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In the developing world millions of people struggle to operate machinery, read from a blackboard, or just see the world around them, because they don’t have access to the eye glasses they need.
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  • Phone calling coming to Twitter

    Twitter users on Thursday will, for the first time, be able to make voice calls directly to each other through the microblogging service. A new third-party offering from Jajah goes into beta and will allow Twitter users to initiate a two-way voice chat with other users.
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  • Why does the U.S. carrier known for the best network have the worst smartphones? Verizon gets plaudits for its coverage and call quality, but consistently loses out to AT&T, T-Mobile and even Sprint when it comes to getting the newest high-end handsets.
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  • Voice chat coming to Facebook

    Look out, Facebook users: Here comes voice chat. Sometime in the next few weeks, the social network’s tens of millions of users will begin to be able to have high-quality voice conversations, even as its third-party developers are able to start including voice in their applications.
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  • The French National Assembly gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a measure that seeks to crack down on Internet piracy.
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  • Search-engine results, long dominated by stacks of blue hyperlinks, are getting more eye-catching. Bing’s new “visual search” function lets users troll through image catalogues, while Google is testing a “Fast Flip” application that lets users ‘flip” through digital pages of newspapers and magazines.
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  • CNN talks with Andrew Gregory, of the sibling group behind the ‘Auto-Tune the News’ online video series. This has been the summer of Auto-Tune, with musicians, comedians and iPhone users taking advantage of the pitch-altering software that makes voices sound robotic.
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  • E-books catching on with readers

    Paul Jessup is an avid reader who is increasingly turning to e-books to feed his love of the written form. Plus, electronic books are “much better for looking things up,” says the Pennsylvania man. He’s one of a growing number of book lovers, seduced by new technologies and electronic reading devices, who are gravitating to [...]

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  • The space shuttle Discovery will land in California Friday evening, NASA said after bad weather near Kennedy Space Center forced it to wave off a landing in Florida.
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  • If you listen to inventor Dean Kamen, the biggest health problem facing the world today is not AIDS, obesity or malnutrition. It’s a shortage of water. So the man who designed the Segway has invented a device called the Slingshot, a portable, low-energy machine designed to purify water in remote villages.
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