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...Schmidt and Co. have added the best available photo-editing tool. Strategically speaking, you might think of it as a carefully orchestrated effort to gradually sideline Microsoft's lumbering desktop software suite. To that end, Picnik will bolster Google's launch of its new Web-oriented Chrome operating system later this year. "The consumer market is evolving into a model where every useful or interesting application starts with a login to the cloud," says Nat Burgess, president of the Corum Group, an M&A advisory firm, and a member of Picnik's advisory board. (See pictures of China mourning...
...their photos. Because Picnik now enables people to edit photos they have stored through Yahoo! Mail, Flickr, Facebook and other services, Picnik also has info on photo usage all across the Web. Google craves data of that sort, particularly as it prepares to launch its cloud-based Chrome operating system...
...finding was confirmed when the team transferred the bacterial gut population from TLR5-deficient mice into animals that were specially bred to have no immune system, making them incapable of rejecting foreign cells and bacteria. When these animals received the teeming gut world of the TLR5-deficient mice, they too began eating more and developed the same metabolic-syndrome symptoms that their donors had. In other words, the obesity profile of the heavier mice had been transferred to normal mice. "So, applying the logic to humans," says Gewirtz, "we know that to gain weight and become obese, [it] requires...
...Family Van is estimated to save the healthcare system roughly $20 million a year by treating patients who otherwise would not have regular access to primary care and saving them the cost of potentially expensive emergency room visits, Oriol explains...
Sadler invented the Starlab portable planetarium in 1977—and 20 years later, about a quarter of students in the U.S. public school system have seen his inventions, he estimated...