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Apple Inc unveiled a smaller, cheaper version of its Web-to-TV device on Wednesday, stepping up a battle with Google Inc and Microsoft Corp for control of the digital living room.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs also rolled out a completely overhauled lineup of iPod media players and the latest version of iTunes, with a new logo that does away with the outdated image of a CD.

The Energy Company says 12 million homeowners could save £1,000 a year by installing solar panels, says British Gas.

The government has guaranteed paying the utility bills for 25 years and will rise in line with inflation.

A new research shows that more than 9 million British adults including the elderly, widowed and people on lower incomes are missing the chance to connect to the internet.

The study, whose findings were published by the Daily Mail and was carried out by the Office of National Statistics (ONS), warned that the UK faces a “digital divide” if it fails to get millions more online.

Scientists have found that when certain plants are attacked by a caterpillar; they send SOS signals, calling predator insects for help.

The findings came from a research made by scientists from Dutch and German institutes who studied chemicals produced by tobacco leaves, the BBC reports.

A group of scientists say they have made a major breakthrough in unravelling the genetic code for wheat, a discovery that could help combat world food shortages.

British researchers have published their findings online, giving scientists and breeding companies access to 95 per cent of wheat genes - knowledge that should help them find ways of growing more robust and plentiful crops.

Google Inc. is adding a free e-mail feature that may persuade more people to cut the cords on their landline phones.

The service unveiled Wednesday enables U.S. users of Google's Gmail service to make calls from microphone-equipped computers to telephones virtually anywhere in the world.

Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant is totally reliable in terms of safety measures, the head of Russia's industrial nuclear watchdog says.

“I announce to the whole world that the Bushehr light water power plant is totally reliable in terms of its safety,” IRNA quoted the head of Russia's Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor) Nikolai Kutyin as saying on Monday.

Photographs sent by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter suggest that the moon is decreasing in size by around 200 meters across its diameter, scientists say.

The high-resolution images show wrinkles all over the moon, some of which are several miles long and rise tens of meters above the dusty terrain.

A review study by Rice University has confirmed that mitochondrial Eve, a maternal ancestor of modern man, lived about 200,000 years ago, at roughly the same time anatomically modern humans are believed to have emerged.

Mitochondrial DNA, which is found in the center of cells and only passed down through the maternal line, has shown modern man shares a common lineage and the same female ancestor.

Scientists are planning to map the entire wreckage site of the Titanic, creating a detailed and comprehensive 3D image of the transatlantic luxury liner.

A group of experts from various organizations will use cutting-edge robots, acoustic imaging, sonar technologies and high-resolution optical, video and 3D imaging to "virtually raise" the ship for the first time in the form of a reconstructed comprehensive detailed picture.