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Stereoscope is easily one of the most ambitious temporary art installations in this city's history. This amazing project, by German collective Blinkenlights, manages to turn every one of city hall's 960 windows into a "pixel" within what is essentially a gigantic computer screen.
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Cleveland Heights-University Heights district students to get individual laptop computers
Willie Wallace Jr. and his wife Brenda were planning a little getaway to mark their 22nd wedding anniversary. But that would mean missing a meeting at Monticello Middle School in Cleveland Heights, where their daughter Kyana would be given a new laptop computer to take home.
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Cops: Mom threatens to post nude pics of daughter's ex
ST. CHARLES, Illinois (AP) -- A woman is accused of badgering her daughter's teenage ex-boyfriend with hundreds of e-mails and text messages and threatening to post nude images of him on the Internet unless he started seeing the girl again, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
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Darling blamed as Iceland’s bank troubles spiral
Iceland today turned on Bitain's Chancellor Alistair Darling as a third bank was nationalised. Kaupthing, which owned City investment bank Singer & Friedlander and UK internet bank Kaupthing Edge, said its board had resigned and handed control to the Icelandic Government.
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Global Stocks, U.S. Futures Advance; IBM, Dexia, ICBC Rally
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks rebounded in Europe and Asia and U.S. index futures rose after International Business Machines Corp. reaffirmed its profit forecast and investors speculated the worst five-day rout since 1987 was overdone.
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New Pics Surface of Anonymous Apple Laptop [Rumor]
Taiwanese blog Apple.Pro has put out a couple more pictures that could be related to the upcoming Macbook Pro. We're not sure if they're real or not, but there are enough photos out there to at least...
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Business Briefs: Oct. 9, 2008
Capitola HR buyersfavor Internet A majority of human resource executives say they turn to the Internet first when searching for products and services.
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20th Anniversary -- Selective Memory
With this issue, we celebrate Monterey County Weekly ’s 20th anniversary of publication. It’s an achievement in which we take special pride, especially coming at a time when new technology, particularly the rise of the Internet, is altering the way we look at the world.
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Reader wants to fix screen, save some green
Q: I have a 3-year-old Apple iMac G5 desktop computer. In August, the screen started displaying a series of small, randomly distributed vertical lines. By late September, the number of lines had increased to 33.
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Sarah Palin hacker indicted for Yahoo Mail breach
Maximum sentence of 5 years and $250,000 fine A 20-year-old Tennessee man has been indicted for hacking into an email account of US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, according to court records.
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17% of UK users don't encrypt home networks
A number of Brits don't know if their network is secure Nearly one fifth of UK web users doesn't have encryption on their home network, says Linksys.
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Using the Internet's History to Develop Clean Energy's Future
Suddenly the world is racing to find ways to create cheap, clean energy. A study of the Internet’s long development since 1946, arguably when modern computing began, offers valuable lessons that can help keep energy innovations on course for a comparable 62 years: Hardening of the Categories. In the early days of the Internet there were computers, monopolized by IBM, and there was ...
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Google man asks Internet to name his baby
A Google employee and his wife are asking Internet users to choose the name of their child. Jason Morrison has posted a poll on his personal website, inviting members of the public to vote on what he should call his baby, who is due in November.
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99p gizmo breaches Kirklees computer system
KIRKLEES Council is investigating how a security expert gained access to its internal network with a piece of hardware he bought for 99p. (02/10/2008)
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Tips on buying medicine online
Cynthia Reilly, director of the practice development division of the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists, offers advice for shopping online:
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Poetry slams grow in FoCo
nth, the Bean Cycle in Old Town overflows with people. Some sit on the arms of chairs while others lean against the register, ordering drinks. Men and women of all ages squeeze onto the surfaces of computer counter tops.
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Terrifying Qantas jet plunge that left dozens injured 'may have been caused by passenger laptop'
Passengers using laptops or children playing electronic games may have caused a Qantas jet to 'run amok' at 37,000ft, leading to dozens of injuries.
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Effort to suppress evidence denied in child porn case
An attorney for a Southbury man police said imported child pornography in 2006 tried, but failed, on Tuesday to suppress a search and seizure warrant used by police to collect the man's computers.
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Good job turning out to the polls, Gators
The Editorial Board could not believe its collective eyes. We got to the Orange & Brew, laptops in tow, Wednesday night at 9. We sat around for almost two full hours before we caught a glance or heard a peep from anyone at UF — much less members of either student party.
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Shutterfly Card Stylist Shows Customers How to Shoot, Style and Send One-of-a-Kind Holiday Cards
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.----Shutterfly, Inc. , the leading Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service, is giving holiday cards a touch of high style this year with exclusive, new card designs and helpful guidance from the Shutterfly Card Stylist.
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Effort to suppress evidence denied in child porn case
An attorney for a Southbury man police said imported child pornography in 2006 tried, but failed, on Tuesday to suppress a search and seizure warrant used by police to collect the man's computers.
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Satyam eyes LatAm, eastern Europe for IT deals
Satyam Computers, India's fourth largest software exporter, is considering Latin America and eastern Europe as potential markets to expand its IT services.
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Study: Communications key to Northern Forest economy
CONCORD, N.H. -- Congress should help bring cell-phone and high-speed Internet service to rural communities across northern New England and New York as part of a wide-ranging plan to improve the area's weak economy, a study recommended Wednesday.
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Making the town centre a pleasant place to be
As internet shopping and out-of-town retail centres continue to grow, so the future of Wales’ town centres could be under greater threat than ever before.
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Belant represents himself at Wednesday hearing
Andrew Belant, a former youth pastor charged for allegedly molesting four young boys, represented himself in court Wednesday after filing a motion to have his home computer returned to him from the evidence locker.
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