Stem cell therapy restores British man’s eyesight Russell Turnbull, now 38, lost almost all the sight in his right eye after trying to break up a fight and being sprayed with ammonia 15 years ago. The result for him was what’s known as Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency, which caused him great pain, the need...
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Dell Mini 9 suffers meltdown, scorches owner’s floor While this isn’t quite bad enough to merit a ‘dude, your Dell is on fire’ part deux, it’s a pretty frightful example of the hazard modern batteries (of any kind) represent. A Consumerist reader reports that her year-old Dell Mini 9 recently popped, ‘hissed and sizzled’...
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Aquisition Company Date Amount On2 Flix Cloud August 2009 $106.5M TNC September 2008 Omnisio July 2008 $15M ZAO Begun July 2008 $140M DoubleClick March 2008 $3.1B Jaiku October 2007 $12M Zingku September 2007 Image America July 2007 Postini July 2007 $625M GrandCentral July 2007 $45M PeakStream June 2007 $20.3M Zenter June 2007 FeedBurner June...
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Nasal swine flu vaccine recalled over potency (AP) AP – Drugmaker MedImmune is recalling nearly 5 million doses of swine flu vaccine because the nasal spray appears to lose strength over time, federal health officials announced Tuesday. http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/vaccination/sprayrecall_qa.htm?s_cid=tw_flu84 Voluntary Non-Safety-Related Recall of Specific Lots of Nasal Spray Vaccine for 2009 H1N1 Influenza December 22,...
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REPORT: Track-focused, budget-oriented Toyota FT-86 on the way Filed under: Motorsports, Coupe, Hybrid, Performance, Europe, Japan, Hatchback, Honda, Toyota Toyota FT-86 Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery The latest issue of EVO hasn’t dropped into our laps yet, but our favorite Brit pub apparently got the scoop on another variant of the...
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VIDEO: New spots from Ken Block prove he’s got more skills, better drugs Filed under: Videos Click above to have your mind blown after the jump The Ken Block/DC Shoes marketing machine shows no signs of slowing as we drift bass-ackwards into 2010, and to close out the year, Block and his crew have...
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More details on rumored 2013 Nissan GT-R hybrid Filed under: Hybrid, Geneva Motor Show, Nissan 2010 Nissan GT-R – Click above for high-res image gallery If we told you there was a variant of the iconic Nissan GT-R putting out around 600 horsepower, gobs of weight-saving technology and fuel economy that can hit 25-30...
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An Eerie Video Tour of the World’s Largest, Deadest Shopping Mall South China Mall, built in Dongguan and more than twice as large as Minnesota’s Mall of America, was completed in 2005. Today, it sits almost completely empty. It is, by any account, the world’s largest ghost mall. It’s not hard to guess...
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Hello Kitty gets another 12.1 meowgapixel camera to celebrate her 35th anniversary Can you believe that Hello Kitty‘s turning 35? She sure does look great for her age! Surprisingly this is not the first 12.1 megapixeled Casio digicam we’ve seen outed to commemorate this most special of occasions — but it certainly comes in...
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Art Lebedev introduces ‘Fleximus’ camera concept Well, it looks like Art Lebedev has more than the rather ingenious Transparentius concept in store for us today — it’s also introduced this so-called Fleximus concept for a flexible digital camera. Not exactly anything new there, per se, but Art Lebedev seems to be pitching this one...
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