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Divorce Lawyers: Facebook Tops in Online Evidence
Forgot to de-friend your wife on Facebook while posting vacation shots of your mistress? Her divorce lawyer will be thrilled.
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China's Young College Grads Toil in 'ant Tribes'
Liu Jun sleeps in a room so small, he shares a bed with two other men. It's all the computer engineering graduate can afford in Beijing, a city where the dreams...
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Project Puts 1M Books Online for Blind, Dyslexic
The nonprofit Internet Archive announced a new effort to more than double the number of books in its digital database that can be used by the visually impaired. ...
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Three Finalists in Prize For Technology Breakthroughs
The Technology Academy of Finland has announced the finalists for the international Millennium Technology Prize.
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'mind-Reading' Brain-Scan Software Showcased in Ny
Intel is developing software that uses brain scans to determine what items people are thinking about. The software analyzes magnetic resonance imaging scans to...
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Rampant Cheating Hurts China's Research Ambitions
Ghostwriting, plagiarizing or faking results is so rampant in Chinese academia that some experts worry it could hinder China's efforts to become a leader in science...
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Stanford Researchers' Audi to Climb Pikes Peak Without a Driver
It can traverse rough terrain, accelerate quickly and negotiate sharp turns like other high-performance sports cars, but there's one thing that sets this Audi coupe...
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Nasa Will Help Probe Toyota Acceleration Problem
NASA and the National Academy of Sciences are joining the U.S. government's effort to figure out what caused the sudden acceleration problems that led to Toyota's...
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Google Attack Highlights 'zero-Day' Black Market
The recent hacking attack that prompted Google's threat to leave China is underscoring the heightened dangers of previously undisclosed computer security flaws...
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Eight-State Cyber Consortium Gets $2.7 Million Grant
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a $2.7 million grant to an eight-state consortium of technology centers and community colleges that is working...
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Obama Awards National Science, Technology Medals
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama linked scientific discovery to helping the struggling economy Wednesday as he honored those who invented batteries for implanted...
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.s. To Share Internet Review Amid Worldwide Growth
The United States has announced that it intends to give other governments and businesses increased oversight in the governance of ICANN. While the U.S. government...
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Internet Map Questions
The U.S. stimulus package allocated up to $350 million to map out broadband Internet access in the United States for the purpose of guiding broadband expansion...
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Internet Addiction Center Opens In .s.
Ben Alexander spent nearly every waking minute playing the video game "World of Warcraft." As a result, he flunked out of the University of Iowa.Alexander, 19,...
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Future Tech on Show at 36th Siggraph
Mk Haley, a juror for the Emerging Technologies area of SIGGRAPH 2009, says an ear-tugging navigator is the type of exhibit that will get people thinking and talking...
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Icann Hires Former Cybersecurity Chief as New Ceo
Rod Beckstrom, the former director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Cybersecurity Center, has been chosen to replace Paul Twomey as the CEO...
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Toyota Develops Technology For Brain Waves to Steer Wheelchair
Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command...
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k Looks to Young Geeks to Secure Cyberspace
Britain is hiring former computer hackers to join a new security unit aimed at protecting cyberspace from foreign spies, thieves and terrorists, the country's terrorism...
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China Says npopular Filtering Software Optional
China appeared to cave in to public pressure Tuesday (June 16) by announcing that computer users are not required to install Internet-filtering software — though...
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