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Coming soon: PCs based on young users’ dreams

Coming soon: PCs based on young users’ dreamsLondon, November 3: Intel and ASUS are urging people to dream about and tell them what do they want in an ideal computer so that they could design PCs in accordance with the user community’s desires.

The companies have created a website, WePC. com, to enable people to share and comment on ideas to "enable a global conversation about the ideal elements of a PC."

Both companies insist that they are actually committed to building an ideal machine based on their customers’ feedbacks.

Scores dead in flooding, landslides in Central America

Scores dead in flooding, landslides in Central AmericaTegucigalpa, Honduras - Weeks of rain have caused the deaths of nearly 50 people and left more than 20 missing in Honduras and killed dozens more in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, officials said.

Most of the victims were buried in landslides and drowned in rivers that overflowed their banks, authorities said Sunday.

In Honduras, 100,000 people were affected by flooding while the emergency services agency estimated damage to highways, bridges, crops and houses at 150 million dollars.

Nanoscale device may revolutionise spin electronics

Washington, November 3: An Indian-origin scientist’s research team at Boston University has joined forces with collaborators from Germany, France and Korea to create a nanoscale torsion resonator f

Caesar’s British landing site confirmed to be near the northeast

Caesar’s British landing site confirmed to be near the northeastWashington, Nov 3: Scientists have pinned down the British landing site of Roman emperor Julius Caesar as near the northeastwards.

When Julius Caesar arrived off the coast of Britain with his hundred-ship force in August, 55 B. C., he was greeted by a host of defenders poised to hurl spears down on his invading army from the towering Dover cliffs.

Seeking a better landing site, he sailed on a strong afternoon current and landed his troops at a beach seven miles away, according to his own account.

Bacteria can directly cause blood clotting

Bacteria can directly cause blood clottingLondon, November 3: An international research team has found that bacteria can directly cause human blood and plasma to clot, something that has long been thought to have been lost during the course of vertebrate evolution.

The researchers believe that their new findings may help advance scientists’ understanding of coagulation during bacterial infections, which in turn may pave the way for new clinical methods for treating serious medical conditions like sepsis and anthrax.

Novel approach can strengthen immune system against childhood cancer

Novel approach can strengthen immune system against childhood cancerLondon, November 3: A team of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital has found that the ability of the immune system cells called T-lymphocytes to fight childhood cancer neuroblastoma can be improved with the aid of an artificial tumour-specific receptor.

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