Inventor of the TV remote dies
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Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote has died.
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Legendary TV star Johnny Carson dies at the age of 79, after battling the respiratory disease emphysema.
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Gordon Cooper, 77, one of the seven original US astronauts, who made the nation&#39;s first manned spaceflights and became known as possessors of &quot;The Right Stuff,&quot; died yesterday at his home in Ventura, Calif.
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By Fiona MacRae AS any truly dedicated couch potato will tell you, it can be tiring pressing the buttons on the remote control. But even that exertion might soon be avoided with the arrival of the thought-activated television.
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Robert Adler was a physicist and prolific inventor best known as the co-inventor of the television remote control device.
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Jose Fialho Gouveia, a pioneer of television entertainment in Portugal, died Saturday.
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Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc., the inventor of VCR technology for recording TV programs, said Friday that it named Rich Battista as chief executive officer to replace Jeff Shell, who has resigned his positions with the company.
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Comedian Johnny Carson, the king of  U.S. late-night television as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show"  for nearly 30 years -- and the last face millions of Americans  saw before drifting off to sleep -- died on Sunday at age 79  after a long battle with emphysema.
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Comedian Johnny Carson, the king of U.S. late-night television as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" for nearly 30 years -- and the last face millions of Americans saw before drifting off to sleep -- died on Sunday at age 79.
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Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote, Robert Adler, has died. Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the device that made the couch potato possible, died Thursday of heart failure at a Boise nursing home at 93, Zenith Electronics Corp. said Friday.
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LONDON One of the scientists involved in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA has died. Maurice Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962 for his role in what&#39;s considered one of the most important discoveries in science.
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Lewis Urry, the man who put the power in the Energizer Bunny&#39;s long-lasting alkaline battery, died in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, after a short illness.
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BOMBAY: Raja Ramanna, the scientist who pioneered India&#39;s drive to become a nuclear power, died yesterday in Bombay at age 79.
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Red Buttons, the carrot-topped burlesque comedian who became a top star in early television and then won a 1957 Oscar with a surprising dramatic turn in &quot;Sayonara,&quot; died Thursday. He was 87.
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Raymond Baxter, who hosted BBC science programme Tomorrow's World for 12 years, dies aged 84.
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The founder of hard-drive maker Seagate was one of the pioneers, and one of the regular guys, of the tech industry.
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TV and prankster Jeremy Beadle, who has died aged 59, is remembered by friends and colleagues.