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Each is printed in its color and positioned on a color wheel. Just looking around, there sure seem to be different regions for different names. We also made a color label explorer, so you can search for different terms and see different parts of the space
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Clearly Facebook is a little tired of beating questionable developer tactics away with a stick. So now they will reward developers who play by the rules and build useful, popular applications, with the ‘Preferred Application Program’
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As usual, Google is at the forefront of, well, everything. But this one is a little surprising: their philanthropic branch, Google.org, is putting $10 million into plug-in electric hybrid research and real-world testing.
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The Associated Press reported that its reporters were able to use an undisclosed method to access private photos on Facebook, Update: Some readers here and on Twitter are telling us that it was a simple URL edit, which no longer works.
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Komatsuya Honten, the Akita-based confectioner that makes them, can’t keep up with demand since a news report about the tasty bugs — made of dark and white chocolate and orange peel
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A military plane carrying officers home from a flight-safety conference crashed in a forested area in northwestern Poland, killing all 20 people on board, the prime minister said early yesterday.
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The mobile site now allows owners of any wireless device that can handle video to view or post clips, just as they would from personal computers, YouTube product manager Hunter Walk said.
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Faced with growing competition from cheaper rivals, Starbucks Corp is selling small cups of drip coffee for US$1 with free refills as part of a test in its hometown. That’s about US$0.50 less than the normal charges for a 2 deciliter cup of joe.
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The online community MySpace is partnering with the BBC to bring some of the British broadcaster’s programs to a worldwide audience in the site’s first global content deal involving a major network.
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Heath Ledger’s shock death caused one of the biggest internet meltdowns since the death of Steve Irwin in 2006. Unique browsers on smh.com.au rose almost 250%, total page impressions jumped 60%, according to Nielsen NetRatings.
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Next week, in Rio, an international meeting will get underway concerning the Internet and its current status. The itinerary for the discussion includes spam, free speech and Internet access costs. However, American dominance in the governing of the Internet is more likely to be the unofficial topic for debate.
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HOW is this for a new conservation mantra? Eat the panda. Let the tiger die out. And let’s admit that species such as the condor have had their day and let them quietly fade away instead of spending limited conservation resources.
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The “super-spike†in oil prices has delighted the big banks and hedge fund traders, but has meant misery at the petrol pumps. “There is definitely no shortage of crude oil. The market is well supplied.†At some stations, the price is £1.09 a litre.
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A walkway lined with sunny windows, left and right, leading from the station to the shopping center has nine overhead, energy-sucking lamps of 300 watts each running its length, burning day and night. That’s another 2,700 watts of waste.
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Typically, an Imax 2D film print costs about $25,000, and a 3-D movie runs to about $45,000 a print. Imax is betting that eliminating film print cost for studios will sharply increase gross margins for an Imax release of a traditional 35mm movie.
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State media also gave a sharply higher figure for the number of people who were detained in connection with the protests, saying 2,927 had been locked up around the country and 468 remained behind bars.
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“The 3 mile cable had been laid because it was commercially worthwhile, he said. Although Mrs Brackpool’s home, one of fourteen in her hamlet” So £40,000 to connect 14 homes is worthwhile, no wonder BT have problems.
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Futatsuryu, as the 57-year-old Tokitsukaze was known in his active days, has now been removed from his post at the Nihon Sumo Kyokai. He is now destined to live out his days haunted by Tokitaizan’s premature passing at age 17.
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