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Professor Google and those left wing academics
How can undergraduates with little exposure to a discipline or subject be expected to criticise their lecturer or tutor before gaining an understanding of the discipline or subject itself, asks Irfan Yusuf .
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US video game mogul to follow dad into space
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, Oct 10 (AFP) Oct 10, 2008 After earning millions of dollars creating computer fantasy games, Richard Garriott decided to fulfill a childhood dream of his own by flying into space aboard a Russian rocket.
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It's porn, just without the sex
Three brothers launch new web series, PG Porn, for fans of pornography who want their titillation toned down.
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US Video Game Mogul To Follow Dad Into Space
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AFP)--After earning millions of dollars creating computer fantasy games, Richard Garriott decided to fulfill a childhood dream of his own by flying into space aboard a Russian rocket.
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An intimate photo of Angelina Jolie breastfeeding one of her newborn twins taken by partner Brad Pitt has hit the internet.
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IT glitch blamed for jet nosedive
A computer glitch on board a Qantas jet may have caused it to nosedive 8,000ft injuring 74 passengers, before it made an emergency landing in the desert.
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Evernote: a great computer organizer for the data-obsessed
How much stuff do you read and collect every day on your computer?
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Lawmaker's Son Indicted in Palin E-mail Hacking
The son of Democratic state Rep. Mike Kernell of Memphis faces a December trial in Knoxville on a charge that he hacked into a personal e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
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Yahoo Web Analytics to finally give Google some competition
Yahoo quickly turned around the acquisition of a web analytics firm to take on Google with "near real-time" access to raw data. Along with an upcoming developer API and an already established hosting platform, Yahoo has a shot at snagging its fair share of the market—if it acts fast. Read More...
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Technology: finally out of hand
My name is Emma Brodie and I am a Luddite. Well, that's not entirely fair. I love my computer. I love my phone. I love love love anything on wheels. And technically, to this day, I have never intentionally done anything to brutally damage or sabotage a machine.
Johns Hopkins News-Letter |
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City Launches Mobile Web site
The city of Bakersfield has just made it easier to access its Web site, all you need is a cell phone with Internet capabilities. Earlier this year, the city launched a six- page micro version of its online city Web site.
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Teen Read Week: Rediscovering the love of books
The old mantra "kids who read succeed," might be well known, but to get a teenager to put down the remote control or get off the computer and pick up a book is a challenge to say the least.
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Barracuda Networks Detects and Blocks "Backdoor" Virus Sent via Fake Microsoft Security Update Email
Barracuda Networks Inc., the worldwide leader in email and Web security appliances, announced that Barracuda Central, its 24x7 security operations center, began immediately blocking a malicious "backdoor" virus distributed via a socially engineered email purportedly from Microsoft earlier today. Barracuda Networks was one of the first vendors to profile the malware and quickly categorized it in ...
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Hackers using fake YouTube pages to attack computers
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Computer security specialists warn that hackers are using fake YouTube pages to trick people into opening their machines to diabolical software.
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Brinkley, Cook bickering again
Christie Brinkley wants her latest ex-husband to shield their children from a televised interview in which he explains his affair with a teenager and his Internet porn proclivities.
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SonicSwap Streams and Shares Your iTunes Playlists [Streaming Music]
New webapp SonicSwap hosts your iTunes playlists on the web and streams the music in them free and legally without requiring you to perform tedious file uploads or use any of your computer's upload...
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Gmail Labs Adds Advanced IMAP Controls [Gmail]
Google adds another experimental opt-in feature to its roster of Gmail Labs experiments: Advanced IMAP Controls, a way to selectively decided which of your Gmail labels are available to your IMAP...
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Hackers using fake YouTube pages to attack computers
Computer security specialists warn that hackers are using fake YouTube pages to trick people into opening their machines to diabolical software.
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Hackers using fake YouTube pages to attack computers
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Computer security specialists warn that hackers are using fake YouTube pages to trick people into opening their machines to diabolical software.
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High school football blog: Breaking down the computer ratings
Sometimes I wonder if in a former life, Joe Eitel was indeed Albert Einstein or at least one of Big Al’s drinking buddies the day Einny came up with the theory of relativity.
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Longshot GOP hopeful looks to the Web to win
Like any other underdog candidate, Tony Nunziato is trying to find any edge over his opponent. But he’s not looking for a high-priced pollster or a well-connected political strategist for his campaign to unseat longtime Assemblywoman Margaret Markey (D-Maspeth).
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Will DeBoard's Week 5 High School Football Predictions
The High Five are the five most-read stories, updated hourly. Be the first to comment on this story click the 'Add Comment' Tab! Modbee.com is pleased to be able to offer its users the opportunity to make comments and hold conversations online.
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Tech mergers ahead?
Opinion – The current financial crisis may offer a short term opportunity for some very interesting hostile takeovers. If there was ever truth to the rumor that Apple was interesting buying Sun, Apple could scoop the company up for pocket change. Intel could get rid of AMD for even less and even AMD could use its recent cash infusion to take a shot at Nvidia. But the hottest ticket may actually ...
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Just as the U.S. is in its last weeks of a heated presidential campaign, Microsoft's Live Labs group has launched a Web-based application that surfaces what it considers the recent political articles and documents that are getting the most attention and discussion among Web users.
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