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Clicker.com launched a TV Guide for Internet television on Thursday, designed to provide a new way to find everything from old Seinfeld episodes to cooking shows.

Washington, Nov 12 (IANS) If humans are genetically related to chimps, why did our brains develop the innate ability for language and speech while theirs did not?

Matthew Herper, Forbes.com
As a boy growing up in the late 1940s, K. Barry Sharpless fell under the spell of the coelacanth. The lungfish-like creature was believed to have been extinct for 6 million years until researchers pulled one out of the waters off South Africa in 1938. Sharpless fished obsessively in the rivers of his native New Jersey and never found any archeologic creature.

Hong Kong, Nov 12 (DPA) Face-recognition technology might be used to screen the residents at Hong Kong border checkpoints, Security Secretary Ambrose Lee said Thursday.

Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Nov 11 (EFE) Internet users can now take a virtual pilgrimage in Spain thanks to Google's Street View service.

In a bid to source the talent of Indian developers, Facebook held a three-month nationwide contest for the best social networking applications. The Facebook Developer Contest India began in July and the results were presented in two categories ? apps that integrated Facebook Connect and regular applications.

Sydney, Nov 10 (IANS) Children aged nine to 11 prefer being well-liked to being popular, a new study says.

Washington, Nov 10 (IANS) Researchers have discovered ways to create tastier and healthier ice-creams.

London, Nov 10 (IANS) Large blooms of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton are flourishing in areas exposed by the recent and rapid melting of ice shelves and glaciers around the Antarctic Peninsula.

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) Child rights activists and cyber law experts have together demanded a ban on Rapelay -- a Japanese video game that challenges a player to rape women.

Washington, Nov 9 (IANS) Deep under the sea, a sand grain sized fossil nestles among a billion of its closest dead kins. Known as foraminifera, these complex little shells of calcium carbonate can tell you the sea level, temperature, and ocean conditions of Earth millions of years ago -- that is, if you know what to look for.

Washington, Nov 9 (IANS) Calcium and vitamin D supplements can improve bone density during a crucial growth period for young girls.

Toronto, Nov 9 (IANS) Women with heavier busts who have been treated for breast cancer are at higher risk of its recurrence, says a new study.

Karachi, Nov 9 (IANS) The website of the legislative assembly of Pakistan's Sindh province has stopped functioning after United States Agency for International Development (USAID) ended its aid contract, an official said.

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London, November 05 (ANI): People who can't afford sophisticated cell phones have a reason to smile - a new technology will bring internet-based services to the most basic handsets.

Jammu, Nov 5 (IANS) Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah told Home Minister P. Chidambaram to reconsider the continuation of the ban on pre-paid mobile services in Jammu and Kashmir when Chidambaram concluded his day-long visit to the state Wednesday night, officials said.

London, November 5 (ANI): A British newspaper has put together a list of most boring videos on the popular website YouTube.

Melbourne, Nov 4 (ANI): Saving that parting e-mail from your first love in your inbox? Well, chances are, after you pass away, your spouse and the entire family will know about the long held secret.

'Do you blog?' was one of the most happening questions a couple of years back. You were considered cool if you had one, and still cooler if you had one in a regional language! What made blogs happening?