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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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S. Korea calls on Japan to confront history amid Yasukuni Shrine visit
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Yoon’s jailed mother-in-law excluded from latest parole list
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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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Hybe and Min Hee-jin, CEO of Hybe sublabel Ador, lock horns
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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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[Pressure points] Leggings in public: Fashion statement or social faux pas?
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Nicaragua shuts down Seoul embassy
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Rocket engine expert, ex-NASA exec to lead Korea's new space agency
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‘Economy’ of on-line game resembles real-life
Malicious rumors have caused the cost of materials to skyrocket and momentarily frozen the markets. Some materials are 100 times more expensive than they were a few months ago.This is not happening in Zimbabwe, where hyperinflation has run rampant, but in popular online games in Korea.Real-money trading in South Korea took off in the late 1990s with online game Lineage. Ten years later, the practice is firmly set among Korean gamers.The phenomenon is particularly noticeable in Blizzard Entertain
July 19, 2012
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Exoplanet smaller than Earth discovered
Astronomers say a planet two-thirds the size of Earth and 33 light-years away may be the nearest world to our solar system smaller than our home planet.Only a handful of exoplanets smaller than Earth have been found beyond the sun so far, astronomers said, and UCF-1.01 is the first ever identified with the Spitzer space telescope -- pointing to a possible role for the orbiting astronomy platform in helping discover potentially habitable, terrestrial-sized worlds -- NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laborato
July 19, 2012
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Rare stellar magnetic ‘monster’ discovered
A fleet of X-ray telescopes in space has identified a rare breed of dead, spinning star that may be a pulsar or a magnetar, European astronomers say.Magnetars are a type of neutron star, the dead cores of massive stars that collapse in on themselves after burning up all their fuel and explode as dramatic supernovas, showing persistent X-ray emissions and the most intense magnetic fields known in t
July 19, 2012
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Microsoft: Windows 8 will go on sale Oct. 26
Microsoft says Windows 8 will go on sale Oct. 26. The upgrade to its operating system is designed to work better with touch screens and on tablet computers.Microsoft announced the date in a blog post and at its annual sales meeting Wednesday. The software company had said earlier that Windows 8 would go on sale in October.Microsoft is releasing the software as a downloadable upgrade that day for P
July 19, 2012
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Japan nuclear plant may be on fault
One of Japan's nuclear reactors may be sitting on an active geological fault at high risk of earthquake damage, the country's nuclear watchdog said Wednesday.Officials said the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency plans a survey at the Shika complex in Ishikawa prefecture, The Yomiuri Shimbun reported. Its operator, Hokuriku Electric, could be forced to find alternative sources of electricity for
July 19, 2012
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Apple must publish notice Samsung didn’t copy iPad in U.K.
Apple Inc. was ordered by a judge to publish a notice on its U.K. website and in British newspapers alerting people to a ruling that Samsung Electronics Co. didn’t copy designs for the iPad.The notice should outline the July 9 London court decision that Samsung’s Galaxy tablets don’t infringe Apple’s registered designs, Judge Colin Birss said yesterday. It should be posted on Apple’s U.K. home page for six months and published in several newspapers and magazines to correct any impression the Sou
July 19, 2012
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Lack of exercise hurts as much as smoking
A lack of exercise causes 1-in-10 deaths worldwide -- comparable to the negative impact of smoking, researchers say.The global study, published in The Lancet, found around 3-of-10 adults worldwide do not meet the recommended amounts of weekly activity -- 15-30 minutes a day of brisk walking.Within Europe, Malta was the most inactive -- 71 percent did no exercise -- followed by 68 percent in Serbia
July 19, 2012
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LG Uplus’ cloud platform for games
LG Uplus, the smallest of Korea’s telecom companies, has launched a cloud platform where users can access games that can be played on personal computers and smartphones.In a media presentation on Wednesday, LG Uplus vice president Chun Byung-wook unveiled the “C-Games” cloud platform with its strategic partners ― Korea Game Developers Association, Ubitus, a Taiwan-based software developer for cloud platforms, and Nvidia, a U.S. graphic processors developer. This marks the first time for a Korean
July 18, 2012
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Super-efficient toilets propel high technology down the drain
SAN JOSE, California ― It’s one of the most critical pieces of technology in your home. And though most consumers don’t think of their humble toilet as a tech product, researchers and engineers at global companies like Caroma and Toto are racing to improve designs so toilets consume far less water.Recent droughts, a growing global population and concerns about the impact of climate change on the world’s water resources have led to a surge of interest in water conservation as well as efforts to “
July 18, 2012
