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Gamer to pay Nintendo $1.3 mln for illegal upload

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23 hours ago | 3 / 5 (2) | 1

An Australian man has agreed to pay Nintendo 1.3 million US dollars for illegally uploading a game to the Internet six days before its global release, the firm said Tuesday.

German man saved on frozen sea by webcam spotter

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Feb 04, 2010 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

(AP) -- Watch the sunset, save a life.

Microsoft and NSF enable research in the cloud

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Feb 04, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

Microsoft Corp. and the National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced an agreement that will offer individual researchers and research groups selected through NSF's merit review process free access to advanced cloud computing ...

Minnesota song-sharing case heads for 3rd trial

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Jan 28, 2010 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1

(AP) -- A trade group representing the major music labels said Wednesday it will reject a reduced penalty for a central Minnesota woman found guilty of sharing 24 songs over the Internet, and will instead begin preparing ...

Supercomputing time awarded to design transformational lithium air battery

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Jan 27, 2010 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 0

The Department of Energy announced today that 24 million hours of supercomputing time out of a total of 1.6 billion available hours at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories have been awarded to investigate materials ...

Carnegie Mellon releases data on Haitian Creole to hasten development of translation tools

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Jan 27, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

In response to the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute (LTI) have publicly released spoken and textual data they've compiled on Haitian Creole so that translation ...

Virtual Disaster Viewer aids Haiti relief effort

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Jan 27, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

An innovative web tool that allows earthquake experts worldwide to pool knowledge quickly and effectively is boosting action to help Haiti's earthquake victims.

Bill Gates says innovation can leverage change

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Jan 25, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- The needs of the poor are greater than the money available to help them, but that's not enough to discourage Bill Gates in his work as co-chair of the world's largest charitable foundation.

Making Braille music universally accessible

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Jan 21, 2010 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Blind musicians have had restricted access to scores due to the scarcity and limitations of Braille transcriptions. A new European system makes music for the blind more available and far easier ...

Teaching computer games

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Jan 21, 2010 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Computer games have a broad appeal that transcends gender, culture, age and socio-economic status. Now, computer scientists in the US think that creating computer games, rather than just playing them could boost students' ...

More reliable forecasts for water flows can reduce price of electricity

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Jan 19, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

Brazil, Canada, China, the US, Russia, Norway, Japan, and Sweden are among the largest producers of hydroelectric power in the world. One problem for hydroelectric power companies is that the great variations in the river ...

Haiti text donations to Red Cross pass $5M (Update)

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Jan 14, 2010 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- U.S. cell phone users have contributed more than $5 million in $10 increments to the Red Cross for Haiti disaster relief, by far the largest outpouring of support via mobile devices in history.

160 flights disrupted after Tokyo airport glitch

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Jan 14, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

More than 160 flights to and from Tokyo's Haneda airport were disrupted Thursday after a computer glitch hit a new air radar system hours after it was installed, the transport ministry said.

Blindness groups, ASU settle suit over Kindle

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Jan 11, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Two organizations representing the blind have settled a discrimination lawsuit against Arizona State University over its use of Amazon's Kindle e-reader device.

UK vicar invokes God's blessing on BlackBerrys

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Jan 11, 2010 | 1 / 5 (1) | 3

(AP) -- God bless this BlackBerry. A venerable British church has done what e-mail addicts and workaholics have been doing for years - invoking the Almighty's blessing on their high-tech gadgets.

EU nations divided on use of airport body scanners

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Jan 07, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- European nations were sharply divided Thursday over the need to install full-body scanners at European airports, with some EU members playing down the need for beefed-up security measures.

Software defect hits millions of German bank cards

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Jan 05, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Millions of German bank cards have been affected by a "millennium bug"-like problem because they contain software that can't process the number 2010, industry groups said Tuesday.

2010 tech bug hits German credit cards

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Jan 04, 2010 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Many Germans have been hit by a computer bug linked to the year 2010 that has rendered their credit cards useless, the ZKA banking commission said on Monday.