date systems: the... and the 1904 date system. This article describes the two... the problems that you may encounter when you use workboo... different date systems.

Retail Price Index Since 1960
Consumer and Retail Price Indices 1996 onwards.
Retail Price Index by month: 1976 - 1995.
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(Large sacks of designer frocks are also gratefully rece ...
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MUMBAI, India - It looks like an iPad, only it's 1/14th ... unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet... which it hopes to bring into production by 2011.
If the government can find a manufacturer, the Linux ope ...

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Tip of the Hat: the Apple Recycler
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It looks like something from the Borg (read, cool), but ...
The Osteoid, created by Turkish student Deniz Karasahin, ...
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Apple’s touch-based devices have changed the way we in... computers entirely, but that hasn’t stopped users from... thinking wistfully of the days when physical keyboards r... Tactus has taken that desire to heart, and the startup‮..
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The Nakajima Laboratory at the University of Electro-Com... Japan has developed a prototype pair of GPS-enabled glas... lights built into the frame to keep you moving in the ri...
The glasses house a microcomputer used to input your fin ...

Thought control: it's the computer world's latest game plan
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... eo game,” he told The Times in an exclusive interview.

TEG is an acronym for ‘thermoelectric generator’. A ...
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Mark Shanley, an Irish graphic designer, turned his favo... feedback comments” into hilarious posters. Now that’... criticism.

Bilinguals get all the perks. Better job prospects, a co... even protection against dementia. Now new research shows... view the world in different ways depending on the specif... are operating in.

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