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Offbeat (04 Apr, 2007)
One dollar salary for Google's founders

The founders of number one search engine Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, in 2006 earned their salaries of just one dollar. The information was provided after the examination of specific documents.

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Technology (03 Sep, 2008)
AI Allows Choppers to Teach Themselves to Fly
A group of computer scientists managed to create an artificial intelligence system that allows robotic helicopters to train themselves to perform complicated maneuvers by watching other helicopters do classy stunts. ...
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Technology (25 Sep, 2008)
Windmills in the Sky Generate More Power
Bryan Roberts, who works as an engineering professor at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, proposed an idea on generating energy from wind. His project is currently developed by Sky WindPower, an American company with headquarters in San-Diego. ...
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Science (03 Oct, 2008)
Dark Matter Prolongs the Life of Stars in the Milky Way?
According to a new study, Milky Way presumably has in its center stars that are able to absorb the mysterious dark matter, thus extending their life by not less than a billion years. ...
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Technology (03 Apr, 2009)
Latest Invention: Robot that Makes Discoveries on Its Own
Scientists managed to create world's first robot that can carry out its own experiments, produce hypotheses as well as make scientific discoveries. Researchers dubbed their latest invention Adam. ...
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Science (24 Jun, 2009)
Why Celebrities Stay Popular Long After Their Talent Had Faded
Latest psychology research, carried out by Nathanael Fast from Stanford University in California and his team, attempted to explain why some celebrities maintain their fame for a long time. ...
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Health & Fitness (21 Mar, 2009)
Is Stress Harmful For The Brain?
In the early 1990's, J. Douglas Bremner and his colleagues from the National Center of Studies Upon Posttraumatic Disturbances have discovered that the volume of the hippocampus is decreased among war veterans, who had suffered from posttraumatic stress. ...
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