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Hollywood’s Latest 3-D Animation Film ‘Despicable Me’ Advances Smarter Movie Production With IBM

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – 08 Jul 2010: IBM announced today that it has collaborated with Illumination Entertainment to help it meet the massive production requirements involved in creating its new computer-animated 3-D feature film, “Despicable Me.”  

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Chimpanzee Gangs Kill for Land, New Study Shows

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Bands of chimpanzees violently kill individuals from neighboring groups in order to expand their own territory, according to a 10-year study of a chimp community in Uganda that provides the first definitive evidence for this long-suspected function of this behavior.

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IBM and European Union Join to Develop New Collaborative e-Business Model Extending Open Source and Cloud Technologies

*Aims for 40% cost reductions in the design, deployment and management of e-service blends*  

HAIFA, Israel – 07 Jul: IBM today announced, in collaboration with the European Union, industry and academia, the launch of a research consortium which aims to help businesses more easily take advantage of Internet-based services – or “e-services” – to create collaborative business operations and achieve shared business goals.

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Goooal! World Cup of Tech Competitors Score in Warsaw

*As their favorite soccer teams battle to win the World Cup in South Africa, students from across the globe are in Warsaw, Poland, to find out who will win the World Cup of technology.*

WARSAW, Poland – July 6, 2010 Just weeks after catching a World Cup soccer game in their home country, two students from South Africa brought 40,000 football fans with them to Warsaw, Poland, for the “World Cup of technology.”

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‘Arctic Climate May be More Sensitive to Warming than Thought’

A new study shows the Arctic climate system may be more sensitive to greenhouse warming than previously thought, and that current levels of Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about significant, irreversible shifts in Arctic ecosystems.

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2 new frog species discovered in Panama’s fungal war zone

Trying to stay ahead of a deadly disease that has wiped out more than 100 species, scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute continue to discover new frog species in Panama: Pristimantis educatoris, from Omar Torrijos National Park, and P. adnus from Darien Province near the Colombian border.

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‘Thin May Not be in for African-American Women’

COLUMBIA, Mo. ­—Many women today are dissatisfied with their weight, body shape and size, and often strive to be unrealistically thin.  

A University of Missouri graduate student has found that black women actually differ from white women in their perceptions of the ideal body shape and size.

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