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SKT introduces billing app for smartphones
SK Telecom, Korea’s biggest mobile carrier, said Wednesday that it has launched an application where users can receive their bills and pay them through smartphones.The application named “Smartphone Billing & Payment Platform” can be downloaded by any smartphone users at SK Telecom’s T Store, Google’s Android or Apple’s App Store.With the app, users can not only pay their telephone bills, but also property and other taxes to regional government offices.The development of the app was part of effor
July 18, 2012
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New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has huge task ahead
SAN JOSE, California ― She was accepted to all 10 colleges she applied to. With 14 job offers in hand upon graduation, she had a data-crunching economist help her with the winnowing. And when she went house hunting, Marissa Mayer settled on a Palo Alto, California, Craftsman ― after first looking at more than 100 properties.Then there’s her thing with cupcakes. The former Google Inc. superstar and now Yahoo Inc. CEO once deconstructed them right down to the paper linings: “You’ve got to go with
July 18, 2012
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KCC plan does little to calm net neutrality debate
State telecom regulator releases plan that would allow operators to limit accessNetwork neutrality has become the center of debate in Korea as the state telecom regulator last Friday released its draft plan on how to use and control communication networks.While the plan itself did not satisfy any of those involved in the debate, many say the Korea Communications Commission has given the upper hand to the country’s three telecom operators.Network neutrality refers to the principle that the Intern
July 18, 2012
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Glacier calves Manhattan-sized iceberg
(Yonhap News)An island of ice twice the size of Manhattan broke off from Greenland‘s largest glaciers Monday, a U.S. researcher reports.University of Delaware ocean scientist Andread Muenchow blogged the “calving”from the Petermann Glacier, one of the two largest glaciers left in Greenland connecting the great Greenland ice sheet with the ocean via a floating ice shelf.Muenchow, who credits the Ca
July 18, 2012
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Miracle? Dog gives birth to ‘cat’
A man claimed that his dog gave birth to what looks like a kitten, Yonhap News reported Wednesday.Jeong Pyong-bong, a 63-year-old man from South Jeolla Province said that his dog gave birth to what looks and sounds like a baby cat. “It is unbelievable,” said Jeong. “People from all over the town are coming over after hearing the news.”He said the mother dog seems to have gotten pregnant after wondering around the town since last May.However experts said it is theoretically “impossible for a do
July 18, 2012
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World’s lightest material is created
German researchers say they’ve created the lightest material in the world, a network of porous carbon tubes they’ve dubbed “Aerographite.”Scientists of Kiel University and Hamburg University of Technology said the tubes, three-dimensionally interwoven at the nano and micro level, create a material that weighs just 0.2 milligrams per cubic centimeter -- which means ordinary Styrofoam is almost 400 times heavier.“Our work is causing great discussions in the scientific community. Aerographite weigh
July 18, 2012
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6-foot lizard loose in Colorado
This photo is not directly related to this article(Bloomberg)A six-foot-long(1.88 meter) Nile monitor lizard escaped its enclosure and was on the loose in Teller County, Colo., police said Tuesday.Emergency notifications went out to residents in the Woodland West, Westwood Lakes and Rosewood Hills subdivisions between the Colorado communities of Divide and Woodland Park that care needs to be exerc
July 18, 2012
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SK Telecom shares LTE network expertise with Taiwan Mobile
SK Telecom said that executives from Taiwan Mobile visited the Korean company on Tuesday to benchmark its operation of Long Term Evolution technology.Three Taiwan Mobile executives, including chief technology officer Tom Koh, paid a visit to learn not only of SK Telecom’s LTE infrastructure and services, but also its smart learning, e-healthcare and security businesses. The visit came after the two sides signed a memorandum of understanding to form a strategic alliance in telecommunication conve
July 17, 2012
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To lose weight, keep a food journal
Women who want to lose weight should faithfully keep a food journal and avoid skipping meals and eating in restaurants, U.S. researchers advise.Dr. Anne McTiernan and colleagues at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle said study participants were given the following tips for keeping a food journal: -- Be honest, record everything you eat. -- Be accurate, measure portions, read lab
July 17, 2012
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S. Korea rolls back decision to resume scientific whaling
South Korea has decided to scrap its plan to resume whaling for scientific research, a senior government official said Tuesday, after the move sparked international criticism.Earlier this month, South Korea notified the International Whaling Commission that it planned to lift an all-out whaling ban and start catching the animal for scientific purposes only in immediate waters surrounding the Korea
July 17, 2012
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Women smarter than men in developed world
A study has found women in the developed world score higher than men in IQ tests, a researcher in New Zealand said.Women were as much as 5 points behind men when IQ testing began a century ago, but then gap -- which led some psychologists to propose a theory that women‘s brains are genetically inferior to men’s -- has been narrowing in recent years and this year women moved ahead, The Australian r
July 17, 2012