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Hewlett-Packard Splits in 2 (Newser Daily Digest)

Hewlett-Packard Splits in 2

(Newser) - Hewlett-Packard is splitting itself into two companies, one focused on its personal computer and printing business and another on technology services, such as data storage, servers, and software, as it aims to drive stronger profitability. The company says the PC and printer business will use the name HP Inc; Re/code... More »

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Medicine Nobel Goes to 3 Who Discovered 'Brain GPS'

(Newser) - American-British scientist John O'Keefe and Norwegian married couple May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser won the Nobel Prize in medicine today for discovering the brain's positioning system. This "inner GPS" helps explain how the brain creates "a map of the space surrounding us and how we can... More »

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Zoo Spends Years Trying to Mate Male Hyenas

(Newser) - Hyena sexing by sight alone is "very difficult," says a Japanese zoo that spent years trying to mate a pair of males. The Maruyama Zoo in Sapporo says Kami and Kamutori were obtained in a 2010 exchange with a South Korean zoo that said they were a male... More »

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Shipwreck Canada Most Wanted to Find Is Found

(Newser) - One of two ships from Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 Arctic expedition was discovered last month —and Canadian authorities have now confirmed that it was the one they most wanted to find. The well-preserved ship is the HMS Erebus, which was the explorer's flagship and may contain... More »

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'Cloud Atlas' May Get Rare New Addition

(Newser) - It's not often that a brand-"new" cloud comes along; in fact, none have been added to the International Cloud Atlas, maintained by the World Meteorological Organization, since 1951. But a cloud activist is pushing to change that, Popular Science reports. Gavin Pretor-Pinney wants to get a cloud dubbed... More »

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Taliban Suffers Tweet-Fail, Blames 'Enemy Plot'

(Newser) - The perils of modern technology can prove too great even for one of the world's leading terrorist organizations: The Taliban's spokesman in Afghanistan, Zabihullah Mujahid, was busily tweeting about an attack on Friday when he suffered an apparent tweet-fail: The tweet contained geolocation data indicating that he was... More »

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HIV Pandemic Traced to 1920s African Metropolis

(Newser) - More than half a century before AIDS even had a name, the HIV virus was already spreading across Africa via the city now known as Kinshasa, researchers say. In the 1920s, the city was Leopoldville, capital of the Belgian Congo, and scientists say a "perfect storm" of conditions caused... More »

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