With Nintendo's new Wii U console set to hit the US markets this coming Sunday, GameStop has recently revealed that its software pre-orders for Wii U have surpassed a rather enviable `1.2 million units' figure.

According to GameStop, which will get in 500,000 Wii U units for launch, the number of software pre-orders received for the Wii U is nearly two-fold more than those which the company had received for the Wii software before it was released.

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According to Paula Stevenson, following a heart surgery in 2009, her 13-month-old daughter died like an animal that is abandoned.

In the USA, there is something called rapid response team, it means that families of patients are given an urgent second opinion and Stevenson called for this to be introduced in UK hospitals also.

It was stated by a coroner that if Hayley Fullerton was admitted to intensive care then there would have been better chances of her surviving.

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A new study has found that women with depression are likely to get help before men with depression as depression in women can be spotted easily.

Researchers found gender stereotypes influence public perceptions of depressed people.

When men were shown an environment of a man and a woman in depression, men were able to spot depression in the woman before they could feel that their counterpart was depressed.

Two fictitious subjects were put before participants by Dr Viren Swami, a reader in psychology at the University of Westminster, Kate and Jack.

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According to the most recent statistics revealed by research firm Gartner on Wednesday, the global smartphone arena was largely dominated by Samsung and Apple during the third quarter, while Finland-based handset-maker Nokia plunged from the third to the seventh spot in terms of smartphone sales worldwide.

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In a move which marks the culmination of an over two-year-old Apple-HTC patent dispute - which began when Apple accused HTC of inappropriately copying the iPhone -, the two companies said in a late Saturday announcement that they have mutually consented to dismiss the series of lawsuits they have filed against each other.

According to the announcement by Apple and HTC, the settlement worked out by the two companies includes a licensing deal which, over the next ten years, will grant both parties the rights to each other's present and future patents.

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The Department for Transport has yesterday launched a consultation for vehicles weighing more than 7.5 tonnes that will be applicable to roads in England and Wales.

The Ministers are planning to increase the speed limit for lorries to 50 mph. The lorries currently run at a speed of 40 mph on single carriage ways.

The move is being considered in lieu of high traffic jams on routes such as A9. Increase in accidents due to traffic has also raised concerns. The changes are expected to cut the accidents by 18% and queues will be lowered down to the size of six from the existing 18.

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About 75 per cent of the marijuana cards issued in the state have been given a go ahead by a small number of doctors in Arizona, according to health officials, and this raises questions about whether the program is being abused.

The Arizona’s medical marijuana program started in April 2011 to June this year and about 24 doctors had certified 75 per cent of cardholders. This means that in that period, 475 doctors certified nearly 29,000 patients.

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As per reports, it has been reveald that Nokia Lumia 820 and 920 has been up for sales in the UK. Great hopes have been attached with both the handsets, as they can provide Nokia its long lost glory.

Moreover, it has also been said that both the phones, which are powered with Windows Phone 8 operating system, can bring Nokia back into action in smartphone market. It has been found that both the phones are available at EE on tariffs.

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The rate of deaths can come down among cancer sufferers with the use of statins, widely prescribed drugs used to help prevent death from heart disease.

The growth of cancer cells is limited by the use of statins and they also make them more vulnerable to certain therapies. According to certain trials done, the bad or the LDL cholesterol is lowered by these medications among people who have a raised level and this in turn lowers the risk of dying early due to a heart disease and a stroke.

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With rental service GameFly having recently announced the officially launch of its PC client, the company is apparently celebrating the launch by offering a free download of BioShock.

To avail the free BioShock download offer from GameFly, the users need to have a system which runs Windows XP or a later version of the Windows OS, and at least 1GB of RAM and 7GB of free hard disk space. In addition, another pre-requisite for availing the offer is the GameFly download client, which can be installed on the site.

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On Wednesday, top-notch Japanese automaker Toyota Motors announced the recall of 7.43 million vehicles, because of a faulty power-window switch which can lead to it overheating and even melting in extreme cases.

The sprawling recall affects over one dozen models from the models years of between 2005 and 2010, in a number of countries including US, Japan, Europe, Australia, Middle East, China and a few other Asian countries.

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With 4G LTE connectivity of the new iPad in the US having become a headline-grabbing feature of the popular Apple tablet when its latest version was released, a Guardian report has revealed that 4G connectivity for the UK users is apparently on the cards in the `revised' version of the most recent 9.7-inch iPad.

According to the Guardian report, Apple is set to release a `revised' edition of the new iPad, which will bring 4G connectivity for the UK users via the Everything Everywhere (EE) network.

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With the `Like' button on the Facebook social network being used widely by Facebook users all over the world, the company has plans underway to bring a few new buttons, including a `Want' button and a `Collect' button.

Facebook, in collaboration with some of its partners, has already kicked off a small-scale retail test of the `Want' button; with seven of the company's retail partners - including Pottery Barn, Victoria's Secret, and Neiman Marcus - having added the `Want' and well as the `Collect' button onto their list.

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Despite the fact that Apple has yet to officially confirm its plans to release a smaller tablet - likely to be dubbed the `iPad Mini' -, some recent disclosures by Apple's Taiwan-based suppliers have got the buzz building for the much-rumored devices.

According to the information shared by some Asian suppliers - including Taiwanese suppliers - of components for Apple's popular devices, Apple has placed orders for over 10 million units of smaller tablets to be manufactured by them in the fourth quarter.

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In a recent announcement, Chevrolet has revealed that General Motors' (GM) OnStar team is developing a new app - dubbed `EcoHub' - for the Volt plug-in hybrid, to help the owners determine the costs involved in charging up their vehicles.

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According to the figures shared recently by Activision Blizzard, the first week sales of World of Warcraft (WoW)'s latest expansion - Mists of Pandaria - touched nearly 2.7 million copies; with the digital sales of the MMO game surpassing the retail sales.

With figures revealing that Mists of Pandaria's digital copies outsold the physical copies by around 4:1, the 2.7 million copies sold of the newest WoW expansion in its first week comprehensively beat the earlier estimates of investment bank Lazard Capital Markets.

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In a move which underscores software giant Microsoft's latest attempts at developing proprietary programming languages, the company has recently released a preview of TypeScript, which is essentially a superset language of JavaScript for web development.

The preview of TypeScript by Microsoft has been launched under the Open Web Foundation's 1.0 specification agreement; though the compiler will be rolled out under the Apache 2.0 license on Microsoft's free open source project-hosting site CodePlex.

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With its all-electric Leaf witnessing slow sales, Nissan has been - since the beginning of September - offering big discounts as well as affordable lease options to the customers interested in purchasing the car.

While the actual cost of the Leaf begins at $36,050 - inclusive of shipping charges -, Nissan is now offering the car at a $2,999 down for 32 months and $219 per month lease; thereby marking a $30 reduction from the $249 per month lease deal which was being offered by the automaker earlier this year.

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Upholding an earlier order by a Seattle judge, in the Microsoft-Motorola patent dispute, a three-judge panel in San Francisco recently ruled that Motorola Mobility - which is owned by Google - is not in a position to enforce a German court's injunction order against Microsoft.

According to a Bloomberg report, Motorola lost appeal in the Microsoft Xbox case when the federal appeals panel in San Francisco said that the Seattle court order was appropriately tailored; and thus blocked Motorola's enforcement of the sales ban against Microsoft.

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