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The centerpiece of the film will be bringing to life the Smithsonian Institution, which houses the world’s largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections, ranging from the plane Amelia Earhart flew on her nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone’s rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy’s ruby [...]
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LOS ANGELES – Fox says it’s renewing “The Simpsons” for another two seasons, which will secure its place as TV’s longest-running prime-time series. Now in its 20th season, “The Simpsons” already had tied record-holder “Gunsmoke.” The Western drama series aired for two decades on CBS before it ended in 1975.
“The Simpsons” will pass that mark [...]
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LOS ANGELES - “American Idol” has selected three more finalists. Allison Iraheta, a 16-year-old high school student from Los Angeles; Kris Allen, a 23-year-old University of Central Arkansas student from Conway, Arkansas; and Adam Lambert, a 26-year-old theater actor from Los Angeles were selected Thursday to advance to the next round of the popular Fox [...]
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The University of Tokyo has developed “reminder robot” prototypes to help elderly people by reminding them of where they have put items or what they have done already.
One robot, “Mamoru,” watches its owner and verbally warns if he or she tries to do the same action twice.
For example, when a man enters a room with [...]
Tags: mamoru, memory, reuters, robot, robot to remind, system to remind, tokyo
A Wall Street tug-of-war ended with stocks down despite reassurance the Federal Reserve was not interested in nationalizing banks.
The Dow dropped 80 points to 7,270. The S&P 500 gave up 8 points to 764. The Nasdaq fell 16 points to 1,425. Crude oil jumped $2.54 a barrel to $42.50. Conway Gittens reports from New York. [...]
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