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YouTube’s parent company Google has announced on its blog that automatic captions are to begin to roll out across the site.
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It’s almost as good as going to school in a treehouse. The recently opened Elleray Preparatory School in the Lake District National Park has three class pods standing on stilts connected by a center platform made from recycled materials, such as plastic milk bottles and wood shavings. Nestled amongst the trees, the complex is built to have a low environmental impact and therefore makes excellent use of solar power, rainwater collection, and has an energy-efficient heat pump. Continue reading »

Netbook pioneer Asus has announced a new model with a dual-core processor and Nvidia Ion graphics, a combination that makes it better suited for multimedia than other models. However, with a 12.1in screen, it is somewhat pushing the definition of a netbook. Continue reading »

Algeria qualified for its first World Cup since 1986, beating Egypt 1-0 in a tiebreaker playoff Wednesday night on Antar Yahya’s goal from an acute angle in the 39th minute. Continue reading »

Kuwait Sports Club made history on Tuesday evening after beating Syria’s Al-Karama club 2-1 to clinch the 6th Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup.  Kuwait Sports Club owe their victory to their foreign hire from Oman Ismail Al-Ajmi who scored the second and winning goal with a beautiful header in the dying minutes of the match after the match seemed certain to go into extra time as the stoppage time was being played. Earlier, Hussain Hakim Al Shammari scored the first goal in the first half to give Kuwait Sports Club a 1-0 lead at the end of the half. Al-Karama Club’s Ahmed Adeeb scored the equalizer for his team in the 81st minute to silence the home crowd which had to wait for nearly 12 minutes more before Kuwait scored the winning goal and they erupted in joy.
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With the H1N1 swine-flu vaccine still arriving slowly, some physicians also are raising questions about how it is being delivered. Below are edited excerpts of queries from readers, with answers:
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Google Inc has introduced a new feature that will allow consumers to use its Google Voice service without switching to a special phone number, potentially broadening the appeal of the nascent, and controversial, service.

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The Sharp Corporation has developed a compound solar cell that has achieved a conversion efficiency of 35.8 percent. Developing a new base layer for its triple-junction compound solar cell has improved on Sharp’s previous conversion efficiency by almost four percent. Continue reading »

Since it was founded three years ago, Twitter has quickly grown into a social phenomenon used by presidents and bloggers alike for breaking news, political protests, marketing and personal blogging, offering a unique real-time cross-section of today’s society. In a recent announcement made by Google’s VP of search products and user experience, Melissa Mayer, the search giant said it had reached an agreement with the microblogging service and would soon be able to integrate status updates with its standard search results.

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Plans for Britain’s first coal-fired power station equipped with carbon capture technology have been backed by the European Commission.

The commission has recommended that a plant in Hatfield, near Doncaster, should receive £164m of EU funding. Continue reading »