300 dates in 24 hours? No sweat August 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Francesca Salcido went on 300 dates in 24 hours without breaking a sweat. Her encounters with aspiring beaus happened online at SpeedDate.com, a US start-up built on a belief that it doesn't take more than 90 seconds to find ... | |
 Wikipedia founder aims to break Google stranglehold August 14, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Watch out Google -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes that Wikia Search, a project he spearheads, will break Google's domination as the world's most widely used Internet search engine. | |
 Online social networking sites are hacker playgrounds August 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Computer security researchers on Thursday warned that online social networking websites are playgrounds for hackers who can easily take advantage of people's trust. | |
 Microsoft site makes digital photos into panoramas August 21, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Digital cameras have liberated awe-struck travelers and proud parents from worrying about the price of film processing. But showing off those megapixels of memories is still reminiscent of tedious ... | |
 Defiant China hits out at US, stands firm on Internet July 31, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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A defiant China stood firm on controversies swirling around the Olympics on Thursday, hitting back at the United States over human rights criticism and insisting Internet censorship would remain. | |
Life isn't 2-D, so why should our encyclopedias be? August 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Biologists and biochemists are now able to access 3D images of biomacromolecules underlying biological functions and disease. Rather than relying on text to provide the understanding of biomacromolecule structures, a collaborative ... | |
Some eBay sellers frustrated with rule changes August 20, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Some people who sell things on eBay are fed up with new rules the company has been imposing in hopes of making the auction site more attractive to online shoppers. Now even more changes are coming in the next few ... | |
Pentagon puts hold on USAF cyber effort August 14, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The Pentagon this week delayed and may kill the Air Force's nascent Cyberspace Command, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press. This comes as Russia used a major computer network attack to begin its ... | |
Google 'gadgets' called gateways for hackers August 09, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Hackers turned computer security specialists accuse Google of setting users up for online disasters by letting them personalize home pages with applications that could be tainted. | |
Scientific wiki solves the 'who wrote what' problem August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Reporting in Nature Genetics, and working in conjunction with Society in Science, the ETH Zurich-administered fund that is dedicated to exploring new avenues in the relationship between science and society, scientist ... | |
New magazine-sharing site may violate copyrights August 15, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The magazine industry, already facing a decline in newsstand sales and falling ad revenue, is being besieged by a new foe: digital piracy. | |
 British computer hacker loses appeal over US extradition July 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A British man accused of hacking into the computer systems of the US military and NASA on Wednesday lost his appeal against extradition to face trial. | |
 Yahoo in 'cloud computing' research with HP-Intel July 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Yahoo and technology giants Intel and Hewlett Packard on Tuesday announced an alliance to advance "cloud computing," backing a trend that would reduce reliance on packaged software. | |
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