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Grant to help zoo visitors learn more about science with their cell phones

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3 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

Zoo visitors may soon use their cell phones to "Call the Wild" as part of a project led by University of Florida researchers to help the public learn more about the nature of science.

Text-a-Tip programs allow tipsters to help police

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Nov 28, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

(AP) -- A mother in Boston tells police her 8-year-old boy was shot to death in their apartment by gunmen in hooded sweat shirts during a home invasion.

Signal fading on radio traffic reports

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Nov 27, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1

(AP) -- For more than 20 years, Mike Nolan was known to radio listeners as the "eye in the sky." He flew over Southern California freeways in his single-engine plane, reporting on the nation's worst traffic.

UK: Millions of customer records sold

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Nov 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- Rogue employees at a major mobile phone company illegally sold millions of customer records to rival firms, Britain's information watchdog said Tuesday.

Microsoft co-founder Allen treated for lymphoma

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Nov 17, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.

Europe's first 'personalised paper' rolls off the presses

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Nov 16, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Billed as Europe's first "personalised paper", "niiu", a newspaper tailored to readers' individual wishes and delivered to their door before 08:00 am, made its first appearance in Berlin on Monday.

New handbook for Google, Droid users

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Nov 11, 2009 | 2 / 5 (3) | 0

Before buying one of the new Google-powered "Droid" phones from Verizon Wireless, you may want to read the manual. Not the setup directions in the box.

Green heating and cooling technology turns carbon from eco-villain to hero

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Nov 10, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 1

Carbon is usually typecast as a villain in terms of the environment but researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a novel way to miniaturise a technology that will make carbon a key material in ...

A new system preserves the right to privacy in Internet searches

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Nov 05, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

A team of Catalan researchers has developed a protocol to distort the user profile generated by Internet search engines, in such a way that they cannot save the searches undertaken by Internet users and thus ...

Lawmakers seek ban on laptops in airliner cockpits

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Nov 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 2

(AP) -- Lawmakers are moving to ban the use of computer laptops and other personal electronic devices in airline cockpits to prevent another incident like the Northwest Airlines plane that overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles.

School sued for punishing teens over MySpace pix

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Nov 01, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 6

(AP) -- Two sophomore girls have sued their school district after they were punished for posting sexually suggestive photos on MySpace during their summer vacation.

Pilots used laptop computers while straying off course

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Oct 27, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Two distracted US pilots were using laptop computers against company rules last week when they overshot their destination by some 150 miles (240 kilometers), federal investigators said.

Bringing gaming to the disabled

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Oct 22, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Ironically, it was located in one of the least-accessible areas of the Games for Health conference held a few months ago in Boston. Up a set of stairs and around a corner from the large conference halls and breakout rooms ...

Rare economic espionage case going to trial

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Oct 21, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Two men accused of stealing computer chip blueprints - and trying to tap the Chinese government to help launch a startup built on the contraband - are becoming the first defendants charged with economic espionage ...

Dutch, making peace with water, tackle overcrowding

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Oct 18, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

About a hundred houses float on a lake in the Amsterdam neighbourhood of Ijburg --a testament to how the Dutch are trying to turn their traditional enemy, water, into an ally against overcrowding.

British hacker gets more time to fight US extradition

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Oct 17, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A Briton accused of hacking into US military and NASA space agency computers was on Saturday given more time to fight his extradition to the United States, officials and lawyers said.

NY state seeks to crack down on wayward truckers

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Oct 14, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

(AP) -- New York state wants to crack down on truckers who rely on satellite devices to direct them onto faster but prohibited routes and end up crashing into overpasses that are too low for their rigs.

People are still the weakest link in computer and internet security, study finds

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Oct 13, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Two decades ago, studies showed that computer users were violating best practices for setting up hack-proof passwords, and not much has changed since then. What's clear, say researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...