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Researchers planted a working hacker exploit in a physical strand of DNA.
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By Sam Nussey and Maki Shiraki TOKYO (Reuters) - Mazda Motor Corp said it would become the world's first automaker to commercialize a much more efficient petrol engine using technology that deep-pocketed rivals have been trying to engineer for decades, a twist in an industry increasingly going electric. The new compression ignition engine is 20 percent to 30 percent more fuel efficient than the
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Between the 1980s and the 2000s, the largest ever positive labour supply shock occurred, resulting from demographic trends and from the inclusion of China and eastern Europe into the World Trade Organization. This led to a shift in manufacturing to Asia, especially China; a stagnation in real wages; a collapse in the power of private sector ...
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If you’ve ever played around with an augmented-reality app like Pokémon Go on a smartphone, you know that even though it can be fun, the virtual images you see through the eye of your phone’s display often don’t look quite right against the real world in the background. Part of the problem is that…
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