Tuesday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on February 28, 2006 at 2:26:16 PM
Smaller brands make strides in electronics market. I'll buy if the quality is good.
Check out the pinwheel galaxy. Great picture.
Eat chocolate, halve your risk of dying from heart disease. Real cocoa tastes terrible.
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At a heavily trafficked Costco store in Redwood City, gleaming high-definition TVs from household names like Panasonic, Pioneer and Sony share the shelf space with generally less expensive sets from less familiar Akai and Vizio. At Amazon.com, a 32-inch Olevia flat-panel LCD TV was recently the No. 1 selling TV. The relatively unknown brand consistently ranks in Amazon's top TV vendor list, helped by positive customer reviews, according to Amazon officials.
Check out the pinwheel galaxy. Great picture.
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About 10 years of observations with Hubble, as well as images from powerful ground-based telescopes such as the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii, US, were superimposed to create this image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, or M101.
Eat chocolate, halve your risk of dying from heart disease. Real cocoa tastes terrible.
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“The men in the group that consumed the least cocoa were twice as likely to die from a heart attack than those in the group that consumed the most cocoa - at least 4g per day - and the risk remained lower even when other factors such as smoking, physical exercise and weight were taken into account,” says lead researcher Brian Buijsse, at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment.