When they showed this layout to a third researcher, Manuel Torrilhon of Aachen University in Germany, he recognised the spiral patterns within it, and this prompted the trio to test a design specifically modelled on nature.

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"The trio of new LIFEBOOK notebooks are all built to order, allowing business professionals to design systems that meet their exact requirements for maximum productivity, " said Paul Moore, vice president, PC product marketing and product management, Fujitsu America.

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The trio argues in a paper that will be published in Science and Technology Ethics that the people who design the algorithms for computer-automated trading should take a lesson from the engineers and technicians who keep our food, medicines and airlines safe.

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In this week's Distro we're bringing you a trio of reviews, including Dana Wollman's take on the ASUS TAICHI 21, an Ultrabook with some interesting design attributes.

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