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The e-commerce giant secretly bought the Siri-like speech recognition start-up in September. Let the yapping begin: Amazon.com quietly has acquired a Siri-like speech recognition start-up called Yap. The e-commerce giant apparently bought the Charlotte-based company in September, but neither company made a public announcement–Amazon's foray into voice control a la Apple's Siri was uncovered by The Atlantic 's discovery of an SEC filing .

Researchers say it may be unfair to make gravely ill alcoholics wait six months for new livers, but others disagree

Scientists uncovered malaria's "Achille's heel," to block disease from entering blood cells

Think you know what that person is saying? Don't be so sure

%excerpt% See the original post here: Erase those laugh lines — with your own skin cells

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Bees thrum among bright red blossoms on a spring day on Mount Diablo, near San Francisco Bay.

The lethal fault cuts through the middle of a Tennessee bean field and then ducks beneath the Mississippi River, making a beeline for New Madrid , Missouri. Named the Reelfoot fault, this geological crack combined with neighbouring faults two centuries ago to unleash a series of devastating earthquakes that have been called the biggest to strike the contiguous United States in recorded history.

It is one of the most serious allegations that could be made about a doctor: manipulating patients' histories to make money. So it is no wonder that the charges, levied by editors of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in January against medical researcher Andrew Wakefield, are still getting close scrutiny. Now an American whistleblower advocacy group has joined the fray over Wakefield, who in 1998 hypothesized a link, now scientifically disproven, between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) and autism

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Rattus rattus, via alexfiles on Flickr (click image) It seems that everywhere you find a group of humans, you’ll find a clan of rats hiding in the shadows. This history seems born out of opportunity for the rat, but we’ve done our part to help them get around the world rather easily.

These nine ads were blasted--and eventually pulled by their creators--for being racist, misogynistic, insensitive, or lewd. But how bad are they, really? Are they offensive, or have we lost our sense of humor

These nine ads were blasted--and eventually pulled by their creators--for being racist, misogynistic, insensitive, or lewd. But how bad are they, really? Are they offensive, or have we lost our sense of humor?