Wal-Mart offers video streaming on website
Movies are available at Walmart.com to rent for $1 to $5.99 or to purchase for $4.99 and up.
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New test for fake Scotch whisky
A new method for detecting bootleg Scotch whisky could help safeguard one of the country's most important industries, it is claimed.
6 hours ago from BBC News
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Novel gene increases yeast's appetite for plant sugars
For thousands of years, bakers and brewers have relied on yeast to convert sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Yet, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers eager to harness this talent ...
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AOL sales head exits in management reorganization
(AP) -- AOL Inc.'s heads of online ad sales and corporate communications are leaving as part of the Internet company's latest management reorganization.
8 hours ago from PhysOrg
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Study exposes habit formation in smartphone users
Popular media has raised the issue of repetitive and obsessive use of smartphones. Data collected in Finland and in USA presents the first scientific evidence for what the authors dubbed "checking ...
Mon 25 Jul 11 from PhysOrg
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War of words: A look at media and for-profit colleges
Views on the role of for-profit colleges have been varied, opposing and very public. This debate had played out primarily in the media, and those sentiments were researched and analyzed in SAGE ...
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Microsoft apologizes for Winehouse tweet
Microsoft on Monday apologized for a "tweet" that has been blasted for seeming like a blatant effort to cash in on the death of 27-year-old British singer Amy Winehouse.
7 hours ago from PhysOrg
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'Exciting' Ice Age rock art find
An archaeologist believes a wall carving found in a south Wales cave could be Britain's oldest example of rock art.
22 hours ago from BBC News
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Cows 'may offer greener fuel key'
A cow's stomach could hold the key to creating more environmentally friendly versions of petrol and diesel, according to Edinburgh scientists.
19 minutes ago from BBC News
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What is war good for? Sparking civilization, suggest archaeology findings from Peru
Warfare, triggered by political conflict between the fifth century B.C. and the first century A.D., likely shaped the development of the first settlement that would classify as a civilization ...
18 hours ago from PhysOrg
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