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| FTC Warns Digital Copiers Store Your Copies | | arstechnica.com - The US Federal Trade Commission issued a warning this week to make the public aware of the fact that digital copiers manufactured in the last 5 years contain hard drives that store images of copies they have made. | | Story Category: | Science & Tech | | Submitted By: | freddyBear on May 18, 2010 at 5:15 PM | |
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| Kevin Costner Dances With Oil Spills | | news.yahoo.com - Ever since the oil spills have been washing up on the shores of the Gulf Coast in the US, people have been coming out of the woodwork with ideas to clean up the mess and now actor/director Kevin Costner has joined the crowd with a solution of his own. | | Story Category: | Science & Tech | | Submitted By: | Mr. Mike on May 14, 2010 at 5:18 PM | |
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| Canadian Cows Learn To Tweet | | criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca - The Critical Media Lab at the University of Waterloo has joined forces with a dairy farmer from Brant, Ontario to deliver the first Twitter Tweets from cows. | | Story Category: | Science & Tech | | Submitted By: | Mr. Mike on May 04, 2010 at 3:07 PM | |
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| Norwegian Prime Minister Actually Finds a Use For the iPad | | www.cnn.com - Believe it or not, someone has actually found a use for yet another over-hyped tech offering from Apple - Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told CNN he has been running his country via the iPad since he was stranded in New York by the recent volcanic eruptions in Norway. | | Story Category: | Science & Tech | | Submitted By: | deep blue on Apr 18, 2010 at 9:43 AM | |
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| Russian Genius Solves Hundred Year Old Math Problem And Refuses Prize | | abcnews.go.com - The Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts announced last week that a reclusive Russian mathematician, Grigori Perelman, had successfully solved the famous Poincaré conjecture and could claim one of seven million dollar Millennium Prizes that will be awarded to anyone that can solve some outstanding mathematical problems. | | Story Category: | Science & Tech | | Submitted By: | Mr. Mike on Mar 25, 2010 at 12:42 PM | |
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| Researchers Make Progress On Harry Potter's Invisibility Cloak | | ca.news.yahoo.com - Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have made progress in the development of an invisibility cloaking device that is still a long, long way from Harry Potter's Invisibility Cloak but it's the first time cloaking technology has been able to render an object invisible in three dimensions. | | Story Category: | Science & Tech | | Submitted By: | Mr. Mike on Mar 19, 2010 at 12:00 PM | |
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| Chilean Earthquake Made The Day Shorter | | news.nationalgeographic.com - The recent earthquake in Chile was so severe it is believed to have shifted the Earth on it's axis and caused the Earth to speed up slightly, shortening the length of a day by 1. | | Story Category: | Science & Tech | | Submitted By: | buzz on Mar 02, 2010 at 6:37 PM | |
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| Bugs that pay | | www.examiner.com - Are you an unemployed programmer geek looking for a way to make a few bucks? If so, Google may have a job for you. They will pay $500. to anyone who finds a minor bug in the new Chrome browser. More severe bugs are rewarded with the sum of $1,337. | | Story Category: | Science & Tech | | Submitted By: | optimus on Feb 09, 2010 at 10:12 AM | |
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| Mad TV's Take on Apple's iPad | | I don't know how Apple missed this parody that Mad TV did a couple of years ago before they chose the name of their latest wunder-gadget, the iPad. | | Story Category: | Science & Tech | | Submitted By: | Mr. Mike on Jan 30, 2010 at 10:47 AM | |
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| Great Views Of Mars Tonight | | www.wired.com - Hey there space fans, if you're looking to the stars tonight you can expect to see something special, Mars is in opposition which means it's closer to the Earth than usual and will be readily visible in the sky tonight as bright as any of the brightest stars. | | Story Category: | Science & Tech | | Submitted By: | buzz on Jan 29, 2010 at 10:38 AM | |
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| That's 'Pope2You' Pal... The Vatican Gets Wired | | www.pcworld.com - In an effort to bring the Catholic Church to a more relevant place in the modern world, Pope Benedict XVI has launched his own website and sent out a message to Catholic priests everywhere to get online and establish a presence for themselves on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. | | Story Category: | Science & Tech | | Submitted By: | Mr. Mike on Jan 26, 2010 at 3:57 PM | |
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| Astronauts Get Internet Access In Space | | news.yahoo.com - The International Space Station has finally figured out a way to get Internet access in space through a remote desktop in a ground based workstation and a remote connection to a laptop on the space station. | | Story Category: | Science & Tech | | Submitted By: | buzz on Jan 22, 2010 at 6:36 PM | |
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| Top 9 Space Stories of 2009 | | www.space.com - 2009 featured a lot of astronomical firsts like detecting water on the moon and Mars, finding the first planets in other star systems, and the launching of new space telescopes to complement the Hubble. | | Story Category: | Science & Tech | | Submitted By: | buzz on Jan 19, 2010 at 9:50 AM | |
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| Do EVIL Cameras Mean The End Of DSLR Cameras? | | www.wired.com - Digital Single Lens Reflex Cameras have been state of the art for professional photographers for a number of years now but there's a new model of digital camera available that could change everything. | | Story Category: | Science & Tech | | Submitted By: | Mr. Mike on Jan 16, 2010 at 2:34 PM | |
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| Cocaine Found In Space Shuttle Hangar | | www.theregister.co.uk - NASA announced yesterday that a bag of cocaine was found in the hangar that houses Space Shuttle Discovery at Kennedy Space Center in Florida this week. | | Story Category: | Science & Tech | | Submitted By: | buzz on Jan 15, 2010 at 4:55 PM | |
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