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A file photo of Adam Osborne and the portable computer he invented. It was the first of its kind in the world. Osborne passed away in Kodaikanal recently. In 1981, Osborne assembled a 10 kg portable computer in a suitcase.
Miss July 2000 Neferteri Sheperd poses with other playmates as they launch Playboy’s Operation Playmate, an e-mail service putting US military personnel stationed in Iraq in touch with Playboy playmates, in Los Angeles.
Sony’s newly-developed small biped entertainment robots SDR-4X II show dancing ability at a press preview of Robodex 2003, a robot exposition, in Yokohama, south of Tokyo. The prototype robot, which weighs 7 kg and is 58-cm x 27-cm x 19-cm, has enhanced motion control and communication capabilities.
A Chinese youth surfs the Web at an Internet shop in Shanghai. With about 59 million Internet users, China overtook Japan in 2002 as the world’s third largest Web surfing nation.
— Reuters
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