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New handbook for Google, Droid users
Nov 11, 2009 |
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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.
Bringing gaming to the disabled
Oct 22, 2009 |
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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 ...
Dutch, making peace with water, tackle overcrowding
Oct 18, 2009 |
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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.
Green heating and cooling technology turns carbon from eco-villain to hero
Nov 10, 2009 |
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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
Nov 05, 2009 |
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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
Nov 03, 2009 |
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(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
Nov 01, 2009 |
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(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
Oct 27, 2009 |
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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.
Rare economic espionage case going to trial
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(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 ...
British hacker gets more time to fight US extradition
Oct 17, 2009 |
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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.
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