 Electric bikes selling briskly as gas prices climb August 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(AP) -- When Honora Wolfe and her husband moved to the outskirts of Boulder, Colo., she wanted an environmentally friendly way to commute to her job as a bookshop owner in the city. Wolfe, 60, found her solution ... | |
Judge keeps gag order in subway hacking case August 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- Three college students who discovered a way to hack into the Boston subway system's payment cards and add hundreds of dollars in value to them were ordered again Thursday to keep details of their findings secret. | |
Intel Unveils Extensible Host Controller Interface Draft Specification to Support USB 3.0 Architecture August 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Intel Corporation today announced the availability of the Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) draft specification revision 0.9 in support of the USB 3.0 architecture, also known as SuperSpeed USB. The xHCI draft specification ... | |
 Olympic fever being fuelled by high-tech in SKorea August 13, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Cutting-edge technology is fuelling Olympic fever in South Korea, with employees using hand-held TVs or mobile phones to follow the Games live during work or off-duty hours. | |
 It's The Water: Beijing Olympic Swimmer Provided State-of-Art ProMinent Ozone Technology August 12, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As Olympic records are being broken left and right by Michael Phelps, questions have been raised do we have a performance enhancing water issue. Some attribute the gold hanging around Olympiad ... | |
 Motorists turn to carpool sites as gas prices rise August 12, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Robert Gilliland didn't think much about carpooling until gas prices got out of control. Now, he's happy to trade his motoring freedom for $120 in weekly savings. | |
 Hackers hacked at infamous DefCon gathering August 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 87 vote(s)
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In the end, it was hackers at DefCon that got hacked. After three days of software cracking duels and hacking seminars, self-described computer ninjas at the infamous gathering in Las Vegas found out Sunday ... | |
Video archive project can record lectures for posterity August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A new video service on University of Michigan's campus can capture presentations, classes and training workshops, post them online within 24 hours and archive them indefinitely in a high-quality universal format. | |
Court blocks MIT students from showing subway hack August 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 5
(AP) -- A federal judge ordered three college students to cancel a Sunday presentation at a computer hackers' conference where they planned to show security flaws in the automated fare system used by Boston's subway. | |
US judge gags subway card hackers August 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A US judge on Saturday gagged hackers from telling peers at a notorious DefCon conference how to get free rides by cracking commonly used subway "smart cards." | |
 'Cloud computing' trend heightens privacy risks August 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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A US military computer science professor has warned that a trend to push software into the "clouds" exacerbates privacy risks as people trust information to the Internet. | |
 US intelligence alerts travelers to cyber spies August 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
A US intelligence office Friday warned Americans traveling to the Beijing Olympics or elsewhere to expect cyber spies to surreptitiously compromise their laptops, cellphones, and other electronic devices. | |
Reporters booted from conference for hacking August 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- With thousands of hackers milling around the Black Hat convention here, and widespread snooping on the public WiFi network, one place was supposed to be off limits: the press room. | |
 Dutch town tests 'air-purifying' concrete (Update) August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 88 vote(s)
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A road in the small Dutch town of Hengelo is to be paved with air-purifying concrete in a trial that could lead to a breakthrough in the fight against rising pollution, scientists said Wednesday. | |
 Scientist says feathers are future of Asia construction August 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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A Filipino scientist says he has created a new composite building board made of chicken feathers that could be a major breakthrough for the construction industry in Asia. | |
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