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A potential washing machine design uses a combination of air, vapor and microwave rays to clean clothing

Astronauts may have a laundry list of duties while working at the International Space Station (ISS), but laundry certainly isn't one of them.

It's difficult for astronauts who live and work at the ISS to stay fresh and clean. They cannot do laundry, so they're told to wear the same underwear …

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Chrome is the second most used browser behind Internet Explorer globally

The browser wars have raged for years. Generally, the winner in the market has been Internet Explorer thanks to the overwhelming number of computers worldwide that run the Windows operating system (and don’t bother to change their default browser). For a while now the second most popular web browser has been Firefox, but …

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Small update fixes erratic volume behavior on Ice Cream Sandwich device

After a number of European users complained of an erratic volume issue on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the Ice Cream Sandwich-toting Android device is already reportedly receiving a small OTA update to silence the complaints.

According to a post on the XDA Developers forum, the problem of erratic volume-jumping was determined …

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A group of investors led by private- equity firm Silver Lake offered to buy a minority stake in Yahoo! Inc. for about $16.60 a share, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

That was lower than an offer made by private-equity firm TPG Capital, said two of the people, who asked not to be identified because the bids made this week are private. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., aiming to …

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Companies added more workers than anticipated in November, easing concern the job market is stagnating in the third year of the U.S. recovery, according to a private report based on payrolls.

The 206,000 increase was the biggest this year and followed a revised 130,000 gain the prior month, Roseland, New Jersey- based ADP Employer Services said today. The median forecast of economists surveyed …

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The Federal Reserve cut the cost of emergency dollar funding for European banks as part of a globally coordinated central-bank response to the continent’s sovereign-debt crisis.

The interest rate has been reduced to the dollar overnight index swap rate plus 50 basis points, or half a percentage point, from 100 basis points, and the program was extended to Feb. 1, 2013, the Fed said in a …

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After launching Saturday, MSL is in good health and ready to continue its long journey to Mars

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft blasted off towards the Red Planet this past weekend, and a recent signal from the MSL indicated that everything was proceeding as planned.

On November 26, NASA’s MSL, also known as the Curiosity rover, was sent to Mars via the United Launch …

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[left]Company's CFO says new flagship LTE models will launch globally in 2012, restore sales growth

If there's one of the Android superstars that's stumbled in the last few months it's been HTC Corp. (TPE:2498). Globally the Taiwanese phone maker has seen its pattern of quarterly growth come to an end. Indeed, it predicted zero growth in Q4 sales, even as smartphone sales as whole continue to rise …

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Droid 4 is essentially a Droid RAZR, shrunk and with a keyboard offers nice boost over Droid 3 specs

The Droid 4 -- if reports are to be believed -- is almost upon us. Launching on America's largest network, Verizon Wireless -- a joint venture between Verizon Communications, Inc. (VZ) and Vodafone Group Plc. (LON:VOD) -- the product is poised to become the premium Android slider smartphone.

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