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Don't tell me this blog got featured on the Google News page. And if it did, why is not there an avalanche of traffic?

Monkey Business

Raw Peanut pods ... Trái đậu Phộng tươi . (Photo credit: Vietnam Plants & America plants)

Is this a good idea?

Scientists Control Monkeys' Brains with Light

optogenetics—a technique by which genetically modified neurons are made to fire with light. ..... These brain circuits control behaviors such as movement and emotion and, when faulty, can lead to diseases ranging from depression to Parkinson's.

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Hello Samsung, Hi Apple

The official online color is: #A4C639 . 한국어: 공식 온라인 색은: #A4C639 . (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This shakes the Android ecosystem. No matter which way it goes.

The Apple-Samsung Trial: What Apple Will Attempt to Prove

Samsung’s infringing sales have enabled Samsung to overtake Apple as the largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world. Samsung has reaped billions of dollars in profits ..... Samsung also flagrantly breached . . . commitments to [license to Apple its standards-essential patents on "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms"]. Samsung made a general FRAND commitment on December 14, 1998 and specific FRAND commitments for the two asserted declared-essential patents on May 16, 2006 and August 7, 2007, respectively. Samsung has breached its FRAND commitments by seeking to enjoin Apple from selling products that support the UMTS standard and by refusing to offer Apple a license to declared-essential patents on FRAND terms.

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Zuck: Innovator?

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This account of rejections is amusing.

Mark Zuckerberg Finally Wins Approval of First Patent Application

The patent office wasn’t impressed with the invention at first, handing Messrs. Zuckerberg and Kelly a series of rejections over the years that complained of vagueness and the obvious nature of the invention. .... The young CEO has been named as an inventor on eight different U.S. patents .... as it wades further into the dangerous world of high-tech patent disputes. .... Facebook said it had 774 U.S. patents and 546 applications as of March.

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