Government Spooks try Sneaking their Peeking past Congress
Author: Default Profile, Posted on: Thursday, September 14, 2006
Civil Liberties Union, called the bill "stunning", as it allow the NSA to turn its vacuum cleaners on even domestic phone calls and e-mails of citizens
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Chinese government attempt to get kids on the right track with patriotic gaming
Author: Default Profile, Posted on: Thursday, September 14, 2006
Chinese internet game designed to wean the young off their addiction to violent foreign games
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RIAA Gets $115 Million from Kazaa
Author: Default Profile, Posted on: Friday, July 28, 2006
Not that anyone uses it anymore, but Kazaa has joined the list of other P2P companies which have settled with the RIAA.
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Cybercrime account for up to 75% of US business losses
Author: Default Profile, Posted on: Thursday, July 20, 2006
Virus attacks, unauthorized access to computer systems and other forms of cybercrime account for up to 75 percent of the financial losses at U.S. companies
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Bullet-proof dogs roam the streets of LA!
Author: Default Profile, Posted on: Thursday, July 20, 2006
More and more American police dogs are enjoying similar protection to their human partners in fighting crime.
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Japanese Cult of the 'Kidults' has toymakers in a twist
Author: Default Profile, Posted on: Thursday, July 20, 2006
JApanese Toy Manufacturers look for the next hit for their new key market of "kidults".
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Blair plans to catch criminals - before they can walk (literally)
Author: Default Profile, Posted on: Tuesday, July 18, 2006
UK Government will attempt to identify children at risk of failure, violent behaviour or criminality at birth in an orwellian and facist near-future...does this sound like a bad movie outline? Or just more state sponsored facism?
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New alternative to RFID is smaller with a higher capacity.
Author: Default Profile, Posted on: Tuesday, July 18, 2006
The new Hewlett-Packard invention is the size of a grain of rice and connects wirelessly.
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Between the lines of the information war.
Author: Default Profile, Posted on: Thursday, July 13, 2006
Updates to cold-war early warning system meand government will be pinging US cellphones.
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This is your brain - Computerized...
Author: Default Profile, Posted on: Wednesday, July 12, 2006
A new brain-computer-interface technology could turn our brains into automatic image-identifying machines that operate faster than human consciousness
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French hacker spawns 'watergate' investigation
Author: Default Profile, Posted on: Wednesday, July 12, 2006
A hack of a Luxembourg bank's records is emerging as a key detail of a massive investigation into French govt corruption
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The most advanced computer looks towards a nuclear future
Author: Default Profile, Posted on: Monday, July 10, 2006
The most computationally intensive computer program ever developed has been put to work simulating the quantum behaviour of atoms.
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2010 - Will robots walk the earth?
Author: Default Profile, Posted on: Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Will autonomous robots be able to deal with their environment under unexpected circumstances?
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The ethics of invisibility
Author: Default Profile, Posted on: Monday, June 19, 2006
newspapers, radio and TV could not help comparing two scientific papers on invisibility shields to Harry Potter's invisibility cloak
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Coffee drinkers are more prone to Deception
Author: Default Profile, Posted on: Thursday, June 08, 2006
The coffee you drink as a pick-me-up in the morning could also make you more open to persuasion, researchers say.
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