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#Saudi Arabia world’s 2nd most Twitter-happy nation
Saudi Arabia currently ranks second among the world’s fastest growing countries on Twitter, with a 42-percent increase in the number of account holders after Indonesia, which rose to 44 percent...
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#Saudi Arabia world’s 2nd most Twitter-happy nation

Monday 20 May 2013
Saudi Arabia currently ranks second among the world’s fastest growing countries on Twitter, with a 42-percent increase in the number of account holders after Indon
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Samsung announces 5G data breakthrough

Monday 13 May 2013
SEOUL: Samsung Electronics said Monday it had successfully tested super-fast fifth-generation (5G) wireless technology that would eventually allow users to download an entire movie in one second.
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British astronaut ‘Major Tim’ to fly to ISS

Tuesday 21 May 2013
LONDON: A former army helicopter pilot was yesterday named as the first “home-grown” British astronaut to head to the International Space Station.
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AIDS science at 30: ‘Cure’ now part of lexicon

Monday 20 May 2013
Big names in medicine are set to give an upbeat assessment of the war on AIDS tomorrow, 30 years after French researchers identified the virus that causes the disease.
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Google’s wearable Glass gadget: Cool or creepy?

Monday 20 May 2013
Google staged four discussions expounding on the finer points of its “Glass” wearable computer during this week’s developer conference.
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Facebook’s Sandberg: It’s OK for women to cry at work

Sunday 19 May 2013
NEW DELHI: Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said in an interview published yesterday it’s OK for women to cry at work, share emotions and be honest
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Poetry finally joining e-book revolution

Saturday 18 May 2013
Over the past two years, publishers have been steadily filling one of the largest gaps in the e-book catalogue — poetry.
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Mini camera in Illinois offers a bug’s eye view

Friday 17 May 2013
URBANA, Illinois: A tiny new camera developed at an Illinois university is giving researchers a bug’s eye view.
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Mobily denies asking for help to spy on customers

Wednesday 15 May 2013
DUBAI: Telecom operator Mobily denied claims by a software engineer that the company had asked him to build surveillance tools to intercept customers’ messages on Twitter and other services.
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Age and gender? Dutch develop analyzer for Twitter

Wednesday 15 May 2013
Researchers at a Dutch university have developed an online program that is able give the age and gender of users purely based on the content they post on the social network Twitter.
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