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RESEARCHERS HAVE turned conventional DVDs into portable and cheap diagnostic tools for developing countries, and are now adapting their prototype into a workable medical device. A team led by Aman Russom of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has demonstrated proof-of-concept for the tool by testing for HIV.

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DVD discs as cheap diagnostic kit for HIV

Domino’s is no stranger to odd and bizarre marketing stunts. It’s latest – a DVD that smells like a pizza – may be one of its strangest (and most brilliant) yet.

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Domino’s Creates A DVD With Pizza Smell As Part Of New Ad Campaign

Horror movies are about to haunt a lot closer to home. As close as your mobile device.

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'Ring' Creator to Haunt Phones

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DVD releases coming May 21, 2013

Tom Hooper’s quasi-operatic mega-musical is loaded with major historical events, weighty themes, tragic deaths and symbolic rebirths, so it’s no wonder that the film version of Les Mis gets so exhausting, especially in the static, unspectacular second half.        

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DVD review: Les Misérables

Baz Luhrmann’s “Gatsby,” J.

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Summer Movies

Dustin Hoffman’s corny directorial debut is more suited to TV than film, but it does benefit from the poignant performances of Tom Courtenay and the peerless Maggie Smith.        

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DVD & Blu-ray review: Quartet (12)

Debutant Suraj Sharma equips himself well as earnest teenager Pi in Ang Lee’s sensational-looking adaptation of Yann Martel’s spiritual heartbreaker.        

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DVD & Blu-ray review: Life of Pi (PG)

“I know too much about life to have any optimism,” is a typically bleak quip from struggling stand-up Louis CK, describing new relationships.        

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DVD & Blu-ray review: Louie: The Complete First Season (15)

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