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http://news.yahoo.com/digital-lollip...130503126.html

Digital 'Lollipop' Will Zap Tongue With Flavor

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I guess that could work if you just wanted a generic sweet "flavor". Most of your sense of taste comes from your sense of smell, though. So I don't think electrical stimulation of the tongue alone could possibly make you taste a specific flavor, like cherry, or peppermint.

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...185940542.html

No special characters required: Password app uses facial recognition

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personally, I think this is a BAD thing: http://news.yahoo.com/us-eyes-phase-...023742404.html

US eyes phase-out of old telephone network

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http://gma.yahoo.com/scientists-aggr...ws-health.html

Scientists Find Aggressive New HIV Strain

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personally, I think this is a BAD thing: http://news.yahoo.com/us-eyes-phase-...023742404.html

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I'd say it will be bad if it is handled badly. The fact of the matter is that there are still a lot of people in this country for whom the old-style phone service is their only realistic option. Any attempt to switch will be dependent on putting the infrastructure in place so that the new system will cover the same areas at roughly the same price.

As it stands, plenty of people live in areas where broadband or wireless are simply not an option for phone service. And others live in areas where it IS technically an option, but is much more expensive/less reliable. You can't make a mandatory switch until such time as those problems are addressed.

You can't hold up progress just because some might not want or be comfortable with the change, but if a substantial number CAN'T make the change, or can't AFFORD to make the change, and the thing you are talking about is something that has become as integral to our society as the ability to easily communicate via telephone, then you would be unwise to force it before those issues are addressed.

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http://news.yahoo.com/york-lawsuit-s...204901200.html

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Wrong link for the HIV article. That one is about granting legal personhood to chimpanzees.

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D'OH!! thnx for the notice....




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http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoram...170034388.html

Nissan Leaf owner arrested for taking 5 cents of energy without asking

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hrrrrrmmmmm.......Death Star? Apokolips?? Ego??? MOGO?!?? http://www.scienceworldreport.com/ar...t-shouldnt.htm

Astronomers Discover Giant Alien Planet That Shouldn't Be There

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http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle...UXJ/story.html

HIV virus returns after cure hope rose

2 Boston patients had transplants of marrow, halted powerful drugs

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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/sma...ry?id=21178160

Smarty Ring: For People Married to Their Smartphones

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...usaolp00000592

Is The Universe A Hologram? Physicists Say It's Possible

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Boy is THAT a misleading title. Unless I'm just misunderstanding the article. Which is possible. Quantum Physics and String Theory are a little too brain-twisty for me. It SEEMED like they were saying that the universe can be mathematically modeled in some way as a much simpler universe without gravity, and that doing so allows for you to solve certain problems that you couldn't decipher in the more complex universe. I don't THINK it was intending to say that, in actuality, the universe IS really just that simpler version, and the more complex version we perceive is just a "holographic" projection.

I could be wrong, though.

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http://www.androidheadlines.com/2013...christmas.html

OPPO N1 CyanogenMod Edition to go on Sale Just Before Christmas

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