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Potatoes grow underground. Tomatoes grow above the ground. The TomTato plant grows both potatoes underground and tomatoes above ground… at the same time!

I don’t know what the folks over at British horticultural firm Thompson and Morgan were thinking, but they managed to turn a far-off idea into reality. It took them ten years, but they finally figured out how to make a plant grow potatoes and tomatoes without genetically modifying it.

The process involved grafting, more grafting, and even more grafting before the team achieved success. Incredibly, the plants were combined without genetic modification.

Thompson and Morgan director Paul Hansord explains: “It has been very difficult to achieve because the tomato stem and the potato stem have to be the same thickness for the graft to work… It is a very highly skilled operation. We have seen similar products. However, on closer inspection the potato is planted in a pot with a tomato planted in the same pot – our plant is one plant and produces no potato foliage.”

Pretty weird, but still amazing, isn’t it?

[via BBC via Dvice]

Apple unveiled the new iPhones last month. Ten days after the announcement, it released the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c in a number of select markets around the globe. The U.S. was obviously one of those markets. Lines had started forming up outside Apple Retail Stores days before the actual release, it became evident that significant consumer demand existed for Apple’s newest smartphones. The Samsung Galaxy S4 was the top selling smartphone in the U.S. prior to the launch of the new iPhones. It has been dethroned by the iPhone 5s in September, says research firm Canaccord Genuity. The iPhone 5s is now said to be the top selling smartphone on Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile last month.

Canaccord doesn’t mention in the report exactly how many units have been sold on all four carriers, it says that the Galaxy S4 has now been pushed down to the second slot. On some carriers, it also appeared to be in third place. The firm claims that iPhone 5s is seeing “strong sales,” same has been said for its younger sibling, the iPhone 5c. During the last quarter of this year, Apple might end up moving 52 million iPhones around the world, Canaccord believes. Sales are expected to retain momentum over the following weeks, given that the holiday shopping season is just around the corner.

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This is piece of sushi from Jiro's restaurant in Tokyo. To me, it looks like a man lying on his back laughing, after getting a free meal from his friends.

(Credit: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)

It’s easy to forget sometimes, but Google exists to make you happy.

In the pecking order, you do come slightly behind its own engineers, for whom many of its products are truly designed. But you’re still in the company’s thoughts somewhere.

Clearly, though, some of its engineers (and, by extrapolation, Google assumes you too) have been having difficulties in restaurants.

It’s not so much that they’ve been leaving phone prototypes in them. It’s that they’ve been going out for group dinners and then one or two Googlies have guzzled beyond the norm, leaving the splitting of the bill in an unbalanced state.

“Jason had 7 kir royales. Marina had 6 margaritas and Azielina must have knocked back 14 glasses of Sauvignon Blanc. So, um, dividing the total by, um, 7 and multiplying it by, oh, whatever, I’m drunk anyway.”

Days later, though, the person who feels they’ve paid too much of the whole feels wholly resentful.

This resentment has now been turned, as all resentments should, into a patent application. For Google … [Read more]

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Later this month, Nokia is expected to unveil as many as six new devices and the much rumored Lumia 1520 is one of them. On October 22nd, Nokia has an event scheduled to take place in Abu Dhabi, where it is likely to make these announcements. We’ve already heard a lot of rumors about the Lumia 1520, and there have been a plethora of leaks as well. A purported press render of the device has leaked, its shows off the new Nokia phablet in red. This really doesn’t come as a surprise as Nokia is known to offer its Lumia devices in a variety of colors.

This press render has been leaked by @evleaks, who has a pretty solid track record when it comes to these things. It is interesting to note how small the bezels are in this press render, this is quite different from previous Lumia devices. There have already been a lot of rumors about its specifications, what will set the Lumia 1520 apart from other Lumia devices is its supposed 6 inch display. The phablet is also said to have a 3,400mAh battery. No pricing or release information is available at this point in time, hopefully Nokia will elaborate more at its event in Abu Dhabi.

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Ah the second anniversary of someone’s death. The biography is a bestseller. The movie with Ashton Kutcher is out. The mourning process is on its natural course. But one more thing has to happen: new action figures. Sure, there may be a model from February, but that was then and this is now. Enter the "Steve Jobs 2nd Anniversary Tribute Action Figures."

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