Bears at Play, Key for Survival Hungry wild polar bear prefers playing with a chained sled dog to eating it. It sounds like a paradox. How could play — defined as “apparently purposeless activity that’s fun to do and pleasurable” — be vital for grim survival in such an often random...
  Fresh iPhone Apps for Feb. 7: Hotels by Orbitz, TripLingo Romance Edition, The Hacker, Dream Pethouse
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Appolicious - Get ready for your next trip with today’s leading fresh app, Hotels by Orbitz, which leverages the popular travel service to help you find hotel accommodations. If you happen to be planning a trip overseas, then our next app, TripLingo Romance Edition, which can teach you flirty phrases in 10 languages, might come in handy as well. In games, The Hacker will give you something of the experience of hacking into a 1980s-style computer, while Dream Pethouse brings you a casual game experience where you’ll raise pets and build them a giant tree house. Watch: CES in 60 Seconds: Samsung Super OLED Televisions Samsung displays ultra thin TV sets with voice controls and a video camera.
  Water World: New 'Super-Earth' Found Scientists report they have found an exoplanet -- a world orbiting a distant star, 22 light-years away -- that they call the best candidate yet to be the right temperature for liquid water and, perhaps, life. It is labeled GJ 667Cc, and it is located in the constellation Scorpio.
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  Liquid glasses and a new smartphone app could bring perfect vision to the third world
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Yahoo! News - The need is compelling: Over 1 billion people in the third world need corrective eyewear but lack access to testing and glasses. The solution is spectacularly innovative: A $2 scope attached to a smartphone tests for vision defects, and a new pair of …
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