Saturday, May 25 2013, 03:18 AM

Sci-tech

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In the early days of online streaming media, watching videos and listening to music wasn’t always a fun experience.

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  • WILDLIFE BABYSITTING

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    Mariam, a 16-month-old Sumatran orangutan who was confiscated from an illegal owner a year ago plays around in a tree as her keeper Ayub Damianto watches at an orangutan rehabilitation…

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  • NASA to start long distance repairs on Hubble

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    NASA engineers say they know how to fix the broken Hubble Space Telescope: They have to wake up computer parts that have been sleeping in space for more than 18…

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  • Researchers expect hackers to prey on cell phones

    Some of the most vicious Internet predators are hackers who infect thousands of PCs with special viruses and lash the machines together into "botnets" to pump out spam or attack…

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  • Russian spacecraft docks with orbital station

    A Russian Soyuz craft carrying an American computer game designer and two crewmates docked with the international space station Tuesday.

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  • ZTE vies for top three spot as handset maker

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    Before the mid 1980s, we hardly heard of any reputable telecom equipment coming in from China.

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  • Nokia's E71 smartphone offers more, then some

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    If you ask around for advice on purchasing a new smartphone, people will talk excitedly about the iPhone 3G, BlackBerry Bold, Samsung Omnia, LG KT 610 and perhaps a handful…

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  • Personal Technology: Beware of auto-respond messages

    There are few things more exhilarating, I suspect, than being able to set your email account to respond with an automated message that says: "I'm on holiday. I won't be…

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  • Kenya's elephants send text messages to rangers

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    The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.

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  • Flexible OLEDs could be part of lighting's future

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    OLEDs are beginning to be used in TVs and cell-phone displays, and big names are throwing their weight behind the technology to make it a lighting source as well.

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  • SILICON WARRIORS

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    Remote-controlled two-legged walking robot "Garoo", right, fights with its opponent robot "Tokotokomaru" robot during an exhibition battle match at The Robo _ Japan 2008, one of Japan's largest partner robot…

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