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Simulating the First Stars Formed After the Big Bang
What were the first stars like that formed shortly after the Big Bang? We don't know much about the conditions of the early universe 13 billion years ago, but a new computer simulation provides the most detailed picture yet of the first stars and how they came into existence. The composition of the [...]
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Rebooting Windows: How To Recover From Vista Crashes
We've pulled together a passel of little-known software backup and repair techniques so you won't have to reinstall Vista from scratch, if it gets trashed or hits a fatal startup error.
InformationWeek |
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Man sentenced for selling steroids
An Arizona man has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for distributing anabolic steroids over the Internet.
Boston Globe |
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On Your Mark, Get Set, Shop! (Tax-Free, Of Course)
North Carolina's tax-free weekend is here. Beginning midnight Friday, the state's sales tax of 4.25 cents on the dollar and any local sales tax will be removed from clothing, school supplies, computers and dozens of other items. The tax break ends at 11:59 p.m. Sunday.
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What Does a DIYer Really Want? Tools that Do More
(ARA) - From smart phones that also function as computers to green practices that reduce waste and generate energy at the same time, multi-tasking is in vogue.
Richfield Reaper |
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Last Call: Dell shares jump after upgrade
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of Dell Inc. climbed Thursday after the computer maker was upgraded by an analyst at Cowen and Co., who said the company's business is back on track.
INO News |
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Enjoy Gaming as a Child? Here's Why You Should Make a Career of It
(ARA) - As a kid did you spend all your spare time at the arcade, or playing games on your home computer? If so, your experience as a gamer could end up paying off big. There's a growing need in this country for people with the kinds of skills you have.
Richfield Reaper |
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White Stripes frontman Jack White and soul singer Alicia Keys have recorded the next Bond theme tune – Another Way To ...
Calls were made last night for an urgent review of extradition laws after a Glasgow- born computer hacker accused of tampering with top secret US military networks lost his Law Lords appeal to stand trial in this country.
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Researchers find ways to squeeze light into spaces never thought possible
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets It looks like a team of UC Berkeley researchers led by mechanical engineering professor Xiang Zhang (pictured) have found a way to squeeze light into tighter spaces than ever though possible, which they say could lead to breakthroughs in the fields of optical communications, miniature lasers, and optical computers. The key to this new technique, it seems, is ...
Engadget |
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Linked by Ioan-Alexandru Lazar on Mon 23rd Oct 2006 14:58 UTC
Among the few things I'm proud of in my life, not having had contact with Windows when I first "met" a computer is somewhere around the top. Indeed, the first computer I used ran Unix, and I have been using Unices myself for some time.
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Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Mon 28th Jul 2008 18:42 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
Business PC buyers are still overwhelmingly opting for XP, computer giant HP has revealed. Yet at the same time, Microsoft is claiming that Vista is selling faster than XP ever did ... so where's the truth?
New Mobile Computing |
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Network sniffers really get up your nose
WITH 253 million people online, China now has the most internet users of any country. Beijing employs a vast bureaucracy of censors and a phalanx of technically advanced filters to police how its citizens use the internet.
Whyalla News |
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About The Internet DNS Flaw
Tech analyst Larry Magid explains flaw that allows hackers to redirect URLs.
CBS News |
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UK: Web giants should screen user-generated content
Web giants such as Google and Facebook should pre-screen user content before it goes online, since offensive material threatens the Internet's overall health, according to a U.K. government report released Thursday.
IT World |
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HTC's 3G iPhone rival out in 30 countries already
High Tech Computer (HTC), the world's largest maker of smartphones that use Microsoft Windows Mobile, said Thursday its Touch Diamond handset has already been launched by 50 operators in 30 countries around the world.
IT World |
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Yale Students' Lawsuit Unmasks Anonymous Trolls
palegray.net writes "Two female Yale law school students have used the courts to ascertain the identities of otherwise anonymous posters to an Internet forum, with the intent of prosecuting them for hateful remarks left on the boards. At a minimum, the posters' future legal careers are certainly jeopardized by these events. While I'm not certainly not supporting or encouraging hateful speech ...
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Global anger at internet blockade
WITH a week to go to the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, the host nation, China, stands in the centre of a global diplomatic storm, sparked by its insistence of strict internet censorship but broadening yesterday to include human rights abuses.
Whyalla News |
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High-Tech Pet Innovations and the People Who Love Them
(ARA) - The Internet or their pets - which could Americans live without? No need to live without either, thanks to some particularly enterprising participants in the pet industry - a market the American Pet Products Manufacturers' Association estimates at $40 billion a year.
Richfield Reaper |
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Network sniffers really get up your nose
WITH 253 million people online, China now has the most internet users of any country. Beijing employs a vast bureaucracy of censors and a phalanx of technically advanced filters to police how its citizens use the internet.
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IOC caves to China Internet censorship
The International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) admitted Wednesday that it made a deal with Chinese officials to accept censorship of the Internet during the Beijing Olympic Games, which begin August 8.
IT World |
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What it takes to bring the Olympics to the PC
CNET's Ina Fried has an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how Microsoft, NBC, and others are putting thousands of hours of live video from the Beijing games online.
CNET |
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EDS shareholders approve sale to HP
EDS stockholders on Thursday overwhelmingly approved the sale of the giant systems integrator to Hewlett-Packard , bringing the $13.9 billion deal one important step closer to completion.
IT World |
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Sun releases preview of JavaFX SDK
Developers will be able to get their hands on a preview SDK (software development kit) for JavaFX as of Thursday, marking Sun 's entry into the RIA (rich Internet application) framework wars.
IT World |
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white papers
Web giants such as Google and Facebook should pre-screen user content before it goes online, since offensive material threatens the Internet's overall health, according to a U.K. government report released Thursday.
IT World |
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Excel Class at Lyons Library Aug. 2
Saturday at 10 a.m. the Lyons Public Library will hold a class about Excel in the computer lab at the library.
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