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Phone Companies Investing in Speech-to-Text and... →

The technology is being built by a small San Francisco startup, Expect Labs, which is announcing strategic investments from the venture capital arms of three weighty backers today: Samsung, Intel, and Telefónica Digital, the business unit the telecom company launched in 2011 to unearth new revenue opportunities. The size of the investments was not disclosed. Expect Labs has attracted attention...

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Rhenium-Impregnated Listeria Bacteria Deliver... →

Pancreatic cancer is deadly because it tends to spread, or metastasise, to other parts of the body before symptoms appear. In previous work in mice,Claudia Gravekamp of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York had shown that weakened listeria bacteria colonise tumour tissue but not healthy tissue. What’s more, the bacteria seem to home in on the metastatic tumours. To take...

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New Trend in Brick-and-Mortar Retail: Line-Busting →

A new term: line-busting, which is the new retail tactic to get store associates to take orders and/or collect payments for goods anywhere on the store floor, using handheld wireless devices, like iPads. This gets the associates out from behind the cash registers and counters, and obsoletes that fixed mode of interaction, making the shopping experience very different. It also can decrease the...

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Genetically Engineered Bugs Make Malaria Drug →

For the first time, researchers have successfully engineered a strain of baker’s yeast capable of spewing out malaria drugs on an industrial scale. The French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi has already begun brewing the microbes and announced plans to generate 70 million doses this year. The advance is the result of a 10-year odyssey in synthetic biology, the wholesale engineering of an organism’s...

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1-4m-5h3rl0ck3d asked: Hey there! I hope this doesn't seem too weird but I'm making a documentary about tumblr for a class I'm taking and I was wondering if you would be interested in being interviewed (via Skype) for the documentary. If you have any questions about it to help you decide, I'd be more than happy to answer :)

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