Facebook’s Oculus pushes virtual reality with new gear
by Glenn CHAPMAN SAN JOSE, United States (AFP) -- Facebook on Thursday worked to ramp up enthusiasm for its virtual…
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Global health: longer lives, more lifestyle disease
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) -- Life expectancy worldwide has jumped by a decade since 1980, rising in 2015…
8 years ago
Brazil’s biggest dinosaur found after passing 60 years in cupboard
by Sebastian Smith RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) -- Brazil just found its biggest ever dinosaur -- in a storage…
8 years ago
New York plans new museum for Statue of Liberty visitors
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) -- The 4.3 million annual visitors to the Statue of Liberty -- that most recognizable…
8 years ago
Mini “Pepper” robots start new jobs in Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) -- A shiny new cohort joined the workforce in Taiwan Thursday -- a troop of mini robots…
8 years ago
Google unveils new “pixel” phone
Google makes a new hardware push and attempts to take on apple with their pixel phone, complete with a 12.3…
8 years ago
New York uses recycled toilets to revive oyster reefs
It's an un-wasteful effort to bring back the oyster to the waters of New York. Porcelain from recycled toilets mixed…
8 years ago
Invasive insects cause tens of billions in damage: study
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) -- Invasive insects cause at least $77 billion (69 billion euros) in damage every…
8 years ago
Fast E. coli water detection kit developed
An E. coli detection kit that allows users to detect the deadly disease quickly while at the water source, rather…
8 years ago
Japanese scientist wins Nobel Medicine Prize for work on ‘self-eating’ cells
TOKYO, Japan -- Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for his discovery of how…
8 years ago
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