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10-man S. Korea lose to Indonesia to miss out on Paris Olympic football qualification
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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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First-ever meeting of president, opposition chief set to finally happen
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NewJeans' singles, Japanese debut to proceed as planned, despite Hybe-Ador feud
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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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Experts raise concerns about Japan putting pressure on Naver over Line
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Samsung mobile chief, Google device head meet in Seoul
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Ship linked to NK arms shipments to Russia is moored in China: State Dept.
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U.S. tech firm introduces dynamic keyboard for touch device
Tactus Technology unveiled a touch screen with buttons that rise up from the surface on demand at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.The California-based company called the technology a “tactile user interface.” It features a convex keyboard that sits on top of the existing touch screen, and then recedes back into the screen.The keyboard features a small amount of fluid in a reservoir embedded in the phone or tablet. The company’s official website said that the buttons’ layout and shape
Jan. 15, 2013
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Apes have a sense of fairness: report
A study has found that Chimpanzees have a sense of fairness, which had long been regarded as unique to humans.Researchers at the Yerks National Primate Research Center in Emory University conducted research to find out if chimpanzees have a human-like sense of equality. The researchers tested six apes on the Ultimate Game. In the game, two players are rewarded with a small prize only if one individual agrees to split the prize. Adult humans most often offer a suggestion that equally benefits bot
Jan. 15, 2013
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Child obesity linked to fat parents: report
Children with fat parents or in poor families are at higher risk for becoming obese, according to a report released Monday.Researchers at Inje University Paik Hospital said children who have a higher body mass index tend to have parents with a higher BMI than average. Korean adults who have a BMI of 25 or higher are classified as obese.The team led by professor Kang Jae-heon at Department of Family Medicine studied 1,502 elementary students for the past two years to find major factors that incre
Jan. 14, 2013
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Scientists find new properties in physical transition
A group of South Korean scientists, together with German researchers, have discovered new properties of transition from quantum to classical physics that may help build an entirely different kind of quantum computers, the government said Monday.In their paper, titled “Non-monotonic quantum-to-classical transition in multiparticle interference,” the scientists claimed to have theoretically and experimentally proved that the long-believed monotonicity of the quantum-to-classical transition is, in
Jan. 14, 2013
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Prosecutors seek fines for 4 owners of retail giants
Prosecutors said Monday they have asked for summary judgments and sought fines against four heads of the country’s major retail conglomerates on charges of not attending parliamentary audits.The four are Chung Yong-jin, vice chairman of Shinsegae Group; Shin Dong-bin, chairman of Lotte Group; Chong Ji-sun, chairman of Hyundai Department Store Co.; and Chung Yu-kyung, vice president of Shinsegae Department Store, according to prosecutors.They are accused of not responding to the government’s call
Jan. 14, 2013
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Empty praise can harm children: psychologist
Excessively complimenting children can harm their confidence, a U.S. psychologist claimed.Stephen Grosz, who teaches psychoanalytic theory at University College London, alleged that parents may be putting their children’s confidence at risk by bombarding them with “empty” compliments, such as “You really are an artist,” or “You’re so clever.”“Empty praise is as bad as thoughtless criticism -- it expresses indifference to the child’s feelings and thoughts,” Grosz was quoted by the Daily Mail as s
Jan. 14, 2013
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Urgent CO2 cuts may spare millions hardship: report
Tens of millions of people may be spared droughts and floods by 2050 if Earth-warming carbon emissions peak in 2016 rather than 2030, scientists said on Sunday.Climate researchers in Britain and Germany said emission cuts now would delay some crippling impacts by decades and prevent some altogether.By 2050, an Earth heading for warming of 2-2.5 degrees Celsius (3.6-4.5 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100 could have two very different faces, depending on the route taken to get there, said their study pub
Jan. 14, 2013
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White House uses humor to kill 'Death Star' petition
With the U.S. national debt standing at more than $16 trillion, the White House says it absolutely cannot spend $850 quadrillion on a "Star Wars"-inspired "Death Star" super-weapon.Sensing a chance to show off its lighter side, the Obama administration paid tribute to legions of "Star Wars" fans with its playful rejection of the "Death Star" proposal submitted on its "We the People" petitions website."The administration does not support blowing up planets," wrote Paul Shawcross, an adviser on sc
Jan. 14, 2013
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MUFON investigating flying saucer in Texas
A photograph of an alleged flying saucer hovering over a Texas oil field that surfaced on the Internet may be authentic, a UFO investigator says.The photo, which has a July 5 time stamp, appeared on the Mutual UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) Network website last week and was allegedly taken by a security camera at an oil drilling site in Eagle Ford, the San Antonio (Texas) Express-News reported.Charles Stansburge, a veteran MUFON investigator, said the photo has passed two authenticity tests."I
Jan. 14, 2013
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[Newsmaker] Tragic death of online activist Aaron Swartz
