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Golden Age for TV beckons
CANNES, France (AFP) - A golden age for television beckons as established TV companies go head on with the Internet and other new digital media platforms to woo audiences worldwide.
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Westside Car Break-ins
Youngstown Police have four people in custody tonight after a rash of car break-ins in recent weeks on the cities West Side. Police tracked the thieves to a home on Millet Avenue, where they recovered car radios, GPS systems, even a couple of laptops that were reported stolen.
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Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. Microsoft has acknowledged that exploit code is circulating for a vulnerability it acknowledged six months ago, but has yet to patch.
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Attack of the iPhone clones
The iPhone was not the first touch-screen smart phone when it was introduced last year, but it might as well have been. The exclusive AT&T device and its successor, the iPhone 3G, set the pace in this trend-setting category with their ease of use, Internet...
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UK university holds artificial intelligence test
Computers argued, cracked jokes and parried trick questions Sunday, all part of an annual test of artificial intelligence carried out at the University of Reading.
KATU Portland |
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Newsletter Subscription
Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. A Yahoo investor Thursday proposed that Yahoo sell itself to Microsoft for US$22 a share, according to a report from the Reuters news service.
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Nightside recognised for ground-breaking test lab
Press release, 10-Oct-08, Nightside Test Design, Christchurch, New Zealand: Christchurch-based embedded electronics and software testing specialist Nightside Test Design has been announced as a finalist for the 2008 EDN Innovation Awards, which recognise excellence in electronics design, manufacture and testing from Australasian companies.
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Lincolnites can win prizes for recycling
Lincoln area residents have a chance to win prizes by signing pledge cards committing to increase their recycling efforts over the next year.
Lincoln Journal Star |
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Recycling electronics fundraiser
Littleton High senior class officers work at a fundraiser to raise money from unwanted electronics that collect around the home. A second round of collections is happening on Oct. 18 from 9-12 at the high school's parking lot.
Littleton Independent |
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Moog Acquires Firm, Wins Gulfstream Contract
Moog announced on Oct. 3 that it has agreed to acquire Berkeley Process Control, Inc. of Richmond, Calif., in a $14 million cash transaction. Berkeley's motion control software and hardware automates the precise handling of semiconductor wafers and enhances the speed, quality and safety of welding in the oil and gas market and in nuclear fuel canisters.
East Aurora Advertiser |
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No Internet access for Sept. 11 defendant
A U.S. military judge has denied a request from professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for Internet access inside his Guantanamo cell, ruling he does not need it to prepare for his death penalty trial.
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Computer Nearly Passes Turing Test for Artificial Intelligence [It's Alive!]
Today, the machines became a little smarter, as a computer named Elbot managed to achieve a 25% success rate when convincing a human being that they were talking to another human. The experiment is...
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Wisconsin Book Festival 2008: Stephanie Kuehnert speaks
Set in small-town Wisconsin, I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone by Stephenie Kuehnert is a gritty feminist punk-rock celebration of the rebellious bonds that connect a daughter with her absent mother. Published by MTV Books in July, it has been hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "an empowering new twist on a girl's coming of age." In an interview conducted via email, she recounts the genesis of her ...
Isthmus |
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CarTel Device Attacks Traffic Jams with Fleet of Networked Smart Cars [Cartel]
Researchers at MIT are using computer networks and cabbies to tackle a routine problem that I, personally, can attest to: Boston area traffic jams. Called CarTel (get it?), the system creates a...
Gizmodo |
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Men, women use web like prehistoric hunter-gatherers
Few men are required to go into the wilderness these days to get food for Sunday dinner. But it seems they can't shed their hunter-like tendencies when it comes to the Internet, according to Canadian researchers.
CTV Winnipeg |
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Norton 2009 Update is locking up Computers!
Started getting phone calls about locked and frozen PCs after installing the newest update to Norton's 2009 Internet Security.
IT World |
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U.S. game designer blasts into space on the landmark 100th manned Soyuz flight
An American computer game designer reached space today, fulfilling a long-deferred childhood dream that began with the flight of his astronaut father.
Los Angeles Times |
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Google founder Brin visits Russian space cosmodrome
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, Oct 11 (Reuters) Google co-founder Sergey Brin, considering going into space on a private flight, made a surprise visit to Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome today to wish good luck to a fellow space tourist.
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US game designer blasts into space with DNA cargo
An American computer game designer reached space Sunday, fulfilling a long-deferred childhood dream that began with the flight of his astronaut father. The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft carrying Richard Garriott and two crewmates _ and the digitized DNA sequences...
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Grids get down to business
New technology developed by European researchers allows companies to deploy their business processes using grid computing and, even better, it validates a platform that gives easy access to grid resources. It is a big deal.
IST Results |
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American game designer blasts off into space on Russian craft with DNA cargo
An American computer game designer reached space Sunday, fulfilling a long-deferred childhood dream that began with the flight of his astronaut father.
Times & Transcript |
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Ithaca, NY, wants to be America's 1st podcar city
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The thought of a driverless, computer-guided car transporting people where they want to go on demand is a futuristic notion to some.
WOOD TV 8 Grand Rapids |
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Ruling ends uncertainty for software developers
Inventions involving computer programs can now be examined and patented in the UK under a landmark verdict that ends uncertainty for thousands of freelance software developers.
Contractor UK |
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Motorcyclist killed in Iredell County wreck
A 27-year-old man died this afternoon when his motorcycle struck a utility pole. The wreck occurred around 12:20 on Monte Vista Drive in Statesville. Trooper A.C. Gwaltney with the N.C. Highway Patrol said Stephen Goodman was one of three motorcyclists traveling north on Monte Vista Drive when he went off the road to the right. Goodman then drove back onto the road, but struck the ...
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Fast Forward's Help File
Q How can I keep track of the security fixes for all the software that Windows Update doesn't cover, like my Internet plug-ins and media players?
Washington Post |
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