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Motorola phone talks a tough game
For some people, a phone is just a phone. They don't need e-mail, a Web browser or a camera. They just want to make a call. And the last thing they want to worry about is what will happen to a phone that's dropped or gets ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 04, 2009 |
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Russia brings astronauts safely back to Earth
Three astronauts landed safely in the Kazakh steppe aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule on Tuesday after a stay of over five months aboard the International Space Station, Russian mission control said.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 22, 2011 |
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FCC set to unveil rules for rural broadband fund
Federal regulators are set to reveal their plan Thursday for an overhaul of the $8 billion fund that subsidizes phone service in rural areas and for the poor, with the goal of redirecting the money toward broadband expansion.
Oct 26, 2011 |
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$103M to expand broadband Internet in rural US
Telecommunications companies in 16 states will share more than $103 million in federal funding to help expand broadband Internet access to those areas of rural America that haven't been reached by the high-speed service or ...
Aug 22, 2011 |
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On endless ice, searching for clues to our future
(AP) -- The pilot eased his five-ton helicopter toward the glacier's rumpled surface, aiming for the lightest of setdowns atop one of the fastest-flowing ice streams on Earth.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2011 |
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The New Cultural Form: Perfection versus Mortality in Games and Simulation at Rensselaer
Willy Nillys Surf Shack offers a cure for the idealized virtual world of Second Life. The online shop, a project of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Associate Professor of Arts Ben Chang and collaborators, endows o ...
Apr 18, 2011 |
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Stimulus funds help wire rural homes for Internet
(AP) -- Up in rural northern Vermont, it took until the 1960s to run power lines to some towns - decades after the rest of America got turned on.
Jan 30, 2011 |
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Mobile 'revolution' eases Pacific isolation, poverty
From the rugged highlands of Papua New Guinea to the remote islands of Tonga, a telecommunications revolution in the Pacific is helping ease poverty and isolation in some of the world's poorest countries.
Dec 10, 2010 |
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Tried and true gifts for tech lovers
This is no fantasy-league gift guide compiled from weekly sales fliers and the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 07, 2010 |
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Euro terror alert spotlights voiceprint technology
(AP) -- Did their voices betray them? The discovery of an alleged terror plot against Europe owes at least some of its success to "voiceprint" technology that allows law enforcement to electronically match ...
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Compact microscope a marvel
A compact microscope invented at Rice University is proving its potential to impact global health. In a paper published online today in the journal PLoS ONE, Rice alumnus Andrew Miller and co-authors show t ...
Aug 04, 2010 |
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