A dreadful, if not downright scary, scenario is the end of free content on the Internet. What if you had to pay a fee for each and every piece of digital content you browsed on the Web? What if there were no Wikipedia, and no free news feeds from tens of thousands of media outlets? Aaron Swartz, a pioneering programmer, envisioned a cyberspace where online content is freely available. But before his vision was realized in full, he tragically ended his life at the age of 26, U.S. authorities conf
Jan. 13, 2013
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S. Korea expected to launch space rocket on Jan. 25
South Korea is expected to try again to launch its space rocket later this month after successfully conducting experiments to check if all systems are working properly, a government source said Sunday. The official said South Korean and Russian researchers are expected to discuss results of repairs made to the rocket late last year and touch on the present state of the Naro-1 rocket. He added Seoul successfully carried out combustion tests on the kick motor on the locally built second stage
Jan. 13, 2013
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Global handset shipments top 1.74 billion in 2012
Worldwide sales of mobile phones, including smartphones and feature phones, reached 1.74 billion last year, growing 1.8 percent from the previous year, data showed Sunday.The on-year growth was attributed to robust demand for some of the latest models in the smartphone market, such as Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2 phones as well as Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5, according to the data by Strategy Analytics.Strong shipments of the Samsung and Apple phones, combined with seasonal de
Jan. 13, 2013
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LINE eyes 100 million users
NHN Japan, a subsidiary of South Korea's top portal operator NHN Corp., is likely to see the number of its "LINE" messenger users break the 100 million mark this week, sources said Sunday. LINE, launched in June 2011, is the company's free group messenger application that runs on the Android, Blackberry and iOS operating systems. The service, which has been launched in roughly 230 countries, has ranked No. 1 in downloads on Google Play and App Store platforms in 41 countries. After garne
Jan. 13, 2013
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Gov't to conduct detailed safety tests on Gori, Wolsong reactors
The government plans to conduct detailed safety tests on two nuclear reactors that have exceeded their original operating life cycles to ensure no problems occur, an official said Sunday. The official, who declined to be identified, said the Nuclear Safety Commission will include plans to conduct so-called stress tests on the Gori 1 and Wolsong 1 reactors in a report to President-elect Park Geun-hye's transition committee. A stress test refers to a series of experiments that push the reactors
Jan. 13, 2013
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Samsung teams up with Japan firms for memory tech
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chip and smartphone maker, said Friday it has set up a joint venture in the United States with Japanese tech giants as they move to develop new memory technologies.Samsung, Panasonic Corp., Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. launched “Next Generation Secure Memory” earlier this month to collaborate on a new content protection technology for flash memory cards that are used in mobile devices.The four participants respectively own 25-percent stakes in the
Jan. 11, 2013
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Korea’s economic freedom ranking falls: report
NEW YORK (Yonhap News) ― The world ranking of South Korea’s economic freedom dropped by three notches this year, an international report said Thursday, citing the country’s corruption problems as hurting “equity” and “trust” in the government.According to the report jointly compiled by the U.S. think tank Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal, South Korea came in 34th out of 177 countries in terms of economic freedom, down from 31st last year. It also ranked 8th out of 41 Asia-Pacific
Jan. 11, 2013
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Moons outside the solar system may have habitable zones
Even exoplanets, where living creatures cannot exist, still have possibility to host exomoons with habitable zones, U.S. scientists said. An exoplanet is one that orbits a star other than the sun.Astronomers have long researched exoplanets to discover an environment that can support life. However, most of them are of gaseous form and only a few have a solid surface on which living creatures can survive.Rory Barnes of the University of Washington and the NASA Astrobiology Institute said in a stat
Jan. 11, 2013
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Antarctic lake reached after millennia
Russian researchers say they've obtained the first sample of transparent ice from the water of a unique sub-glacial lake in Antarctica.The scientists have drilled into Lake Vostok, sealed for the last 20 million years beneath Antarctica's ice sheet at a depth of 2.3 miles, RIA Novosti reported Thursday.Vostok, the largest of Antarctica's buried network of icebound lakes, may reveal new forms of life and show how life evolved before the ice age, the scientists said."The first core of transparent
Jan. 11, 2013
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Amazon.com ramps up challenge to iTunes music store
Amazon.com on Thursday launched a service that gives compact disk buyers instant copies of music in the Internet “cloud” in a major challenge to Apple‘s iTunes shop.Amazon AutoRip provides free MP3 versions of music on CDs bought from the online retail titan.Copies of tunes are stored in Cloud Player libraries on datacenter servers and can be streamed to an array of Internet-linked devices including smartphones or tablets powered by Android or Apple software and Kindle Fire tablets.“What would y
Jan. 11, 2013
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Device produces 'high-tech bulimia'
A device sucks food out of the stomach after eating so only about a third of the calories are kept in the body, helping in weight loss, its U.S. inventors say.The group of inventors, including the creator of the Segway, said patients eat a meal, wait 20 minutes, then empty 30 percent of their stomach contents into the toilet via a tube -- a small, handheld device, which connects to a skin-port discretely embedded on the outside of the abdomen.Calories not digested are calories not absorbed, whic
Jan. 11, 2013