Check out these new images of Apple Campus 2

Exterior shots of Apple's new Cupertino campus have made the rounds since the project was made public in late 2011. The most popular image shows the circular building, which has been dubbed the "spaceship" campus thanks to its UFO-like shape. A set of newly discovered renderings were spotted in Cupertino's public archives and republished by Wired. The new drawings show off different parts of the campus including the entrance...

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Tailor-made Moto X phones coming to all major US carriers

Motorola will let shoppers on all four big US carriers mint personalized Moto X smartphones, and for just $100. Ending AT&T's exclusivity on custom Moto Xmodels, Motorola will offer personalized versions of its flagship smartphone soon on Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile as well. Better yet, not only does Motorola plan to bring Android 4.4 KitKatto the device in the near future, the Moto X has also dropped to $99.99...

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SCIENCE and RELIGION AGREE! LIFE and Man ARE from CLAY

Topflight boffins say they have discovered that life - or anyway the necessary complex precursor chemicals without which life cannot appear - probably originated in ancient "clay hydrogels". "We propose that in early geological history clay hydrogel provided a confinement function for biomolecules and biochemical reactions," says Dan Luo of Cornell uni in the States. Luo and his colleagues believe that the ancient clay's confinement permitted early amino acids and suchlike to come together and form life, which went on in the end to evolve into...

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Microsoft ships IE11 for Windows 7

Computerworld - Microsoft today released Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) for Windows 7, and announced it would soon start pushing it to customers as an automatic update. Three weeks ago, Microsoft signaled that the debut of the final of IE11 was imminent when it shipped a blocking toolkit for enterprise IT departments who wanted to ban the browser from their desktops. "We will begin automatically updating Windows 7 customers to IE11 in the weeks ahead, starting today with customers running the IE11 Developer and Release Previews,"...

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Speaking more than one language may delay dementia

Speaking more than one language "stimulates your brain all the time," researcher says. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Dementia developed an average of five years later in people who spoke more than one language The effect was seen even in illiterate people, meaning education was not the explanation It's unclear whether learning a second language late in life would help The latest evidence that speaking more than one language is a very good thing...

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