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Text-a-Tip programs allow tipsters to help police (AP)

Text-a-Tip programs allow tipsters to help police

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(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.


McKinnon, accused of hacking into US military and NASA computers, faces extradition to the United States

UFO-obsessed Briton loses bid to block US extradition

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created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 4

A Briton accused of hacking into US military and NASA computers faces extradition to the United States after the British government Thursday rejected last-ditch requests to block the move.


Key scientist says politics behind stolen e-mails

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created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (5) | comments 4

(AP) -- A leading climate change scientist said hackers breaking into a university's computer server and then posting documents online show the nasty politics of global warming.


Signal fading on radio traffic reports

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created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 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.


Post Office card error leaves Italians in the red: report

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created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A computer glitch left Italian Post Office customers in the red by processing card transactions at 100 times their value, Italian press reported Thursday.


New guidelines for broadcasters on user-generated content

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created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For the first time guidelines are to be published on how broadcasters around the world can encourage audiences to produce better quality user-generated content and to improve media and information literacy.


More than 1,000 people have already signed up on the Internet to receive the "niiu"

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

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created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 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.


FAA glitch causes widespread US air travel delays (AP)

Glitch snarls air traffic in latest woes for FAA

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created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- For the second time in a little more than a year, a glitch at one of the two centers that handle flight plans for the nation's air travel system set off delays and cancellations for passengers around ...


Professor Finally Publishes Controversial Brain Theory

Professor Finally Publishes Controversial Brain Theory

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created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (114) | comments 23

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the late '90s, Asim Roy, a professor of information systems at Arizona State University, began to write a paper on a new brain theory. Now, 10 years later and after several rejections and ...


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New handbook for Google, Droid users

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created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 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.


Photoshopped Images Could Carry Warnings in France

Photoshopped Images Could Carry Warnings in France

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created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 16

(PhysOrg.com) -- A law has been proposed in France that would see digitally enhanced images carry a warning to viewers that the image has been retouched to change the physical appearance of a person. The proposed ...


UK: Millions of customer records sold

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 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 (AP)

Microsoft co-founder Allen treated for lymphoma

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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


Want responsible robotics? Start with responsible humans

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created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- When the legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov penned the "Three Laws of Responsible Robotics," he forever changed the way humans think about artificial intelligence, and inspired generations of engineers ...


Apple's restriction-free music downloads create pause

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created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 9

When Apple Inc. announced in January that it would sell restriction-free music files, that was supposed to mean consumers could buy songs and play them on the portable gadget of their choice.