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US patent office rejects claims of Apple 'pinch to zoom' patent
This is one of the patents that was involved in the lawsuit that Apple won against Samsung a while back. Can sanity finally be starting to come to patent law?
It's true: all the taken men are best
"A new study provides evidence for what many have long suspected: that single women are much keener on pursuing a man who's already taken than a singleton."
New China law says children 'must visit parents'
"Grown children in China must visit their parents or potentially face fines or jail"
The end of fillings and the dreaded root canal? Scientists say that stem cells could help patients regrow their own teeth
"Japanese scientists have trialled a stem cell treatment for teeth on dogs. The cells regenerated the pulp tissue inside the tooth and completely filled in the dogs’ root canals"