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Web site tracks policy changes at popular sites

Technology / Internet

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A new Web site unveiled Thursday will track policies imposed by popular Internet sites such as Facebook and Google, hoping to help users spot potentially harmful changes.





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Craigslist founder joins Wikimedia advisory board

Technology / Internet

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- The nonprofit group that runs online encyclopedia Wikipedia said Friday that it named Craig Newmark, the founder of Web classifieds site Craigslist, to its advisory board.


NASA's ENose can sense brain cancer cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- An unlikely multidisciplinary scientific collaboration has discovered that an electronic nose developed for air quality monitoring on Space Shuttle Endeavour can also be used to detect odour differences in ...


Hollywood, RealNetworks square off on DVD copying (AP)

Hollywood, RealNetworks square off on DVD copying

Technology / Business

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 5

(AP) -- Hollywood calls it "rent, rip and return" and contends it's one of the biggest technological threats to the movie industry's annual $20 billion DVD market - software that allows you to copy a film ...


Researchers mine the 'Terahertz gap'

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 04, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Research underway at the University of Leeds will provide a completely fresh insight into the workings of nano-scale systems, and enable advances in the development of nano-electronic devices for use in industry, medicine ...


Advocates crack printer identifier code

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created Oct 19, 2005 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A privacy group says it cracked the code used by color printers to leave an identifying watermark on documents that can be traced by the U.S. government.


Man pleads guilty in Vt. in border child porn case

Technology / Internet

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A Vermont man pleaded guilty Friday to charges he had child pornography on his laptop computer when he entered the United States from Quebec nearly three years ago.


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AT&T's NSA legal woes continue to grow

Technology / Business

created May 23, 2006 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

AT&T has flatly denied the allegations, but the telecommunications giant continues to be mired by reports that it and other major carriers have gone out of their way to cooperate with the U.S. government to ...


Targeting teen depression

Targeting teen depression

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychologist Mona Taouk is developing a world-first questionnaire to identify young people at risk of depression and suicide.


Scientist Leonard Kleinrock poses with the first Interface Message Processor

Internet turns 40 with birthday bash

Technology / Internet

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Technology and media stars, pundits and entrepreneurs joined the Internet's father to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his culture-changing child.


Tighter oversight on border laptop searches

Technology / Other

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- The Obama administration on Thursday put new restrictions on searches of laptops at U.S. borders to address concerns that federal agents have been rummaging through travelers' personal information.



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