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'Welfare robots' to ease burden in greying JapanTokyo (AFP) July 29, 2010 Robotic wheelchairs, mechanical arms and humanoid waiters are among the cutting-edge inventions on show at a robotics fair in Japan, a country whose population is ageing rapidly. To ease the burden in a nation with one of the world's highest life expectancies, engineers have come up with technologies to make life easier for the elderly and disabled, and their caregivers. A new robot wheelchair developed at Saitama University near Tokyo doesn't need to be propelled manually by the user or pushed ... read more |
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College Park, Md. (UPI) Jul 29, 2010 Washington is turning to the Bush tax cuts scheduled to lapse in January. The Bush tax cuts were a huge success and failing to extend those for all Americans - not just families earning less than $250,000 - would be a terrible mistake. Contrary to the propaganda coming out of the White House and the U.S. Treasury, George W. Bush achieved a lot of growth the first seven years of ... more  
Washington (AFP) July 29, 2010YouTube gave its users five more minutes on Thursday, increasing the upload limit for videos to the site to 15 minutes from 10 minutes. Joshua Siegel, a YouTube product manager, said in a blog post that increasing the time limit had been the "number one requested feature" by contributors to the wildly popular video-sharing site. "We've heard you, and today we're pleased to announce that ... more  
Beijing (AFP) July 29, 2010China's commerce ministry has given the green light to plans by Zhejiang Geely Holding to buy Sweden's Volvo Cars from US auto giant Ford, a report said Thursday. The deal was approved on Monday and does not require the backing of any other Chinese government agencies, Dow Jones Newswires reported, quoting an official in the commerce ministry's press section. Geely, which agreed to take ... more |
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China denies forcing foreign firms to transfer technologyBeijing (AFP) July 29, 2010 Beijing on Thursday denied charges by a US business group that its technology transfer rules for foreign firms constitute "theft" on a massive scale, and defended its policies as meeting global rules. "Countries around the world have taken a lot of measures to encourage technology innovation," a commerce ministry official, who declined to be named, told AFP. "The Chinese policies are in line with relevant WTO rules." A US Chamber of Commerce report this week accused China of abusing the allu ... read more |
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